Specialist Niches
Booking travel as a virtual assistant
If you book travel for clients, there are a few issues which you need to be aware of. It straddles a variety of different areas, and our advice at SVA is either: Use a specialist travel agent who is able to do the bookings for you. Just do the research and send the client the…
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 MoreOffering Call Answering as a VA
Call answering – how do I charge for it? We get asked about answering calls on behalf of clients often enough that we started copying and pasting the answers from old call answering threads… So we thought we’d do a blog post on it instead! The first thing I’ll say about answering phones: You cannot…
Read MoreSpecialist Niches: Stefanie Vanjo-Carnell of Bravo Services – Tradesmen HR Specialist
As part of our Specialist Niches section, we’ve spoken to VAs who have unusual or specialist niches. Your Name? Stefanie Vanjo-Carnell Name of your business? Bravo Services Describe your unusual niche? Bravo Services is Office Administration and Business Process Management/Improvement consultancy for sole-traders and small businesses such as tradesman and recruiters. How did…
Read MoreGot a virtual assistant niche?
Got a virtual assistant niche? Finding your virtual assistant niche can be key to the success of your VA business.
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 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 MoreSpecialist Niches: Debbie of Intuitive Support Services Limited – Outsourced admin for Financial Advisors
As part of our Specialist Niches section, we’ve spoken to VAs who have unusual or specialist niches. I’m Debbie and my background was in financial services. I set up as a VA when I left my job in the City (I was miserable being so far away from my 1 year old son). I didn’t know what…
Read MoreSpecialist Niches: Bryony of BPVA – Rural Enterprise
As part of our Specialist Niches section, we’ve spoken to VAs who have unusual or specialist niches. My name is Bryony Parker and I am 49 years old. My business is BV VA Services and has been running since Dec 15.
Read MoreSpecialist Niches: Mei Yee Leong of Wonderfully Mei Designs – Graphic Design & creative writing
As part of our Specialist Niches section, we’ve spoken to VAs who have unusual or specialist niches. Your name and age? My name is Mei Yee Leong and I’m 26.
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