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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Start by learning about them via LinkedIn , Google, Facebook and even the customers’ own webpages; you’ll arm yourself with their photographs, knowledge of their businesses, circles, hobbies, favorite music and special interests. According to the Echo 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer , only 7 percent of U.S. Do your homework.

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Take it Slow

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Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Take it Slow Posted on 12/24/2012 // 2 Comments This week isn’t your typical week. I dont really get caught up in all the holiday stuff, so maybe everyone else being busy had something to do with my kicking butt. So take it slow. But still…take it slow.

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Coming Christmas Day: The Front Nine

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Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Coming Christmas Day: The Front Nine Posted on 12/20/2012 // Leave a Comment December 25th is a pretty special day for a lot of people, and this year it is going to be all the more special for yours truly. I hope you’ll pick up a copy (or several) this holiday season.

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It's Time to Kickstart the Year.Now!

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Posted on 12/11/2012 // Leave a Comment I didn’t post earlier today because I was working on something pretty big. I mentioned some of the contributors in The Productivityist.com Holiday Gift Guide last week, but I neglected to mention what each of these contributors are offering.

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Company Perks and Showing Appreciation

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For Dec 2012 and January 2013, I wrote a couple of posts you that you will find helpful. For older posts you can Google the ones titled: 10 tips to be a better executive assistant (parts 1-4), making a splash without changing everything, 5 random things helpful at your job if you don't have a chance to look at all the posts by next week.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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A 2012 study conducted by Yale researchers revealed that even science professors—male and female—evaluate the information on a résumé more harshly when the applicant is a woman. In 2015, New York City began officially observing two Muslim holidays —the “first large metropolis in America” to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

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3 Things for the Next 3 Days

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If you’re using a Mac and you don’t have Hazel, now is a great time to get it with some of that extra holiday cash so that you can get your digital house in order. David Sparks has put together some excellent Hazel rules here and if you simply search for “Hazel” on his blog, you’ll get a lot more on this stellar app.

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