My Virtual Assistant - Professional virtual office support services for YOUR business.

My Virtual Assistant is a virtual office service operating across the UK, providing virtual office support, personal assistance, secretarial services, business support services and administration assistance remotely from its UK based offices.

We focus on assisting mobile professionals, entrepreneurs and small businesses that require the knowledge and skills of an experienced personal assistant, but only want that assistance when it suits them.

The main advantage of using My Virtual Assistant is complete flexibility. We can work as many or few hours as required and only charge you for the actual time worked. You can use us as a part time employee, for specific projects, or just to cover holidays, maternity leave or sickness.

With My Virtual Assistant, you will have no employee costs (NI contributions, holidays, sick cover, etc.) and can rest assured that you will be assigned the same assistant every time you use our services providing continuity and a proactive partnership for your business.

So what’s the catch? The catch is you’ll have more time on your hands. Spend it on the golf course, sitting on a beach somewhere, or doing more of the important and profitable things in your business, the choice is yours.

Please browse Meet The Team for more information about who we are, our Services section for more information about the range of skills we offer and Contact us for more details of how we can help your business.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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Automate Your Relationship Building with Autoresponders and Newsletters

Are you spending a large amount of time each week following up with prospects or customers? Are you checking they are ok, asking for feedback, telling them about other products or services that might interest them or the special offers you are currently running?

Do you capture the contact details of the visitors to your website and include them in your regular newsletter? We all (should) spend time on a regular basis touching base and following up to ensure happy customers, increase sales and profitability. But unless you have a system in place that can do this for you, it can become a full time job.

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Top Ezine Housekeeping Rules

We all know the benefits of sending out an email newsletter to our prospects and clients. In the following article we will look at some housekeeping rules which will ensure that you follow the strict etiquette of internet marketing, while presenting yourself and your business in a professional and ethical way.

Make sure your subscribers actually subscribed

There is nothing more annoying than being inundated with unsolicited sales emails. We all hate it. If you are boosting your subscriber list by adding email addresses from business cards you have picked up, trawling the yellow pages or your local Chamber of Commerce’s mailing list, your messages risk not only going straight to the junk mail folder, but also alienating people with whom you might have established good working relationships. Make sure the owner of the email address has requested that you send them information, or, at the very least, has agreed to receive it.

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Online Marketing - Why Give Away Your Expertise?

If you're new to marketing your products or services online, one of the hurdles you will have to face is why you should give away your expertise for free? After all, isn’t your expertise what you are expecting clients to pay for?

Now I'm not talking about giving away huge chunks of time for face to face consultations, or distributing products by the truck load. What I am talking about is giving away snippets of information that prove that YOU are the expert in your particular field. What we are talking about here are articles.

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Online Article Distribution and Syndication Services

In this month’s article (see here) we cover the important topic of writing for your audience and getting those articles in front of new prospects, using articles to improve your listings in the search engines and positioning yourself as a expert to contact by journalists writing about your particular field.

At My Virtual Assistant, we provide an Article Distribution service that includes the syndication of your articles to online article directory web sites. All you have to do is write about your favourite topic, and we can distribute the articles across the internet providing you with lots of ongoing free publicity for years to come.

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, Contact Us today.

Successful Small Businesses Keep a Close Eye on Cash Flow

Business advisors will tell you that one of the main reasons small businesses fail is cash flow. That is either they are not financed correctly in the first place, with sufficient funds to see them through the start up phase, or that slow paying, or worse non-paying customers are destroying the financial health of the business.

When running a solo or small business there are two main reasons given as to why collecting payments from your clients can become an issue. Firstly it may be that you are so busy doing whatever it is that you do in order to make money, that you simply loose track of who has paid and which payments are late. Secondly, particularly if you are a solo business, there can be a level of embarrassment when the only person that can call the customer asking for the invoice to be paid, is the same person who provided the service.

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Kashflow Accounting Software

This month's article (see here) covers the subject of cash flow and how imperative the effective management of it is to the financial health of your business. One of the first decisions you’ll make when starting out in any new business is what accounting software to use.

At My Virtual Assistant, we deal with many different customers, using varying systems and programmes to complete their basic book keeping. From basic spreadsheets, to complex systems such as Sage, we’ve seen it all. Our favourite has become Kashflow. It’s incredibly simple and designed specifically for small businesses.

Kashflow is an online system which has several overriding benefits, firstly your accounts are held online so you can access them from any computer with a browser (after entering your secure login details). This means several things; if your computer should crash you haven’t lost everything, you can give access to your virtual assistant or book keeper to enter information and you can give access to your accountant to compile their required information. As there is one live copy of the accounts, the changes are available instantly to all your team so you don’t have multiple out of date copies everywhere.

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