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Ingrid Bayer
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Mar 4, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Dec 20, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Nov 27, 2019
- 5 min
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.
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Ingrid Bayer
- Oct 30, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Samantha Mitchell
- Sep 30, 2019
- 3 min
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.
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Ingrid Bayer
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Dec 26, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Jun 14, 2018
- 2 min
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....
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Ingrid Bayer
- May 15, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Apr 24, 2018
- 2 min
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,...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Mar 16, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Feb 15, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Jan 17, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Oct 18, 2017
- 1 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Sep 15, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Aug 15, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Ingrid Bayer
- Jul 14, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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