Best Practice – What must be in place.

One of the aims of the Society of Virtual Assistants is to get as many VAs as possible in the UK working towards industry best practice.
IR35 for Virtual Assistants
SVA Covid-19 Update – August 2020

Results of our Covid-19 survey in August 2020 are below. This was presented as part of FSB’s industry leaders panel on Thursday 13 August 2020. Overall: 20% were experiencing an uplift in work – 60% have been negatively affected. Around 40% had been able to access grant funding. Just under 13% have had to take […]
Happy International VA Day 2020

Happy International VA Day 2020 #IVAD #InternationalVADay To all the VAs across the globe, in these strange times, here’s to the future: To the clients who have realised flexibility gives their business strength To the businesses who now accept virtual working is the future To the newbies, joining our industry in difficult times at the […]
Social Media Ideas for VAs

Stuck for social media ideas? We’ve created a social media cheat sheet for VAs because we know you guys struggle with blank pages! Hundreds of posts you can download and use in your business. Filter them for your biz. Adapt them. Add pictures and videos. Schedule them! What’s on SVA’s social media cheatsheet? So what’s […]
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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 […]
Twitter – the insider tricks!

Okay – so in this post we have a vision of Twitter as a High Street with lots of shoppers and traders buzzing… And you as a VA are one of those traders. So how do you solve the most common problems? Are you getting enough footfall traffic through your store? Are the people browsing […]
Virtual Assistant Terms & Conditions

How to create profitable ethical business relationships using clear terms of trade WEBINAR: Weds 30 Nov @ 8pm Register now It is easy to think of terms of trade as a ‘compliance’ issue. Something you spent as little time on as you can (and as little money) and then get on with your work. Do […]
Why does my website not show up when I google “Virtual Assistant”?

So you’ve found your name, you have built your website, and eagerly await some emails… and wait… and then you google “Virtual Assistant” and all your hard work and careful design does not seem to be registering with the giant cash cow of Google. ARGGH!!!