Category Archives: Your VA

About Your Virtual Assistant

“I’ll get my Virtual Assistant to do it” Who am I? Hi there and thanks so much for taking time out of your busy day to spend a couple of minutes on this site.  I’m Justine and I’ll be YOUR virtual assistant … should you decide to use my services. A proud Kiwi living in Auckland, New more…


Time Off at Waihi Beach

Goodbyes Another great holiday was had last week with good friends at Waihi Beach (thanks to www.bookabach.co.nz). Weather was superb, water warm and the scenery fantastic – even managed to look around some great art shops in Waihi! Historical Facts: View of Waihi Beach from Lookout Waihi means rising water and is the stream flowing more…


Time Off at Thornton Bay

As a Mother’s Day present we decided to treat ourselves to a weekend at Thornton Bay.  We found a fantastic place on www.bookabach.co.nz and had a wonderful weekend together with some friends. Nice and close to Thames meant we could grab some last minute food, even found time on Sunday morning to wander around their more…


Time Off At Hunua Falls

Being the last day of another school holiday and going a little stir crazy at home, my daughter and I set off for some fresh air at the Hunua Falls. Located in the Hunua Ranges which comprise of over 14,000 hectares of native bush and contain 4 major dams which supply most of Auckland City’s more…


Staffing Solutions – Hire a Virtual Assistant (Home Based Secretary or Personal Assistant)

Staffing Solutions – by outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant you can solve your staffing solutions without any capital outlay or risk to your company.  Whether you have one task to be completed in a hurry or ongoing commitments, a Virtual Assistant is there when you need a hand and disappears out of sight once the more…


Time Off At Kawakawa Beach

As part of our ‘fanatical fitness week’, my daughter Tara and I went for a walk along the Kawakawa Beach coastline.  Scenery was so fantastic I decided to veer away from my usual, business orientated blogs, and show you what we get up to in our free time. MONDAY Walked up “Hell Hill”, 1hr 40minutes both more…


Post Christmas – Yipee!

Well shopping is over and done with, presents unwrapped in a frenzy on Christmas morning (I treated myself to a video camera so watch out blog – you are about to blow readers away with some stylish amateur videos)and batteries are fully recharged. With most of my clients on hiatus, this is the time of more…


Your Virtual Assistant – In Person

For those of you wondering what a Virtual Assistant is, why your business would benefit by hiring an Assistant, what we do and what we charge please visit me at www.yourva.co.nz. For those of you who like to know the person and prefer to deal with a personality rather than an email address … look more…


The Advantages of a Home Based Secretary or Assistant

I’m not one to follow the media and have disagreed with how they tend to focus on the negative (take the recession for example). However with the recent Swine Flu outbreak affecting us all and no ‘crystal ball’ to tell us what the future of this may mean to us with schools closing, businesses affected more…



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