On The Job

JANUARY 13, 2012

And even though he lived in Venice in 2004 to 2005, he says what he did is still possible today. Frangipane had been working for a software company where he is still employed five miles from his home in Florida. His productivity increased, and he kept in touch via email, phone and teleconferencing. Understand the language.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2014

In a spacious executive car your manager can work from their laptops in comfort, they can take private phone calls and they catch up on their reading. Total Chauffeur Service is based in London and has been operating since 2005. The company is reliable and all of the cars are incredibly comfortable. Space to work.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business | Main | Are VCs Colluding? It is about a UC Berkeley student who started a custom T-Shirt printing company in high school and continues to run it at college.    Lei's total investment in ooShirts was $2,200. 

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Service Untitled

OCTOBER 15, 2013

.” Dell’s social media 10,000 employees are tuned into more than 25,000 conversations about Dell every day claiming the more information gathered, the better the company will be able to deliver the precise products and services customers want. photo by: Ed Yourdon. Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

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Small Business Labs

JULY 21, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Privacy and Transparency in the Internet Age | Main | Venture Capital at Mid-Life » July 21, 2010 Dymos CardScan iPhone App Illustrates Several Key Trends We rarely do product reviews at Smallbizlabs. 

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Service Untitled

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

No doubt we have all been victims of bad customer service, and no doubt we have left companies and moved on to their competition because the experience, at least in our own eyes for the moment, had been intolerable. The real payoff happens when we get to the front of the line or the representative answers the phone.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 19, 2013

As a supermarket, the company didn’t do much better; scoring a 72 out of 100 rating and similarly low scores since 2005. The company needs employee pride, a well-tuned culture, and a mentoring program where associates can learn how to deal with customer complaints. The problem with Walmart is multifaceted.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Way back in the social networking Dark Ages, OK - October 2005, I published a "A Virtual Community Development Model" with sports metaphors for each stage. Swarmteams enables groups to be more responsive and agile by fully integrating their mobile phones and the web with bioteam working techniques. But see what you think?

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 4, 2010

of our online time on email and it's the most popular mobile phone application.  Posted by: traffic school california | August 10, 2010 at 01:45 AM Companies realize that time on social sites is increasing. " But despite the declines, the death of email is greatly exaggerated.    We still spend 8.3%

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 27, 2012

The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Quick fix: Pretty obvious here: Use your organization's internal phone book’s Employee Search tool to verify names and ensure that you have the right person in mind. Pamela has been a Sr.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 11, 2010

Archives November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 More.   The main driver for this shift is price.    Key quote from the article: "The biggest reason why customers will cut the cord, according to the study, is the growing cost of pay-TV service.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

Your company may have a policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business email. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number.

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Service Untitled

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I heard the term “social vampire” in 2005 when it referred to a person who more or less attached them self to someone and piled on attention until they felt that the person they were endowing with excessive flattery liked them in return.

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Success

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This was the spring of 2005. In the summer I can sit on my front porch and listen to the chirp of blackbirds and the song of sparrows, and in the winter, when the leaves have fallen, I can see the top of the 48-story Duke Energy Building, home of the nation’s largest electric holding company. Who would ever be wrong?

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Small Business Labs

JULY 13, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Do Small Businesses Still Need a Website? Small businesses with the primary function of getting customers on the phone or in the door will transition to exclusive social media presence foregoing their traditional website.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 14, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Smartphone Sales to Over Take Feature Phone Sales in 2011 | Main | Business Week, The Economist on the Trickle Down Recovery » May 14, 2010 An Overview of the Non-Profit Sector No great surprise, but the vast majority of non-profit organizations in the U.S.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 1, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Wisconsin, Illinois Companies Feeling the Recovery | Main | The Trend Towards U.S. No one was interested in having lunch with them any longer - the phone was silent!   According to the article, debt payments are interfering with retirement savings for 63% of Americans.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Good News - The Unemployment Rate Went Up in August | Main | Wall Street Journal on the Two-Track Economy » September 07, 2010 Our iPad Review The iPad is a huge success.    Many of these are being used by small businesses.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? In the early days we lived off soup, (I now make great soup), so we could post out samples, turning back all money made into the company. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? Jason Holden Said on May 13th, 2006 at 11:42 am An update, some time ago, well March 2005 the ACCA called for the term accountant to be legally defined.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Here are a few I said yes to than I learned quickly the error of my ways: A European company bringing an adult porn telephone service to the U.S. I realized that although the company sounded like it would be successful and the people I talked with were great – I wasn’t so sure I wanted to align my company name with theirs.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 30, 2010

Because this is what you’re supposed to do if you’re running (even a very small) software company, right? Being A Productivity Junkie I had my share of GTD from its early days, back in 2005-2006. Why is this not just another product launch in the day to day routine of launching products? You’re releasing products.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Forex Robot : Take Your Company Public In Less Than 10 Days? With the acquisition of map data companies like Navteq and availability of maps in mobile phones has only fueled the interests further. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk

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BioTeams

JULY 6, 2005

T his article was originally published in 2005 by Ken Thompson and Robin Good. This can be done informally or using software which generates network maps from email or phone records. Organisational Hubs (who are very well connected to the company grapevine at a high level). Introduction.

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