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The Why, how, where's of a Virtual Assistant
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Since the start of the recession, with redundancies and cost cutting, many people have found new careers as freelancers or small business owners, often working from home or out of Starbucks (I kid you not!), with the birth of this relatively new concept of working also came along the Virtual Assistant. Virtual Assistants are ideal ...
30 One Hour Projects
When explaining the concept of a Virtual Assistant to people, the question most often asked is “what can you do”, below is a list of example projects a Virtual Assistant can do in an hour (or less): 1) Phone a minimum of 12 clients for a specific project. 2) Mail merge 50 letters including stuffing ...
“Finding a job – It's all who you know. And who THEY KNOW.”
With the announcement that the UK is finally coming out of the recession, 7.8% of the UK population is still in search of work. The realm of Social Media is growing increasingly popular as the main method for searching for employment. A young snazzy developer has come up with a really simple, but effective way ...
Project Management
Projects in Controlled Environments, that’s the abbreviation of Prince2. Whilst working in the NHS I was fortunate enough to gain a huge amount of experience managing both large and small projects, and I have now obtained a Prince2 Practitioner qualification. Whatever your project, large or small, I can help with the co-ordination, tracking and creation ...
Effective Festive Networking
What do you think of when you imagine a networking event? folks in suits talking about their business and selling products? yep me too! It doesn’t have to be that way you know, when you’re at your Christmas parties this week, remember to take advantage of new contacts you mingle with. Be prepared for whatever ...
Virtual Assistant – A respected industry
I came across a comment whilst looking for useful videos on You-Tube over the weekend “Virtual Assistant – another scam for making money online” – is this just ignorance talking or are Virtual Assistants really seen in that way to the general ‘Jo Public’? I feel that I needed to defend what I and many other ...
Turn green and use a virtual note pad – One Note
Are you a note taker? a scribbler? Do you often scribble notes when on the phone and then can’t remember what page of the note pad you wrote that important telephone number or URL? Why not use Microsoft One Note? One Note is your very own personal note book where you can keep all those telephone ...
Typealyze that blog
I recently saw that Kimberly LeRiche had Tweeted (what a weird word! LOL) “Try this: http://www.typealyzer.com/ it’s like Meyer’s Briggs for your blog. It will analyze your blog for your personality type”. Being new to Twitter at the time I was completely overwhelmed by all the the “Twittering” and didn’t investigate any further (sorry Kimberly ...
Jib Jab
The funniest website I’ve seen so far for sending e-cards! Turn your friends into an elf or a snowman, put yourself into a classic movie. So cute!! http://sendables.jibjab.com/
My very first Podcast!
Thanks to Darlene of D. Victoria Virtual Assistance I have been very fortunate to take part in my very first podcast! Someone who hates public speaking, I was very nervous and apprehensive, thinking “oh god what if it makes me sound stupid”? It want’s all that bad! but I guess I’ll let you be the ...
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