One of the most important elements of your social media content is high-quality images – it’s all about standing out from the crowd and catching people’s eyes with your imagery. For that reason, I am constantly on the hunt for great royalty-free stock images. I’ve...

Whilst I love working from home and wouldn’t change it for the world, one of the traps is it’s really hard to switch off when your work and home life are so intertwined. I used to be particularly terrible at this and have been known to check my emails at 1am on the...

Do you produce a regular eNewsletter but find that your open rate is declining and people just aren’t engaging with it like they used to?  Or perhaps you are at the point in your business where you are considering starting to send an eNewsletter but not sure where to...

Facebook Live is so hot right now. It’s a great way to engage and interact with your audience in real time and add a little personality to your page (but please, don’t do a Ricky Gervais – nobody wants to see you in the bath!!) To start a new Live chat, click on the...

The process of signing a new client, onboarding and welcoming them to your business has been a big topic of conversation in some Facebook groups that I belong to lately, and this is something that I have been working on myself over the past few weeks in terms of our...

You put an incredible amount of time and effort into developing your website, and a lot of thought and brain power into writing your copy - deliberating over every word to make sure that it is perfect - and it can be devastating to find out that somebody has...

The WordPress plugin library can be a pretty overwhelming place to be – plugins for this, plugins for that, plugins for EVERYTHING.  It can be so hard to tell the difference between a good plugin, an average plugin and a really bad “steer clear or else” plugin. Over...

One of the most common responses I get when I tell people that I am a Virtual Assistant is, “What, so you just like do typing and stuff?” Erm, no actually I don’t! In order to demolish the notion that VAs ‘just do typing and stuff’ below is an excerpt from my diary of...