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With 2024 in full swing, nailing your schedule is a crucial skill to allow you to achieve the goals you have for both your business and in your personal life too. In fact, the most incredible outcome after refining my schedule is that I now have more quality time in ALL areas. I am present when wo

Do you ever wish you had more time on your hands to do the things you enjoy? Is time just something you’re always chasing? Are you unable to focus on the parts of your business that you really care about? If the answer is yes to any of these, I have the solution. It’s Me.

Running a business requires constant innovative ways to connect and engage with you audience. Since the pandemic, webinars have increased in their popularity and success for businesses to connect with their audience, share expertise, and market their products or services effectively. Working as a Vi

Do you find yourself reaching out to people and never hearing back? Are you wondering why everyone seems to be booking that client, the podcast episode, the event, but you? As a virtual assistant, one of my roles is to reach out to potential leads for my clients. After many years of sending out cold

Running your own business is simultaneously the most rewarding and relentless job. The satisfaction of working and earning money through a business model that you have started from the ground up is like no other. But with such great reward comes the great challenges too; from burnout, the inability

When it comes to running a small business, your presence and effectiveness on Social Media can become an overwhelming burden in our day-to-day lives. How do we use apps such as Instagram, Linkedin, or Twitter in a way which doesn't eat into time that we need to focus on other key aspects of our busi

We’re 4 months into 2022 and perhaps things with your business aren’t going the way you’d hoped for. Whether you haven't met your monthly targets, or you’ve lost a client, your engagement is down. Whatever it is, you need to make a change.

You’ll notice in my definition for EI that I described it as a skill, this is because I believe everyone can work on their emotional intelligence. Of course, there are always people who have instinctive emotional intelligence. Perhaps you read the elements above and already practise all 5 attribut

If you’re reading this and you know me, you will also know my fascination and advocacy for the continuous work on our Emotional Intelligence (EI). I believe EI can have a positive impact in all areas of our lives; from being the highest performing and top-of-the-game virtual assistant for my clien

So you’ve got the idea, but now you’re thinking ‘Where do I go next?’ Well, here’s a breakdown of a few main sites to help start your podcast journey… Today we’re talking all things Captivate, Buzzsprout, Anchor, Lybsin, and Podbean. We’re going to comparing the cost, features, pr

I’m often asked how do I keep track of numerous clients at once and make sure I fully understand everything about them without having to spend hundreds of hours looking at all their details. This can be for both current and new potential clients.

Having active people! This may sound obvious but by less inactive people being on your subscription list, you will have a much higher CTR and therefore increase the overall conversion rate. It also provides a real reflection of your current email campaigns so you can accurately measure and improve t

One key task I’m often asked to do is read over emails to ensure that it comes across in the right way and is delivering the message you want to. From doing this myself for many years, as well as asking my colleagues/ occasionally friends to check over my writing, I’ve come to find there are key

Value is an interesting subject from a VA perspective. Naturally, when a client gives us work we want to make sure we are showing a benefit as it’s essentially our reputation on the line if we don’t. Unlike a large corporation, we don’t have the luxury of taking a client for a ride. We must at

In part 1 we discussed different methods to demonstrate value to your clients. In this section, we get to the real juicy stuff and begin to understand the who, what and why. By the end, you’ll have some great strategies on ways to keep on impressing your clients without even putting in much more

Solving a problem which has been bugging you for a while is often one of lifes most tedious tasks and yet when you discover the solution it cannot be described as anything other than pure joy! … well, maybe a side of relief as well. But none the matter, joy is what it brings!

This is where we go through ways you can start causing your brain to think creatively. First step – think when was your last creative thought? Not sure?

If you’ve found yourself reading this article you’re probably either 1. An avid Newsletter creator wondering if you’re using the right platform 2. Starting your first-ever newsletter (likewise!) 3. Just plain old-curious!

If you’re running a small business your website is a vital platform to create new sales, provide resources for current clients and build your business. Once your website is set up, it can be easy to abandon ship and focus on other aspects of your work. But before you take your foot off the gas, fr