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If your New Year’s Resolution was to finally carve out some more time, you need to delegate more.
But it’s hard to delegate more when your To Do List stretches to several pages and you know for sure a few items dropped over the bottom of it several months ago. Sounding familiar?
It’s pretty common.
Eagle eyed viewers of BBC1’s The Apprentice might have spotted Caroline doing deals with Karen Brady’s team last night… Filmed during the summer, we were sworn to secrecy about this little televisual moment until broadcast. Virtual Assistants – Doing great deals! In this episode the apprentices need to sell merchandise and artworks of Scottish based … Read moreCatch Caroline on BBC1’s The Apprentice!
Christmas Dates for Virtually Sorted: Close 12pm Thursday 20th December and reopen 9am Monday 7th January Christmas is coming – Santa’s sleighbells are jingling in the background and there are a million and one things on your UK Christmas Planning List. Last posting dates Christmas 2018: Tues 18 Dec – 2nd class post Thurs 20 … Read moreGet your UK Christmas Planning Virtually Sorted!
So you know you SHOULD be doing some of this social media stuff, blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… But you just aren’t that convinced it’s really worth it for your business. We get that: It’s is not a one-size-fits-all requirement. Social Media Audit As a one off, we’ll look at your business and what you want … Read moreSocial Media Audit
As part of the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC), I was honoured to be asked to share my thoughts on outsourcing and how to hire great subcontractors – as part of this, I discussed the different virtual assistant outsourcing models.
Different virtual assistant outsourcing models tend not to be well understood in the Virtual Assistant industry itself (let alone by clients!) as most VAs have only operated one type of VA business. However since I’ve been a VA since 2004, I’ve run lots of different kinds of models within my business and strive to get the best results for clients.
But clients often question:
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations)… you’ll have seen this word swirling around in the internet-ether lately and might even be slightly panicked that you should know more about it. Certainly a quick flick through my spam box asks me:
“Are you GDPR compliant?”
“Is your customer database ready for GDPR?”
Should you be paying attention to GDPR if you only market to your own clients? YES!
WP&UP #PressForward Campaign is a new campaign launched by industry leaders WordPress. The aim is to help support members of the community with some of the challenges they face as they run their business. Formed in 2003, WordPress is one of the webs biggest content management system for blogs and websites. It is used by … Read moreWordPress Sets Up Wellbeing Hubs To Support The Mental And Physical Health Of Its Users
Many businesses in the UK are still facing late payment problems, and it seems to now be affecting businesses of all types and sizes. Chasing up unpaid invoices uses up valuable time and resources. Late payments can reduce overall the productivity of a business, which can have adverse effects on growth. In some cases, it … Read moreInvoice Cheat Sheets To Optimise Your Invoicing
Reminder: GDPR becomes law today. All your marketing lists, client contact details, data storage, accounts, email storage… You need to make sure it’s all compliant. Checklist for GDPR compliance: Where was your data sourced from? Do you still need to store that data? Where is the data held? (Consider all personal data – accounts programmes, … Read moreGDPR – the time is now!
Many congratulations to the winners of this year’s Virtual Assistant Awards at the Virtual Assistant Awards and Conference in London on Thursday 1 March.