CREATIVE DESIGN
WordPress web design and website maintenance. Experience setting up your website to function with eCommerce platforms such as woocommerce; creating login paywalls that will allow you to earn passive income through membership site functionality; turning your site into a fun interactive space via gamification; installing and creating online quizzes and other popups to optimise your contact capture rate; adding features such as recipe archives to create extra content channels for your site; and setting-up and maintaining third party integrations such as white label drop shipping services. Examples can be viewed here (membership site) and here (white label drop shipping).
Book/brochure layout and design Adobe Indesign, with pdf weekly updates for you to provide feedback on the design progress. Includes experience meeting printing requirements and submitting your final book to self publishing firms, obtaining ISBN numbers, registering your title with legal deposit libraries and getting your title listed on online book seller sites such as Waterstones, Thriftbooks and Amazon Marketplace.
Photograph editing and image manipulation in Adobe Photoshop, including colour enhancement and changing resolution/colour profile ready for printing; removing backgrounds for transparent PNG images; creating Podcast covers that meet submission specifications; overlaying multiple images and text for social media posts; and using a multitude of special effect manipulations for whatever your final image aspirations are.
Video editing and movie creation in Adobe Premier Pro and iMovies, including trailers and full length features with titles/subtitles; image overlays, transitions and animations; audio engineering and soundtrack manipulations; final rendering of HD movie into file type and resolution of choice; and uploading/managing your file library in your file repository of choice (for example YouTube).
Video manipulations and logo animations in Adobe After Effects. Video and still integration with audio overlays; text/title effects including tracking zoom, particle disintegrations, dust scatter, metallic shine, light sweep and lens flare; and full rendering/integration of final animation into your main movie file as intro/outro. An example can be viewed here
Podcast editing and general audio manipulations in Logic Pro. Audio engineering and equalisation; background noise reduction; jingle integration and looping; file and bitrate conversions; and special effect/sample overlays as your project dictates.
VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
Email list maintenance and management. Integration of your website contact forms with your mailing list provider (Mail Chimp preferred); maintenance of your mailing list to ensure highest lead quality and engagement; monthly ‘spring cleaning’ to remove unengaged contacts; tag and group management; removal of spam contacts; funnel and other email automations built to your specifications; and regular scheduling of emails as required.
Podcast management and channel maintenance. Podcast editing and engineering as described above; uploading and scheduling of your episodes to your Podcasts service provider (LibSyn preferred); creation of animated soundbites for your social media posts; show note creation; transcript creation (either direct or edited); creation and maintenance of your Podcasts webpage; editing and maintenance of your Podcast channel content as necessary,
YouTube channel management and maintenance. Creation of your YouTube channel and optimisation for search engines; uploading videos to your channel with desired tags and descriptions; adding closed captions via the YouTube AI system; general maintenance including removing unwanted content and changing viewing status.
Social media management and maintenace. Day to day management of your social media channels including Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook; posting of daily posts, and specified time frames interacting with other users; scheduling of posts through third party integrations such as Tailwind; and the promotion of posts and creation of targeted Facebook Ads.
Microsoft Office administration work. Experience using Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Endnote etc since their initial creation back in the 1980’s; includes experience using Mac generics such as Pages and online generics such as Canva; review of manuscripts/proposals and pitches; general office administration duties as you desire. You name it!
Contact here for a quote. Billing will be decided after we discuss your project but can either be arranged on an hourly basis (best for ongoing VA work) or as a one-off payment for a specified project (best for stand alone project work such as trailer creation). Hourly rates vary depending on the service category required, and is paid weekly upfront. For one-off payments 50% is payable upfront, with the remaining 50% due within seven days of project delivery.