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SVA turns 14!
SVA started in 2005 and is now officially the oldest active virtual assistant organisation in the UK. Just 7 VAs got together with (the infamous!) Alan the Geek in a restaurant in Edinburgh in June 2005. The idea was to promote virtual assistance as a profession and spread the word about how VAs could help…
Read MoreExpand Your Virtual Assistant Team
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 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 MoreTyping Gold – or those little things which make a big difference!
Dictation, audio typing, transcription Back in 2004 when I started my virtual assistant business, digital dictation was just starting to take off. We occasionally got the odd cassette tape delivered, but more and more dictation was being emailed. Over the years, our clients have asked us for various tweaks to the system – and for…
Read MoreVirtual Assistant Franchise – or buying a VA Business
Buying a VA Business – Virtual Assistant Franchises If you are serious about expanding your business, you might look at buying a VA business to expand rapidly. These deals can be an excellent way of expanding your client list, owning a ready-made business, and a shortcut to SEO supremacy… But they can also be extremely…
Read MoreSocial Media Strategy Document for Virtual Assistants
This one is a little gem of a document for guiding you through the social media jungle… Basically it contains a list of questions to establish where you are now with your social media presence, a few leading enquiries to find out where you want to get to, and some ideas on what to do.…
Read MoreSVA Premier: The VA Course for UK Virtual Assistants
Virtual Assistant Course – Virtual Assistant Training Since 2009 we’ve run the SVA Premier programme to help VAs who want to fast forward their business by getting access to commercially sensitive or insider information. Initially we developed this as online webcasts and password protected blogs, but five years on, we’d covered most subjects and it…
Read MoreHow to sell a client
This gem comes from Phillippa Goodwin of Essential PA – one for all the MultiVA businesses or simply for someone looking to outsource work on a permanent basis. How to “sell” a virtual assistant client
Read MoreProtected: SVA Premier: July 2013 – The Top 30% of VAs and what they do differently…
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Read MoreSVA Premier: Buying a Virtual Assistant Business – a how-to guide!
If you are serious about expanding your business, you might look at buying another VA business to expand rapidly… However whilst these deals can be an excellent way of expanding your client list, owning a ready-made business, and a shortcut to SEO supremacy… They can also be extremely duff deals!
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