Tips from courses that I have attended, or tools that I have used
You may be aware that this week is Mental Health Awareness Week (w/c 18 May 2020) and this is such an important time to be looking after ourselves, especially in light of what we are all going through with the current COVID-19 crisis. I’m therefore very happy to be able to bring to you this…
I’m really pleased to be able to bring to you this month’s guest blog from Graham at Copyright Correct, as part of our feature on local Devon based businesses. Setting up as a new business, there is so much to learn and you can’t know it all at once. One area that is key is…
Ping! What’s that? Did you REALLY take your work phone with you? The sun is shining, and thoughts turn to holidays. Sun soaked days around the pool, relaxing dips in the sea and walks along the beach, a glass of sangria with dinner. Ping! What’s that? When you are self-employed, it can be hard…
Researching your Virtual Assistant One of the questions I was recently asked when I gave a presentation about being a Virtual Assistant, and how we help business owners, was how a business owner who doesn’t know me from Adam (or Eve) knows they can trust me. Before they became clients, I had met many of…
How does a Virtual Assistant get to know a business owner and their business? This is one of the questions that many prospective clients ask me, when we have our initial exploratory call. The answer is simple – it’s the same as you would with any new member of staff – it is no different…
How do I use a Virtual Assistant? If you have identified that you need some support in your business, to enable you to grow your business or to spend time on other areas of your work or with your family, the next step is to either take on new staff, or start outsourcing. Outsourcing is…
If you are now at the point where you are ready to outsourcing, the next step is to consider what model is going to work best for you and how you actually get started. Many Virtual Assistants work on a retainer basis where you ‘book’ a number of hours of their time on a…
What to delegate to a Virtual Assistant If you are finding that you just don’t have enough time in the day and are chasing the elusive ‘work/life balance’ that you wanted to have when you set up your business, then outsourcing the time consuming admin work is the first logical step. If you don’t know…
Who can use a Virtual Assistant? There are tasks within every business that can be outsourced to a Virtual Assistant – no matter what the line of business or where the business is based. The location doesn’t matter I have worked with clients in Canada and America as well as people in the same village…
Why use a Virtual Assistant? More the question, why wouldn’t you? It requires a lot of hard work and dedication (and guts) to set up your own business and for those of you that have taken the plunge, I am sure although it has been tough at times, you haven’t looked back. However, if you…