You’re in business, you’re busy, you’ve got to be prudent with an eye on the bottom line, everything has to produce an ROI. Time is short, money is tight. Your workload is huge, you’re interrupted far too often with calls that you shouldn’t be dealing with. Call...
Why is it so hard to delegate to a Virtual PA?
You know you need the help, there is stuff you would dearly love not to have to do, and you know there is a virtual assistant who could pick up the lot. How good would that be? So why aren’t you doing it? Trust/control – I worry that they’ll screw it up, if you want a...
It’s Christmas Time!!!
Do you have too much paper work to do? Is your phone ringing nonstop? It’s Christmas, the most festive time of the year yet the busiest too. What with all the work that needs to be done by the end of the year and social events coming up I mean!!! Do you want to be...
Who has a Virtual PA?
You’d be surprised. The use of virtual assistants for everything from call answering to power point presentations is on the increase. It’s an exploding industry in terms of growth and the benefits to businesses of all shapes and sizes are huge. At Virtual PA Co some...
Video Blog – An Oven Cleaners Virtual PA – How A Virtual PA Can Help You!
What Vicky, our Virtual PA does for her oven cleaning client and how much a Virtual PA costs. For more information on our services please call us today on 01733 297580 or use our contact form.
Control Freak?
Probably a master delegator in the making After 11 years of my business - Virtual PA Co - receiving the results of delegation, I think we can safely conclude that the best delegators, somewhat ironically, are the control freaks. By their own admission, control freaks...
Share a secretary, free up your time!
We share secretaries with busy people. We've done this for eleven years, we started because our founder needed a PA, couldn't afford a whole one and decided to share one. With a business idea looming she bit the bullet and recruited three secretaries, to cover...
A service for the discerning client…
That's what we're seeing... a shift in the typical client interested in our service. In 2001 there wasn't even a name for what we do, we called it 'secretarial support for small and growing businesses nationwide'. Not a bad description even today. But we now know our...
Let’s get virtual…
"If I was setting up again now," says Rupert, co-founder of a £10m biz, "I'd do it all virtually". We couldn't agree more. You get a named Virtual PA, who is accountable for all work done for you but who is backed up by a small team (we recommend no more than two, but...
To recruit or not to recruit, a virtual question?
Gary's business is busy, fabulously busy but still young and whilst turnover is exceeding expectation - remarkable in these times - overheads still feel low and business margin or profitability still feels under pressure. Gary uses the Virtual PA Co service in the...