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6 Ways A Virtual Assistant Is Invaluable To Your New Start-Up cover
6 Ways A Virtual Assistant Is Invaluable To Your New Start-Up

Launching a new business is an exciting, exhilarating and rewarding experience. With over 660,000 new start-ups created in the UK every year and a jaw-dropping 64% of the UK workforce aspiring to set up a business, the country is not short of inspiring entrepreneurs. However, starting a business certainly isn’t a walk in the park. […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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What Virtual Assistants Offer That Staff Simply… Can’t!

You’ve set up your business but now the time has come to build a team to help you get more done and focus on growing your business. It’s an enormous milestone in your business journey and something that should be celebrated! However, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to hiring permanent staff. It […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Hiring A Virtual PA To Kill Your Bad Habits – 10 Tactics

Even the most successful and well-known entrepreneurs develop bad habits in business – whether it’s trying to do too much at once or procrastinating in the face of a challenge. Sometimes these bad habits can develop gradually, and sometimes they were there all along, but you just happen to notice them later. You might be […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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How Having Virtual Assistance Will Help Smash Your Goals

If you’re an entrepreneur or a business owner, then it’s likely that you’re already a highly-motivated individual. And that will have, of course, served you well in the early stages of your business, when you would have most likely had to do everything yourself. However, while that was all well and good in the early […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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6 Tips To Make Hiring A Virtual Assistant As Easy As Possible

It’s not easy being a business owner, at least not all of the time. There are times when it seems to be anything but straightforward, and it’s at those times that the going can really get tough. However, there are things you can do to make life easier. One such way is to look at […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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A Day In The Life Of Virtual Assistant, Toni

Toni Yates spent the majority of her 17-year career as a Personal Assistant and has worked in a variety of roles and industries. Following the birth of her son, she wanted to shift to a more flexible Virtual Assistant role so she could spend as much time with him as possible. After much research, she […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Vital Resources for Virtual Assistants

Ah Google. What would we do without it? For those first embarking on their Virtual Assistant journey, it’s an infinite source of information. Thankfully, for every aspiring VA, there are hundreds of others who have been there, got the t-shirt and found time to write about it. Usually, we write about topics our busy clients […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Top 11 Call Answering Services For Small Businesses

We know how important customer service is to small businesses. But time spent call answering adds up. Suddenly there aren’t enough hours in the day to focus on anything else, let alone grow your business. Missing the occasional phone call is common enough, but if you’re constantly finding yourself diverting calls to voicemail, you could […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Hiring Virtual Assistants: The Pros And Cons

When making any important business decision, business owners know it is imperative to weigh up the pros and cons. Hiring Virtual Assistants is no different, yet many business owners aren’t too sure what a Virtual Assistant is, or what it is they can do for their company. To give you a helping hand, we have […]
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by Sam Wilson
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How To Use A Virtual Assistant Effectively

Finding yourself a Virtual Assistant is the first step to building a far more productive, less stressful working day. Yet actually knowing how to use a Virtual Assistant properly – understanding the steps you need to get the most out of the relationship – can be an entirely different animal. What practical guidance do you […]
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by Sam Wilson