6 ways your travel company can outsource to a virtual assistant
Planning the dream adventure for a client, however knowledgeable you are, takes a lot of research and meticulous planning. To really stand out as a travel agency, you need to make sure you’re fully up to date on all the recent developments around the globe and can offer your clients a truly personal service that […]
The top 6 productivity apps recommended by the Outsourcery team
There are a huge range of productivity apps now available to help busy people work more efficiently through their to-do list. We asked our team of professional PAs at Outsourcery, which apps they found most helpful. Here are their top 6: Planner Pro This app is so effective that it’s becoming part of our daily […]
Outsourcery Contributor Questionnaire: Natasha Collins
Natasha Collins Job Position: Managing Director Company: NC Real Estate When did you join Outsourcery? Summer 2016 What made you decide to hire a virtual PA? I needed help, a support system. As the admin of my business started taking off I needed someone on the ground whilst I went out and continued to spread […]
How your virtual assistant can make your personal life easier
Most professionals work at least five days a week for an average (on paper) of 8 hours a day, which in reality is much closer to 9 or 10. That leaves very little room for personal life management. The way it tends to go is the more you focus on your career, the more your […]
The Evolution of the Personal Assistant
The evolution of the personal assistant has been more talked about than any other profession. Emma Jacobs opened her piece for the Financial Times in 2015 with the provocative statement: “The secretary is dead”, using a powerful table of statistics to back her up, the most notable being that 47% of the UK’s secretarial roles […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
