Congratulations To Kerry Seymour For Winning A Virtual Assistant Award

Congratulations to Kerry Seymour for winning a virtual assistant award at the 2017 Maximise Business of the year award. Kerry runs her own VA business which she started up at the end of January 2017, providing a bespoke service to her clients. She works from home, successfully juggling work and family life. The awards were […]

Virtual Assistant Awards

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 […]

Virtual Assistant Awards – Why Enter?

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  Virtual Assistant Awards – Why Enter?   Common Misconceptions To Entering Awards: Only big companies win awards. I can’t enter it into awards – what about confidential information? If I sponsor a category I’ll have a better chance. If I buy more seats at the awards dinner I’m more likely to win.     […]

Testimonials – have you ever seen a bad one?

This came up during the judging of the Outstanding Virtual Assistant of the Year awards, and I wanted to throw it out there and get a response from other VAs: Have you ever seen a bad testimonial? Now the reason I am asking is because testimonials can be very powerful things.  People see why they […]

Office* – Virtual Assistant Myths!

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Virtual Assistant Myths Here is our presentation from Office* 2017 – this year for the first time incorporating the PA Show and the VA Conference and Awards.  Many thanks to John Palmer and the BeMyVA team for inviting me to present and launch the UK VA Survey data collection appeal! We had a really interesting […]

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 […]

UK VA Awards – enter here!

I’m absolutely thrilled to be organising the UK Virtual Assistant Awards this year in association with The 5th National VA Conference and Awards. The format and awards have changed significantly since last year, and I’m hoping that will encourage many more VAs to enter since it’s a brilliant opportunity for your business to get PR […]