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planning, being prepared, emergency kit, virtual assistant
In the News
Amanda

Quadriga’s lost millions and what it teaches us on planning and being prepared

What’s the Girl Guide motto – “be prepared”?  Typically, when writing about passwords, email etcetera we are cautioning you to be top secret and careful.  The flip side to secrecy as a business owner is being prepared.  Do you have a plan in place for your business in case you are suddenly out of commission?  Are you the only one with access to items required for your operations to continue? 

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February 6, 2019
tax preparation, bookkeeping, financial services
Tax Preparation
Amanda

It’s Tax Time – Are You Celebrating?

“It’s Tax Time” nobody ever cheered excitedly – well except maybe tax-preparers and accountants. Most people find taxes complicated, overwhelming and sometimes downright punitive! So let’s talk about how to prepare for and even get excited about tax time! Prepare for Preparing for tax time doesn’t start in February when you start adding your receipts into a spreadsheet.  It starts at the beginning of last year after you’ve talked to

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February 2, 2019
Coins in plant jars
Exploring the full potential
Amanda

Keeping your business a-FLOAT!

Float is a tool that allows you to see your forecasted cash flow within your business. This online cash management tool smoothly integrates with 3 different accounting software’s; Xero, QuickBooks Online and FreeAgent. ‘But I already have a spreadsheet that I see my cashflow on’ I hear you say – this is where Float will completely change your cash flow data experience. The significant difference of using Float, compared to

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October 18, 2018
Holiday Campaign
Marketing
Amanda

Designing Your Holiday Appreciation Campaign

Although Fall has just barely arrived, it’s time to start designing your holiday customer appreciation campaign. I know we’re sick of those x days until Christmas memes too. HOWEVER, there are times when it is important to think early about the holiday season. Whether you want to recognize or thank your customers for their business by sending a holiday card or email, purchasing a gift, or organizing a cocktail party,

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October 17, 2018
Social Media Tactics
Marketing
Amanda

TARGET MARKETING USING SOCIAL MEDIA

I’ve recently joined the It’s Your Time team as an Administrative Coordinator after about 15 years of supporting financial advisors and portfolio managers with their books of business in several of the top investment firms in Vancouver. Target marketing using social media is not often used for marketing as finding clients in the financial industry is still very much a face-to-face process. Therefore, I had not had much exposure to

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September 26, 2018
Our Community
Amanda

Help Us Keep Vancouver’s Shoreline Clean!

Nothing feels better than getting together with people you enjoy and doing something great.  Last year It’s Your Time co-hosted a Shoreline Cleanup with our colleagues at Fresh Start Recycling and Disposal and Reeve Consulting.  Our goal was to clean English Bay beach, deepen our relationships with each other and make some new friends. Each box got ticked!  This year we plan to keep Vancouver’s shoreline clean once again. This

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September 20, 2018
Delegating
Amanda

5 Steps to Successful Delegation

 Stop trying to know everything.  Our computer’s not working, we don’t try to fix it we call the experts .  We need headshots, I don’t take a photography class, I call in a headshot photographer .  You don’t need to figure out the details of how it’s done when it’s time to delegate.  You just need to identify what you want to delegate and how you want to work. Make a high value list. 

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August 30, 2018
Delegating
Amanda

5 Steps to Determining WHAT to Delegate

Delegating is hard!!!  For those of us that have bootstrapped our business we’ve become accustomed to doing it all and trying to figure out what and how to delegate seems like more work than it’s worth.  So for the uber competent, slightly control freakish owner we’ve created our 5 Steps to determining WHAT to delegate. Find a quiet spot.  Thinking effectively takes space: both physical and mental.  Clear some time

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August 9, 2018
Our Community
Amanda

Help Us Keep Vancouver’s Shoreline Clean!

Nothing feels better than getting together with people you enjoy and doing something great.  Last year It’s Your Time co-hosted a Shoreline Cleanup with our colleagues at Fresh Start Recycling and Disposal and Reeve Consulting.  Our goal was to clean English Bay beach, deepen our relationships with each other and make some new friends. Each box got ticked!  This year we plan to keep Vancouver’s shoreline clean once again. This

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July 18, 2018