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50 Ways to Buy Your Time Back with a Virtual Assistant
As business owners and entrepreneurs increasingly outsource tasks to virtual assistants, they do so for a number of reasons. An overwhelming majority though, outsource purely to save time that they would otherwise need to spend on low-value, but necessary tasks. As...

Hiring Offshore Virtual Assistants: Are You Depriving Job-seekers at Home?
Arguments against the use of VAs from countries like the Philippines don't seem to be impacting growth in the practice, but do they have any credence? Offshoring opponents typically take one of two key stances in decrying the use of overseas service providers: 1....

Building Connection through your Message
Most of us use a variety of marketing strategies to build up connections. One means is through Social Media. More people use social media to make their voices heard, why? Because it can easily reach millions of people. At certain times, negative feedbacks will arise...

Questions to Ask before Hiring Freelance VAs from the Philippines
If you're planning to outsource some of your personal or business tasks, we happen to believe you'll get no better value from virtual assistant services anywhere than those offered by Filipino outsourcing professionals. However, if you're thinking about...

Have You Thought About Writing SOPs For Your Virtual Assistant?
As we've mentioned a number of times in our blog posts, deriving value from task/process outsourcing requires a willingness to put in some preparatory effort as a potential VA client. The good news is that most of the preliminary work will comprise one-off...

Social Media Marketing & Personal Branding
How important is social media marketing for your personal branding? How do you do it? Watch the video to find out! Virtual Done Well founder Rob O'Byrne talks with LinkedIn Marketing Master Chris Reed about the importance of using social media marketing...

An Identity Crisis in the Virtual Assistant Industry?
At Virtual Done Well, we provide our clients with virtual assistants to work on organisational and administrative tasks for their small businesses, but we also do so much more. In fact, our activities might better be described as business process outsourcing for the...

Some Less Obvious Tasks to Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
You can find many an article or blog post suggesting tasks you can outsource to a virtual assistant, but many of them focus on the obvious activities like email and calendar management, data entry, and reception services. As the profession matures though, more and...

Ever Thought About Outsourcing Your Telemarketing to a VA Company?
We recently blogged about some of the less obvious, more specialised business tasks that can be outsourced to a virtual assistant or of course, to a VA company like Virtual Done Well. While writing that post, we took a look around at the specialised services some of...

Is It Possible to Hire a VA for Cultural Fit?
VDW Monthly Newsletter Study Reveals Why Philippines Best for Australian BPO Outsourcing A study recently carried out by The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), shows clearly why the Philippines is the favourite business-process outsourcing...
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