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Your Questions Answered – How Does a Virtual Assistant Work?
Amy Wallin
We get loads of questions about hiring and working with VAs. In this blog, we will boil down a bunch of them. Of course, please reach out if you have any other queries. How do I know my VA will have the basic skills to complete the tasks I need…
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What a Virtual Executive Assistant Can Do For You
Amy Wallin
A virtual EA’s purpose is twofold – Let’s go through both of these and discuss what a virtual EA could be doing for you. Remember, all Linked VA’s are trained specifically for their role. If you require any skills that are outside of what may be considered ‘standard’, just have…
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Get Over the Guilt of Not Being Busy
Amy Wallin
In a cult, you’re told what to believe and are expected to follow blindly. The cult of busyness is once we’ve all been a member of at some stage.“How are you?” a friend asks.“Busy,” you reply.She gives you a nod. After all, she’s busy too – it’s how being successful…
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In-house employee or remote virtual assistant?
Amy Wallin
If you’ve asked this question yourself, you know it can be a hard one to answer. Today, there are so many options available to us as business owners for staffing. It can be very tricky working out what is best for you and your business. In the past, if we…
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Virtual assistant myths – which ones are true?
Amy Wallin
The virtual assistant industry is ever growing – and many of us are realising that we can achieve the same or greater results by working remotely. And as this shift is happening, more business owners are hiring overseas workers to make their businesses more profitable and durable. There is a…
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Building Teamwork with Remote Virtual Assistants
Amy Wallin
“Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.” – Vince Lombardi The more we learn about company dynamics, high performance behaviours and paths to success – the better we understand the importance of teamwork. Teamwork may seem…
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15 Roles to Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
Amy Wallin
There is really no limit to what you can outsource to a virtual assistant but I talk to people everyday who want to free up some time and hire a VA. Yet, they just aren’t quite sure what tasks or positions they can outsource and what they can’t. Now, I’m…
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How to skill-test a virtual assistant candidate
Amy Wallin
A past blog of mine explained how to hire an overseas Virtual Assistant, or VA, and one of the things I mentioned in that post was to give them a sample project to test their skills before you offer them a position with your business. Why is skill assessment so…
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What is a Virtual Assistant? (and why you should hire one)
Amy Wallin
If you’re reading this blog, I’ll take a guess that you are currently exploring the idea of working with a virtual assistant. But before you commit, you probably have a few questions about how the whole thing works, like: what is a virtual assistant? Is hiring a remote employee the…
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4 Steps to Hire the Right VA Every Time
Amy Wallin
If you’re reading this you are probably already very aware of the benefits of outsourcing administrative tasks to a virtual assistant. But you’ve also probably heard the horror stories from friends and fellow business owners about using virtual assistants from ‘gig’ sites like Upwork or Fiverr. Do the words ‘unreliable’,…
