Tips From T. Marie

JANUARY 2, 2012

It was business as usual the week before Christmas, with the occasional pause to snuggle the baby and a couple of half days to finish up shopping. My daughter lives in rural Maine and her internet service isn’t the most reliable in the best of cases, but I have the handy, dandy hot spot on my phone, so I wasn’t concerned.

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On The Job

JANUARY 3, 2012

I know a lot of people say you shouldn't make resolutions because you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. I mean, I know that if I say I plan to give up Diet Dr. Pepper's and M&Ms, I'll know in my gut that is never going to happen. I've come up with a list for anyone's career that feels right in my gut.

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Success

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s a saying parents invented to beguile picky children into eating their crusts or preventing too many leftovers from cluttering up the refrigerator. Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. “Children in Africa are starving,” goes the dinner-table proverb.

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Success

MARCH 30, 2022

It may seem reasonable to pick up three or four new skills to add to your repertoire, but that’s an expectation the mind can’t execute. But then we receive a complicated email from a co-worker, a consuming phone call from a friend, or otherwise get sidetracked until our well-laid plans go up in flames. Presentation Skills.

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Success

MAY 22, 2022

Frank grew up a “hardcore art kid” in Guilderland, New York, but gravitated toward science at Brown University and then to a lab. At this inflection point, Frank considered law school while answering phones for the Latin American division of Travelers Insurance. From there it just blew up,” he says. That got lonely.

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Success

MARCH 13, 2022

The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. According to the Echo 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer , only 7 percent of U.S. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year. Keep them coming back.

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Business partners all the way up the supply chain have a role to play here, no matter their function. sent to landfills by 2012, 75% by 2020 and 90% by 2040. Motorola once had a vision of a cell phone that, once it reached the end of its life, users could plant in the ground to grow their own sunflower. Follow Through.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

They don’t particularly like doing it, but they do like the quiet and the lack of interruptions from phone, email and coworkers. Although many of these certainly will be valuable (sign-ups, Google. Originally posted 2012-02-22 23:40:15. and get an hours work done. .” that are being generated automatically.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 8, 2016

They don’t particularly like doing it, but they do like the quiet and the lack of interruptions from phone, email and coworkers. Although many of these certainly will be valuable (sign-ups, Google. Originally posted 2012-02-22 23:40:15. and get an hours work done. .” that are being generated automatically.

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Success

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In a time when the 24-hour news cycle bombards us with stories of tragedy, heartbreak and deceit, it can be difficult to keep our heads up and remain optimistic about the world we live in. A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 12, 2012

The post is based on MIT Technology Review's interesting article Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster Than Any Technology in Human History.  Key data from this article and lifted directly from Pink's blog post includes: In 2006, smart phones accounted for just 6% of U.S. mobile phones sold that year.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Smartphone penetration continued to grow in July 2012, with 55.5   Young adults are leading the way in Smartphone ownership with 74 percent of 25-34 year olds now owning smartphones, up from 59 percent in July 2011. .  This is up from 36% in 2011. According to Nielsen : "U.S.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 19, 2016

Okay, maybe in your daily life following a checklist won’t save lives, but it can insure that your project doesn’t go belly up because you forgot one small detail. Think of it this way: the best use of your smarts is to come up with great ideas, to devise better ways of doing things, to think outside the box.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 26, 2015

Key quote: About 160,000 drivers have fired up Uber on their phone since 2012. There are many articles on the study, including: The Atlantic has my favorite article, mostly because it points out how small Uber and the sharing economy are relative to the U.S. That's less than one month's net job creation.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Currently Google Wallet, which requires a special NFC chip, is only supported by 1 phone (Sprint's Nexus S) and 1 credit card (Citibank MasterCard).    But this will quickly change as more phones and credit cards add Google Wallet support.    So if you don't have both, you're out of luck. 

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Allwork

AUGUST 26, 2022

I recognize that if I want my career trajectory to continue to go up, if I want to continue to grow personally and professionally, then I need to exert the effort to come into the office more frequently. Gen Z employees offered insights into their work mindset, values, and aspirations, during a panel hosted by SmithGroup’s Workplace Practice.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 25, 2016

You may have a shopping problem, but a hoarder will buy 300 mobile phones in a year (that’s an example from the movie). Are there poorly maintained pet areas, i.e., pet waste not cleaned up? Originally posted 2012-07-27 08:37:47. For most people, ties to inanimate objects refers to souvenirs, old teddy bears and heirlooms.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then out of the blue, the topic crops up at work or at your kid’s school. Eerily, you happened to have just picked up a book two weeks prior, again, dissecting the same issue. Do you hear the ‘ Ring, Ring’ of the Get-a-Clue phone? Not long after, I had phone call with a close friend that has known me since high school.

