Virtual Assistant Industry
Price increase letters
Over the years we’ve been asked for examples of price increase letters – each VA business is different and you will know your clients best, but here’s a few ideas about how you can increase your virtual assistant rates without alienating the clients. Why raise your virtual assistant rates? Firstly, remember that your clients will…
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About Caroline Caroline has been a Virtual Assistant (VA) since 2004 in her business, Virtually Sorted. With a background in music and advertising, she worked in the creative industries for over 10 years, both in London and Glasgow. Trying to avoid wearing a suit every day, Caroline switched into entrepreneur mode and has never looked…
Read MoreVolunteer for SVA
We’re looking for virtual assistant volunteers to help with a number of Society of Virtual Assistants projects over the next 2 quarters of 2018. If you are able to donate some time to helping us, we’d be very grateful. It’s a great way to expand your portfolio of work. Where possible we want to give…
Read MoreWordPress Launches Campaign To Help Promote Positive Mental Health
WordPress has launched a new campaign #PressForward in order to help promote positive mental health within the Word Press Community. Word Press is one of the most popular website and blog management platforms available today. Currently, around 30% of the websites and blogs online use it as their content management system of choice. The service…
Read MoreThe Approved Virtual Assistant Scheme – VA Standards
SVA came into existence in 2005 to: Promote best practice in the virtual assistant industry; create industry wide VA standards; and Help UK VAs find clients. As part of this we run a FREE listing for all VAs who abide by the following rules. More information on how to comply can be found on the…
Read MoreCompetition – Guess the number of Forum Messages
So our forum is undergoing a long overdue facelift… Up until this point, we’ve not been able to move onto updated software without losing all those years of useful content and posts. But it has meant that we’ve had to spend a big chunk of cash on doing it – please do DONATE HERE if…
Read MoreIR35 – Freelancers Targeted by Government and what Virtual Assistants need to know
IR35 Virtual Assistants – what freelancers need to know IR35 is something you’ll have seen bandied about on forums and freelance blogs recently… In fact, we’ve even heard of clients advising one another not to hire a VA “in case you get caught out by IR35”. So what is it? And why does it apply…
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 MoreAdvertise on SVA
Recently we’ve been asked a lot about advertising on the Society Of Virtual Assistants website which usually we are happy to do for free if it’s a product which helps VAs. With 1,800+ VAs on our database, we’ve sold businesses in a matter of days, we’ve done pre-sales on new accountancy products, and we’ve created…
Read MoreCollaboration Not Competition
As an industry we have a wonderful ethos of “Collaboration not competition” – I think that’s one of the most special things about the VA industry. The other special thing is the wonderful range of VA businesses who operate under the term “Virtual Assistant”. That’s a good thing and it means there is enough work…
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