Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Theres even a better site that helps you find the best deals on these and other airlines, hotels and car rental agencies. I originally wrote a post on this entitled " Travel Plans " explaining that you can use Travelocity and Expedia to find the best deals. Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 08, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Rewriting bank regulations will hurt small businesses : In the typical fashion, Congress is now attempting to solve a “crisis&# by creating a new government agency with an unlimited budget and almost unlimited regulatory powers. Private Lender :Where can entrepreneurs go when the bank says, “No&# ? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

Obama also formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities to bring together federal agencies to help communities nationwide improve access to affordable housing and increase low cost transportation options while protecting the environment. or breakfast cereal.

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 7, 2010

McLellan, who heads McLellan Marketing Group, a Des Moines, Iowa advertising agency, has been writing DrewsMarketingMinute.com for several years. This year’s proceeds will be donated to an international children’s charity of our authors’ choosing. McLellan and Heaton have used their blogs to promote each book’s crop of contributors.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 7, 2007

So instead of digging through file folders and your “sent&# email, here are five suggestions for setting up quick and dirty business processes and organizing your information for easy access:… &# Being organized from day one will save you a lot of time and help you to stay focused on your business – not your office.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Proposed City Cut in Small Business Aid Stirs Backlash : Agencies that help small businesses say they need more assistance, not less, in hard times. As Jeff Glor reports, many small businesses aren’t offering paid sick days, so they must keep germs to a minimum. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Majority of SMEs have bad credit rating : Nearly two-thirds of small businesses have a bad credit score, says credit referencing agency Graydon UK. As always this list is not exhaustive, but I hope it will give you a little overview. — ST. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

For example, we need dating agencies and web-sites to find partners, because we are too busy to find a partner in what used to be a “normal way&# , and in this sense we have to be thankful for the service dating agencies and web-sites provide. These issues are prevalent in the group of small business owners too.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2007

You can always speak with some other small business owners or get some market segment data from information agencies, maybe they can give you a better idea of where you should be with numbers, comparing yourself to your peers is always a good idea. I like the question, it makes for some interesting planning exercises for bootstrappers.

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Make or Break Moments

MARCH 21, 2010

Or…if you’re a consultant or agency, how do you introduce social media to the C-level at your client’s business? Corporate Conversations There is plenty of coverage of social media when the focus is on marketing or advertising. But what is happening in other parts of your business? Measurement Can you measure social media?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Stefan Keith Dryla Said on January 22nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm I totally agree with you about the passion. Nice to meet you Keith Web Design Quotes Said on September 13th, 2008 at 8:25 am So so true, passion is the only thing that will keep you going when everything and everyone tells you that you should give and take a job.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » The Week Ender: 2008 And The Party Is Over Or Is It? Said on January 4th, 2008 at 7:32 am [.] Stefan Töpfer Said on May 31st, 2008 at 8:39 am Hi Judy, Thank you for your comment.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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Service Untitled

JULY 20, 2012

The City of Philadelphia initiated their 3-1-1 Contact Center in 2008 with the promise of becoming a national leader in customer service. photo by: Highways Agency. By 2012, city records show the service has handled 4.5 million contacts. How does your city compare?

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 23, 2010

  Key quote from the article: "Under the Obama administration and the 2008 farm bill passed by Congress, the USDA is shifting attention to small and mid-size farms, encouraging organic and sustainable agriculture, and investing in projects to bring locally grown meat and produce to consumers.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

You begin to embrace your personal agency, and that confidence ripples out through every area of your life. It started to slowly regain popularity around the time of the 2008 recession and is now commonly used for personal finances. Agency : When you use zero-based budgeting, you’re steering the ship. Not anymore.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2010

  It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one). 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 23, 2010

Agencies such as World Vision are on the ground now helping where they can. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? These children, who are under five years old, were fending for themselves on the street because the orphanage collapsed. But for the charity of an old woman who came to feed them, they had no one.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference. Protocol for addressing Canadian and foreign digni. That's not my job! Welcome to Canada, Mr. President. Just a secretary. Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

For example, addressing the Minister of (insert govt agency here) is it Honourable so and so or Mr. or Ms. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? Can you make a post about addressing government official in Canada? I was faced with this task last week, and while I think I did it correctly, a little guidance wouldnt hurt.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. The shortest route to fill that gap is to look for temp work thru agencies or TaskRabbit, Craiglist, or volunteer. You want to gain as much relevant experience as you can.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

He has been an analyst for the United States Information Agency, knowledge manager for British Petroleum, eBusiness Strategy Manager for Belgacom, as well as an internet entrepreneur in his home country of Belgium. Michel currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

The hard part of it all is convincing a client to work with a freelancer instead of an agency. His blog hasn’t been updated since 2008. As said above, you need to find that balance with spending time on marketing, blogging etc and doing and getting paid work. Reply Lisa Zahran ( @copy_and_coffee ) April 3, 2010 at 8:26 pm Hi!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In her mid-20s, Taja Dockendorf founded Pulp+Wire, a full-service consumer packaging, branding and marketing agency. Pulp+Wire is a 100 percent female-founded and -owned agency that Dockendorf has grown year after year. Taja Dockendorf. Founder, investor, creator. Paul Epstein. Sports executive, sales leader, speaker.

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