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Virtual PA service launches for Wirral

A top PA has launched a recession-busting franchise aimed at busy small business owners.

Nikki Hartley says her Pink Spaghetti franchise – which covers Wirral, Ellesmere Port & Runcorn - offers a ‘pick up and put down’ personal assistant service.

With 10 years’ high level PA experience, she is available to hire by the hour, providing vital support to business owners of all kinds who don’t want to commit to a full time assistant.

Working from her home office in West Kirby, Nikki helps small businesses to grow by taking over their time-consuming tasks. These include research, organisation, accounts and social media.

She said: “Basically, I do everything a PA would. I’m always there at the end of the phone but my clients only pay for me when they need me.

“I believe I offer the most cost-effective solution to small businesses and entrepreneurs who are struggling to manage their workload. As a working mum, I’m well used to handling many competing tasks and I’m pretty much unflappable.”

Pink Spaghetti also provides clients with help at home, from finding a cleaner, to organising children’s parties and selling unwanted items on EBay.

Mum-of-five Nikki, whose children are 22, 15, 12, 5 and 2, is well-placed to provide help, having worked as a PA to senior managers and clinicians at Arrowe Park Hospital. Prior to that, she spent time as a medical secretary and personal assistant to the medical director at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

Vicky Matthews from Pink Spaghetti head office said: “Lots of Pink Spaghetti clients are mums, who are constantly juggling the competing demands of work and children.

“We’ve discovered that women find it harder to accept help with domestic tasks than business-related ones. So our typical mumpreneur initially hires us for a business need and then ends up asking us to assist at home too. Which we don’t mind at all”.

Pink Spaghetti charges a standard rate of £25-an-hour for business or domestic services.

www.pink-spaghetti.co.uk

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