A Marketing Agency’s Best Friend: Using White Labeled Virtual Marketing Assistants
Why do people come to you for marketing assistance? Maybe it’s because you have unique ideas for getting their message out. Maybe it’s a creative turn for marketing. Maybe it’s the level of understanding you have for their business. Whatever the advantage you offer your…
Managing an Outsourced Remote Team: Tips for Success
Managing a team is a balancing act. A good manager knows how to provide proper supervision while granting her team members the discretion to exercise their own judgment. When you’re running a department or business that includes outsourced workers, there are new challenges (and benefits)…
Digital Marketing for the Tech Averse Broker: How a Marketing VA Can Get You Online
Between managing clients, responding to leads, listing and marketing homes, completing deals, and returning correspondence, being a real estate agent can feel more like a juggling act than an entrepreneurial endeavor. What’s more, online resources have become the primary way that buyers find homes. Effectively…
The Coworking Cure: Outsourcing Work Without Increasing Payroll
It’s no surprise that coworking spaces are on the rise. With high-speed wifi, free coffee, cleaning and more taken care of for one monthly rate, more and more businesses are recognizing the benefits and joining spaces in every city across the globe. Coworking spaces offer…
Coming Clean: Alana Rivera, Founder of Etta+Billie, Talks About Her Natural Body Care Products and How Virtual Assistants Help Her San Francisco Business Grow
Some companies are built in a garage, but Alana Rivera cooked hers up in her Haight Ashbury kitchen. Taking inspiration from a passion for food made from organic ingredients, Alana transformed her favorite organic recipes into delicious smelling soaps, body oils, and scrubs. Etta+Billie’s (https://www.ettaandbillie.com/)…
The Performance Review is Dead. Long Live the Daily Huddle!
Recruiting quality employees is a big win, bigger still is retaining them for the long haul. Studies have shown that a significant number of employees put a high importance on being respected, and having their voices heard. Updating your performance management strategies, taking time to provide feedback to, and get feedback from…
Holding on to your Stars: Retaining Top Talent in Today’s Changing Workplace
As a small business owner or entrepreneur in 2018, you understand that we live in a different world than what existed thirty years ago. Large corporations and startups are offering their employees innovative (but costly) perks to attract employees. In this environment, how can you, as…
How Virtual Assistants Can Help Property Managers and Investors
If you manage a property or have investments in a property that you lease to tenants, your day can be swamped with responsibilities. Between scheduling a property assessor, keeping track of tenants late on their rent, and making sure your newest property is maintained, you…
Like Magic: Getting Your Virtual Assistant Working for You as Quickly as Possible
In the right hands, a virtual assistant can be like a genie granting wishes to your small business – you send out your difficult projects to your VA and you receive the completed work correctly done and on time. But getting started with your VA…
Outsourcing Paralegals: Why Your Legal Assistant Doesn’t Need to Be in Your Office
For those attorneys who have practiced for more than a decade, it is hard to divorce the role of the paralegal from paper. From maintaining case files to assembling copies of briefs to preparing binders for depositions or hearings, the role of a paralegal was…