We’ve been reflecting on the past year at Virtual Elves and part of that was looking back on our most popular and ‘clicked through’ articles for 2016. We were not so surprised to find that you all found our articles on productivity to ...
The Risks of Using Copyright Protected Images for your Business & How to Avoid Them
Understand the Risks of using Copyrighted Images in your Business Visual media is a useful way to quickly grab your audience’s attention. A recent study has illustrated that image posts receive 120-180% more engagement than text based post...
3 Smart Tips for Better Work/Life Balance
It’s a common scenario, you’re building your business, burning candles at both ends, working from dusk to dawn and pulling crazy hours trying to manage a to-do list that keeps on growing! You’re tired, grumpy and fearful of losing cont...
3 Ways to Tell if your Business is Ready for a Virtual Assistant
When you’re running a small business you’re always busy, that’s a given! But there will come a time when you reach your peak and you’ll need to consider bringing on another person or team of people to share the workload. Using the se...
5 Ways a Virtual Assistant can Help You your Content Marketing
Content Marketing is a term that covers a variety of marketing techniques involved in the creation and sharing of content that gives value to your audience, and in turn helps win over prospects and new clients. It’s a great way to build re...
The Smartest Way to Use Google Apps for your Business
Google has one of the most recognizable and user-friendly interfaces of any online service provider. Their suite of apps have been created to help businesses in the online sphere, making them more visible, productive and profitable. Here are...
3 Crucial Business Tasks that can be Outsourced to a Virtual Assistant
Many business owners can be confused about the kinds of tasks they can hand over to a Virtual Assistant. There are many and more things that a talented VA can do within your business, but there are a few essential tasks, that when outsourced...
Google Apps for Better Business
Business today has become more and more competitive and demanding. There is a big difference on how business worked a few years ago compared to how business works now. Technology is now essential to modern business. If you are a business own...
Tips and Advantages of using Google+ for your Business
If you are looking to boost your online business Google+ can help a lot. Many get confused of where to start and how, while other people use their personal mail like @hotmail, @gmail or @ISP for their small business. There is nothing wrong w...
Language a Barrier to Outsourcing? Here’s 5 Ways to Get Over It:
The market for Virtual Assistants and offshore business support is booming. In the past 3 years there has been a 95% increase in demand for Virtual Assistant services. VA’s can be a cost effective, flexible solution when you need to take y...
4 Link Building Myths Small Business and SEOs Should Forget About
Throughout the years, big and small businesses have used link building to rank on Google and other search engines. Although some believe that it is no longer effective, many experts believe that this SEO strategy should still be an integral ...
How to Optimise Your E-Commerce Site for Both Customers and Google
If you are selling products online, it’s very important that your e-commerce site is optimised for both Google and your customers. Otherwise, you are wasting the opportunity to attract more traffic and generate more sales. Stoney deGey...