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Welcome Aboard - why client onboarding is so important
More than sending through a contract to sign... In fact, some of the more crucial steps happen after you have that precious signature.
Ingrid Bayer
Aug 27, 20192 min read


The Importance of a Business Mindset
A sound business mindset is profoundly critical to your success. Ultimately, the ability to succeed starts and ends with YOU.
Ingrid Bayer
Jul 29, 20193 min read


Service Excellence Starts with Knowing your Area of Expertise
I read a great post yesterday which was written by a highly regarded VA Colleague of mine who was speaking about the importance of...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 16, 20193 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Why being a self-employed Virtual Assistant / Home Based Business Owner Rocks my World!
Our daughter recently gave birth to her second child (our second grandchild)… which is pretty amazing – especially since I don’t feel old...
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 8, 20172 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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