If your business is new, knowing where to start with credit control can feel like a bit of a minefield. You’re treading carefully to secure payments without severing vital customer relationships, and you’re tiptoeing around aged debt, wondering how best to secure it before it becomes a real issue.
When your cleaning business is new, it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to content. You’ll likely know the importance of content for building trust with potential customers and cultivating lasting customer relationships, but with so many content options out there, choosing the best forms of content marketing for your business can be a challenge.
The term Virtual Assistant is quickly becoming a bit of a buzz phrase in the online world – but what does it actually mean? There are a plethora of stereotypes attached to Virtual Assistants, what it is we do and how we work, and while we’ve explored exactly what a Virtual Assistant is on our blog page before, we feel like there may still be some misconceptions flying around out there!
With this in mind, we thought we’d share 4 things you may not know about Virtual Assistants, what we can do for you and how we work.
In case you hadn’t noticed, The Edwards Company has recently undergone quite the snazzy makeover – gone are our old colour palettes, the previous logo is no more, and our content has been revamped to match our new look.
But why?
As with any business decision you make, opting to work with a Virtual Assistant can feel like a bit of a risk, especially if you’ve never worked with one before. You may be concerned about costs and contracts or not being able to physically oversee the work being completed. You may even be worried about simple things like how to communicate with an assistant who isn’t in your office.
In the end, these anxieties will build, and you’ll find yourself thinking – is it really worth it?
We came to write this blog off the back of our weekly blog title idea that we share with our social media followers, but upon having a quick look back through our previous blogs, we realised we'd uploaded the same blog exactly a year ago – what a happy coincidence! If...
If you’ve never worked with a Virtual Assistant before, the idea of doing so can be daunting. You’re either used to taking on every aspect of your business yourself and may be reluctant to hand over control, or you’ve previously utilised the skills of your in-house staff and have delegated to them, meaning you’ve still been able to oversee their work physically.
All businesses begin as an idea. Some never become much more than that, while others snowball into something much larger than expected.
If you follow us on social media, you may have heard the news – our Managing Director, Lisa, is representing The Edwards Company as a finalist in the West Midlands PA Awards!
As the COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift, it’s likely that you’ll be thinking about transitioning back to office work and what that might look like for your business.
Considering the varying degrees of impact the pandemic has had on all businesses, a back to office transition will look different for everyone, and there’s no real way of knowing exactly what it will look like until it begins to happen. For you and your business, that may stir up some anxieties about how the process will work and whether you’ll be able to navigate through it as successfully as possible.