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26 May 2017

5 Tips for Virtual Assistants and the School Holidays

How do I manage the School holidays and my Virtual Assistant business? So it’s that time of year again here in the UK. The school summer holidays are upon us. For those of us with children and running a business from home this can be a challenging time of year. The balance of home life …

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9 May 2017

Homepage designs that are SEO friendly

Building a website for yourself or having it built for you requires thought and planning. This article covers what you should know to make Homepage designs that are SEO friendly and help convert lookers into potential clients. You’ve probably read these terms before: on-page optimization, keywords and SEO. The basics of SEO is the use of …

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19 Apr 2017

The UK Virtual Assistant Slack Team

Slack: Be less busy. The Slack tagline, it’s short and sweet but wow is it a bold statement. The incredible part….it’s actually true (at least that’s our experience but don’t just take our word for it there’s this too). For those of you that haven’t met Slack before, let me introduce you. Slack is an open communication …

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16 Mar 2017

Motivation, the Who, What, Where, When, Why

What motivates you? Maybe it’s family, friends, nature, money, lifestyle? Whatever it is we all need a little help with it it now and again. The very fact that you are reading this implies that you are either currently a Virtual Assistant or on the path to becoming one. To be self employed you need a …

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8 Feb 2017

Open All Hours? Setting Client Expectations

Are you open all hours? Have you set client expectations? I have a friend who runs networking events in the evenings. He has a lovely VA – I know her personally and she is efficient and conscientious. At one of his events he was agitated and angry and complaining loudly about his VA. “She always …

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6 Jan 2017

MailChimp Subscriber Popup

How to help build your email list with MailChimp Subscriber Popup. We’ve been looking at list building, specifically subscribers to our online Virtual Assistant magazine; VA Life. So I thought I’d share a MailChimp tip that we use to help grow our subscription list. You will have noticed a popup when you visited this site inviting you …

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15 Dec 2016

13 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress

WordPress is a great platform. Having said that without proper care and attention it can become quite slow. If you don’t take the right precautions, you could end up with a site that’s not only a hassle for visitors but will cause you to lose subscribers and customers. In this post, I’ll cover some of …

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16 Nov 2016

Is Email Killing Our Productivity?

Is email killing our productivity? If the first thing you do, once you’ve sat down at your desk in the morning, is to head to that little email icon, click it and leave the application open all day long then the answer to this question is most likely; YES. Can you remember how you managed …

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6 Oct 2016

The Successful Virtual Assistant State of Mind

One of the most important factors to becoming successful is in the way we think. We’ve all experienced those days where one bad thing escalates into another, and before you know it, you’re in a negative mood. Warning, red alert, people detect such an irritation by your body language or tone of voice. So why …

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10 Sept 2016

Smarter Networking Without Business Cards

So you walk into the room, within the first five minutes you’ve collected half a dozen business cards already, and they all came with the promise of something great! The issue is; the humble business card is a tool, and a simple one at that, for sales / marketing, and, like any tool, it should be used …

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21 Jul 2016

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

European Commission launches EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Finally, the European Commission launches the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which has gone through a lengthy process to replace Safe Harbour. What was Privacy Shield again? Privacy Shield is supposed to put transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes from Europe to the US on a new legal framework …

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4 Jul 2016

Clare Clarke – My Journey as a VA… So Far!

I first entered the world of ‘virtual’ business support in 2010, having started employment as an administrative assistant, up to PA to an HR Director and then moving into Project Management, spending 3 years as a Consultant PRINCE II Project Manager implementing HR and Payroll software for the likes of Starbucks Coffee Company and Whitbread …

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