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The Ultimate Tech System for VAs
The Ultimate Tech System for VAs Congratulations! You have started out in business. You have decided what to call yourself and now your thoughts turn to how you are going to work and what you need to work with/on. I am often asked : What kind of computer should I get...
VAs – How To Gain Insta Plaudit Points from your clients
VAs - How To Gain Instagram Plaudit Points from your clients It's really fascinating to me how different VA's around the world are. Some are new and just starting out. Others have years and years of experience. Some provide a general range of services. Others...
Are you ready for another year?
Happy New Year... 2020 is here. I hope you enjoyed the festivities, however you celebrate. And now it’s time to look ahead. 🕰Time to make sure you are prepared and ready. 🕰Time to check you are in good shape to serve your clients. 🕰Time to take your VA...
As a VA – Do you have this info to hand?
As a VA - Do you have this info to hand? Clients love people who can sort things out for them. It saves them time. It saves them hassle. It can often save them money. Because outsourcing some tasks to a professional allows a business or business owner to focus on the...
Making Use of Priority Planning
Planning... As a VA you may often find yourself juggling a number of clients or projects at the same time. You’ll have multiple tasks on the go and need to stay on top of it all. If you’re using business versions of Office 365 you probably already have an application...
Getting Your Pricing Right as a VA
Rates - Pricing - what do you charge? One of the hardest things when you become a VA is to decide what rates you are going to charge. The important thing is not to short-change yourself and instead consider the value you add to your clients. You can charge by the...
This can only be a good thing for VA’s
Microsoft Office 365 gets updated frequently One of the advantages of using Microsoft Office 365 is that incremental improvements are being made all the time. You don’t have to wait a year or until a new version comes out to benefit from the changes. And it’s...
3 Tips for Every Presentation You Create
Presentations are a way of life in business. And – despite what you may hear from some quarters – PowerPoint remains a popular tool for helping to deliver them. You may in your VA career come across grumbles from some clients or company employees. They might even use...
How to Stay Ahead of the Infographics Curve
Infographics Businesses are constantly looking at the best ways to get their message across to their audience. And sometimes the information they want to get across can be quite complex. That’s when they may turn to using an infographic to tell the story. You have...
8 Excel Functions Every VA Needs to Know
When you think of the changes in technology it's easy to be seduced by the latest shiny new thing. Yet when it comes to handling numbers and data the King and Queen of applications is still Excel. It's hard to believe the program is more than 30 years' old. The Mac...
Virtual Assistants – How to print titles on every page in Excel
Print Titles on Every Page in Excel I am sure that this scenario resonates with you. You have just finished doing a whole lot of data entry for a client. It is a really long list. Now you just need to print it off for whatever reason. The only problem is that the...
Virtual Assistants – How to sort your data – FAST
You have a mega spreadsheet. Loads and loads of data. It has taken you ages to compile it for your client. As you finish, panic sets in. Adding the data was easy. What if the client asks you to provide it sorted in a particular way? What is the fastest way to sort...
Help! Word ate my document? Did it Autosave?
Recently I have been asked about getting back lost documents a few times. It is all to do with AutoSave, OneDrive and Office 365. Let me set the scene. You are working on a project and have a series of documents to create. You create the first one, save it and then go...
Virtual Assistants – Do you get asked to research things?
Research So your client has asked you to research a topic. Maybe it is to find out about a particular item or perhaps they need you to research freight or Excel You can use Researcher in Word to get started. Using Researcher in Word If you have an Office 365...
Why I became a VA
Guest post Series Hi, I’m Jacqueline Leake and I am a VA based in Nuneaton, North Warwickshire. Generally, most VA’s have chosen to be a freelancer to fit our lifestyles around the need to work. I am no different, I am a carer for my Mum who lives with me and...
How to use Smart Lookup
Why use Smart Lookup? When you are working on a document and want to get a definition or some more information about something, use Smart Lookup to add that extra dimension. In Word you will find Smart Lookup on the References Ribbon in the Research group (I will talk...
How to control spacing after paragraphs
Today's Tip– Space after Paragraphs Before I dig in, this tip is the same for both Windows and Mac versions of Word. Let me set the scene. You are doing some work in Word, and you need to have more line spaces between each paragraph. What we tend to do, is to press...
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