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4 Jan 2016

How To Choose Your Target Market When Promoting Your Virtual Assistant Business

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22 Dec 2015

Virtual assistant industry is expanding: Are you open to it?

The Internet has given rise to plenty of jobs with its ability to connect workers from all over the world with employers located just about anywhere. Hence, it is not a surprise that organisations from all over the world are now looking to employ people who would be able to work remotely and be able …

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19 Dec 2015

Virtual Assistant vs Executive Assistant Cost Comparison

A cost comparison for a full-time Executive Assistant versus a Virtual Assistant As you are aware, the base salary you pay your employee is only a portion of your real cost. When you include the payroll taxes, benefits, holiday pay, furniture and equipment, office space and training, the real cost of an employee can be …

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16 Dec 2015

6 signs that hiring a Virtual Assistant is right for you

The same situation is presented to us over and over, in the form of many different businesses. A small business owner approaches us to find out if we can help them with their business. They’ve spent quite some time carrying out the majority of business related tasks on their own. They’ve worked long hours building …

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10 Dec 2015

Tips for a Happier Life

Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Sleep for 7 hours. Live with the 3 E’s – Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy. Play more games. Read more books than you did the previous year. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age …

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3 Dec 2015

8 Tips to Radically Increase Your Productivity

Beginnings are the most exciting and energising times in life. If things have been in a slump for you, make some changes. Lasting success comes from making pointed shifts in your behaviour on a daily basis. Success is rarely the result of the major decisions you have to make due to the long and short-term …

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30 Nov 2015

5 Tips to Avoid Virtual Assistant Disasters

Entrepreneurs are quick to find out how much time is really required for day to day business needs. In fact you’ve probably thought, “Maybe I should get one of those virtual assistant thingys to help tackle my workload?” Although that can be effective, if done wrong, it can get really chaotic, really quickly. Hiring a …

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24 Nov 2015

Jim Carrey Commencement Speech: Inspiration For Us All

Jim Carrey is a funny man. But he’s deeply profound, too — a side he revealed to graduates at Maharishi University. He encouraged the students to think big and to choose love rather than give into fear. While his entire speech is inspiring, we jumped to 10:18, where the punch to the heart begins… Fear …

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22 Nov 2015

9 Reasons Every Entrepreneur Needs a Virtual Assistant

If you’ve ever wondered how some entrepreneurs seem to get so much more done than there are possible hours in the day to do? The answer is, they don’t do it all themselves, not even the solo-entrepreneurs. They hire Virtual Assistants (VA’s) to handle a lot of the repetitive and administrative work for them. A …

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18 Nov 2015

Launching the Virtual Assistant Directory

Find the right Virtual Assistant for you We have one simple aim for the Virtual Assistant Directory and that is for it to be a useful tool for our customer base: busy entrepreneurs, start-ups, and growing teams; looking to improve productivity and output by finding the right virtual assistant for them, quickly. We will be …

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10 Nov 2015

Get more clients for your virtual assistant business with list building!

How do you get people to visit your website— and not go away and forget about you? You’ve created your virtual assistant website. You’ve done your research and narrowed down your services and target market. You are ready to rock! But now how do you get people to visit your website and sign up for …

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5 Nov 2015

Work-Life Balance

Like so many things in life, being able to work for yourself has its challenges. But the one thing that stands out, is making / having a choice. A choice of the hours you can work and being free to do this anywhere in the world. I thought being a VA meant a person would …

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