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Refresh your Business Vision for 2023
Whether you’re a new VA or have been in the game for some time, we ALL know that our VA business can be so much more than a means to earn...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 1, 20233 min read
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3 Signs You're Ready to Scale Your VA Business
With the growth in demand for VAs skyrocketing, it’s no surprise that our industry is booming. And what’s even more exciting is that...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 16, 20223 min read
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What are you waiting for?
Are you someone who has been circling the 'GO' button on going down the VA path, but just can't quite seem to take the leap? You’ve read...
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 18, 20223 min read
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5 Things to Consider when signing up for a training or mentoring program
Since 2020, the Virtual Assistant Industry has grown in popularity as a career of choice for many disenfranchised employees looking to...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 15, 20224 min read
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Are you waiting for the stars to align?
Last Saturday morning, I found this Tim Ferriss quote and it resonated with me as I began to prepare for another day... (yes, it was...
Ingrid Bayer
Apr 27, 20212 min read
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Help: I’m launched and ready for business… but I just need clients!
Let’s face it… starting your own business is super exciting. I remember the feeling only too well. That rush of adrenaline when, after...
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 2, 20204 min read
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Mindset and Business Success
I want to share something with you... last night, Melissa (one of my amazing team members here at VA Institute) and I jumped on a call...
Ingrid Bayer
Mar 4, 20202 min read
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What's your 2020 vision
I don’t know about you, but the Christmas and New Year break always seems to be the time I spend reviewing my business results, and...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 20, 20193 min read
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7 Productivity Tips for Effectively Managing Multiple Clients and Projects
Working as a VA or business owner often involves managing expectations and delivering outcomes for multiple clients across many projects.
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 27, 20195 min read
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Networking - the Key to VA Success
Networking… we’ve all heard people postulate about the importance of it, and honestly, I understand if your eyes start to glaze over...
Ingrid Bayer
Oct 30, 20193 min read
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Guest Blog: Events for introverts and the VA Summit.
When Ingrid told me she was going to put together a Summit, especially for VAs - with content we wanted to hear - I knew I had to be there.
Samantha Mitchell
Sep 30, 20193 min read
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My Personal Journey from EA to VA
I've been a VA since 2008, and it's a career I've loved from the word go. I thought I'd take a moment to share with you my personal...
Ingrid Bayer
Jul 12, 20192 min read
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Are you ready to turn your dreams into reality?
So Christmas is over and another year is just on the horizon… 2018 is about to be the ‘year that was’, and 2019 is the year where our...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 26, 20183 min read
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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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Virtual Assistants – an idea whose time has definitely come!
As Bob Dylan famously sang in 1964, “…the times, they are a-changin’”. Indeed, this sentiment rings true even today in what is...
Ingrid Bayer
Oct 18, 20171 min read
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