The Trusty Oak Blog

What It’s Like to Recruit Virtual Assistants During the Great Resignation

What’s it like to recruit for flexible, remote jobs during the great resignation? Busy. Busy as in we’ve added extra steps to our hiring process to weed out applicants early… Read more »

3 Tips for Managing the Unexpected | JOYFully BadAss Business Academy™

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon 

Personal Assistant Tasks to Delegate to Your Virtual Assistant

Many of our clients at Trusty Oak delegate professional and business-related tasks to their virtual assistants – from invoicing and payroll assistance to marketing support. But our virtual assistants also… Read more »

Virtual Assistants for Photographers: 5 Tasks to Delegate

Here at Trusty Oak, we have well over a hundred active clients and are equipped to serve in a truly diverse variety of industries, but photographers make up a significant… Read more »

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Our 10 Favorite Apps and Tools for Virtual Assistants

We’ve all found ourselves overwhelmed with work before– especially when it’s remote. It’s so easy to lose track of all the deadlines, meetings, and emails. Thankfully, we live in a… Read more »

Virtual Assistants: 3 Tips for Your Kick-Off with a New Client

If you’re anything like me then, you weren’t always a virtual assistant. You were working not from home in a completely different industry (maybe something more customer service-related), and the… Read more »

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Choosing the Right CMS for Your Website

Content marketing has consistently demonstrated that it is more cost-effective than traditional advertising. You’ll need a suitable content management system (CMS) to make content marketing work online. Investing in the… Read more »

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How Smart Leaders Onboard (and Retain) Virtual Assistants

If you’re looking to onboard with a new virtual assistant, you’re likely also looking for ways to make sure you do it right the first time. Maybe you’ve already done… Read more »

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How to Clean Up Your Inbox in 6 Steps

If you are like many people around the world, you probably have thousands upon thousands of disorganized emails in your inbox. These emails have accumulated over many years, perhaps even… Read more »

Trusty Oak By the Numbers: Celebrating 6 Years in Business

It’s one thing to simply connect entrepreneurs with freelancers. That’s the basics of what we do here at Trusty Oak, and have been doing now for six years. But our… Read more »

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How to Hire a Virtual Assistant: Your Guide to Outsourcing and Delegating Virtually

For many entrepreneurs, getting help is a tall order. Hiring someone to take on part of your workload can feel like an impossible task, especially when you consider the cost,… Read more »

Trusty Oak Named “Freelancer Hiring Platform of the Year” in 2021 RemoteTech Breakthrough Awards Program

Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in the Global Remote Technology Industry. 

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