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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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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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Wondering How to Become a Morning Person? Try These 8 Techniques

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Consider making your goals more about house chores and hobbies rather than work, like doing laundry, reading that article you bookmarked a month ago and shopping for upcoming birthdays and holidays. Do not start this process by setting your alarm two hours earlier than usual and expect to get up—because you won’t. Put down your phone.

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Cashing in Without a Cash Register

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For the next five minutes I waited as the wonderful shopper ahead of me double-confirmed the amount, discussed the weather, slowly filled out the check in lovely cursive, handed it to the cashier for verification and then recorded the entire multistep process in a miniature check registry balanced to the cent.

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4 Challenges in Navigating Remote Work Layoffs

Allwork

The four key challenges of remote work layoffs are impersonal emails, legal requirements, returning equipment, and difficulties assessing performance. You’re less likely to be trashed in the media for impersonal layoffs if you’re not a big company, unless of course your email is completely tone-deaf.

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Automating the Appointment process

The Small Business Blog

Whenever they get a booking over the phone, via email, or in-person they have to update their calendar with the new event.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. For many employees, the workday does not end when they leave the office,” the authors wrote. The breakdown of work-life balance.

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What Happened When I Ditched Technology for 7 Days

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I switch off my phone and stash it out of sight. But with a menu of friends, music and time-sucking articles available at the touch of a finger, I had forgotten what it really means to be alone. I suddenly have the time and silence to process my day. The clock says it’s 12:01 a.m. on Sunday—the beginning of a journey.