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How To Create More Time for Yourself As A Business Owner

Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep. This is often an all too familiar pattern of lifestyle when you are running your own business. There never seems to be time for anything else. You are constantly being pulled in so many different directions you just don’t know when you are going to have time for yourself. […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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7 Benefits Of Building a Virtual Team

As a business owner, one of the most challenging aspects of growing your company is building a great team. There are so many different things to consider. Where will they work from? What skills do they need? How much will it cost to hire someone? The list can go on forever. However, in this day […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Grow Your Coaching Business: Our Top 10 Tips

Coaching is fast becoming one of the most sought after services in business. It has gone from near obscurity to being on the mind of even the most traditional companies. With this growth comes competition. There are coaches popping up left and right, you can’t go on LinkedIN without coming across one or two coaches […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Why Build an Email Marketing List? Two Game Changers

According to the Direct Marketing Association’s latest report, email continues to be the highest-performing marketing channel out there. Now 98% of emails sent are successfully delivered compared to 87% just 7 years ago. The technology has moved on and improved. But, most importantly, marketers surveyed in recent research by the DMA continue to rate email […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Our Top Cloud Storage Solutions: Protect Your Business Data

Following the aftermath of yet another cyber attack, this time in the form of the the Wannacry ransomware attack, it is more important than ever to back up important data and files. Cloud storage solutions offer a cheap, reliable and easy way to do this. Storing data off of your own laptop does not just […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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Content Marketing Strategy : A Beginner’s Guide

A content marketing strategy is more important for businesses now than ever before. But, why is this I hear you ask? Well, according to Content Marketing Institute, 70% of B2B marketers are creating more content now than ever before. We’ve listed our top tips to begin creating your content marketing strategy. Why does a content marketing […]
Annabel Watters
by Annabel Watters
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How We Hire 5* Virtual Assistants at Virtalent

We are very proud to say that the quality of our talent pool is improving every day and we believe we now have some of the most talented VAs in our industry working on Virtalent client accounts. But how do we know who to look for? How do we hire outstanding Virtual Assistants? Less than […]
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by Sam Wilson
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Virtalent: The Story Behind Our Name

Our team often get asked why we are called “Virtalent” or even, “how do I pronounce it?”. Today I wanted to explain the meaning and relevance of our brand name to our mission as a company in the Virtual Assistant industry. Names have been around since the times of the cavemen as a way to […]
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by Sam Wilson
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Early Stage Business Growth – Investing In People

Early Stage Business Growth You thought of an idea, built a product, found your first customers, generated revenue and learnt a lot along the way. The hard part is over, right? Starting a business isn’t easy, however, even more difficulties arise when you have proven all of your assumptions and have achieved a reasonable level […]
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by Sam Wilson
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How To Manage Stress And Calm Your Mind

We all lead busy lives, constantly running out of time, flitting from one thing to another and the stress that runs alongside this plays a regular part in our daily life. With the constant plates we are spinning, if’s hard to feel like we can achieve any sort of balance. So we’ve put together 5 […]
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by Sam Wilson