As some of you will have read earlier in the week, we were delighted that Stacey Renphrey, who features on the Occasional Assistants' website, won the coveted Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday Award this week.

Stacey Renphrey, the real life ‘Monica’ of Horsham, and founder of Stacey’s Admin Solutions www.staceysadminsolutions.co.uk, achieved her long term ambition on Sunday night. She won a sought-after Twitter re-tweet from Dragon Den’s star Theo Paphitis.

It confirms Stacey’s saying ‘never under estimate the power of Twitter’, and she is now part of the exclusive Small Business Sunday (SBS) group. 

The SBS event is run by Theo Paphitis on Twitter every Sunday evening.  Small businesses must tweet him with details of their business including the #SBS tag. He gets hundreds of tweets each week during the window of 5.00-7.30pm, and he then chooses his top 6 for the day.

At around 9.10pm Stacey had her dream realised when the dragon hit the re-tweet key with her tweet “@theopaphitis#sbs
Been busy supporting growing businesses all week, it will make my Sunday if I get a
#RT from you! http://www.staceysadminsolutions.co.uk
 
Stacey says of her win “To be part of the SBS group is an amazing feeling and I am still in shock that I won! I had been tweeting Theo since around Christmas in the hope that one day I would win, but when it happened it felt surreal! I, like so many others, were especially keen for this week to be my week, as it was the last chance for a win before the inaugural SBS winner’s event this Friday. I feel like Charlie from Charlie & the Chocolate factory and I have won that‘golden’ ticket! The acknowledgement of the service I provide from such a well-respected and astute business man is really the icing on the cake and has given me so much drive to move my business forward”.

Stacey with that much sought after ‘golden ticket’ is now going to be joining all the other SBS winners of the past year at
its inaugural event this Friday 30th March at the Edgbaston Stadium, Warwickshire.  Theo Paphitis will be giving a short talk and then open up for a ‘questions and answer’ session for the winners to learn from each other and help the dragon progress the SBS movement.

Stacey’s Admin Solutions was started in June 2011 and provides essential support to both old and new businesses around the country. The tag line ‘admin in a mess, call in the SAS’ has been a huge success; however, Stacey provides much more than just admin support. SAS help their clients with all aspects of moving their business to the next level and she especially enjoys the social media side of her work.  

Stacey has also joined forces and is now co-working alongside a well-respected member of the VA community, Helen Eade of  www.like-clockwork.co.uk and is supporting her in her Property Portfolio Management work which she finds incredibly interesting and rewarding.

To access Stacey's profile page and direct contact details on Occasional Assistants, please click here.



 
 
After a much needed weekend of relaxation for those at OA Towers, in celebration of the forthcoming nuptials of one of our own, we are back and we're bigger than ever.
Today our services have been expertly bolstered by the inclusion of Katherine Watts.
Katherine is an experienced PA who has managed the day to day administration needs of a portfolio of up to 100 companies.
She offers a full range of business support services including annual filings, minutes / written resolutions and share registers.
T find out more about Katherine please click here - http://www.occasionalassistants.co.uk/katherine-watts---pa--administration.html

 
 
As some of you may have seen on our homepage, we made the shortlist for the award we were nominated for! Yippee. Unfortunately, the results are now in and we didn’t win. Boo!
But we are so pleased to have even made the shortlist after setting up just four months ago and it has given us the drive and confidence to go on to achieve bigger and better things in the coming months. If we can make a shortlist this quickly, just imagine what we can manage after a year or two of operating. We’re planning world domination for all freelance workers! Why not join us....