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Confessions of a Personal Assistant

It’s been a hectic few weeks with birthdays, school holidays and wedding plans and as a result, I confess, I’ve neglected my blog.  Furthermore, I suspect this will be a regular occurrence until September!  Google won’t be happy with me. So what have I been up to?  Well, apart from …

Virtual Assistant versus Virtual Personal Assistant

With so many virtual assistants out there, how do you choose the right one for you and your business? Surely the main factor is whether they can match your business needs.   You may have spent years building up your business and reputation, why on earth would you then waste valuable …

Wedding Planner Extraordinaire

I still can’t believe I’m getting married soon.  It has been one very long wait.  18 long years to be precise.  I’m still confused as to why he caved in after so many years.  I’d like to think it’s because he is still smitten and thinks I get better as …

Communication is Key

Poorly written documents are a pet hate of mine, be it a letter, an email, a flyer or a web page.  If it’s badly written it really winds me up and I want to jump in and sort it out.  In this day and age, your website is your weapon. …

Mais oui!

A virtual assistant who speaks French, oui, c’est moi.  Now you weren’t expecting that. Let’s turn back the clock some 25 years.  Those were the days, my year out in Paris, swigging wine out of plastic bottles, playing cards and surviving on takeaway from the local Chinese.  Happy days indeed.  …

5 Reasons to Hire a Virtual Assistant

Some light reading for a sunny Friday afternoon.  Has Spring sprung at last? So, why hire a virtual assistant?  There are many benefits to hiring a virtual assistant, I have listed my top 5 below.  Get reading and, at the end, get thinking about how a virtual assistant could help …

5 Golden Rules

For some reason, I have really struggled to find the right words this week .  Perhaps I am distracted by school holidays and wedding plans (just agreed the design for the invites!), or maybe I just have too much to say (I am gobby so and so). Anyway, I really …

Too much to do, too little time

I would never have dreamed this time last year that my long term ambition to be my own boss would turn into a reality.  I’d explored a few ideas but kept coming back to the same thing – a virtual PA.  After all, if anybody can do it, I can …

Me and my dog, sorry blog

And so my blog life begins, or rather reinvents itself. You see I’m a bit of an old hat at blogging.  My first one was a very personal one though – its purpose was two-fold.  Firstly, to communicate with the other side of the world as we lived in New …