A day in the life of Alexandra Lewis, a Virtalent VA
Alexandra Lewis has over 10 years’ experience working as a PA in the property industry. Alongside her full-time job, she started to branch out, offering her services to property clients who were looking to improve their business operations. Once she caught the VA bug, she quit her full-time job and never looked back. She is […]
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Virtual Assistant Awards
One of the highlights of my year is judging the outstanding Virtual Assistant Awards. It gives me a chance to see the wide range of highly skilled and professional virtual assistants on show. I also get to meet many of the other people in our industry. Unfortunately, because of the really bad snow […]
Why working on site is not being a Virtual Assistant
What are the differences between being a VA and temping on site?
A VA Abroad – How Does Being a Virtual Assistant Differ between UK and France?
There may only be a few miles of Channel separating us, yet the differences between being a VA in France and UK are worlds apart. In her 2nd blog on the subject Rachel discusses these differences.
New Beginnings For A Bilingual Virtual Assistant
Hello fellow VAs, My name is Rachel (or “Retch-all” as I am called in England) and I am the newest VA on the blog. Being French, I decided to specialise in providing bilingual services. So HOW did I get there? Well it all started with my husband when he decided to start his own business […]
The pros and cons of working from home
Helen C discusses her pros and cons of home-working. A must read if you’re thinking of starting a new work-from home business.
The IPSE Freelancer Awards
Are you one of the UK’s 4.5 million self-employed people? Would you like to win £5,000 to help your business reach its potential? How about also winning business support, technologies, media and presentation training? The ISPE Freelancer Awards is a national competition to find the UK’s most exciting, ambitious and enterprising self-employed people. Closing date […]
Office* Voted Best PA Event of the Year!
Fresh from the success of its fifth edition last month, office* has been crowned ‘Best PA Industry Event’ 2014. It won the popular vote at pa-assist.com’s Members Voice Awards, which were announced on 21 November. Having already won widespread support from across the UK’s PA and office manager community, with 86% of surveyed visitors rating […]