Working from home is nothing new, however since the Covid quarantine of 2020, more and more people found themselves working from home as offices closed indefinitely. Businesses had to adapt quickly to accommodate remote work, and working from home became the rule rather than the exception. As companies scrambled, virtual assistant firms, such as Emerald …
October is National Women’s Small Business Month and we at Emerald Virtual Assistance are excited to celebrate small businesses owned and operated by women entrepreneurs. In fact, EVA itself is a woman-owned business, founded by Emerald Storm, an indigenous female entrepreneur who believed in herself, forged ahead, and built her own success. The road forward, …
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Shamanee Willis is EVA’s resident sweetheart, who always comes to work with a smile and a huge heart of service. She is an all-around VA, providing her clients with work of various kinds. Rather than asking “What does she do?”, the better question is “What doesn’t she do?” Shamanee is proficient in graphic design, copywriting, …
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When it comes to start-ups, small businesses, and established companies, hiring a virtual assistant is one of the smartest, and most cost-effective business decisions you can make. Why? Because a VA is the entrepreneur of entrepreneurs. If you need to get your records in order, your calendar sorted, or your web copy written, perhaps an …
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A virtual assistant works like hiring an employee or a personal assistant without all the hassle of the hiring process. VA’s work for a professional agency and you become their client. Once you’re their client, you delegate work to your VA. This includes managing your calendar and your inbox, booking appointments or corporate events, handling …
Gracesyn Powell is the personal assistant to Emerald Storm at EVA. She spends her time saving Emerald’s time by doing research, cross-checking information, keeping expense records, entering data, making purchases, and booking reservations. She also schedules Emerald’s meetings and makes sure she never forgets a date or time on her calendar. Gracesyn is a strong …
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Who needs a virtual assistant? A virtual assistant is for anyone who needs to delegate their workload in order to reclaim their own lost time. This includes entrepreneurs, small business owners, tech companies, the self-employed, and even you if your own life has gotten too busy. Let’s take a look at how a virtual assistant …
Eufemia Melendez is EVA’s resident executive assistant, specializing in both scheduling and administration for her clients. Not only does she juggle busy calendars by scheduling (and rescheduling) considerable amounts of meetings, she also schedules social media, handles data entry, uploads to Mailchimp, updates websites and blogs, as well as taking care of invoicing and research. …
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Virtual assistants can do anything to help with the weight of your workload, from scheduling meetings to updating your website, and from managing your social media to event planning. A VA can even write your web copy and blogs. Whatever you don’t have time to do, or don’t know how to do effectively, a virtual …
Becka Goings is the Pod Leader and Senior Copywriter and Copy Editor for EVA. She is a published author and a freelance editor with Champagne Books. She writes and edits according to the seventeenth edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and is a diehard defender of the Oxford comma. At EVA, she oversees, writes, …
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