Blogging is a great way to position yourself as an expert in your field and regularly keep in touch with your readers, whilst building an interactive relationship with them? Have you considered blogging? Blogs are less formal than web sites allowing you to inject your own personality into the content. The snippets of information that … Read more
At My Virtual Assistant, we often find that when we begin to work with a new client, they often don’t realise the full extent of the services we can provide. In this series we will look at some of the common tasks you can outsource to your Virtual Assistant that you may not have even … Read more
When you are in the setting up stages of your business, don’t forget to set everything up as though you were a large company. For example, set up various email address for different uses and don’t have all email coming to one address. You can have ‘yourname’, ‘enquiries’, ‘customer service’, ‘quotations’, etc. In the short … Read more
Do you find that when you have a little ‘head space’ whilst driving or traveling on trains or planes you suddenly feel inspired? The idea for that article suddenly pops into your head or you feel stimulated enough to put together that email newsletter you’ve been meaning to send out? Well there’s not much you … Read more
Do you ever forget birthdays or anniversaries or leave it far to late to purchase an appropriate gift? Ever miss the school play or sports day because you’ve double booked it with a work event you cant extricate yourself from so late in the day. Do you find yourself dashing from one end of town … Read more
Are you one of those people who wakes in the middle of the night in a cold sweat because you have just remembered something you simply must not forget to do tomorrow? Then when you wake you’ve forgotten it again. Do you have your best ideas and come up with your best solutions to niggling … Read more
We all have a To Do list as long as our arm, any many of us have to steel ourselves to look at it as a whole mile long list of what we have to do can seem overwhelming to say the least. Try this practice for a week and see if you find you … Read more
Limit the amount of time you spend checking email and switch off email alerts. If you are constantly checking your inbox or are responding immediately to email alerts you could be wasting hours every week, not to mention finding it very difficult to concentrate. Limit email checking to 2 to 3 times a day and … Read more