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Tasks You Can Hand Off To Your Virtual Assistant
Are you looking for ways to free up your time so that you can focus on growing your online business? Then you may want to consider hiring a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant can perform a variety of tasks for your business, such as customer service, social...
A Review Of Some Of The AI Business Productivity Apps I’ve been Testing
If you’ve been in my world for a while, you will probably have seen me talking about productivity at some point. I’m always testing new things to see what works for different areas of life and business and last week I had a catch up with one of my clients and I told...
Divi Theme Review: The perfect theme for your business website
I've been using Divi for years so decided to a Divi theme Review seeing as I am such a huge fan. If you haven't heard of Divi, it's a popular WordPress theme and page builder by Elegant Themes that can be used to create professional-looking websites quickly and...
How I’m combatting the BS of last year
In this post, I want to talk about making tweaks to your business again because I’ve been busy making some extra changes to help with stress, parenthood, mental health, and general functioning human stuff. Last year, felt really tough and there were a couple of times...
But I’m not ready to hire a VA to help with tech and marketing yet
I didn’t actually know when I was ready to hire a VA. The tasks felt ready but my head and heart didn’t.I just knew that I needed someone to take some of the pressure off because, my gosh, I do like to dollop that on myself. My VA, Heather, would probably tell you...
Small tweaks for easier weeks
Over the holidays, I did lots of admin and did a full reorganisation of my files and set up a new Google Workspace and it really made me take stock of how I can hand more work off to my VA and just generally be more organised. Here are some of the small tweaks I made...
9 Things to get the year off to a good start
During holidays and the beginning of January (basically before I dive back into client work), I always do a chunk of admin work to clear the decks for a fresh start in the new year and I always feel so much better for doing it. Here are some of the things you can do...
All of the marketing and tech freebies I offer
I’ve been in the online business world since 2012 and worked as a website designer, marketer and tech VA for a big chunk of it so I've gained so many insights of the behind the scenes for a lot of different businesses and of course, while growing my own.I understand...
Thoughts on branding courses and gamification
During the week I took off a few weeks ago, I spent the day I had all to myself rebranding my courses and I feel like I am taking more control of my branding overall which I am loving. I was really inspired by Sidney Eve’s Your Perfect Course Brand Kit that was in the...
Writing emails to your list is hard
You know when your brain is just at a point where you just can’t do anymore of anything and writing an email to your list feels so much harder than it usually does. Well that’s me today.I’ve sent an email every week since the beginning of the year and I’ve really...
Things I got up during my client free “week off”
Every couple of months, I give myself a week off from client work to focus on my own business stuff and every time I do it I feel this massive shift of energy and I am full of inspiration.Here are some of things I got up to during my week off in March: Added a bunch...
Tech Stack Reflection for 2023
The biggest thing I want to do more of is smaller automations that have a bigger impact. These will be related to doing more intricate admin things. (Mostly in relation to FAB as it’s a pretty big thing to manage behind the scenes and as it grows that workload will increase and I want to keep it low cost for members.
