Summer holidays can mean two things for businesses depending on the product or service they provide. It can be one of the busiest times of the year for the hospitality or tourist industry, but for those providing business to business (B2B) services, it can be an...
"What can I do to be more organised?" Is a question we hear often at Virtual Angels, when chatting to people. Before we can answer, we need to ask some direct questions, also known as the 'mini-interrogation'. Some of our questions include: What to you always think...
This week we have a guest blogger with us, Charlotte Allfrey, the founder of Metro HR. Charlotte set up Metro HR to help small and medium sized businesses deliver great HR. She does this by helping clients to put a proactive HR framework in place as their business...
The last half term has passed us by for this school year and it will be the summer holiday in ‘only’ six weeks’ time, seven for some! Not long, is it? While children, no doubt, are looking forward to the time off, it can be a frantic time for parents who are...
Why bother with networking, blogging and social media for business? If you run a business there are so many things to do, all the time, and there is so much information out there about how often you should be networking, blogging and updating social media. We have...
We’ve just come to the end of another tax year. Will you be submitting your return in the next few months or will you be feeling frazzled on 31 January, desperately trying to pull everything together? Did you only just get your tax return in by the skin of your teeth...
In my last blog, I talked about preparing for an office move, thinking about the location, engaging staff in the project and budgeting! This time I am covering the relocation plan and the actual move. Making a relocation plan Assigning staff roles it can be a helpful...
Over the past few months, I have been helping a client move offices, relocation, relocation, relocation! Moving from the Isle of Wight to the mainland (a real change of scenery). I have visited both the Isle of Wight and the chosen area in the UK during the past few...
Good executive support is a valuable asset to a corporate office, charity, SME or entrepreneur in their working life. I am sure that you will have complimented or grumbled about support from administration or operational personnel at some point in your working life,...
9 January 2017 already – I can’t quite believe it myself?! I had loads of plans for the Christmas/New Year holiday, although I wasn’t scheduled to have a complete break myself, apart from the usual bank holidays. It was going to be my time to catch up on some tasks...
In last month’s post, I talked about discovering where the target readers of your Business Blog may be lurking and I touched briefly on Social Media. You will probably be active on some of the Social Media platforms already. You may have found that there are some...
Virtual Assistants (VA) have many roles. One of the most important for you to remember, is that most VAs are business owners in their own right and are very familiar with the successes and pitfalls that you may meet along the way. While you may initially be looking...