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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

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Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media. According to the report carried out by Runway East, 68% of people eagerly go into the workspace to socialize with others, and 44% use the space for collaboration.

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Time Spent on Social Networks Exploding; Email and IM Fading

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively." " But despite the declines, the death of email is greatly exaggerated.  of our online time on email and it's the most popular mobile phone application. 

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How to survive customer service blunders in the world of social media

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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. photo by: MingleMediaTVNetwork.

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Do Small Businesses Still Need a Website?

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « An Economic Ode to the Great Plains | Main | Is Facebook Replacing Traditional Websites?   The dramatic growth in social media use - especially Facebook - is resulting in more small businesses choosing to use social media sites as their primary, and in some cases only, web presence.

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Is Facebook Replacing Traditional Websites?

Small Business Labs

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Do Small Businesses Still Need a Website? generated more traffic and emails than usual.   The Main | Is Sams Club the Answer to the Small Business Credit Crunch? » July 13, 2010 Is Facebook Replacing Traditional Websites? Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Embrace Change for Career Success!

All Things Admin

When I launched my business in 2005, my goal was to provide virtual assistance services. If I had resisted the changes that were happening in the economy, ignored the trends in social media marketing, and tried to stay exactly where I was in providing virtual assistance, I would not be as happy and fulfilled in my work as I am today.

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Can personal customer service survive in a digital world?

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The fast paced world of Twitter, Facebook, and Yelp combined with the technological advances of smart phones, interactive websites, and emails enable millions of users to make better informed decisions than ever before possible. After all, a 24 hour turn-around period to answer an email is considered standard. The conversion.