As a VA I depend a lot on various technologies to help my business and the way I work with my clients.  I am not always sat in the office so I need to make sure that any work I am undertaking is available to me no matter where I am or on what PC/laptop [...]

Well on Sunday I completed my second Race for Life event in Herne Bay in Kent.  It was a lovely sunny day although very hot and I arrived with my Mum, two sisters and 5 year old niece all raring to go.  There were over 2,500 women taking place and the atmosphere before we started [...]

This time five years ago I was sitting at home on maternity leave with a 3 month old baby contemplating what to do when my maternity leave came to an end in the September.  I didn’t want to go back to working full time especially as this was in the city and would require a [...]

Tonight at a fantastic webinar hosted by the wonderful Sally Walker regarding blogging all participants were challenged to write a blog post with the theme “I Just Bought a Loaf of Bread from Sainsburys” so here goes. Are you like me and absolutely hate supermarket shopping? It’s not the fact that I can’t just go [...]

I must apologise that is has been a few months since I last updated my blog.  I can’t believe that we are in March already. I hope all my followers had a fantastic Christmas and New Year.  I know I did.  Well there are lots of exciting things happening on the Burford Secretarial front hence [...]

I would like to wish all of my clients and readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I hope that 2010 is your most succesful to date. Charlotte Burford Secretarial

Well 2009 has been a very busy year here at Burford Secretarial and hopefully 2010 will be just as busy if not busier.  Over the Christmas period I am going to use this time to plan ahead for the coming year.   Of course I will also spend time with my young family but while they are [...]

It is surprising how much we take technology for granted these days until something goes wrong. As I VA I rely a lot on technology, I have my PC etc that allow me to undertake my day to day work but I also have my Blackberry, laptop, internet dongle so that I can still access my [...]

How to Utilise a Virtual Assistant You have decided that your business needs the help of a Virtual Assistant (VA) to undertake your administration tasks so that you can concentrate on spending your valuable time on the money earning aspect of your business.  Here is a list of a few tasks that VAs can undertake: Arranging [...]