This is a tricky question to answer because, honestly, the list of who could benefit from a Virtual Assistant is endless.

Some Virtual Assistants choose to niche down to a specific industry—maybe only working with real estate agents, coaches, or creatives. This can be a smart move because it helps you specialize and market yourself more clearly. But there’s also a huge benefit to staying broad, like our team does: we get to support a wide variety of businesses, which keeps our work exciting and flexible. Both approaches work—you just have to decide what makes sense for you.

Just because you’re the boss doesn’t mean you have to be burnt out and boring. In fact, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur is that joy isn’t optional—it’s fuel. Without it, the business grind feels heavy. With it, you remember why you started in the first place.

Here are three simple ways I keep the joy alive in my own business life (and you can too):

If you’re new to Bliss Lane, we have two main focuses in our business: Virtual Assistance (VA) and Social Media Management (and on the down low, a new offering soon!) Today, we are diving into content creation, a service that’s becoming increasingly essential for businesses of all sizes.

Content creation has become a buzzword, often associated with influencers who make a full-time income by doing try-on hauls, vlogs, or sharing activities in their local town. However, content creation isn't just for influencers—it’s a powerful tool for businesses too.

The Inside Scoop Club is the place I wanted for myself, and now it’s here for you, too.

It’s not just for business owners. It’s not just for parents. It’s for people who want a safe little corner of the internet where you can laugh, vent, share wins, ask questions, and walk away feeling a little lighter than when you logged in.

If you are finding yourself feeling overwhelmed with the photos on your phone, this blog post is for you! Maybe cleaning out photos is too hard for your brain to manage, or you aren’t sure where to start.

This easy iPhone photo organizing trick is going to change your life!

It’s quick, it’s easy to manage, and it’s great to form a habit and do this once a day - it takes less than 5 minutes!

The BIGGEST thing you need to realize with albums on your Iphone is that when you add a photo to an album, it is not creating a copy of that photo. Your photo does not exist two times on your phone. It exists in your photo library, and it’s just organized in the album.

If you delete an album, or remove a photo from an album, it does NOT delete that photo. That photo still remains in your collection.

One of the reasons people hire virtual assistants is for content! Which often means for social media, but don’t sleep on the blog posts! They are beneficial in so many ways!

Having blog posts on your website improves SEO, brings traffic to your website, builds trust and relationships, and can convert your website traffic into clients!

The problem is, blog posts often take TIME — which is something we’re all searching for all the time. I have an easy way to make blog writing really simple for you and your business!

Sometimes coming up with content for social media is a full-time job in itself. You wake up and are immediately worried about what you’re posting that day because you know you need to show up on social media, but how?!

If you need an actual content plan and strategy, we’ve got you covered for that. But if you are looking for some easy post ideas, we gotchu! Keep reading to check some out.

Let us know if you use any of these or have any more to add!

You started a business! Yay you! That in itself is not an easy task, and it’s SO much work!

Maybe you just started or maybe you’ve been doing this for a decade. Either way, I have a tip that is going to help you so much in the long run. Eventually you’re going to grow.

Maybe you’ll grow to have employees or just add more clients, services, products, etc. (whatever it is that your business does!) but the goal is likely to grow this business into something bigger - somehow.

This tip I’m about to share with you is NO extra work on your part, but it will make your life incredibly easier later on as you grow.

The beauty of becoming a Virtual Assistant, is that you really don’t need any prior experience. You need a phone or a computer, some basic knowledge of technology, and…you need to be good at working with people.

When I started, I bought a course. There are a thousand of them, just google Virtual Assistant courses and you’ll be brought to dozens of websites claiming to be the best. I paid big bucks for one because I thought I needed it. Every evening after I put my new one year old to bed, I sat in our spare bedroom going through the modules and daydreaming about having that room be my home office someday.

You may have heard of a Content Manager before, but the definition of it has changed a little bit as social media has evolved even more.

When we’re talking about a Content Manager, we’re talking about someone who owns your content and always knows where it’s going, what it needs, and how to change it for the different platforms you’re showing up on.

This guest post today comes from Jane Weddle, a results based coach in Lincoln Nebraska. Jane helps others come up with a game plan for their business, and today she gets to talk about strategy!

2023 is coming whether we are ready or not. This is a great opportunity whether you are a solopreneur or small business owner to up your game with a strategic plan for yourself, your business, or both! Like my client with whom I share their story in this blog, you have a choice--do you want to survive or thrive?

My Instagram DMs blow up daily with one very specific question, “How do Virtual Assistants get clients?!”

Million dollar question, right?!

There are so many ways you can go about finding clients, tons of things you can google, or groups you can join that will tell you all the things. But sometimes you feel like nothing at all is working in getting you any clients!

I don’t have any answers that will magically make you $10K a month. But I do have some tips and tricks that have worked for me.

Today I have Jill from Jill Jacobs Bookkeeping talking about all the things. Jill has a way of making bookkeeping actually fun and interesting, and she really does know it ALL! Her phone is constantly blowing up with my questions and problems. I don’t even want to know how many times I text her with, “Something is wrong with my Quickbooks! Can you look at it?!” with a million crying face emojis. Jill is THE BEST and pretty much every single business in the Lincoln Nebraska area will agree.

So you want to take better photos?

Start here!

To get started with taking better photos, there really isn't anything special you need! Just a phone and a subject - whether it's your adorable kiddos, yourself, products, your home, or a beautiful landscape. Just get started!

Imposter Syndrome…that pesky little thing! All the feelings of self-doubt, not being good enough, or feeling unqualified.

How many of you have felt this? I’m assuming every single one of your raised your hand. Research From Life Goals Magazine has found that it may be present in up to 82% of the population - across all gender, ethnic, and age groups.

Outsourcing…a term a lot of people don’t truly understand but a lot of you actually use!

Does someone mow your lawn? Do you use a meal delivery service? Are you a lover of Target drive-up? Hire an accountant for your taxes each year? All of these are forms of outsourcing! It includes a lot more than you think it does! Basically anything you pay someone else to do!

I have a unique business name that doesn’t share a lot about what it is that we actually do, so I get questioned a lot on “How did you get your business name?”⁠

⁠Well, let me tell you a little story!⁠

I’ve been a photographer since high school where I was ‘Be the Change Photography’ - cringgggee! Then in college when I shifted gears to make this more my part time job, I became Bliss Photo. Bliss came to be because it is just a word that I’ve always been drawn to….perfect happiness, oblivious of other things around you, a sigh of bliss.⁠

You open Instagram and start scrolling through, stopping and interacting with the posts of the people you follow. Or you immediately click stories on the top and watch through those for what seems like hours of your life you just lost.

Which one are you?

Stop reading now and comment to answer! Over the years, a lot of people watch more stories than they do Instagram feed posts! Here are 4 reasons why you should use instagram stories - every single day!

A Call to Action, or CTA, is an invitation for people to engage somehow. Sometimes people need to be told exactly what to do. In social media, telling your audience what to do can drive traffic to your page, offer, blog, product, etc. Using CTAs to your advantage can help with whatever you are wanting.

Just using a CTA in your social media posts can increase engagement tremendously!⁠ Using a call to action on all your posts is greatly encouraged!