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I often get asked when the best time to hire a virtual assistant is. My answer is usually ‘before you think you need one’. Why? Read on… As a business expands, so do the amount of responsibilities and...
Have you ever wondered how some people seem to just breeze through their to-do list, ticking off tasks without missing a beat? And somehow your list seems to take hours to grind through? You’re not alone, in fact I’d...
If you’re a small business owner like me, you’ll be familiar with the need to juggle many different hats throughout the day, meaning you could have a to-do list that seems to be never ending. As well as invoicing, training,...
Social media can be a black hole for your time if you’re not careful. Whether it’s trying to think of ideas, posting every day or the dreaded doom scrolling to find relevant pages to follow, we’re all guilty of it. Here...
If you asked your employees, would they say that they felt appreciated? When statistics show that 60% of workers feel under appreciated in their place of work, the answer is probably not… The reasons can range from...
What do you think is more important - the big win or the little win? I expect you’ve started reading this expecting me to pit them against each other, have them battle it out for the top spot and end up telling you that one...
Why you need to outsource, before you need to outsource. Now, firstly I want to clear something up that may seem a little misleading. My team and I 100% save our clients time - lots of time. But in the very early days of working...
Delegation. It’s an essential part of running a business, but in the early days it can be a tricky concept to master. When your business is your baby and you’ve been working solo for any length of time, suddenly having...
If part of what you do involves having access to client social media accounts through your own social media accounts, then believe me - the level of security you put on your accounts is bonkers. We all know that we should...
Have you ever stopped to wonder what would happen if a hacker managed to take over your social media accounts? Or maybe you’ve had the absolute horror of that actually happening? As much as we all hate to admit it - the...
The sun is shining (sometimes), the weather is warming up (sometimes), and when we aren’t dealing with gale force wind and downpours that threaten to drown us, it’s almost tempting to throw open the windows and let in the...
There’s little worse than feeling like you’re always on the back foot. You never quite know which login you need for that system, or where you put that business card you grabbed from that person who sounded perfect but...
If my business was a marriage (which it sort of is in a way) - we’d be celebrating our leather anniversary this month. That's right, 3 whole years of Pink Spaghetti Weston super Mare. When...
Christmas is a funny time of year - some industries shut down completely and you don’t hear from them for a full month, whereas others barely acknowledge that Christmas Day is even happening! Many of our clients...
It's easy to feel that as a business owner you need to be able to function on just 3 hours sleep and quite a lot of caffeine. When the to-do list seems never ending, emails are stacking up and you’re sick of seeing your...
Most business owners have felt that sinking feeling when there’s just SO much to do. And only you to do it. And at least 4 things that absolutely have to be done by 5pm this afternoon, but you also need to get set up for that...
How many of us have a bulging inbox, stuffed to the brim with newsletters from companies we bought a product from once about 8 years ago? Unless you’re strict, the daily deluge of newsletters and marketing promotions straight...
Life is getting busier, and for the ‘average’ business owner (not that there's really any such thing!) it's even more so. The balancing act that is making sure everything happens as and when it’s meant to...
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