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The Importance of Consistent Blog Content

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:10th June 2020
Post category:Blog Management Content Creation Virtual Assistant
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Did you know that when Google is trying to decide how individual web pages rank and which ones are more relevant than others, one of the pointers they pay particular attention to is the age of the associated domain? Evidently, domain age is a really significant factor when it comes to just how high up in those search engine result pages your site appears. The older the domain, the more committed you must be.

If your online real estate has been around for a long time then there’s a certain amount of trust associated. No one knows exactly how Google figures this all out and whether or not they look at the dynamic content of your site over that period of time to help them, but it nevertheless points to the fact that in the online world, the longer you’ve been around and the more committed you are the better.

What is a Virtual Assistant and What Do They Do?

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:3rd June 2020
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You may have been running your business single-handedly for some time, but now that it has started to grow you are finding that you no longer have time for the fun things in life or the time to do what you do best. Wasn’t this the reason you set up your own business in the first place?

So now you are looking at taking on your first team member to help take some of the workload off your hands, and it’s been suggested that you take on a Virtual Assistant – but what is a Virtual Assistant and what do they do anyway?

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Administration Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:22nd May 2019
Post category:Admin General Virtual Assistant Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your administration online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Project Management Online’, you can catch up with it here.

As a small business owner, if you recorded the time it took for all the tasks you carried out in your business each day for at least a week, you would probably find that 50% of your valuable time is taken up with tasks that really should be outsourced to a virtual assistant (VA). Let’s take a look at a few examples of where a virtual assistant can help you relieve a lot of that administrative headache.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Project Management Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:20th May 2019
Post category:Project Management Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your project management online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Content Creation Online’, you can catch up with it here.

Project management involves drawing together the necessary resources and relevant individuals to ensure that the common goal is achieved. A structure must be in place to ensure that everybody is on the same page and to keep the project running to schedule. To make sure that deliverables are met it takes somebody to oversee the whole project and to keep on top of its maintenance and management. As this is a very time-consuming task for the typical small business owner, it makes sense to outsource the project management to a virtual assistant (VA). They will have knowledge of the first class solutions available and are very familiar with how these systems operate.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Content Creation Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:6th May 2019
Post category:Content Creation General Virtual Assistant Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your content creation online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Financial Record Keeping Online’, you can catch up with it here.

These days it is important for a business to establish itself as a market leader and an organisation worthy of trust when it comes to the sale of products or services. Creating a steady stream of content will help do this and also help keep the business ahead of the competition. What type of content is crucial and how can the business owner ensure that this time-consuming task is constantly engaged?

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Financial Record Keeping Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:24th April 2019
Post category:Finances and Bookkeeping Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your financial record keeping online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Multimedia Projects Online’, you can catch up with it here.

Outsourcing various tasks to a virtual assistant (VA) can help free up your time for creativity or to spend time with your family. However, it does seem that some small business owners need a small amount of education to help them see that many of their mundane tasks can be completed successfully by a VA, and this series of blogs is here to help highlight the types of tasks that can easily be outsourced.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Multimedia Projects Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:18th March 2019
Post category:General Virtual Assistant Multimedia Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your multimedia projects. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Website Development Online’, you can catch up with it here.

Video has become very popular and it shouldn’t come as a complete shock to us that almost everyone prefers to watch a moving image rather than read something in order to pick up the same information. Both video and audio represent dynamic media options as they are now both available and accessible to every small business owner online. There is quite a lot to appreciate technically, however, but get the right virtual assistant and they will know exactly what to do.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Web Development Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:7th February 2019
Post category:Virtual Assistant WordPress
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Following on from the last blog, where we looked at ideas for outsourcing your design projects, in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your web development online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Design Projects Online’, you can catch up with it here.

When was the last time that you, as a small-business owner, updated your website?

For many of you, the answer may be quite some time ago, due to the fact you are so busy dealing with clients, marketing initiatives and a whole host of other distractions. Your website must be a dynamic property that is a joy to visit and regularly updated. Here we are going to look at tasks that can be delegated to a virtual assistant (VA) so that your website is in a consistent state of development.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Design Projects Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:9th January 2019
Post category:Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your design projects. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Daily Schedule Online’, you can catch up with it here.

If you have ever tried using Adobe, Corel or some other desktop design programme you have probably found that they have quite a steep learning curve. You can learn the programmes yourself but it all takes time, time that you probably don’t have. As a small business owner, you should be working on business creation and not on all of the ancillary elements associated with marketing your business. This is where having a virtual assistant (VA) onboard can help.

Ideas for Outsourcing Your Daily Schedule Online

Post author:Emma Setterfield
Post published:4th December 2018
Post category:General Virtual Assistant Virtual Assistant
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Following on from the last blog in the ‘How Virtual Assistants can Help Small Businesses’ series, we are going to look at ideas for outsourcing your daily schedule online. If you missed the last blog, ‘Ideas for Outsourcing your Social Media Online’, you can catch up with it here.

Many small business owners are aware of outsourcing, but are they aware of what tasks can actually be outsourced? It’s not only article writing or maybe some website work, but can also be many of your daily tasks. We will take a look at some ideas that if you outsource these tasks it could free up your time for other matters.