How your Outsourcery PA can help with recruitment
Hiring a reliable and skilled team of professionals is absolutely essential to business success. The more your company grows, the less time you’ll have to keep an eye on what your employees are doing. You need to trust them to do their job in your absence, to take the initiative when needed and to work […]
Humans Trust Humans: How ‘The Matrix’ can help you overcome your man-machine insecurity
I just happened to be watching it again, and Wow, what a great film – way ahead of its time. Now Let’s not get too deep, but isn’t the most obvious observation in ‘The Matrix’ is that machines are scary, and no matter how user friendly they become, we still can’t trust them. We have […]
How to Generate Leads using your Virtual Assistant
Trying to generate leads or reaching out to potential clients is extremely time-consuming and requires meticulous organisation. It’s not enough to just spend an afternoon shooting off a bunch of random emails, you really need to do your research, know when you contacted them last, whether they responded, whether you need to set up a […]
How your virtual PA can help with social media
The statistics in favour of social media for marketing and new business are overwhelming. According to Hubspot, 92% of marketers in 2014 claimed that social media marketing was important for their business, with 80% indicating their efforts increased traffic to their websites. And yet, according to Social Media Examiner, 85% of social media users aren’t […]
Want to be successful? Stop trying to go it alone.
Henry Walton became an entrepreneur more than two decades ago—before things such asShark Tank, Etsy and Uber existed. He founded Global Vision International, a volunteer-abroad company, as well as several other businesses. His biggest ongoing struggle was feeling alone on his journey. In 2014 he had planned to take a year off to spend time […]
Work-Life Balance Tips For Full-Time Working Parents
Work-life balance when you’re a full-time working parent is a challenge. Young women and men need to be better educated about what work-life challenges they will likely face when they become parents and how they can handle them in their various fields and jobs. I don’t believe anyone can truly understand the importance of a […]
Save Money, Go Virtual
So you’re in the market for an assistant, but you can’t decide whether to hire a permanent, in-house employee or outsource to virtual assistance company? What if we told you that it will cost you 137% more to employ a PA in UK compared to the cost of hiring an Outsourcery assistant? Plus, Outsourcery saves […]
What gets in the way of productivity and what to do about it
We’ve hit an all-time low in levels of productivity in the UK and are all the more stressed because of it. But what’s holding us back and how do we escape it? 1) Over communicating In a recent survey conducted by PageGroup, respondents said that they spend a third of their working day either answering […]
Are you Dangerously Addicted to Multi-Tasking?
Our brains are more hyperactive than ever before. So fast is the speed at which we are demanded to operate that we start doubling up our focus; brushing teeth whilst answering emails, driving the kids to school whilst on a conference call, reading the news whilst on a cross trainer, thinking about strategies whilst eating […]
Inside the Outsourcery World
One of our talented personal assistants, Coral Gardiner reveals what it’s like working virtually from Outsourcery’s Cape Town Headquarters. Previous experience: Sales Analyst | Sales Supervisor | Sales Coordinator | Excise Coordinator | Loan Administrator Why did you decide to join Outsourcery? Initially it was the rather quirky advert I saw, but […]