Whenever you embark on a new business venture it’s important to keep your expectations in check. It’s so easy to get carried away in the magic of a moment, believing that a new team member, a new project or a new partnership might be a l...
3 Things Small Businesses should be doing in 2017
So the Christmas decorations have been packed away and we’ve all recovered from our New Year celebrations. Now the time has come to dust off our keyboards and meet 2017 head on! There are a number of areas in modern small businesses that, ...
Top Ten Articles for 2016
Another year has past! At Virtual Elves we have been using this time in the lead up to the Christmas holidays to reflect on the year that was and plan for a fresh start in 2017. Part of this process included looking back on our most popular ...
How to Prepare your Business for the Holiday Season Shut Down
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...