How to Get the Best AU to Cebu Flights
How to Get the Best AU to Cebu Flights In the next few months, VA Platinum will celebrate not one, but three great milestones… On August 17, we’ll celebrate reaching 100 staff and enjoy our annual summer outing; 30th October is our 2nd-year Anniversary dinner; 14th December is our Christmas/End of the Year party! These […]
7 Tips on How to Get the Best AUD – PHP Exchange Rate!
7 Tips on How to Get the Best AUD – PHP Exchange Rate! Going to the Philippines soon? I’m here to provide awesome tips on how to handle Australian dollar to Philippine peso exchange! In this article, I’m offering you my 7 most important “hacks” when it comes to getting the most out of the […]
5 Things to Expect When Working with Filipino Virtual Assistants
5 Things to Expect When Working with Filipino Virtual Assistants “What is it like working with staff who are thousands of kilometres away?” I get this question a lot. A lot of financial advisers, mortgage brokers, real estate agents, and business owners enlist the services of virtual assistants these days. Those who haven’t, are curious […]
7 Mistakes Business Owners Commit When Working With Virtual Assistants
7 Mistakes Business Owners Commit When Working With Virtual Assistants First, congratulations for dabbling into the world of offshoring! Whether or not you came to VA Platinum to get your virtual assistant for financial planning, a virtual assistant for mortgage broking, or an executive assistant, I like to commend you for taking a step towards […]
5 Questions to Ask a Virtual Assistant During an Interview
5 Questions to Ask a Virtual Assistant During an Interview What should you ask a prospect staff before hiring one? More financial planners, mortgage brokers and financial advisers are adapting to better business practices with the help of virtual assistants in the Philippines. Apart from the obvious cost-effective benefits, advisers are more productive when they […]
Is Your Business Safe from Privacy & Data Breach?
Is Your Business Safe from Privacy & Data Breach? As the cost of running a financial services business in Australia increase and ASIC places heavier compliance obligations on businesses, there are very few options to save money while improving customer service. The most obvious strategy businesses are taking advantage of is using offshore businesses like […]
5 Impactful Ways to Communicate with Your Virtual Staff
5 Impactful Ways to Communicate with Your Virtual Staff Communication is everything – especially for a virtual workplace. It is literally the lifeline and foundation of any business operation that uses an offshore staff. In an office-based setting, there’s a number of ways you can ensure attendance and interaction with your staff. Traditionally, you can […]
How Much Profit Does a Virtual Assistant Company Make?
How much profit does a virtual assistant company make? By the end of this article, you’ll know what it costs to hire a virtual assistant, what their non-cash benefits are, and as the heading says, how much profit the company makes when you hire a virtual assistant (VA) through them. My wife is a private […]
6 Tips to Improve the Likelihood of First Touch Loan Approval
6 Tips to Improve the Likelihood of First Touch Loan Approval Whenever I talk to brokers about their ambitious targets for the year ahead, I find it’s all too easy to get lost in the metrics of leads and settlements as Key Performance Indicators. What happens in between these two milestones is more important than […]
The Definitive Guide to Paying Filipino Virtual Assistants
The Definitive Guide to Paying Filipino Virtual Assistants Do you only want to hire Filipino staff because you’re a scrooge and you want work done for peanuts? Remember if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. In this article, I’m exposing in raw detail what Filipino staff should get paid and what their standard of living […]