Virtual Assistant Industry
Online International Virtual Assistant Convention 2018
OIVAC is the original and best Virtual Assistant Online International Virtual Assistant Convention – times are given in US, but UK based VAs will be able to ask questions in advance and download recordings later if you can’t stay up late (Get The Schedule with Time Conversions Here). Log on from the comfort of…
Read More5 ways to say No nicely as a virtual assistant
Learning to say No (nicely) – as a Virtual Assistant. As a Personal Assistant, our usual status is to say YES to things: Yes, I can book a table; Yes, I can get that report updated; Yes, I will make sure your expenses are in on time But the underlying foundation of those YES answers…
Read MoreVirtual Assistant Awards
One of the highlights of my year is judging the outstanding Virtual Assistant Awards. It gives me a chance to see the wide range of highly skilled and professional virtual assistants on show. I also get to meet many of the other people in our industry. Unfortunately, because of the really bad snow…
Read MoreOffice* Show 2018
So… the snow grounded me and I didn’t make it to Office* Show this year – I’m gutted to be missing out on catching up with everyone, getting all the gossip and connecting with all the VA industry’s latest news at the VA Conference. Michelle Smith and I battled the snow and ungritted roads in…
Read MorePress Release for Virtual Assistants
During SVA’s UK VA Survey v8 you asked us to develop more shared resources that you could use to promote your business… One of the things which Virtual Assistants felt would be useful was a customisable press release that you could tweak with your own details and submit to local news outlets. Local papers may…
Read MoreGDPR – crowdsource…
GDPR Compliance: So we are all scrambling around at the moment trying to make sure all our suppliers are compliant in terms of storage and security for GDPR. There will be a million different apps, programmes, suppliers and programmes which VAs store personal information in and which should be assessed for data liabilities…And I’m sure…
Read MoreThank you
Thank you for helping SVA. I get emails all the time about how useful SVA is to UK virtual assistants – if they need info on a particular problem, or just to gauge how other virtual assistants are finding the market at the moment, SVA is the first place they go to. And it’s free……
Read MoreChoose the best virtual assistant course
Virtual Assistant Training – what to look for If you’re a newbie VA, one of the first things you’ll look at is finding the best virtual assistant course or some virtual assistant training. I am probably going to get very nasty emails about this post – I know there are going to be good friends…
Read MoreWhy working on site is not being a Virtual Assistant
What are the differences between being a VA and temping on site?
Read MoreNew Year – New business planner / diary!
If you are an organised Virtual Assistant, you may already have ordered the bible which keeps you on track… Planner, diary, journal, organiser, filofax – doesn’t matter what you call it, just that it works. Surprisingly for an online industry, there’s a big slice of the VA industry who rely on paper and pencil to…
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