Yasmin McGlashan
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Virtual Assistant Weston-super-Mare
My name is Yasmin McGlashan and I run Pink Spaghetti PA Services Weston-super-Mare. I live in Weston-super-Mare and provide virtual assistant services to businesses across North Somerset, including Portishead, Clevedon and Bridgwater.
I am an expert in business efficiency and aim to provide business owners with support, clarity, and of course extra hours in the day. I love seeing the difference I can make; helping business owners with vital – but routine – tasks means that they are suddenly free to spend their time doing the things that they really want to do in their business: spending time with their clients, growing their business, or simply having more hours in their day.
A virtual assistant can help with any of those important, behind-the-scenes tasks that busy business owners don’t have the time, inclination or expertise to do themselves. Anything from general admin and data entry, to social media content writing, posting and monitoring, to marketing assistance. We’ve even helped our clients with tasks like recruitment and rebranding.
No matter the task, we can help.
Why Me
With 15 years’ experience in the scientific publishing industry, I brought to my business a range of skills, from managing budgets and project planning, to chairing and minuting meetings and responding to issues as they arise.
I have an analytical mind and I enjoy working with people to find solutions to problems as well as finding better or more efficient ways of working. Working to deadlines and prioritising work to effectively get things done is a particular strength.
I have a good eye for detail and pride myself in producing work to a high standard, even when under pressure, and enjoy working with customers in accordance with their business ethos.
I am flexible, adaptable, calm, reliable and organised – all the qualities a VA needs!
My Team
I have a fantastic team behind me, who help me to deliver high-quality business support throughout Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset and the surrounding area. The whole team works extremely hard and genuinely cares about our clients. We are always more than happy to have a no-obligation chat to find out if our team is a good fit for your business and its needs.
Alexis
Having spent 20 years in Sales and Administration, Alexis brings a wealth of invaluable, multi-industry experience to Pink Spaghetti, and is a key part of our team, providing essential back office administrative support to both clients and in-house services.
Alexis sets herself extremely high standards which is reflected in all her projects. Her talent for adapting her working method to suit individual client needs means tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
Alexis is currently studying for her AAT qualification to expand her bookkeeping and financial accounting skills.
Katie
Katie is a Journalism graduate and loves to write! Whether you need a quick social media post, a newsletter or something more in depth – Katie is the one in our team to handle it.
Adaptable and organised, Katie is always keen to work out how to best fit her skills to your business to ensure that your marketing is completely tailored to the tone and message you want to be sending to your customers.
Having spent 8 years running a successful business, Katie understands how important marketing is to a small business and uniquely understands the pressures that a small business owner feels.
Maria
Maria has 20+ years of experience within Business and Administration covering; marketing, finance, human resources, social media, management and day to day administration tasks.
Her high attention to detail and broad range of knowledge enables her to support our customers in an array of varied administrative tasks, whilst adapting to the tailored needs of our customers.
Having spent 5 years running a successful business, Maria is not only passionate about small businesses but she understands how valuable your time is and how vital it is that you have someone working with you that you can rely on and trust to relieve the pressure that business owners can feel.
Cherry
Cherry joined us after 11 years working in the Public Relations industry. She has worked closely with small businesses and individuals and understands how to help them put themselves out there. Her skills span across newsletter creation, web content writing, blog and feature writing, social media management and media liaison for a variety of clients. Prior to working in PR, she studied Magazine Journalism and previously ran her own beauty blog and music review website. You can call on Cherry to help with your social media news, blog content, newsletters and more.
Scarlett
Scarlett is a creativity whizz who is bringing her amazing visual imagination and video editing to the team. Being in a band within the Bristol music scene for 12 years has left her with social media skills and boundless knowledge around graphics, stories and trends. Scarlett has created, filmed and edited music videos before joining us, so if you need a reel created, YouTube video edited or some help bringing your ideas to life she has it sorted. With experience in writing posts, articles and marketing plans you can count on Scarlett to cover all aspects of your marketing needs.
Why a virtual assistant?
Simply put, Virtual Assistants are self-employed experts. We are already trained in the tasks that you need doing but without the need for all those expenses a staff member can bring such as holiday pay or pensions, along with HR and payroll costs.
We work with a wide variety of business owners. From people who find their business has grown so fast they simply cannot manage the new volume of work to those that started their business to be a therapist, engineer or coach and don’t enjoy the administration, bookkeeping or social media that is part and parcel of running a successful business.
Our current client range includes nutritionists, hair salons, care companies and business coaches. We can work with any type of business, to provide just about any type of support.
We offer either a "pick up, put down" hourly rate, or retainer agreements from as little as 4 hours a month for something more long term and secure - whichever suits your business. We pride ourselves in open and honest pricing, so you will never get a surprise bill, and we can work to your budget.
