Upscale Your Social Media Strategy: 5 Ways Your Virtual Assistant Can Help
Does this sound at all familiar? You set up your social media accounts, knowing that having a social media strategy is an essential part of driving visibility for your business. You start out well, posting regularly and seeing some engagement, but managing those...
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How a Virtual Hub VA Tripled My Ontraport Experience
Have you ever had the feeling that you could be getting so much more out of Ontraport, or indeed any other software package you’ve purchased? Our founder, Barbara Turley, felt the same way - she knew the program was great and had the knowledge to use it, but not the...
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5 Hacks to Explode Your Results from Your Ontraport Experience
Have you purchased Ontraport for your business? This software is an amazing tool for helping you to get to next-level results, however, in order to do so, you need to be optimizing how you use it! For many business owners, this is another task in a rather large pile....
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Get Your VA to Set up these Hubspot Hacks (And Streamline Your Processes)
Have you ever invested in marketing tools or other software for your business, but felt that perhaps you could be doing more with it? This is a common issue among clients who come to us at The Virtual Hub. They’ve paid for something awesome (like Hubspot) which...
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How Savvy Entrepreneurs Stop “Doing” and Start Delegating Effectively to a Virtual Assistant
Do you ever find yourself still caught up in too much “doing” despite delegating tasks to a virtual assistant or other team members? From personal experience, entrepreneurs can be their own worst enemies with regard to struggling to let go of things. Perhaps they...
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Our Favorite Productivity Improvement Tips: Getting the Best From Your Virtual Assistant
A common concern when hiring a virtual assistant is ensuring that you actually boost productivity, rather than creating a new job for yourself. Not only that, ideally you want to be able to create a productive long-term relationship with a reliable virtual...
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Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant? How to Secure Your Business First
Are you ready to hire a virtual assistant? One concern that we hear frequently is that business owners are worried about protecting their business before hiring someone who works remotely. It makes sense - you don’t really know this person and you’re going to give...
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Slow Down Now to Speed Up: Why Growth Systems are Crucial Before Hiring a Virtual Assistant
Sometimes business owners come to us quite nervous. Why? Often because they’ve tried outsourcing their work before and had a painful experience with it. Sometimes they’ve been unlucky and struck someone who was completely unsuitable for the job, other times, they’ve...
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Growing Scalable Businesses with a Virtual Assistant
How does the term "scalable" tickle your fancy when it comes to building a business? It's a term which has grown in the business lexicon over the last few years, especially if you work within the digital space. “Scalable” evokes visions of explosive growth, where...
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Freelancers vs. Virtual Assistant Company: How does the Outsourcing Experience Compare?
Hiring a virtual assistant has become not only a trend, but absolutely necessary for busy entrepreneurs to optimise how they work. You’ve probably heard people talking about it, discussing how they haven’t looked back since making the decision to hire some help, but...
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Why Hiring a Virtual Assistant is the Secret to Startup Growth
Have you ever had the feeling (as you slog away in your business) that "other people" seem to have discovered the magical secret to growth? You work hard every day, you see results in your business, but growth isn't as great as you'd like. Meanwhile, some new kid on...
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10 Reasons Why Successful Companies Are Hiring Virtual Assistants
Ever wonder how the big guns of the entrepreneurial world seem to skyrocket their success...without blowing up their cash flow? There's no secret sauce or weird inner voodoo circle that you're missing out on. There's a formula for it! A formula, that...
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5 Surefire Ways to Nail It When Hiring a Virtual Assistant
Don't waste all your time, energy and money... nail it the first time! Hiring virtual personal assistants is all the rage right now. You’ve undoubtedly heard entrepreneurs tout the huge benefits of it to help them out with work or even manage several personal...
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Killer Strategies to Successfully Hiring a Virtual Assistant
When you have your own business, it’s common to try and do everything yourself, as this gives you more control over how you want things run and managed. But if your business has grown to the point where you’ve become overwhelmed with just trying to cover all the...
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How to Delegate Effectively to Virtual Assistants From Expert Entrepreneurs
Effective delegation skills are critical to have in any type of business regardless of industry, product, service or business model. In fact, the art of delegating tasks successfully should be a mandatory part of any business training. It is the one thing that often...
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10 Simple and Easy to Follow Productivity Tips
So much to do, but just can’t seem to FOCUS and get things done? Staying productive can be a challenge whether it be at work or at home. But there are simple and easy ways to stay prolific, stay focused and get things done! Check out this SlideShare Presentation...
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3 Key Steps for Starting Virtual Teams Successfully from Hubspot’s Matthew Barby
We had the pleasure of having Matthew Barby, Global Head of Growth & SEO at Hubspot, on the Virtual Success Podcast where he talked at length about how he leverages virtual teams to drive large content & growth strategies. He also delved into how he manages to avoid...
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Setting Expectations with Virtual Teams
One of the most common questions people ask when it comes to thinking about outsourcing is "What can i expect from virtual teams?" If you've never worked in a virtual environment before and are trying to make the jump then this can be a very daunting question where...
