All Good Intentions As disciplined as we may think we are in getting our tasks completed I’m sure we are all guilty of going off piste! You set your tasks list for the day but somehow you are distracted. Your whole set of good intentions go out the window! Recently, even as a virtual assistant, I … Continue Reading
What is [Social Media] Support?
Have You Started Planning Your Social Media Content For 2021? As we’re heading to the end of 2020 I’m sure you’ll now be well on your way to planning your social media content for next year. Are you stressing over what you’ll post on your social media? Are you worried you won’t have time to get it … Continue Reading
Find Out How Virtual [Social Media Assistance] Can Save You Time
Does Social Media Suck Away Your Time? I often hear from small business owners that they are struggling to be present on social media due to the large amount of time it takes out of their working schedule and that they could do with some social media assistance. A survey by Vertical Response, showed that … Continue Reading
Proofreading Documents – 6 Tips To Error Free Content
How well do you check your documents? You Only Read What You Expect To See Proofreading documents is quite hard. Our minds make us see what should be there, even though there are blaring mistakes staring right at you!!!! In the words of Mark Twain ‘You think you are reading proof, whereas you are … Continue Reading
13 Tips To Improve Your Time Management
Are you staying awake at night worrying about all the things you aren’t ticking off your ‘to do’ list? Have you missed another important deadline? Were you late to your last meeting? Do you make promises to your customers that you can’t keep? Are you always late finishing a project in the time scale you allocated? Does … Continue Reading
Case Study – Digital Organising
A local charity under goes change A local charity was undergoing a period of structural and organisational change with a view to streamlining the business and its procedures. I was engaged to provide my business support services to assist the Executive Director of the charity. She wanted to streamline and update the charity filing systems. This … Continue Reading
Do you need help with your latest project? See how I handled my recent challenge!!
Have you faced a challenge in your business or personal life this week because you are short of time or because you aren’t an expert at the task in hand? Happy Friday! Here’s to a stress free weekend! Every day we all face challenges both in business and in our personal lives. Twice a year … Continue Reading
What challenges are you facing right now?
My biggest challenge So I’m back to work this week after my lovely holiday with my precious babies. We all have challenges whether it’s a challenge you are facing in your personal life or you can’t work out how to grow your business. Incidentally I do worry about that ‘grow your business’ challenge as many … Continue Reading
10 tips to better productivity
How busy are you right now? Do you need some help to stay on track and be more productive? Life is busy for everyone I know! Especially now we are into the summer holidays, trying to stay on top of entertaining the kids as well as going to work. Every morning I wake up I … Continue Reading
5 Questions To Ask When Looking For Business Insurance
Find Business Insurance Daunting? I think understanding Business Insurance can be daunting. I remember starting out working in the world of Insurance quite some time ago. It took some time to get through my training and get my head around it, all the different types of cover and rating guides etc. To people that haven’t … Continue Reading
Changing Time
Don’t forget to change your clocks!!! I don’t look forward to losing an hour in bed but do look forward to lighter nights that come with changing time. Don’t you think it makes you feel brighter? It lifts your mood and kicks you into action. A bit of spring cleaning, gardening after work and more … Continue Reading
It’s all in the name
Where Did I Get It? After I was thrown into the unexpected realms of redundancy from my job in corporate land of 15 years, with only 2 weeks’ notice, the decision to work for myself didn’t take long. It was something I always wanted to do and I worked out that I’d provide virtual marketing … Continue Reading
Building bricks
Getting the balance right Earlier in the week I spent some quality time with my son. Together we tried to build the biggest tower we could using all his bricks. It took a while to work out but we did it. Getting the tower to balance was an ongoing struggle. We had to juggle bricks, … Continue Reading
Time is precious
Your virtual assistant is waiting for you
How you can get the routine admin stuff done Things are finally going to plan!! Your business is growing and you now need to spend more time focusing your attention on the bigger and more important stuff. You want to develop a strategy, look at scaling growth and develop your clients too, but the little … Continue Reading