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Reflections of a business owner – what I’ve learned over the last four years

by Sarah Banks | 15 Apr, 2018 | Blog

Four years ago, I didn’t know if running my own business would work but I wanted to try. Looking back, I didn’t have any ideas on what I needed to have in place to start my new business, how to find clients or what to charge. So, I took a leap of faith. Since 2014...

The Easy Way to Make Your Office Paper Free

by Sarah Banks | 1 Apr, 2018 | Blog, Business Planning

Did you know that the average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper every year? That’s approximately 20 reams of paper per year, and of those 10,000 sheets? 6,800 are considered waste, due to incorrect printing, duplicates and simply forgetting you’d already...

How to stop your business taking over your life – from overwhelm to organised in 5 simple steps

by Sarah Banks | 18 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Business Planning

Do you frequently feel that you’re never away from work? No matter where you are and what you might be doing, it’s easy to start thinking of all those business tasks that you need to get on top of, but never seem to quite manage to. With so much to do and such little...

Social Media Management – what it is, and why it’s so important

by Sarah Banks | 4 Mar, 2018 | Blog, Social Media

You might think that social media management is uploading posts to a publishing app and having a few conversations online with your friends and followers, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Often because it’s free to use social media for our business, we don’t...

Handy Tips on How to Work from Home (even with distractions!)

by Sarah Banks | 18 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Business Planning

Working from home isn’t always the picture-perfect vision many of us had in mind when we decided to start our own business. If getting into ‘work mode’ everyday wasn’t difficult enough, there seems to be a never-ending supply of distractions to contend with too. And...

How to get past the stumbling blocks of starting a start-up – part two

by Sarah Banks | 4 Feb, 2018 | Blog, Business Planning

In part one I introduced you to the key considerations you need to think over and implement when starting a new business. You should now have an idea of your: your unique selling point target audience competition how to position yourself with a brand and website If...

Things you didn’t know a Virtual Assistant could do – better business impressions with document formatting

by Sarah Banks | 21 Jan, 2018 | Blog, Virtual Assistant Services

First impressions matter when you’re running a business, but all too often we neglect the formatting of our documents. Huh, formatting? Formatting is the visual appearance of a document and includes things like: Font style Emphasis of key points Borders and graphics...

How to get past the stumbling blocks of starting a start-up – part one

by Sarah Banks | 7 Jan, 2018 | Blog

Starting a new business can be an exciting time and, dare I say it, one filled with confusion. There’s so much to think about, to plan and put into place that it can easily feel overwhelming. It’s important to remember that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel – every...

Why Leaving Your Accounts to the Last Minute Could Cause Your Small Business to Fail

by Sarah Banks | 18 Dec, 2017 | Blog, Business Planning

Doing the accounts can be a dull and tiresome process, not to mention difficult if numbers aren’t your strong point. So, like many other business owners, you probably leave them till the last minute and panic when it comes to self-assessment time, or send them off to...

The Gorilla in the Room – Getting Started with GDPR Preparation

by Sarah Banks | 3 Dec, 2017 | Blog, Business Planning

The introduction of GDPR might seem like a long way ahead, but May 2018 is rapidly approaching. If you haven’t heard of GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation, you need to get up to speed, quickly. Head over to the ICO website now to find out more (don’t worry,...

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