The Virtual Assistant Blog
Helping business owners run a successful business
Email time management tips: How to use a virtual assistant to your advantage
For many people, email has become an essential part of running their business. Unfortunately, personal email management can be quite complex when you have hundreds of emails arriving daily and thousands of email contacts. For this reason, many business owners and...
Eight ways virtual assistant lead generation support could boost your business
All businesses rely on new leads. Of course, you need to keep existing customers loyal, but new business has to come from somewhere – and finding that business can be a time-consuming task. It’s also expensive – particularly if you’re doing all the work yourself. So,...
How to improve time management skills by outsourcing your diary
Managing time is one of the areas that business owners highlight most often as a problem. It’s not unusual to feel like you’re constantly running out of time and not able to dedicate the hours you need to the things that matter – both inside and outside your business....
How to choose the best free web collaboration tools for your small business
The term ‘collaboration tool’ means different things to different businesses. That means that when it comes to evaluating the best free web collaboration tools for your business, you need to understand what you need in order to make the best choice. This blog covers...
How to choose the right automated email marketing services for a small business
If you ever go to a marketing or business growth seminar, you’ll hear that you should be using email marketing. As a small business, you need to keep costs down, but contact points up; look after your existing customers and demonstrate to potential customers the...
Boost your lead generation with virtual assistant support
Lead generation is essential to business success. Without interesting potential customers in the products or services you offer, you have no way of encouraging them to buy. You need to build awareness and interest that will lead to action. While it’s essential, it’s...
How to pre-qualify your prospects
There are few things more disheartening than focusing time, energy and thought on a particular sales pitch, only to have it end with a shake of the head and a firm "No thanks". You wonder where it went wrong: you thought this was a guaranteed sale, but did you...
How a business meeting planner can make you more productive
We all know that business meetings can be incredibly productive and useful. We also know that poorly-organised or planned meetings can be dull, unproductive and a waste of the valuable time we could be spending elsewhere. If you think your business meetings could work...
How virtual assistants can help doctors, consultants & GPs
Whether you’re running a busy medical practice, or managing private work alongside your other roles, it’s going to make for an easier life if you can offload your admin to someone you can rely on. You need to be able to focus on the work, which means that a safe pair...
How to write clear briefs for your business process outsourcing service
Having business processes for essential tasks in your business improves productivity, reduces time wasted and keeps things running smoothly even if the people managing the tasks change. They are particularly useful if you have decided to outsource some of the key...
How a meeting organiser can help you run truly efficient meetings
When meetings are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are a waste of everyone’s time and energy. That’s why it’s worth considering having a meeting organiser or planner who can help you make sure that both internal and external meetings add...