Tag: #personalassistant
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Project Deadlines Slipping Away?
Project Deadlines Slipping Away? VAConnect: Productivity Partner for Startup Project Management The Sydney Opera House was supposed to open in 1963 for $7 million. It finally opened a decade later, in 1973, at a cost north of $100 million. The academic thesis that was "definitely done in a month" somehow consumed 55.5 days on average—and…
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Bookkeeping Bottlenecks Slowing You Down? VAConnect Empowers SMEs with Financial Task Outsourcing
Bookkeeping Bottlenecks Slowing You Down? VAConnect Empowers SMEs with Financial Task Outsourcing Introduction: The £47,000 Question Every Founder Ignores When Elena Richardson's Manchester-based SaaS startup crossed £2.3 million in annual recurring revenue, she celebrated with her team. Three months later, she was spending 18 hours per week reconciling accounts in QuickBooks while investor calls went…
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Overwhelmed by Email Influx? How VAConnect Boosts Startup Productivity as Your Email Management Partner
Overwhelmed by Email Influx? How VAConnect Boosts Startup Productivity as Your Email Management Partner The Founder's Paradox: The Inbox as a Productivity Graveyard Sarah Chen launched her Series A-funded fintech startup with a singular vision: revolutionize small business lending through AI-powered credit assessment. Eighteen months later, she spends 23 hours weekly managing email—more time than…
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Push your boundaries – you won’t be sorry
Something we all tend to talk about easily but not always “do it”. It’s easier to tell someone else that they should push their boundaries BUT when it comes to yourself, we struggle…. Well sometimes I do. “The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.” -~Pema Chodron These past few…
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How to reduce stress in the workplace with one simple exercise
STRESS, wow this is a word that can be easily thrown around in almost every workplace, anywhere in the world. What if I told you that you could reduce this by almost 70% with just one little thing? Sound too good to be true? What if I told you that you could do it, by…
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What do I need to explain to new clients?
Until recently many entrepreneurs and businesses in general have viewed using the services of a Virtual Assistant as a luxury more than a necessity. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 has changed the way people view working from home and thrust the Virtual Assistant role into the limelight. I am not a ghost I find…
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How to get the most out of hosting online meetings
You might think that online business meetings cannot possibly be as effective as in-person meetings. Think again! During this pandemic we have no choice but to meet online. While a virtual meeting cannot replace personal contact, there are many ways to manage virtual meetings to get better outcomes than you would by sitting around a…
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Make a budget to follow your dream
You might not think so, but budgeting is one of the most creative things that you can do. Closing your eyes and making a wish is the way we humans dream. Having a thought, making a plan and working the plan, makes our dreams or thoughts come true! Budgeting is putting that thought on…
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The events world as a virtual assistant – how you can shine
Event Management was always something I thought would be an interesting career, so I studied Tourism Management with Event Management as a subject. Only when I moved to Johannesburg and started a job as an events co-ordinator did I realise how much I would love it. The satisfaction of a successful event was addictive and…
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7 tools to help you delegate
Delegating is probably one of the most under-used human resources available to us. If you are anything like me, I have spent years doing everything myself because I either don’t have the time to show someone how to do it or I just get on and do it myself because then I know it is…
