It's now 2 years since I launched LocalVPA and it's been wonderful working with various different Clients along the way - I've been incredibly lucky and spent the last year working with 2 main Clients for half the week each; during my first year I spent some time working with a few adhoc smaller Clients - and from all I have had fantastic, positive working experience and feedback, where everyone has benefited from a flexible and relatively low cost solution to administration requirements.

My first Client was a lovely actress who was out of work due to Covid and who started up her own sewing subscription business. She needed help setting up her website, writing newsletters, creating and posting social media, Facebook advertising and writing her Blog. It was great fun to help her create her brand and then carry it through all her work. It was a small start to my business working just a few hours a week, but very rewarding.

I then started working with an engineering company in Hampshire. And I am still with them 2 years later. Work started as PA to CEO but gradually changed to marketing tasks - from working on LinkedIn to creating blogs and social media and setting up the company database on HubSpot. HubSpot is also used to send out monthly updates to the database - with links to blog posts communicating latest news on products, case studies and other news.

I then set up a website for a survey company, helped a lady who sold plants to improve her website layout, assisted a financial advice company with their digital newsletter. I also set up a website for a charity for which my husband is the Chairman - Nchima Trust. Needless to say that was done for free. It was a few evenings work but I thoroughly enjoyed re-aligning the branding, collecting the content and putting it together on Wix. I also maintain the Nchima Trust Website and happy to put websites together for other charities if I have time and if I am asked!

Also, for over a year, I have been working closely with the directors of a fabulous marketing company in Brighton. Most of the time I have been sorting out very busy diaries for 2 of the partners and helping them with other ad-hoc administration such as emails, booking travel, writing minutes and helping with other time consuming yet crucially important tasks. More recently I have been assisting the third partner; setting up social media, market research, writing briefs, working with designers and copywriters and general marketing project management.

So when a friend asked me recently, 'do you ever get bored working from home?', the answer is no, I don't have time! And in any case I spend at least an hour a day on Zoom chatting and in meetings and have such a vast array of interesting things to learn and challenging tasks to complete, that there is no time for boredom.

And let's not forget that I also have time to prioritise my walk with the adorable 'Mac; every afternoon and finish at lunchtime on Fridays - perfect!

It's been a great 2 years... here's to some more!

A huge thanks to all my wonderful Clients.