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10 Best Productivity Apps for You and Your Virtual Assistant
“Getting more done” is always a priority in any business, and productivity apps often have a role to play. If you’re working with a virtual assistant, it’s important that you’ve got the best productivity apps in place to help...
Qualities Every Virtual Assistant Needs to Have
Having a personal assistant in this modern world of complexities is inevitable. A personal assistant nowadays can either work in your office space daily or can be your virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is one who does almost all the...
Delivering Effective Constructive Feedback to Your Virtual Assistant
Giving and receiving constructive feedback is part of a healthy working relationship with your virtual assistant. Consider a time when you’ve ever received constructive feedback at work. Was it received in-person, or via a...
Online Research Techniques Your Virtual Assistant Can Use
Research is an indispensable part of any business. When you’re aiming for growth, your first move is to always look for information on how you can get ahead of the competition and what the current and best market trends are. And though...
How Providing Offshore Jobs to Virtual Assistants Exploded My Business
Never in all my years in business did I expect that discovering a niche by chance would lead me to successfully provide offshore jobs to virtual assistants — but that’s exactly what happened! Have you ever heard of someone launching...
Balancing Workload and Preventing Virtual Assistant Exhaustion
Working remotely has many benefits and is an increasingly popular work mode. You don’t have office overhead, you set your own hours or workload, and you can access talent from anywhere with an Internet connection. A virtual assistant...
The Qualities of a Leader: What Differentiates Leaders From Bosses
All organizations have bosses, but how many can confidently say they have leaders? The terms may be used interchangeably (and are often confused), but if we look closely, not all bosses are leaders. After all, the qualities of a leader are...
5 Ways to Effectively Handle Conflict in Virtual Teams
Managing virtual teams can be very rewarding, but it’s not without challenges. If you’ve ever had the situation where conflict pops up and then seems to blow out of reasonable proportion, you’re not alone. If anything, the remote...
How a VA is Helping Karen Rudkin-Moody Boost their Business
Karen Rudkin-Moody, Marketing Manager and Co-Founder of Ryan Moody Fishing, is passionate in providing a simple and easy means for people to fish better with their tried and tested online fishing course, Barra Basics. She shares with...
How Virtual Assistants Boost Customer Care and Helpdesk Service
As your business gets busier, have you found it difficult to keep up with everything? Sometimes things start to slip, not intentionally, but simply because you’re so slammed and your time really is finite! Growing businesses often reach an...
Virtual Assistant Services: Why 20 Hours Per Week is a Good Minimum
Are you considering whether it’s time to get virtual assistant services? It can be hard for many business owners to make the shift to entrusting key tasks to someone else - it’s your “baby” after all! How do you decide what needs...
What is a Virtual Assistant? Know When You’re Ready to Hire
Could you use a little help from a virtual assistant in your business? We all reach a point where doing the “doing” is not the best use of our time anymore. It’s time to hire someone, but who is it that you really need onboard? A...
Supercharge Your Digital Marketing Strategy with a Virtual Assistant
Ready to supercharge your digital marketing strategy? A virtual assistant may be the right person to help. Here’s what you should know first:
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...
5 Ways Your VA Can Help You to Upscale Your Social Media Strategy
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...
My VA Helped Me to Triple My Experience with Ontraport
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...
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....
Hubspot Hacks Your VA can Set up to Streamline Your Business
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...
Entrepreneurs: It’s Time to Stop “Doing” and Start Delegating Effectively
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...
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...
Virtual Assistant Companies vs. Freelancers: What’s a Better Experience?
For all the time and effort you put into finding, hiring, and training a VA for your business, you want to be fairly certain they’re going to work out. So, what’s the best way to find a great virtual assistant? How does the experience compare when hiring a freelancer,...
How to Succeed in Business: Hiring A Virtual Assistant for 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 successful startup growth? You work hard every day, you see results in your business, but growth isn’t as...
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 you’re missing out on — but there’s a formula for it! A formula that, when executed correctly, works 9 times out of...
5 Surefire Ways to Hire the Best Virtual Assistant
Hiring virtual personal assistants has become very popular these days, and you’ve undoubtedly heard entrepreneurs tout the numerous benefits of having the best virtual assistant to help them out with work and even manage their personal...
How Maria Golding Aced Her Product Launch Formula With Her VA
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...
How Giumelli Group Changes How People Invest in Real Estate with a VA
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...
How a VA Helped Svetlana Burckhardt Accelerate Vision For Her Business
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...
How Donna Wild Empowers Women With the Help of Her Virtual Assistant
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...
How An Ontraport Virtual Assistant Can Transform Your Business
Recently, I was having a strategy call with one of my private clients who was in the throes of a rather large and annoying systems migration from Clickfunnels to Ontraport so she could finally kick her amazing online program into more...
How Dr. Nina is Helping People Win The Diet War With a Virtual Assistant
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....
How Abigail Ireland is Leveraging Her Online Language Learning Platform
Let’s learn how Abigail Ireland was able to manage more parts of her online language learning platform 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...
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...
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 with the help of 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...
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...