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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize D o you often wonder how you can add your countrys holidays into your calendar in Microsoft Outlook ? In the Calendar Options section, click Add Holidays.

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I was supposed to be there for 60 days and ended up staying for two-and-a-half years,” Washington says. “It I grew up feeling very ugly and insecure,” she says. “I I learned to adopt a new definition of forgiveness, which is giving up the possibility of a better past,” she says. It was an amazing experience.”.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

By letting go of these five tasks that you SHOULD be delegating ensures that you can free up your time and focus on your clients and income generating activities: #1 Designing promotions. A VA can help you here by designing custom cards, calendars, flyers, postcards, brochures, or any other promotional item. #2 c) Copyright 2008.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Prepare now for when business picks up again Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Here’s a list of things to do now, if you are in a work slowdown, so that when things pick up again you’ll be ready!

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.

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JULY 24, 2022

He brings over 13 years of administrative experience to the table with expertise in strategic calendar management, internal/external relationship building and thought partnering with C-Suite executives and cross-functional teams. It’s free to start gifting and you get a $20 credit when you sign up.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 19, 2010

Want to set your blog up to be downloaded on Kindle? Hopefully this is one of them. per month subscription you can now receive the updates on your handheld reader. Visit, Kindle: Make or Break Moments to subscribe. Follow the simple instructions that can be found at Mashable (of course!).

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JANUARY 1, 2010

Last year I selected three words, which were Bite, Charge and Follow-Up. And I was successful! This year I am taking a more positive approach For several years Chris Brogan has started each year with a focus on three words. This year Chris has selected Eco-systems, Owners and Kings to focus on for 2010.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

and I decided it would be fun to have a meet up with other bloggers in the area. Mocha Joe’s Coffee Shop (formerly Arabica Coffee) has graciously hosted our meets up without a fee or fuss. It started a little over three years ago when Chris Brown of Marketing Resources and Results , Inc. The one constant? The location.

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MARCH 17, 2010

“I’m afraid to speak up&# “Management doesn’t listen to us&# “They don’t tell me what I need to know to do my job&# I love the irony of the first two – you are afraid to speak up, but if you conquer your fears and speak up it doesn’t matter because they aren’t listening anyway.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 9, 2008

Organizing someone else’s calendar can be challenging. In other words, you will probably not be able to speak to the person, but you have to communicate to them in some way that you have updated their calendar. It involves an understanding that you have to look ahead and see what is in the calendar.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 12, 2010

In the first episode an executive from Waste Management works on the front line, picking up trash, cleaning toilets and may even end up getting fired! They’re not dressed in a suite-they’re dressed like all the other workers.&#

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

He offers up: Amazingserviceguy By Kevin Stirz Business Is Personal By Mark Riffey Customers Rock! Regards, Kelly Add A Comment home top Site Information © 2010 Make or Break Moments Ministry Free Theme by eGrace Creative.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 27, 2010

This past week I asked the question – how do you say thank you without using the words and Patrick Hazlewood had an awesome answer: Although every interaction with the customer is part of the “sale&# or “sale process,&# including post-sale follow-ups or customer service responsiveness, not everything must be a sales pitch.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Be ruthless with your filing.

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JUNE 4, 2010

I set up a Wordpress.com blog and with the exception of the $9.95 A great way to make it easy to be found on the Internet is to have a landing page that people can visit that will showcase all of your web activity. The cost? It was almost free. at Name Cheap to buy my name, it just cost me the time it took to put it together.

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Make or Break Moments

MARCH 15, 2010

Just like the One Minute Manager and Who Moved My Cheese , the book is set up in a story format to share the great insights of the author. ’s new book Peaks and Valleys. ’s new book Peaks and Valleys. ’s new book Peaks and Valleys.

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MARCH 22, 2010

If I mess up and don’t deliver as promised – do I at least make sure the resolution is a good experience? If I bite off more than I can deliver – do I own up or hope they don’t notice? That quote comes from Randy Pausch and his book The Last Lecture. It makes me think of my customers.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 9, 2010

Big main frame machines that took up an entire room in a company, cost millions of dollars and required special cooling so they didn’t over heat. is celebrating their 35th year in business. is celebrating their 35th year in business. Maybe that doesn’t seem like a lot of years for some businesses but they are a computer company.

