Having worked for ten years as an Executive Personal Assistant, I started Joanne Manville Virtual Assistance in 2015. We support growing businesses by giving managers and founders the space to concentrate on what they do best. I was honoured to to win the award of UK Outstanding VA 2020 and 2019 and Small Business of the Year in the Devon Women in Business Awards in 2022.
Managing your email folders Recently I visited a new client to work with her on business administration, and one area which I noticed pretty quickly was the number of emails in her inbox – over 5,000. This may be a lot to some people, or just scratching the surface for others – but I just…
Trouble with managing your emails? As businesses and as individuals, the number of emails we send and receive daily is growing, infact Radicati.com says that over 100 billion emails are sent and received per day, set to increase to over 132 billion for business email alone by the end of 2017. More people are working…
“ShouId I buy into a VA franchise?” I get contacted a lot of aspiring Virtual Assistants and regularly get asked for my advice and to share my experiences of the challenges and rewards of setting up with my own business. One question I am often asked is whether I would recommend someone to start up…
Blogging & My Business According to the website ‘How to Start a Blog Online’ each day, about 172,800 blogs are created, roughly! So why would you want to start a blog and add to the thousands of people already writing about stuff? You are unique. Only you have experienced the things that you have –…
Using Google Chrome Extensions I have recently discovered Google Chrome Extensions, and wanted to share this as if you haven’t you may missing out on something that can save you a lot of time and energy. I just get so excited about stuff like this! “Productivity is key” As a Virtual Assistant, productivity is key…
Guest Blogs by Joanne Manville Blog for PA Life Magazine – January 2016 In January 2016, I had a guest blog published in PA Life Magazine, an award winning publication for personal and executive assistants. PA Life asked me about starting my business as a Virtual Assistant and I really enjoyed writing the article. Guest…
Is the exclamation mark used too frequently? or should we be free to scatter it across our pages as often as we like? Yesterday my husband made a ‘constructive comment’ about my overuse of exclamation marks and it’s made me have a think about how often I use them. When I’m writing I am aware…
We all know how important it is to have daily exercise to ensure we stay fit and healthy, and in January keeping fit, or getting fit is one of the most common resolutions. But it’s not that easy is it? As someone who enjoys getting out and about for leisure, but not for ‘exercise’ it’s…
Hootsuite Pro & Managing Your Social Media I thought I would share with you my thoughts on Hootsuite Pro as a way of managing the social media posts for your business. Like most small business owners, I like to make use of tools at my disposal that come free, but free is not always the…
Make your 2016 goals happen by creating a vision board Creating a vision board is a really great way to visualise your goals and remind yourself why you set them in the first place. I recently wrote a post on easy goal setting and creating a vision board is a natural next step. The law…