Posts Tagged ‘home working’
WordPress 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 Longest Ever VA Business Set-Up?
The Mourne Mountains In 2005 I found myself living at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in Ireland with my husband and children who were then 4, 12 and 14 years old. Of course, having a young family and moving away is always a difficult time and I wanted to do something other than applying…
Read MoreBecoming a new VA
“So what do you do as a job?” Since becoming a full-time V.A. in January this year I haven’t quite worked out a satisfactory reply to that question. So what do I do? Data entry, creating websites, researching CRMs, testing software, social media management, event planning, project planning, everything planning. Well, I do it all.…
Read MoreBecoming a VA – the Good, the Bad and the Useful!
Anyone who has ever Googled ‘how to become a Virtual Assistant’ will have been faced with a plethora of blogs, articles and even whole websites selling the ‘freelance lifestyle’ – being your own boss is en vogue in 2016 and it can be tempting to think that compared to working 9-5 a la Dolly Parton,…
Read MoreNew Beginnings For A Bilingual Virtual Assistant
Hello fellow VAs, My name is Rachel (or “Retch-all” as I am called in England) and I am the newest VA on the blog. Being French, I decided to specialise in providing bilingual services. So HOW did I get there? Well it all started with my husband when he decided to start his own business…
Read MoreThe pros and cons of working from home
Helen C discusses her pros and cons of home-working. A must read if you’re thinking of starting a new work-from home business.
Read MoreFSB Report into Home Working
The Federation of Small Business recently launched a big study into home working in Scotland… obviously more relevant to those north of the border, but nevertheless an interesting read when you look at the headline figures! Home working is worth £19 BILLION to the Scottish economy. 1 in 5 people employed by the private sector…
Read MoreIs home working dead? Or does it just need a virtual assistant?
Yahoo chief, Marissa Mayer, recently cracked down on employees working from home – it sparked an outrage of this “backwards thinking” in one of the world’s biggest tech firms. (Now I have to insert a little disclaimer here: Marissa Meyer is one of my business heroes. A woman who deals on an equal footing with…
Read MoreWhat I was up to over the holidays…
Caroline lets us in in what she was up to over the holidays….
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