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HR Tasks Eating Your Time?
HR Tasks Eating Your Time? VAConnect Supports Startups as a Recruitment and Onboarding Partner A Strategic White Paper on Escaping the Founder-Led Recruitment Trap VAConnect Research Division | January 2026 Executive Summary The average startup founder spends 23 hours per week on recruitment and onboarding activities that generate zero revenue. This white paper examines why…
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Struggling with Social Media Scheduling? VAConnect: The Productivity Ally for SMEs in Content Creation
Struggling with Social Media Scheduling? VAConnect: The Productivity Ally for SMEs in Content Creation Executive Summary The modern SME founder faces a paradox: social media presence is non-negotiable for growth, yet the operational burden of content creation has become the single greatest drag on executive productivity. According to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2024 Global Workforce Survey,…
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The one life lesson I have learnt…. Travel!
I have been in a fortunate position to have been able to resign from my job and go and travel. Look, it isn’t the easiest thing to do, as it takes months and even years to plan. But it is something that I would highly recommend everyone does. Take the plunge and forget about having…
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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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Driving Value – is it time to hire a Sales VA?
There is an old saying that 80% of your sales revenue come from 20% of your clients. Also, another, not so great statistic, is that 80% of the work in your business is done by 20% of your staff. These statistics bring to light two of the main complaints of any business looking to add…
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How Effective Is Email Marketing In 2020?
In modern times, it seems like social media is taking over and becoming one of the most popular and most used forms of marketing. But in fact, email marketing is up to 40 times more effective than social media. Social media gets filtered, which causes content to not reach all social media users. The buying…
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Email Marketing Trends You Need to Know About
Email marketing is constantly evolving and 2020 has been an exciting year in the email marketing arena with it continuing to be one of the most trusted communication channels available to marketers. It has received a bad rap in the past, but it continues to defy its critics, providing some of the best ROIs in…
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Will Virtual Sales do as well as Direct Sales?
The global pandemic has seen a dramatic increase in virtual sales, but there seems to be a continuous divide when it comes to developing sales strategies for the future. Can we return to the classic method of face-to-face direct sales as soon as circumstances allow, or joining the revolution of going full virtual. What should…
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Perfect balance for your mind, body and soul
Healthy body = Healthy mind. Healthy mind = Healthy body. Seems so simple doesn’t it? And yet keeping a balance between body and mind can be quite challenging. Bring in the third element – soul – and we find ourselves in a whole new ball game. Our mind, bodies and souls are the 3 cornerstones…
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Good habits to cultivate for working from home
Working remotely is fast becoming the norm. For those of us who have been doing this for several years we have mostly fallen into routine. Though even some veterans of virtual work are still not where they should be when it comes to mastering this dynamic. Due to the recent COVID-19 lockdowns more and more…
