SVA created these guides, written and designed by UK VAs, for UK VAs. Whether you want to market your business, find out more about newsletters and autoresponders, manage your time, or create your first press release, these handy factsheets give you step-by-step advice to build your VA business.
Our most popular SVA Guide, this gives you a handy checklist of proven, low cost virtual assistant techniques to get more clients. It's based on what our SVA members said worked for them, and it comes with a money-back guarantee: If you can't find something to use in your business, we'll give you your money back!
To buy: Buy SVA Guide 101 Ways To Market Your VA Business - £25
Once you get those clients, you'll need to make sure you have a watertight contract in place to ensure you get paid and to protect your client's confidentiality.
To buy: Buy SVA Legal - Client Contract - £45
For growing VA businesses who need extra help from subcontractors and freelance VAs, make sure your have a proper agreement in place outlining their self-employed status, confidentiality and that they can't steal your clients!
To buy: Buy SVA Legal - Subcontract Agreement - £45

This guide gives you everything you need to know about offering call answering, message taking and telephone answering to your clients. It tackles equipment recommendations, what you need to consider when offering this service, and some great shortcuts to setting up
Audio typing is often the best cash-cow for VAs, offering transcription of audio tapes/digital dictation to their clients.
A simple plug-in to start you on wirting your own newsletter - building your
database, different formats and tools and even where to get content from!
Word of mouth is great for virtual assistants, but imagine if you had 1,000s of
people telling their network about you? That's what PR can do for you if you get an article in the press. Where do you get the contacts from? what do you include? How do you format it? This audio-book includes top tips on all of these and a customisable press release to use.
To buy: Buy SVA Guide To PR (Audio Podcast) - £25