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Hello! Welcome to VA Pro, where you’ll find all the resources that aspiring and practising Virtual Assistants need. You’ve probably found this site because you are a Virtual Assistant, or want to be one, and you’re looking for up-to-date information, motivation and support whilst you’re working home alone.

You’re in the right place – and here you’ll find articles and tips on marketing and growing your business along with how-tos and training on all the major pieces of software that you use.

Please take a look around, starting with the categories in the menu, but if you can’t find what you want do get in touch – because the aim is to provide everything you need to have a successful business.

LATEST ARTICLES

GETTING STARTED AS A VA

Business

5 Mistakes To Avoid When Creating Your Online Presence

Sarah Begley
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For anyone starting out on their Virtual Assistant journey, the path can feel a little daunting. It’s also easy to get sucked into doing...
Business

How Big Is Your Prospect List?

Sarah Begley
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You do have a prospect list don’t you…? And not just five or ten contacts from previous work, or through friends and family. But a big...

Accreditation. Do you need it?

What Goes in a New Client Welcome Pack?

5 Points to Remember in Your Next Client Consultation Follow-Up Email

The Secret of Landing a Client on the very First Call

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Split Text to Columns in Excelvideo
Excel

Separate Data into Columns in Excel or Google Sheets

Steph Middleton-Foster
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Why use text to columns? If you're an Excel user, chances are that at some point in your life, you have come across a spreadsheet...
Software

How to Use Asana’s Features for Better Organisation

Steph Middleton-Foster
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Asana is made for all kinds of team, and we find it works brilliantly as a team of VA's. It allows us to customise...
Office Skills

A Beginners Guide on Building your First Page in Kartra

Steph Middleton-Foster
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Have you heard about Kartra? It's a brand new marketing software that has made selling and advertising products for small businesses a whole lot...
Mac

How to easily encrypt files on your Mac and Windows computer

Steph Middleton-Foster
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As VA's, we deal with a lot of data that is incredibly sensitive and needs to be protected from the 'PC bad guys'. And...

OFFICE SKILLS

Office Skills

Making your documents reader-friendly

Steph Middleton-Foster
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How often do you check the accessibility of your documents once create? It's not something that everybody thinks about, but if the documents, presentations...
Office Skills

Creating bespoke bullet points in a Word document

Steph Middleton-Foster
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The built in settings for formatting documents are more than adequate and give you lots of variety, but every now and again, there's a...
Infusionsoft

[How To] Automatically tag non-marketable contacts in Infusionsoft

Steph Middleton-Foster
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Following on from our previous article where we looked at an easy way to exclude contacts who have opted out of receiving communication with...
Data Validation
Excel

Excel – Create Useful Datasets with Data Validation

Joanne Sparkes
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If you have had experience in using Excel to create databases of information, it’s quite possible that at one time or another you have...

TECHNOLOGY

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Joanne Sparkes
Joanne Sparkes has run Expedio Virtual Assistance since 2003 and was probably one of the first Virtual Assistants in the UK. She specialises in data analysis and spreadsheet automation and in assisting consultants in the scientific medical industry.

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Book-keeping

Your VA services are too expensive aren’t they?

Joanne Sparkes
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This week a potential client said to me "- you're expensive, my Accountant says I can get a much cheaper book-keeper". Should I be...
Business

Accreditation. Do you need it?

Joanne Sparkes
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This week the buzz on the VA industry forums and social media is about “accreditation”. I noted a series of tweets that claimed that...
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6 Steps to Getting Started as a Virtual Assistant

Sarah Begley
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Why do you want to be a Virtual Assistant? Before getting started, this is the first question to ask yourself. And the reason I stress...

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