This site is the new face of YTAssist: taking on the virtual realities of business by helping you with mission-critical tasks – in ways that save time and money for your business.
What do you think of when you think of the word “Assistant”? Do you think of a young, relatively unskilled subordinate, paid little but assigned relatively little of importance? These sorts of assistants are common, and generally are only doing their job in order to get a leg up in the company or industry they [...]
1. Jennifer’s Laptop She would not have survived jury duty without it. 2. Adam Sandler’s Costume Ideas We’ll have to remember to use these next year. 3. Feedly A great way to read news from all across the web. 4. Netflix We still love you, Netflix. You have Star Trek. 5. Star Trek on Netflix [...]
As small business owners, one of the biggest problems we have is time management. We’re often running around trying to figure out how to fit everything in to our busy days, and sometimes need to keep working right on into the weekend. With lack of time being the norm, it is no wonder that we [...]
Our favorites each week will be topped by the iStock Free Photo of the week. This week’s photo is from Trout55. 1. Brother PT-90 Label Maker This device is so fun to use that you’ll find yourself wanting to label things. 2. Sterilite Ultra-Seal Storage Set The best food-storage set we’ve found – it will [...]
Having recently upgraded to a new PC, I truly realized just how many cloud services I use for fundamental tasks. A lot of software that in the past would have needed a long process to migrate over to my new machine was instantly available to me by simply typing a URL into my browser’s address [...]
Our favorites each week will be topped by the iStock Free Photo of the week. This week’s photo is from troyek. 1. Firefox 7 Mozilla promised a smaller memory footprint and they’ve delivered. It’s the best version of Firefox yet. 2. Trekdesk Treadmill Desk It’s been a great way to stay active while working at [...]
Blogging is one of those things – it can be fun to do, but it is time consuming and can become a chore as well. Many businesses need to do it in order to get their name out there and become successful; but at the same time, the more successful you are, the harder it [...]
At the end of a long week, we thought we’d give you a glimpse into the chaotic world of a typical Admin Support Consultant’s calendar. A few months ago, we took all of our shared calendars and made them visible at the same time. We all feel like we’re doing the work of more than [...]
Learning to let go can be hard, but it is easier if you have someone else around to help you with it. An administrative support person can be just that. Tonight our 9-year-old son got home from school and things were a little different. We needed to get right in the car and go to [...]
Disclaimer: I use the term “she” throughout this article to refer to both VAs and in-office support people. I do this for efficiency to avoid typing “s/he” and “him/her”. This does not mean that I think all administrative support people are or should be female (especially since I am male and have been both a [...]
