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Five easy inbox management tips to avoid email overwhelm
4 February 2022
Five easy inbox management tips to avoid email overwhelm
Organising your inbox is one of the most highly requested services for a virtual assistant. That’s because when emails are not kept in check, you can soon find you have a hectic inbox that leaves you feeling overwhelmed. So, if you need some inbox management tips to organise your emails… you’re in the right place.  It may seem […]
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Top tips on how to find the best virtual assistant for your business
24 January 2022
Top tips on how to find the best virtual assistant for your business
If you’ve accepted that you need help in your business – well done, you’re over the first hurdle! Now you’ve made that decision, it’s important you take some time to find the best virtual assistant to suit your specific business needs. I want to share my top tips to ensure you don’t fall short of […]
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Effective To Do Lists
21 December 2021
Effective to-do list techniques to be more productive
I'm going to make a controversial statement - to-do lists just don't work. That is, when to-do lists are used on their own. In order to be efficient and productive with your time, you need to follow my effective to-do list techniques.  Let me explain why I think to-do lists don't work for some people... […]
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How do you implement business systems and processes to be more profitable?
24 November 2021
How do you implement business systems and processes to be more profitable?
In my experience, successful businesses are the ones who can implement systems and processes to streamline everything they do. But what do I mean by business systems and processes? The definition of a system is a defined set of principles, practices, and procedures that are applied to specific activities to achieve a specific result. Here […]
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How to improve your business networking skills to grow your business
28 October 2021
This VA's Little Black Book
How to improve your business networking skills to grow your business  In this blog I’m going to detail how business networking skills helped me to not only grow my own business, but also my client’s. I want to share with you the power of building a good business network and the skills you need to […]
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24 September 2021
Why is it so important for your business to implement effective filing systems?
I’ll start by saying that I know record keeping and filing systems might not be the most enthralling of subjects for many of you. But with so much emphasis on secure records management, from a GDPR perspective above all else, it is vital that we understand how to create effective filing systems, why they are […]
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freelancers
16 December 2020
This Virtual Assistant's experience of becoming a working mum
Nothing can prepare you for becoming a parent, it is an equally joyful, life changing and exhausting process. As a self proclaimed ambitious woman who has worked all of my adult life the transition from a busy working professional to an equally busy stay at home mum was not easy at first. But I soon […]
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virtual assistant vs virtual business manager
24 August 2020
Virtual Assistant Vs Virtual Business Manager
This month we have reshaped the services we provide here at Spero Solutions, we are now offering two tiers to the service we provide which are: a Virtual Assistant and a Virtual Business Manager. I’m going to explain to you how these services differ and hopefully help you decide which one is right for you. […]
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1 June 2020
How to work with a VA day to day
You had a dream of running your own business, you worked hard (like all start up’s do) to build your business and you have seen some success. Then suddenly your dream turns into a nightmare: you are working long hours, feeling overwhelmed, you dream of a time when you were in control, and are on […]
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time
1 May 2020
Low Value vs High Value Tasks
The decision to start your own business can be exciting and empowering, but it can also push your work life balance to its absolute limit.  With research showing that entrepreneurs are working an average of 50.5 hours per week, compared to the UK average of 37 hours. As a business owner there will always be more to […]
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day in the life of a VA
6 March 2020
A day in the life of a VA
Virtual Assistant services are becoming more and more popular, because of their flexibility, affordability and expertise across a number of industries. It is predicted that by 2021, 25 percent of digital workers will use a VA on a daily basis. For many people there still seems to be some mystery around what a VA does and […]
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18 February 2020
Why Hire a VA
A Virtual Assistant or VA is an experienced professional who is also a valuable ally. They will be by your side through the good and bad. Why should you hire a Virtual Assistant? The entrepreneurial spirit is spreading like wildfire across Britain. In 2018 there were 5.4 million micro- businesses in the UK, accounting for […]
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