Ampersand Virtual Support Services

25/07/2024

05/06/2024

A Virtual Assistant can make a life-changing difference to your business, whether you're:

💥a small business
💥an entrepreneur
💥a start-up
💥a budding author
💥a creative business owner ready to scale your biz and increase your visibility

or anyone else who needs some help with their business but isn't ready to hire employees.

Click through to read just 5 reasons why you should think about hiring a Virtual Assistant!

04/06/2024

Incase you were wondering how you go about working with me, click through these slides to see how it breaks down 🕵️‍♀️

30/05/2024

Trust me, magic happens when you hire a Virtual Assistant. 💥

Swipe through to explore some of the services I offer, and if none of them quite float your boat, let's have a chat about customising a package to suit your needs.

Send me a DM, drop a comment on this post, or visit www.ampersandvirtualsupportservices.com and fill in the contact form.

17/11/2023

Who’s been on a cycling holiday? I went out on my bike this morning for the first time in months, and it was wonderful! I found that my brain stopped turning my to-do list round and round, and I was just in the moment. 🚲

I’ve wanted to go on a cycling holiday for a few years now. Does anyone have any routes they recommend? I’m not particularly fit, and I don’t have alot of stamina, so it’ll have to be one for beginners - and preferably one where you can ride in the luggage van if you don’t fancy cycling one day! 😂😴

I know you can hire electric bicycles on some cycling holidays - I’m only 5' 2”, and a bit weedy, lol, so I’m wondering whether an electric bike would be too heavy for me. Have you used one?

Hit me up with your cycling holiday stories and electric bicycle experiences, I’d love to live my cycling dreams vicariously through you, until I can take that peddling holiday myself. 🌈

16/11/2023

How many of us really know what other peope do in their jobs? I know I often wonder what different jobs involve and what my friends do all day at work. 👩‍🍳👩‍🎤👩‍💻👩‍🔬🧑‍🚒👨‍🚀

So tell me, what do you think a virtual assistant does?🤔

13/11/2023

Shout out to the winemakers who feel they ‘should’ be adding blog posts to their website! 🍷

You’ve probably heard that adding regular content to your website can help with search engine optimization, which ultimately helps your website to be seen by more potential customers. But your zone of genius lies in wine, not in writing. 😭

Well, to get you started on your blogging journey, I’ve compiled this list of 5 blog topics for you to use as inspiration:

🌏Talk about sustainable winemaking techniques and practices, and why they matter: sustainability is becoming more and more important to people in all areas of their lives, so this is a good one to showcase that your business is doing its best to protect the earth, meaning that people are more likely to fee aligned with you and your brand.

🍷A list of tips for storing the different wines you make: to help us get the best from your wines.

🌈A day in the life of your vineyard: who doesn’t dream of owning their own vineyard?!

🧘‍♀️The potential benefits of moderate wine consumption: as people are becoming more health conscious, and non-alcoholic brands are on the rise, this will remind readers that continuing to include wine in their lives can be a positive thing

🕵Why wines taste of things that aren’t in them: like to***co and grass. I mean, what’s that all about?!

Blogging can be used to educate your customers, build a community around your brand, and drive more virtual traffic to your website - and actual traffic to your winery!

If you’d love your winery to have a blog, but just don’t have the time, send me a message and I’ll send you more info about my blogging packages.

Cheers! 🥂

13/11/2023

Even when you love to write, it can be really hard to constantly think of things you can write about that will engage your audience, maybe educate them a bit, or just entertain them. So, if you’re an author who’s finding it hard to dig your next blog post topic out from the recesses of your creative brain 🤯, here are a few ideas for you:

🖌Write a series of blogs which takes the reader along with you on the entire journey of writing your current book: there’s so much you can share with this one!

🖌Tips for overcoming writers’ block: this is a perpetual problem for writers and aspiring writers, and we’re always on the look out for ways to overcome it.

🖌Discuss some different genres - their unique elements and their appeal: this will help your followers feel that you’re a credible voice in the world of creative writing.

🖌How to convincingly build worlds: as will this one!

🖌Share a list of useful writing tools that you’ve used (apps, books, etc.) and give your opinion of each one: hlp your audience to help themselves.

If you find these ideas useful, please like and share this post, and if you’d like to find out how we can work together, please drop me a line!

Happy blogging, people! 🤩

09/11/2023

When I read the cover of, “Lampedusa” I wasn’t sure about it - it was a gift from my husband, but it didn’t really grab me, so it sat on my shelf for a few years. I recently started reading it, and I’ve really warmed to it! It’s a fictional account of the life and writing times of an Italian author (I only found this out recently!) and for some reason, he reminds me of Dr Daruwalla, the main character in John Irving’s, “A Son of the Circus” (one of my fav books!)

What are you reading? Bonus points if it’s fiction - I love fiction of all sorts! 🕵️‍♀️

07/11/2023

Do you wish you had a magic wand that could make your non-creative jobs disappear from your to-do list?

🖌Imagine a life where your to-do’s have disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving you all the time you need to write your next novel.

🤸‍♀️Picture jumping out of bed each morning energised and unburdened, excited about diving right into your writing project, knowing that your admin, social media and proofreading tasks are being handled by someone as enthusiastic about your writing as you are.

Drop me a message in the comments, or an email at [email protected] and say ‘Be gone!’ to those pesky jobs. Let’s create a spell that will conjure up your dream life!