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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.

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Office Skills

Adding Background Audio to a PowerPoint Presentation

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Quickly add the background music to your presentation with the click of a button - add settings to loop the music and play across slides, whilst hiding audio during show.

How To Make 2019 Your Best Year To Date

Top 10 Tips for Writing an Engaging Email Newsletter

Is Your VA Business Ready For The Christmas Break?

How to Use Asana’s Features for Better Organisation

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

Improving and growing email marketing campaigns

Sarah Begley -
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How often do you create email marketing campaigns for your clients, or get contacted by new clients with that as the first task they...
Office Skills

Creating Interactive Maps with Google My Maps Pro

Steph Middleton-Foster -
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We’ve all heard the expression ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote in the book "Fathers and...
Social Media

3 Reasons Twitter isn’t working for you

Joanne, Editor -
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Although Twitter has been around for a decade now it’s still a mystery to many, an addiction to some and a time gremlin to...
Office Skills

Facebook made easy with these keyboard short-cuts

Sarah Begley -
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Like me, you may be finding that more and more clients want help with their social media marketing. And therefore, like me, you’re probably...

TECHNOLOGY

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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?

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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...
Editor Picks

6 Steps to Getting Started as a Virtual Assistant

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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...
Business

How to Set Your Virtual Assistant Rates

Sarah Begley -
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Let’s be honest, one of the most important question when setting up your Virtual Assistant business is how much are you going to charge? But...

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Tickets | Passport | Money….Apps.

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Almost time for holidays and I for one can't wait to go in search of some sunshine. Whilst we all hope that our holidays...

Changing text case in Microsoft Excel

The Basic Steps to Successful Selling – Part 1

Words are Power

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Using the power of the press for publicity

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