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 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...
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...
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...
Get to Know Your Audience Better for Higher Google Rankings
To rank on Google, you should have a well-crafted digital marketing campaign. But before you start developing your digital marketing strategies, you must know exactly who your target audience is. According to Mindy Weinstein, founder and pre...
4 Quick Ways to Get Better SEO and Google Rankings
Have you tried every SEO and keyword strategy you know, but you’re still not hitting your target? Tom Smith, search and data consultant at Zazzle Media, a digital marketing company based in the UK, offers a number of quick fixes to hel...
Virtual Assistants are the Perfect Match for Busy Entrepreneurs
Your business is your baby. You want to nurture it, help it grow and be the very best business it can be. At any given time an industrious entrepreneur will be strategizing innovative ways to develop products and services while simultaneousl...
Google Rolls Out 3 New AdWords Updates, Retires Converted Clicks
For those who are using Google AdWords to generate traffic for their site, the tech giant has recently made two important announcements. First, it is retiring an AdWords metric that has been around for the last 15 years. Second, Google has m...
