Category: admin

How to Choose Your VA

Running a successful business is a balancing act. You’re always darting between doing client work, making sure your accounts add up, checking you have enough stock, fielding new enquiries, marketing your business, all the admin and somehow making a profit, all while balancing your home life and the chaos that might entail. With a full team behind you this can be manageable, but often it’s just you, or one other person, and it can feel like you’re suffocating. So now that you’re here, grab your beverage of choice and take […]

It’s Not Too Late To Add A VA To Your Christmas List

It’s December, which means Christmas is just around the corner. Not sure about you, but our decorations have been up for about a month already, and we’ve already eaten our body weights in mince pies! But we know a lot of business owners dread the festive period. Not because they’re all finches who hate Christmas, but because there’s an awful lot of admin involved in the holidays, and it’s too much to cope with on top of the usual admin load. If that sounds like you, why not give yourself […]

Human VS AI Transcription

Is there anything AI can’t do these days? Well yes, lots of things. But one thing it can do is record and transcribe things for you automatically. So you can have a phone call, and then see the transcription of what was said later on. Cool huh? Well, kind of. Because if we’re honest, AI audio transcription really isn’t that great. In fact, most people who use it end up having to do it themselves or coming to a VA to get an accurate transcription of their audio. Since this […]

9 Ways To Get The Most Out Of Your Virtual Assistant

If you’re always running around like a headless chicken, never managing to keep up with things, then it might be time to hire a VA. We magical folk are here to help pick up the slack and make life a lot easier for you. But if you want to get the best value out of your VA, then there are a few things you need to do before, and during your work with us. Want to know what they are? Read on. Hire The Right Person We know, it’s easier […]

5 Ways Business Owners Can Make More Time

Who wouldn’t want a few extra hours in a day? Especially a business owner like you, who could achieve so much more with it! We know the Admin Hub ladies have often wished for a Bernard’s Watch to stop time for a little while. But since pausing time isn’t possible just yet, you need to get a little more creative if you want the extra time. As Virtual Assistants, we know a thing or two about efficiency, so we wanted to share some tips to find some extra time in […]

Change Your Attitude, Change Your Results

You know the phrase, you are what you eat? That’s true in business too. OK maybe not literally, but the idea that your approach to something dictates the results you’ll get is something that’s been playing out for years, with thousands of business owners falling foul of it. Often they will take the approach of ‘if it isn’t broken don’t fix it’, preferring to focus on new things rather than changing the things they already do, But we believe this is wrong. Businesses should always be striving to improve their […]

How A VA Can Help You Get Your Pink Back

Did you know that flamingos aren’t always pink? They’re born as these fluffy little grey birds, which you could honestly mistake for any other baby bird. As they grow and mature, their soft down makes way for those iconic bright pink feathers. What can we say, we love flamingos! But the most interesting thing we learned about them is something we learnt just last week. Flamingos lose their pink colouring at one other point in their life, and you’ll never guess what it is. A Flamingo Biology Lesson As we […]

Your Digital Spring Clean Checklist

It’s April, and you know what that means? It’s time to throw open your windows and get your spring dean on! In the past were done checklists to help you spina dean both your home and your business, so this year we wanted to do something a little different. Instead of trying to tackle everything at once, we’re going to focus on your digital side. Computers are black holes of digital clutter. Because the space just expands to fit whatever we need, we tend to just put stuff in them. […]

The Art Of Admin Life

Admin is definitely a skill, and not one that everyone naturally possesses. But it is one that anyone can learn if they’re willing to put in the time and effort and understand how their brain works. A big part of admin is learning how to balance things, so you need to make sure you don’t spend so much time doing your admin that you never get anything else done. For some business owners, this means having dedicated admin time during the week, for others, it’s spreading it out little and […]

5 Reasons De-Cluttering Is Good For Your Mental Health

We’ve all had that moment when we look around a say ‘how did it get this bad?’ Clutter can easily snowball into something out of control – whether you were ill one day and couldn’t face tidying up or have simply been so busy that sorting out is the last thing on your mind. But living in a cluttered environment can have some surprising negative effects on your mood, your attitude and your general mental health – and only a good de-clutter and organising can put it right. Getting rid […]