Boost Your business: The magic of outsourcing administrative tasks! 🚀

  How Can the Tandem Team Help You Grow Your Business? When Small business owners or solopreneurs, get to the point that they need help in their businesses, usually the first person they hire helps with the admin. There’s a very good reason for that. A virtual assistant can help you grow your business, get your time back, and help you stay in your zone of genius. No matter what type of tasks you want a virtual assistant to help you with, there are so many ways that the Tandem team can help. 1) Recurring Tasks and Processes A virtual assistant can handle anything that you can do on a recurring basis and quickly take it off your plate. Something as simple as updating your WordPress plugins, letting new members into your Facebook Groups, updating your membership, or keeping your Customer database up to date. Whatever you do in your business regularly, it’s super simple to create a process and hand it off to someone else. Start making a list of those tasks, no matter how simple or mund...

  10 Tasks That a Virtual Assistant Can Help You With   You are super busy and wearing a dozen different hats in your business, so it might be time to hire a virtual assistant. But, what exactly can my team at Tandem help you with? The term virtual assistant covers a huge amount of tasks and work, and many virtual assistants have different specialisms and services that they offer. For the most part, these 10 tasks are things that many virtual assistants can help you with; you’ll just need to find the right virtual assistant who enjoys the type of tasks you want to outsource.   Are you ready for a virtual assistant? Check out Tandem VR's services  page to see how we can work together and what I can take off your plate right now!   How a Virtual Assistant Can Help You 1) Answering Emails Tandem VR can take email management and customer service off your plate. If you have emails falling through the cracks or not answering as quickly as you would like...

  How to Find The Perfect Virtual Assistant, For Your Business.   Deciding to look for your first virtual assistant is a huge step as a solopreneur. There are some important things you need to think about, to ensure you are hiring the right fit for your business and yourself. In this post, I’m sharing the best tips to help you find the right virtual assistant and how you can make the relationship run a little smoother. You can find your perfect virtual assistant in the Tandem VR team of admin assassins following these few steps and thought processes. What Can A Virtual Assistant Do?  First, it’s important to know who a virtual assistant is and what they can do. The term virtual assistant is pretty broad and generalised. Some virtual assistants may specialise and offer specific services, so it’s essential to pick the right person based on their skill set and your business needs. Some virtual assistants love administrative work; others might be considered Tech VA’...

  Why a Virtual Assistant, and what is next for me? I love to travel and during my 20’s, I was very lucky to have travelled around the world, being able to spend a few months or longer traveling overland in about 30 different countries with my partner in crime of over 25 years, Rowan. Here we are sitting on the pyramid in Egypt, shortly before Rowan got spat on by a camel.. Another story. For work in the UK at the time, I was working in my family’s oil distribution business, Fuel Oils, directly with my Dad and Uncle as the two directors. I worked my way through the various ‘Accounts clerk roles as they became available. I then went on to learn Bookkeeping gaining Certified Accounting Technician exams, before I moved more into management. I completed my diploma in Management and Leadership, before becoming General Manager of the business for 7 years, the business grew by very nearly 300% whilst I was GM, so I like to think I did a good job! Regardless though, I only really had exp...

    Case Study   Tandem and Southway Plumbing and Heating Ltd.   Meet my lovely clients Southway Plumbing and Heating Ltd!  They are professional installers of Air Source Heat pumps around southeast England, as well as fulfilling your everyday plumbing needs and large contracts.  Southway Plumbing and Heating Ltd is a family business run by husband and wife team, Dani and Lee, with Dani's sister Steph keeping everything on track in the office, they are all great at what they do! Southway really cares about its customers and wants them to have to best service they can offer. This is where Tandem comes in, helping them keep doing their best on every job! If you can see yourself in these answers and would like to explore working with a VA, to fulfil your potential, message or email me on hello@tandemvirtualresources.co.uk. Or if you would like to work with the Southway team, email them on enquiries@southwayplumbingandheating.com What were you st...

Simplify Your Meetings with These Tech Tips. My life consists of a lot of meetings.  I have regular catch-ups with my clients to keep us all on track, both on Zoom and face-to-face for the clients who are based close to me. These can be just 10 minutes or much longer meetings where work is completed whilst on the call. They are the most productive type with really concentrated time on tasks getting so much done! I also organise meetings for clients, so if you want to make your meetings more professional using tech to also make them easier to deal with, you are in the right place!! I love to use different tech to make my life easier. I'm happy to share some of my better discoveries with you, so you don’t have to waste time on the rubbish stuff! Elon Musk tells his staff to walk out of  unproductive  meetings unproductive, so I’m here so you can make the most of those times you get everyone to sit down together! Leaked Elon Musk email Doodle or Calendly? Scheduling meeting...