Why you should use MailerLite to step-up your email marketing game Email marketing is a key channel that can help businesses reach their target audience and grow. Creating an email marketing strategy, building new templates, and managing email campaigns, consumes time and resources that most small businesses don’t have. But the answer is not…
5 practical tips on how to use Evernote Keep everything in one place with Evernote If you ever find that it’s hard to know where to store useful bits of information, here’s one suggestion: Evernote. I started using Evernote a few months back and absolutely love it, although it took me a short while to…
Using Trello – Tips and Tricks I’m not a fan of packing. I always take too much and not of the right things, so when my husband and I decided to arrange a trip to India, my first thought was to what I was going to pack. How to use Trello to pack for a…
Do you know who you’re meeting? Say hello to Crystal How often do you receive an email from someone and are unsure how formal or informal you should be in your reply? How often do you arrange to meet someone for the first time and would benefit from knowing the best way to communicate with…
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…
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…
How to set up your ‘Out of Office’ in GMail If you are going off on holiday or will be away from your emails for a while, setting an ‘Out of Office’ is good customer service. I feel it is only good manners to let your customers know when they can expect a reply from…
Social Media – preparing for 2016 Have you started preparing for 2016? It is that time of the year when everything, except Christmas shopping (which incidentally I haven’t really started yet!) stops. You can’t get appointments with your solicitor or bank manager as they’ve finished for the holidays. No one will make an appointment to…
What is Rapportive? In an earlier blog, I talked about how I manage my contacts and referred to a tool which I use which links to my Gmail and gives me access to the contact’s social media profiles. This wonderful little tool is called Rapportive. Rapportive is a Google Chrome Extension which shows you a…
