Virtual Assistant industry standards
Virtual Assistant Insurance
Virtual Assistant Insurance Over the years we’ve done a variety of articles on why it is necessary for virtual assistants to have insurance in place if they are working with…
Read MoreData Protection and the Virtual Assistant
Data Protection is one of those areas where if you ask 10 different people “Do I need to be registered?” you’ll get 10 different answers. So we wanted to clear…
Read MoreNamechange for HMRC MLR
HMRC’s Anti Money Laundering Supervision (AMLS) team has changed its name to Economic Crime Supervision (ECS). As part of continuing changes to the service, the anti money laundering supervision team (MLR) will now…
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…
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…
Read MoreBeing a Mumpreneur Virtual Assistant
Generally I don’t talk much about being a mumpreneur virtual assistant – mostly because “mumpreneur” makes me cringe, but also because there’s really no reason why any of my clients…
Read MoreIntroducing: SVA Virtual Assistants CIC
For years, I’ve run SVA as a sideline to my own VA business… I don’t charge for the time I spend on it, it saves fees in terms of different…
Read MoreWebsite Cookies: Me want cookies!
Website Cookies: So we’ve just about got everyone up to date with ICO’s GDPR guidance… and along comes an update on their cookie guidance. (I’ll admit – I grimaced!). https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/blog-cookies-what-does-good-look-like/…
Read MoreAnti Money Laundering Regulations for Virtual Assistants
If you offer bookkeeping or accountancy services, you should be registered for Anti Money Laundering Regulations. Over the course of the last 18 months or so we’ve been working closely…
Read MoreVirtual Assistant Training Standards
At the UK Virtual Assistant Conference this year, I shared with you the rising numbers of complaints which I’ve had about Virtual Assistant Courses or start up training. In the…
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