September 14, 2018
Hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA) can be a big decision but today I want to help you simplify the task. These tips will help you work out what a VA can do for you and also how you can use them to the best of their abilities and save time and money. Firstly, you want to work out what task or tasks you need a VA to do. The best…
I love children’s literature with a passion, one of my favourite things about Family Day Care was story time and now I read with my kids every day. I would quite happily spend all day reading kids books…quality kids books, I am insulted by boring kids books! Children’s books offer amazing motivational and inspirational quotes and to me there are like music, tonic and magic all weaved together. The thing is…
July 9, 2016
Because I work virtually, as I sure a lot of you do I can’t use this face when clients don’t pay on time. I do use it regularly on my children when I see the state of the lounge room after a 10 minute business call but that is another matter! Unpaid invoices though are an issue whatever industry or business you are in. What do unpaid invoices look like…
June 17, 2016
I always hesitate when I am asked how long I have been in business, technically I have been in business over 2 years. But if I was to give you my heart answer I would say less than 6 months. For the longest time ever, well ok about 18 months I floundered about in my “business” not really sure of my why and my what. I could certainly have told…
May 24, 2016
This is a bit of a ranty post which I usually avoid but it’s something I am seeing more and more of! It’s lack of transparency and the thing is we can all see right through it. I see it so often lately in the place I find most things that annoy me – Facebook. It comes in the form of the Facebook elevator pitch but also in many “business”…
May 10, 2016
Ok confession time – I am a Facebook group junkie. At one time I found myself googling “how to leave Facebook groups in bulk”. The problem with all this content is that it can become overwhelming very quickly. I found myself signing up for so many offers, that individually were fantastic but I started to strain under the weight of all the emails. I felt an unnecessary obligation to commit…
April 4, 2016
I never imagined I would work in party plan, in my head was the vision of the pushy Tupperware lady (sorry to my Tupperware friends, I know you have evolved now and I love you and those little round containers!). So when I started to consider Party Plan as a business I had no idea what I needed to consider. Whilst I am in the process of winding up my…
May 4, 2015
Mention a “Virtual Assistant” and it may conjure up an image of an overseas contractor that works for a few dollars an hour. However there is a growing industry in Australia of work at home professionals that provide everything from basic admin to specialised services. There are many work at home mums with very valuable skills for whom the virtual assistance field provides a flexibility that no other job does.…
