Maximizing Business Growth with Open-Source Software: A Comprehensive Guide to OSS Advantages

By Dan Maby | March 22, 2024
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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the strategic selection of technology underpinning your business operations can significantly influence your competitive edge, growth trajectory, and innovation capabilities. At the heart of this technological crossroads stands open-source software (OSS) – a paradigm that has reshaped software development, deployment, and utilisation across industries. Understanding open-source software, however, necessitates […]

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Homepage designs that are SEO friendly

By Dan Maby | May 9, 2017
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Building a website for yourself or having it built for you requires thought and planning. This article covers what you should know to make Homepage designs that are SEO friendly and help convert lookers into potential clients. You’ve probably read these terms before: on-page optimization, keywords and SEO. The basics of SEO is the use of […]

The UK Virtual Assistant Slack Team

By Dan Maby | April 19, 2017
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Slack: Be less busy. The Slack tagline, it’s short and sweet but wow is it a bold statement. The incredible part….it’s actually true (at least that’s our experience but don’t just take our word for it there’s this too). For those of you that haven’t met Slack before, let me introduce you. Slack is an open communication […]

Motivation, the Who, What, Where, When, Why

By Dan Maby | March 16, 2017
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What motivates you? Maybe it’s family, friends, nature, money, lifestyle? Whatever it is we all need a little help with it it now and again. The very fact that you are reading this implies that you are either currently a Virtual Assistant or on the path to becoming one. To be self employed you need a […]

Open All Hours? Setting Client Expectations

By Dan Maby | February 8, 2017
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Are you open all hours?  Have you set client expectations? I have a friend who runs networking events in the evenings. He has a lovely VA – I know her personally and she is efficient and conscientious. At one of his events he was agitated and angry and complaining loudly about his VA. “She always […]

MailChimp Subscriber Popup

By Dan Maby | January 6, 2017
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How to help build your email list with MailChimp Subscriber Popup. We’ve been looking at list building, specifically subscribers to our online Virtual Assistant magazine; VA Life. So I thought I’d share a MailChimp tip that we use to help grow our subscription list. You will have noticed a popup when you visited this site inviting you […]

13 Easy Ways To Speed Up WordPress

By Dan Maby | December 15, 2016
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WordPress is a great platform. Having said that without proper care and attention it can become quite slow. If you don’t take the right precautions, you could end up with a site that’s not only a hassle for visitors but will cause you to lose subscribers and customers. In this post, I’ll cover some of […]

Is Email Killing Our Productivity?

By Dan Maby | November 16, 2016
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Is email killing our productivity? If the first thing you do, once you’ve sat down at your desk in the morning, is to head to that little email icon, click it and leave the application open all day long then the answer to this question is most likely; YES. Can you remember how you managed […]

The Successful Virtual Assistant State of Mind

By Dan Maby | October 6, 2016
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One of the most important factors to becoming successful is in the way we think. We’ve all experienced those days where one bad thing escalates into another, and before you know it, you’re in a negative mood. Warning, red alert, people detect such an irritation by your body language or tone of voice. So why […]

Smarter Networking Without Business Cards

By Dan Maby | September 10, 2016
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So you walk into the room, within the first five minutes you’ve collected half a dozen business cards already, and they all came with the promise of something great! The issue is; the humble business card is a tool, and a simple one at that, for sales / marketing, and, like any tool, it should be used […]

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

By Dan Maby | July 21, 2016
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European Commission launches EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Finally, the European Commission launches the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which has gone through a lengthy process to replace Safe Harbour. What was Privacy Shield again? Privacy Shield is supposed to put transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes from Europe to the US on a new legal framework […]

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