Why Pink Spaghetti?
Pink Spaghetti is a franchise and each franchisee is a business owner, so we understand the challenges – and frustrations – of being a small business owner.
There is power in numbers. Having network made up of over 50 people from diverse professional backgrounds, bringing a wide range of skills and areas of expertise means that between us, there is almost nothing we can’t do! If you want to know if we can do a particular task for you, then the answer is probably ‘yes’ – and if I can’t do it myself, there is almost certainly someone in the network who can.
And you will never need to worry about me being off sick, on holiday, or overwhelmed by the size of a project because the network backs up both you and me. You can relax, safe in the knowledge that the work will still get done on time and to the same high standard as if I were doing it myself.
A range of Virtual PA Services
No two clients ever have exactly the same requirements, so we are used to carrying out a huge range of tasks. This can include traditional personal assistant tasks such as diary management, minute-taking, small business administration and organisation. Some clients need help with their marketing and social media activities – including social media management, social media training, branding, and sending out email newsletters. Or it could be any of those other jobs on your list that you just haven’t got round to doing – anything from data entry to researching your competitors to building a new website.
We specialise in improving the efficiency of your business, and particularly enjoy working with clients to advise on and implement systems, processes and tech that best suit the client and their business.
Case Studies Here is how some of our customers use us.
Hairdresser
We began working with this Weston-super-Mare based client during the first lockdown and have provided a range of admin and marketing services since then. This has included refreshing their Facebook and Google My Business pages, and creating an Instagram account for the business. We have designed a range of marketing material for them and have even created a brand new website for the client. More recently, we have got involved with more behind the scenes admin, including getting them set up on Xero (accounting software).
Home care company
This home care company covers North Somerset and was looking for admin support. The Pink Spaghetti team has been working with this client for over three years now, and we have supported them with a huge range of tasks. From data entry, updating the client’s own system, and providing admin support for invoicing and payroll, to writing blogs, website wording, press releases and award nominations. We love working with this client and always enjoy the variety of tasks!
PR & communications company
We have become a valuable part of this client’s team – providing a range of admin services such as ordering items for team members, handling the booking of meeting rooms for staff training sessions, filling in monthly timesheets and management accounts and tech services such as setting up computers and other necessary technology for new staff members.
Business Networking Leader
We create social media posts and graphics for this client, and post them to various platforms. We pride ourselves on our bespoke and flexible approach, and this means we have been able to work closely with the client and create some very individual posts to suit their needs. In addition to this, we have held a Business Efficiency Consultation with this client, who was delighted that we managed to save them a lot of time in their day, just by making small tweaks to how they worked.
What our Customers Say
“Yasmin is full of ideas and very professional. Yasmin has helped me so much with all the behind the scenes stuff with my salon. I just can’t praise her enough for all the continued support. Highly recommended and glad Yasmin is working to help with my business.”
Karl Bright, Bright Hair, Weston-super-Mare
“Yasmin has been supporting us for over a year now, taking on all sorts of little admin jobs that have freed up my time. She's incredibly efficient and detail-oriented, and I know that if I've asked her to do something, it's done. I don't need to waste my time checking or micromanaging.”
Ros Conkie - Ros Conkie’s Marketing Academy
“I am so impressed with the professionalism, attention to detail, their ability to really understand and take time to understand my business, tone of voice, and come up with lots of great ideas of their own too.
The system for checking and approving all the posts each month, is so simple and easy to use, it's saving me a lot of time, and yet I am still in control of what gets published.”
Philippa Constable - We Mean Biz/Women Mean Biz
“What an amazing service Yasmin offers. I am delighted to be at the stage in my business where there is too much work just for me! Yasmin is my trusted 2nd pair of hands. She is thorough, timely and trustworthy.
If you ask Yasmin to do something you can be assured that it will be done and to a high standard. If you need that 25th hour in your day - Yasmin is the VA to choose”
Jeni Crane, Yum Nutrition
“Yasmin and her team are very responsive, very detailed and accurate. They always work with the absolute best interests of our business at heart.”
Grant
Areas Served By Our Weston-super-Mare Office
Based in Weston-super-Mare, this office serves areas across Somerset including:
Portishead | Clevedon | Nailsea | Backwell | Burnham-on-Sea | Highbridge | Glastonbury | Wells | Cheddar
Key tasks...
Administration
Artwork creation
Business Branding
Business Development
Canva Experts
CRM management
Customer Service Support
Data entry
Diary management
Email management
Email Marketing
Financial Administration
Marketing
Minute Taking
Newsletter creation
Organisation
Outbound calls
Personal Assistant
Project Management
Reminding
Research
Retainer Agreements
Seasonal updates
Small Business Administration
Social Media Management
Spreadsheets
System research
Template creation
Virtual Assistant Services
Website management
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