Have you ever considered outsourcing for your business? Whether you’re struggling to stay on top of your social media, or you need someone to get your accounts in order before the end of the financial year, outsourcing can be really useful for busy business owners. To get you started, here is our comprehensive guide to how outsourcing can help you.
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Get Ahead VA is very proud to have branches across the country,
and the Regional Directors that run them are brimming with good advice about
being your own boss. Today Fiona, who runs the Leeds
branch, is here to share her top tips for managing your time as a business
owner.
Time management is an important skill for any business owner, and I have to use it a lot as a Get Ahead VA Regional Director. That means I’ve learned a few things about organising my time effectively, so here’s some of my best advice if you’re thinking of starting up a business too.
(more…)Here at Get Ahead VA, our team of virtual assistants includes experts in a wide variety of fields. From accounting to admin, Hootsuite to holiday cover, email marketing to Excel, our VAs can add value to many aspects of your business.
In this ‘How to’ guide, one of our blogging and copywriting experts, Clare, shares her expertise on one of her favourite productivity tools: Kanbanflow.
“One of the most complicated parts of running a business is managing your time. Which tasks should take priority, how long should you spend on them, and how can you work effectively throughout the day? The best way to handle these sorts of questions is with a tool that can manage your entire workload. For me, this tool is Kanbanflow.
What is Kanbanflow?
Here at Get Ahead VA our team of virtual assistants includes experts in a wide variety of fields. From Accounting to Admin, Hootsuite to Holiday cover, Email Marketing to Excel, our VAs can add value to many aspects of your business.
In this guide our founder and director Rebecca talks about her favourite ‘tools of the trade’ – the mobile tools that enable her to manage the business successfully.
If you are looking to start or grow your business, then you might be thinking about using a business accelerator. But what are they and what do they actually do? Are they the same as business incubators or different? Here we try and demystify some of this growing area of business development.
Businesses Accelerators are organisations that offer a range of support services and funding opportunities for startups
Business accelerator programmes are designed to grow small businesses or start-ups in a short space of time. They usually work by enrolling you in a programme which offers mentorship, office space and other resources as well as access to capital and investment in return for equity.
Here at Get Ahead VA our team includes experts in a wide variety of fields. From Accounting to Admin, Hootsuite to Holiday cover, Email Marketing to Excel, our VAs can add value to many aspects of your business. In our Expert Showcase series our team deliver some of this expertise to you, with a series of ‘How to’ guides to help you get the best bang for your buck in your business.
In this guide one of our virtual assistants Melanie talks about how you can communicate and collaborate quickly and easily using a clever piece of software called CloudApp™.
Here at Get Ahead VA our team includes experts in a wide variety of fields. From Accounting to Admin, Hootsuite to Holiday cover, Email Marketing to Excel, our VAs can add value to many aspects of your business. In our Expert Showcase series our team deliver some of this expertise to you, with a series of ‘How to’ guides to help you get the best bang for your buck in your business.
In this guide one of our marketing and social media management specialists Jenny talks about how you can use icons to boost the visual impact of your marketing – both on and offline:
As consumers, we are bombarded with marketing messages every day. Our phones receive marketing emails, texts and even calls wherever we are. As soon as we log into our social media accounts we are bombarded with sponsored posts and ‘suggested’ updates. Our brains are firmly on overload.
So as a business, how do you cut through all that clutter and ensure that your marketing messages do get through?
Graphic design can be a really effective tool, providing visual impact. Icons are an important part of the designer’s toolkit which can add an identity to your marketing messages and bring them together to reinforce their impact.
An icon is a small picture that represents a topic, information category or programme.
Here at Get Ahead VA our team includes experts in a wide variety of fields. From Accounting to Admin, Hootsuite to Holiday cover, Email Marketing to Excel, our VAs can add value to many aspects of your business. In this Expert Showcase series our team deliver some of this expertise to you, with ‘How to’ guides to help you get the best bang for your buck in your business.
In this guide one of our digital marketing specialists Carrie talks about how you can get started with your first email marketing campaign to grow your business:
As a small business money for investing in marketing is always tight. Every penny is scrutinised and potentially one straight out of your back pocket. But the good news is that there are lots of free tools that can help you market your business effectively. Mail Chimp is one example of a free tool which is simple and easy to use and can get your started with communicating with your customers by email.
It is just 3 weeks to go until the Self Assessment deadline so if you haven’t already got your tax return sorted, now is the time. Under current tax rules, if you run your own business and are registered self-employed you may need to submit a tax return online, along with other people who are required to file returns such as those whose annual income is over £100,000 per year, who have Capital Gains Tax to pay, who live abroad or who are trustees. The deadline for filing online is Tuesday 31st January and there are fines to pay for every single day that you file late – however good your excuse is!
For some of you this might be an easy task. Your accountants may already have everything in hand, you may have already set the money aside to pay the tax owed and you are simply waiting to press the ‘go’ button. For others this might be the first time you have had to do it – or the annual panic. (more…)
We are really excited to introduce you to our new email newsletter. Each month we will be asking our readers to ask us a question that they have not got around to finding the answer to.
This month one of our contacts asked us….’How do you set up a webinar?’
So here goes…Carrie one of our Marketing Specialists explains how do you set up a webinar?
You’ve watched webinars yourself or seen them advertised across the web. Everyone is talking about them and you would like to give one a go.
It just seems like far too much trouble and you don’t know where to start. There’s the huge cost and research to be done into creating one and hosting one!!!
I promise you, it is affordable, easy and you will be able to do it, I’m here to help you!
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