Get Ready for 2022 22 Things You Need to do to Get Ready for the New Year Ah, it’s almost the end of another WTF year, basically year 100 into the pandemic. Congratulations to everyone - you’ve nearly made it through 2021! As much as we all did our best to return to normal, it’s apparent that we aren’t there yet. Still, I hope you all had a safe, as happy as can be, and productive year. In preparation for another go around the sun, I thought I’d compile a list of 22 things you as business owners can do to get ready for 2022. One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten busier and that I’ve observed ..read more

Copywriting Services from a Virtual Assistant Providing copywriting services for clients is easily one of my favourite tasks to do. Writing has always been something I’ve enjoyed whether it was at University or for my former corporate career. I enter into my happy place the more I learn about new businesses, along with what motivates business owners, and what they are struggling to convey into words. To demonstrate how this can help you and your business, I will outline past examples of copywriting work I’ve done for clients to show you how much a virtual assistant such as myself can help you ..read more

Why Small Businesses Still Need a VA Even in the Age of AI   These days It seems we can barely go a few digital paces or even have conversations with people before the topic of AI comes up. It’s EVERYWHERE. I’m sure it’s been top of mind for you, whether you are a women small business owner, content creator, or part of the corporate world. AI is gaining so much buzz because it offers incredible automation and efficiency. Who doesn’t want to work smarter and not harder?! ? While there are plenty of ethical issues surrounding AI, I’m not going to be focusing on that as there are plenty of ..read more

  What is a VA? I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been asked what a virtual assistant (VA) is. While I (internally) like to roll my eyes at this question, when I distance myself from my business, I actually get it! It sounds a little ambiguous like it could be someone who does a little bit of everything, which doesn’t really help the clarity process.  It’s Quiz Time! To help you understand what a VA does and how they can help your business, I made a virtual assistant quiz. It leads you through 10 magically infused and useful questions and ends with which one of my service ..read more

  Getting Influencers to Interact with Your Brand One of my favourite services to offer my virtual assistant clients is influencer management. I know this can seem like an ambiguous service, almost like I made it up! I can assure you that it’s a very real service and something that clients of mine who are building up a large following really need. Throughout this blog post, we are going to go through together: what influencer management is, why it’s helpful to have a VA take on this role and, how to know if you are ready to have this type of support in your business What is influ ..read more

10 Lessons I’ve Learnt Celebrating & reflecting on 1 year of full-time business! It’s truly incredible that it’s been one year since I left my 9-5 job to pursue my virtual assistant business full time! This was something I had been working to manifest for several years. I can remember vividly the day I virtually handed in my resignation from that job and completed my last day. This all happened while working from home, but it still felt monumental and dramatic. I can remember feeling excited, happy, and having background feelings of overwhelm and anxiousness. Since then, I’ve been on an e ..read more

Getting it All Done Seamlessly The bread and butter of virtual assistant services is administrative support. For my business, it connects to many different service areas such as influencer management and on-going monthly support. Administrative services cover a wide range of tasks and they are the behind the scenes action of most business owners that I work with. It’s usually the tasks that business owners don’t have time for, don’t want to do, and just have to get done! Do you have admin tasks that are taking up too much of your time? If so, read on to see how I can help you take your time b ..read more

Use CRM & Other Systems to Be Efficient in Your Business   So you are going to onboard some new clients. Whoo! Congrats, that’s exciting! Before you get started on the work, there are some crucial admin tasks that are fundamental to ensuring a smooth client on-boarding process. Spoiler alert, there are A LOT of tasks to do, right? Do you find handling these tasks manually (without a system) is a giant time suck? Did you miss a step? Did you misplace something - a document, meeting link or the perfect wording from a similar email? Oops! ?‍♀️ It happens to the best of us and it used to ..read more