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Earlier today I posted a follow-up article on the situation – [link]. I’d be interested in your thoughts regarding the latest information. All the best, Dennis Add A Comment home top Site Information © 2010 Make or Break Moments Ministry Free Theme by eGrace Creative.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Or maybe your start-up story is ordinary, but how you came to focus on a particular product or service is unique. But this time I want to share the story of Johnnie Walker in their historical, yet extremely creative video called “The Walk&# which chronicles the history of one of the greatest adult beverages known to man.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 11, 2010

No, but it is all of those little details that add up when the customer thinks back on how the experience MADE THEM FEEL. Will customers remember the 20% discount we gave them or the fact that we were open in the evenings? Will they remember that we offered them coffee or used their name? “Did you like shopping at the XYZ Store?&#

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MARCH 9, 2010

They have created a company that puts the specific needs of their customers first. I was especially intrigued by what the article refers to it as their Secret Sauce.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Two enthusiastic thumbs up. They are creating separate pages for each product with a “one-page simple explanation of each specific product…Forget jargon-filled ads and book-like bank documents; the bank of the future needs to cut straight to the point.&#

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 4, 2010

I was there with 17 others from Norma Rist’s Rist List group of women-business owners (8 of us pictured above) and so we split up and attended different sessions than came together at lunch and dinner to share what we’d learned. It was hard to choose which sessions to attend.

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MARCH 17, 2010

It started with a bad experience and when he called to complain and went up the chain of command he had his first encounter with John Fleming. He cracked up laughing and called to share the ironic experience with his new best friend the GM. He used that free night in Chicago; the room spectacular – the bathtub – dirty.

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JULY 13, 2010

How do you pick up the conversation from there? The conversation is going along just dandy and then you ask a question – they say nope can’t help you – and you are left with this awkward silence. You might ask “well, do you know someone who can say yes?&# Why not be that person?

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

The purpose of your website should be to get the reader to take a predetermined action: pick up the phone, send you an email or fill out a contact form. Make sure your website is doing its part to capture the reader’s attention and get them to pick up the phone so you can do your magic.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 11, 2010

Crack me up. Another employee came up and heard our discussion. I’m painting the basement walls and Tom helped me pick out a paint and mixed the color and told me the roller and pan I had selected weren’t really up to the task. So I asked him – how long as that been the slogan? I love an honest employee.

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JANUARY 29, 2010

If we find out something new and exciting – we should keep it a secret so that we have a leg up on our competition. It was a make or break moment in my mind. We’ve been taught to hold our cards close to our vest.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

I wanted to go to watch them last night but something came up. Did not know you were a Reunion Band fan. I went to HS with those guys – there were a year or two ahead of me. Dan Deborah Chaddock Brown said, LOVE the band. I didn’t know you went to Hudson high.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

One person was behind the desk, I was no more than five feet away and talking to her when she picked up the phone and called a vendor, totally ignoring my presence. I assume the purpose of Internet marketing is to create sales. I walked into the small store. Lesson Learned: One way to create sales is to get people into the store.

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APRIL 15, 2010

He challenged us to grow. “Hit 100 members and we’ll meet up.&# Join a Group Posted by Deborah Chaddock Brown on April 15, 2010 under Connecting Moments , social media | Be the First to Comment If I were a betting woman I would say that you have joined LinkedIn. He sent out a few feelers and soon many of us jumped on the wagon.

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Make or Break Moments

MAY 20, 2010

I’d come early to watch the warm ups and stay for the game. I had been inspired by Bench’s baseball career and read his book Catch You Later which also offered up some pretty encouraging thoughts that helped me through that rough patch. He’s got to ride that nag till it drops.&#

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JULY 28, 2010

It is like the guy in the bar that comes up and says “haven’t I seen you somewhere before?&# “Your sales approach is offensive given the sensitive nature of your product.&# “Oh.&# I am still not sure if this was a prank. Or his first day on the job. Or just his approach. And you are like – really?

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Make or Break Moments

MARCH 11, 2010

Oh my goodness – the two groups were shocked to discovered their opposite approaches and all of a sudden the conversation got derailed with people offering up times when they struggled to effectively communicate. I couldn’t have planned it better.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

But before I could pick it up and delve into the latest Tiger Woods, Bragelina, Brittany scandal, my eyes fell upon a scrapbook/photo album. Expecting a typical auto repair store with worn carpet, car and truck magazines and ugly metal chairs I was pleased to walk into an inviting waiting area; warm, clean, comfortable.

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