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Eco-Office Gals

OCTOBER 23, 2012

photo by: 401(K) 2012. Download some apps. You might also want to do a bit of looking into Merchant Anywhere and Leaders Merchant Services. They are two companies that assist with mobile credit card processing. Post from: Eco-Office Gals Cost Effective Ways to Greenify Your Business.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 4, 2013

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. If in 2012 you did not attend any events or training sessions then you should speak to your manager or HR immediately to get something booked for 2013. Again this is something that assistants should be comfortable using and setting up for their managers.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2013

  The Solo Support Industry Grows Up : 2013 will see the continued growth of products and services designed to make it easier for solopreneurs and the self-employed to start and operate their businesses.   They also report 2012 will likely see an increase in these numbers.   Economic  3.     7.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 29, 2011

MENLO PARK, CA -- As 2012 approaches, many people are taking to heart the expression, “Out with the old, in with the new.” Maintain an up-to-date profile on these sites, and be active with industry associations and events. Follow up via email or by phone within two weeks of submitting your resume. Hello reader!

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Step It Up VA Coaching

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Offer a limited-time-only discount on products and/or services if they sign up by December 31. If you have a new program to launch in the new year, and are discontinuing any older products or services, allow customers a last chance to sign up for them at the previous year’s rates. Have an end-of-season sale.

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Office Organization Success

JANUARY 31, 2012

One thing that kept cropping up for me when I was teaching at a recent event was the fact that so many of you are getting overwhelmed with your marketing; not so much with the list building or connecting with potential clients, but your actual marketing planning. c) 2012 Tracey Lawton.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

If we had a bad day and we happen to talk on the phone at night about it, we end our call with, “What are you grateful for?” What''s up at Office Dynamics this month? 2012 Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. My son, Brian, and I have a new tradition. ” And we both share. What are you grateful for?

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Take for example an assistant who has a fantastic relationship with a client’s PA, they see each other outside of work and are able to phone each other for favours. The benefits of setting up an internal networking group within in your organisation. This surely sums up the power of great networking.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. As they make up such a large portion of the workforce, just a small improvement in their engagement levels could have a significant impact on business performance.

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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. Bonus fix: Using a separate field indicator (“Flag for Follow-up”) is better than pre-fixing subjects with “AR”. Even better, keep to one topic per email. Pet peeve: Fancy signatures.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 30, 2012

In our popular webinar, Employee Expense Reimbursement: Compliance Workshop , learn the most up-to-date rules and requirements for expense reimbursements. The first 50 people who sign up for this webinar will receive 76 Ways to Maximize Expense Account Deductions. You need to get it right every time. Join us Sept. Event only: $197.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2013

To see earlier lists, click on the year: 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2008. It's a Visual World:  Just as cameras and pictures have become ubiquitous on mobile phones, so too have video cameras.  Below is our 7th annual Top 10 Small Business Trends list.  2013's trend list is available here.

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Catch Friday

JANUARY 21, 2012

which purports to sell discounted phone tickets. Looking up Who Is on nominet the url is registered to Ms A. Last Accounts Made Up To: (NO ACCOUNTS FILED). Last Return Made Up To: Next Return Due: 18/11/2012. The phone number on the site is 020 88199 195 which sounds like a foreign number doesn't it?

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Kitted out with two entrances, its own professional kitchen, toilets, cloakroom, flexible lighting / sound set-up, room for 90 seated or 120+ standing and that all-important wow factor. The striking steel tower became a perfect symbol of the brilliance and originality of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Function Fixers.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 30, 2012

There’s nothing worse than sending out a broadcast with an incorrect phone number or bad link and then having to resend it again because you made a mistake the first time. c) 2012 Tracey Lawton. If the broadcast is for a teleclass or other event, are the telephone numbers listed correct? It doesn’t look good for your business.

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Ideas.Ted

MARCH 3, 2022

The person who answered the phone explained that Deepa had died that morning. “I Likewise, a 2012 study by researchers Mike Morrison, Kai Epstude, and Neal Roese concluded that regrets about social relationships are felt more deeply than other types of regrets because they threaten our sense of belonging. Amy called her frequently.

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Service Untitled

MARCH 10, 2014

Perhaps one of the best known Zappos’ customer experiences happened in December 2012 when a conversation between a team member and a customer lasted 10.5 The customer did reportedly purchase a pair of Ugg boots. Your call is important to us.” ” Customer needs are anticipated. Customers receive quick responses.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 1, 2013

In the past, I’ve avoided doing massive “How to set yourself up for the New Year” tutorials, wanting to avoid a cheesy “me too” post. However, in 2012 I built a platform dedicated to precisely that: Planning, goal setting and taking meaningful action. In 2012, I kinda built Commit Action on a whim.

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The Marq

JULY 19, 2011

This seemed especially a good idea since I was supposed to meet up for dinner at about 7 PM, which is like 5 or 6 PM anywhere in Southern California. In any case, I ended up walking past the local hospital and university. They may be pictures from my phone, but at least you'll have a more intimidate feel for what I see.

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