Having worked for ten years as an Executive Personal Assistant, I started Joanne Manville Virtual Assistance in 2015. We support growing businesses by giving managers and founders the space to concentrate on what they do best. I was honoured to to win the award of UK Outstanding VA 2020 and 2019 and Small Business of the Year in the Devon Women in Business Awards in 2022.
PA Life Interview with Hayley Somerscales, Editor I was really honoured recently to be invited by PA Life Magazine to be interviewed a part of their series interviewing finalists of the UK Outstanding VA Award. Hayley asked me about how I became a VA, the South West Virtual Assistant Collaboration which I launched in March…
5 things you may not know about working with a VA As I’ve covered before the value of working with a VA is becoming more and more apparent to businesses yet there are still some things that you may not know, or perhaps you’re (albeit innocently) underestimating just how much hiring a VA…
Why Joanne Manville Virtual Assistance? Why us? So you have got to the stage of growth where you know you need to get some help – and we’re really pleased to see you recognise the value that working with a Virtual Assistant can bring. But what have we got on offer and why should…
5 things you need to do before hiring a VA So, you’re thinking about hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA)? We don’t blame you. The demand for VAs has rocketed of late as more and more businesses are seeking remote workers who aren’t tied to a permanent contract of employment. As many businesses have had to…
The art of saying thank you in business Clients are the lifeblood of your business. but besides that initial ‘thank you for your order’ email, are you letting them know how important they are? Are you taking the time to say thank you in your business? With so much competition around, can you afford to…
Five 5-minute jobs you didn’t think to delegate As Virtual Assistants, we work with a vast range of different clients, and the tasks we do vary a lot too. But there are some tasks which take only minutes to do that our clients outsource to us too. Now you may think ‘I can just do…
Trainers, Event Planners and Speakers have had to move online during the current pandemic, and whilst that brings its challenges, the positive is that many of us who may not have had the opportunity to attend some of their events, now get to take part online! Over the past few months, I’ve been able to…
How can a Virtual Assistant help you get more sales? As any successful small business owner can tell you, a growing business always needs to get more sales. While the prospect of your expanding business is exciting in itself, figuring out all the logistics to turn leads into sales can be pretty stressful. However, you…
In this month’s guest blog, we’d like to that Jenna and the team at Appetite For Business. Appetite recently launched CUBE which is an amazing Microsoft Training Package which is done via a subscription, and I asked Jenna if she’d be able to share her top tips with us, on working within Teams – a…
Picture: Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay 5 ways to make sending contracts easier Sending and receiving digitally signed contracts isn’t an especially exciting task but it’s most certainly a necessary one. If you’re sending out physical documents, or worse still faxing them, it’s time to bring yourself into this century. Long gone are the…