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Finding Work Life Balance from within the Matrix
As life gets busier and time seems to be inexplicably speeding up, more and more of us are wanting to achieve a true work-life balance....
Ingrid Bayer
Jun 14, 20182 min read
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Create a Winning VA / Online Business using Customer-Centric Strategies
Let’s be honest, if you are in a business that doesn’t understand or embrace a customer-centric approach, chances are that you’re not...
Ingrid Bayer
May 15, 20182 min read
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Building Customer Service Excellence
Achieving Customer Service Excellence in your own VA business - or any business for that matter - doesn’t have to be daunting. In fact,...
Ingrid Bayer
Apr 24, 20182 min read
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The Benefits of Onshore Outsourcing
So many business owners think only about the cost when outsourcing various tasks or roles in their business. Quite understandably, they...
Ingrid Bayer
Mar 16, 20182 min read
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Strategies for Getting Started in your own Virtual Assistant (VA) Business
So often I’m asked the question about how best to transition across to working as a Virtual Assistant. To be honest, there are many ways...
Ingrid Bayer
Feb 15, 20182 min read
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Qualities you need to be a Rockstar VA
With the continued growth in the Virtual Assistant (VA) industry around the world, and in Australia, there are more and more VA...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 17, 20182 min read
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The Forgotten Secret to Success for Virtual Business Owners
I remember starting my own Virtual Assistant business like it was yesterday: the sense of excitement coupled with a feeling that I was...
Ingrid Bayer
Sep 15, 20173 min read
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How Cultivating a Business Mindset will Help you Achieve Business Success
In my experience, I believe strongly that the ability to develop a sound business mindset is profoundly critical to your business’s...
Ingrid Bayer
Aug 15, 20174 min read
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Are you Letting the Side Down?
How many times have you heard about, or had a conversation with a business owner who has made a comment like this: “The last VA we had...
Ingrid Bayer
Jul 14, 20172 min read
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Are you Unconsciously Sabotaging your Small Business Success?
Being in small business is not an easy feat… it’s often about juggling lots of balls all at once. However, sometimes without even...
Ingrid Bayer
Jun 15, 20173 min read
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Achieving Success in your VA Business... What's LUCK got to do with it?
As a home based business operator and Virtual Assistant since 2008, I know the ups and downs of running an often frenetic and fast-paced...
Ingrid Bayer
May 12, 20172 min read
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IT and Resource Checklist for Home Based Businesses
Sounds kind of obvious, but you really need to double check that what you have will serve you well in your business venture, and that you...
Ingrid Bayer
Apr 14, 20174 min read
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I am Woman... In Business!!!!
I was just a young girl when Helen Reddy’s iconic song “I am Woman” hit the world stage, but I certainly remember it… and it became an...
Ingrid Bayer
Mar 3, 20172 min read
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Lost that Loving Feeling? How to Rekindle the Romance with your Home-based Business
You know the story… you used to bounce out of bed each morning, run down the hallway, slide a-la Tom Cruise ‘Risky Business’ style into...
Ingrid Bayer
Feb 14, 20172 min read
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Understanding the Benefits and Opportunity of Collaboration in the VA Industry
Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organisations working together to realise shared goals. Our wonderful VA Industry...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 16, 20172 min read
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Getting Ready to Transition from EA to VA
Moving from your employee based role to your new self-employed Virtual business in a way that sets you up for success requires a lot of...
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 15, 20162 min read
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Understanding the Virtual Advantage
It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come since I started working in the early 80s. So much is now able to be provided ‘virtually’ or...
Ingrid Bayer
Oct 14, 20162 min read
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My Story
What brought me to this place is a combination of my background, and the choices that I, and my family, made along the way. The values...
Ingrid Bayer
Aug 15, 20164 min read
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