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How to Fire Yourself from your Business in 5 Simple Steps
Having a baby? Hicking Machu Pichu? Intensive Business Mastermind? Illness? Whichever it is for you, being stuck in all the 'doing' of the day-to-day operations of your business can ruin any chance at gaining the entrepreneurial freedom needed to fully honour such...
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How Maria Golding Aced Her Intuitive Motherhood ‘Product Launch Formula’ with the Help of a Virtual Assistant
Maria Golding, Creator of Intuitive Motherhood Programs, Motherhood Mentor, Mental Health Professional and Previous Midwife, brings her mothering wisdom to create programs that support, nourish and connect Mamas and families everywhere. She helps mothers transform...
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Is it Time to Jump Aboard the Social Media Scheduler Train?
Social media can be pretty overwhelming. From creating your content, scheduling your posts, engaging with followers, repurposing content to data analytics... This list could go on and we haven't even touched the surface! Whether you’re running your own biz or...
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3 Powerful Content Marketing Tips Your Virtual Assistant Can Easily Execute For You
I've been going through a process the past 3 months of getting one of my other ventures, Energise Wealth, ready for a relaunch in 2017. It is a content heavy site which relies on web traffic & volume, so, content marketing (done right) is key to the success of that...
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How Giumelli Group are Revolutionising How People Invest in Real Estate with the Help of their Virtual Assistant
Trent Giumelli, CEO of Giumelli Group, is a highly driven, passionate, honest, dedicated, loving, optimistic person who thrives on teaching others the secrets of Real Estate through 18+ years of experience in property investing and development. Q: Tell Us A Bit...
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Why Virtual Assistant Mistakes are Gifts that can Catapult Your Success
What happens when you believe you have the perfect process and your virtual assistant STILL gets it wrong? Virtual assistant mistakes are so infuriating and can drive you demented. I know because I have been there over and over again, not just with my own businesses...
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How Svetlana Burckhardt’s Personalised Beauty Treatments and High Attention to Detail created the Perfect Brow Arch for Every Client with The Help of Her Virtual Assistant
Svetlana Burckhardt is the Director of EyebrowExperts in Sydney and author of the recently released book ‘Confessions of a Brazilian Waxing Queen’. Svetlana is a guru of both brows and waxing (famously known for her incredible 7 minute Brazilian!) and is very well...
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How to Start a Business with the End in Mind ….. and then make it even better!
I’ve always been one to start with the end in mind and build businesses from day 1 with a view to how they will look in 5 years time as a potentially saleable asset. Sometimes that involves making fast decisions around taking on systems and people earlier than...
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How Donna Wild & Her Virtual Assistant are Empowering Women and Children Globally to Embrace a Plant-based Diet… Fuss Free!
Donna Wild stands for empowering women and children globally to embrace a plant-based diet. An author, a current Australian Latin dance cup champion and a mother. She runs a website called Wild Donna where she supports mums and their families to thrive on a plant...
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How An Ontraport Virtual Assistant & 10 Minutes Per Day Can Transform Your Business
What if just 10 minutes per day could transform your business completely? Recently I was having a strategy call with one of my private clients who was in the throws of rather large and annoying systems migration from Clickfunnels to Ontraport so she could finally...
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How Dr. Nina is Helping People Win The Diet War Online While Her Virtual Assistant Makes Sure She Wins with Ontraport
Recognized as a thought leader in eating psychology, Dr. Nina’s work in helping people win the diet war online has been widely published across a variety of media, most notably The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Prevention and Real Simple. Let's dig in how Dr....
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How Abigail Ireland is Leveraging Her Online Language Learning Platform
Let’s learn how Abigail Ireland was able to manage more parts of her business by hiring a Virtual Assistant to take lead in social media. Q: Tell Us A Bit About Your Business and Your Grand Vision? A: I run an online language learning platform & tutoring marketplace...
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How Pip McKay Achieved Entrepreneurial Freedom by Investing in A Great Virtual Assistant
Let's find out how Pip McKay was able to focus on her grand vision and expanded her business by investing in a great virtual assistant. Q: Tell Us A Bit About Your Business and Your Grand Vision? A: That every human being has access to tools and techniques to fulfill...
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How Janet Kafadar has Restructured Her Business For Growth With The Help of a Virtual Assistant
Let’s dive in and learn how Janet Kafadar was able to focus on other parts of her business by hiring a Virtual Assistant. Q: Tell Us A Bit About Your Business and Your Grand Vision? A: I have a coaching and mentoring business and I help established coaches and...
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How This Virtual Assistant’s Social Media Skills Skyrocketed Her Clients Engagement
A while back I had a chat with one of our long standing members Maz Schirmer from Institute of Women International and her Virtual Assistant Elaine about utilising her social media skills to increase audience engagement. Admittedly Maz had great engagement anyway on...
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How Virtual Assistants Exploded My Business And Led to the Perfect Pivot
Have you ever heard of someone launching an accidental business? Perhaps you've seen someone perform a business pivot that changed everything! Well, that's exactly what happened to me! I'm Barbara Turley, Founder & Director of The Virtual Hub. While coaching...
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