Success

JULY 8, 2021

Sadly, this is the conventional wisdom on networking: talk about yourself with as many people as you can for just long enough to hand out your business card in the hopes that some of these seeds will sprout, even without watering. It lets you enjoy wild adventures and unlock your full potential as a human. Why not do this now?

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

Getting buy-in IS ACHIEVABLE and I managed to successfully get the following approved: Business Cards. Business Cards: I was the first PA within my last company of 30+ Assistants to request Business Cards. My connections also enabled me to secure last minute table bookings – the value of which was priceless.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

Home About Me Advertise "Checking In" to a Better Flight By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Filed Under: Meetings , Productivity , Research , Travel Y ou get an urgent e-mail from your boss asking you to book a flight and hotel. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. Whenever you receive confirmation emails from any bookings you can forward it to plans@tripit.com and they will add the details to the itinerary. FlightTrack: £2.99 for Pro version. XE Currency: Free.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. Whenever you receive confirmation emails from any bookings you can forward it to plans@tripit.com and they will add the details to the itinerary. FlightTrack: £2.99 for Pro version. XE Currency: Free.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here are some of my favourites: Great Apps: Travel. This app is slightly expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. Whenever you receive confirmation emails from any bookings you can forward it to plans@tripit.com and they will add the details to the itinerary. FlightTrack: £2.99 for Pro version.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 21, 2010

The Dymo business card scanner app for the iPhone  is such a product.    You download the app to your iPhone (they also support other smartphones) and when you take a picture of a business card it automatically adds the appropriate information to your contact list.   It's also kinda fun to use. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have trouble trying to book several managers’ meetings, yet you have access to their calendars in Microsoft Outlook 2007? Home About Me Advertise Overlapping Calendars In Microsoft Outlook?

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 31, 2013

Gone are the days of stacks and stacks of business cards in a suit jacket pocket, now all you need is a trusty smartphone to keep all your contacts and leads organised. Email is still the primary communication channel for the vast majority of businesses both internally and externally. Personal Wifi Hotspot.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

We’ve all been there: We go to a networking function or set up a time to get together for coffee or lunch with someone we’ve met in our travels and then stall in that awkward moment where we really don’t know how to begin. Her first book, Living a Five Star Life, was released in January of 2009 by Simple Truths.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

We’ve all been there: We go to a networking function or set up a time to get together for coffee or lunch with someone we’ve met in our travels and then stall in that awkward moment where we really don’t know how to begin. Her first book, Living a Five Star Life, was released in January of 2009 by Simple Truths.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you trying to book a meeting with someone or a group of people? This happens to me quite frequently.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  This is the back of my card as a sample of what I mean: Creating Your Online Business Card An online business card is one site that lists all of your connection points online.    There are a number of ways you can do this. .    Each is a bit different in look and feel. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Do you need to have some sort of written confirmation to make sure that the reservation has been booked? T here is a great site called OpenTable.com , which allows you to book reservations online with particular restaurants all over the world. Do you feel that you could be doing this faster?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Click on the arrow down button right beside the "New" button, then click "Distribution List" Here you can either "Select Members" or "Add New" Select Members is used to find contacts that are already in your address book. Add New, of course, would be used to add a brand new contact.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

If you are booking a meeting for yourself, for others or both, give everyone ample time to respond to the meeting and provide a reminder (theres a check box for this in the meeting set up page) of at least 15 minutes. A day or two before the task is due is usually sufficient.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Take classes, read a book, read current events about new trends that are happening in your field. See what you can change about yourself, don’t try to change others. Focus on the challenges and embrace the strengths. Avoid people that gossip, you will only get yourself deeper into negativity. Expand your mind.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. I will explain this later. I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity? It seems to me that there is now an increasing shift toward simplifying our lives. Who needs to be productive when the amount of stuff you have to deal with is cut in half?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

But even if you don’t go to such lengths, the key to surviving downtimes is to make sure you have copied your address book over to all your email accounts. Some people even route their mail through Gmail and then back again, to weed out spam, and to keep copies.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact How To Manage Your Receipts by dragos on September 9, 2010 · 5 comments in Digital Tools , Productivity & Effectiveness Tweet I like to travel. You expand.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well. About Me Ottawa, Canada View my complete profile Click on the image to order my book Laughing All The Way to Work from Amazon All royalties go to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation What some people are saying about the book.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

You can also attach a file from Word, Excel or PowerPoint or a business card from your Contacts if it is someone you need to remember to call and want that information available. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material! Congratulations on this achievement/labour of love!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Julie Morgenstern, author of many books including Never Check Email in the Morning (and Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work and Organizing from the Inside Out, 2nd ed: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life says that what we need to do is "anchor" our systems.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

It also helped me write my two books! So, recycle those papers you have written and turn them into your next blog or book! I've recently launched my own blog and those articles will reappear there, and one day they may be re-purposed again into a book. Don't Write Your Book. Talk Your Book.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

It can be as small as a little paperback book, or as big as a cookbook.     Cons of Planning Tool : Like any other productivity tool, you've got start somewhere so you may have to carry your old business card file or Franklin planner with you for a few weeks before you just to the electronic assistant.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Combine it with writing a book and you’ve got an incredible one-two punch that can propel you into the upper echelon of experts in short order. You weren’t looking to travel around the country speaking in front of thousands or charging $20,000 for a 30-minute keynote address. And it’s true! I mean come on!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I ran a book club for 2 years. She gave me her business card. 11) Do your research Through all this outreach, you are hopefully getting interviews and introductory meetings booked. I always have tons of stamps, thank you cards, blank cards, and stationary on hand along with pre-printed address labels.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 25, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact Being A Digital Nomad by dragos on March 25, 2010 · 30 comments in Productivity & Effectiveness , Travel & Fun Tweet Ever wondered what being a digital nomad means?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Oh, and he’s written a book. Two books, in fact. Nicknamed “The Professor&# , Neil has written books, penning four incredible texts about traveling, loss, and music. This is perhaps my most important rule of thumb, whether writing books, blog posts, or emails. I know something else.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The smallest building block of this circle is your business card (if we’re talking about business relationships). I gave up business cards a while ago. I don’t consider myself as someone who does business anymore (although my business side still pops up every now and then, as you already know).

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Not authors who sell books in stores. Not businesses who sell services. We know the “Men With Pens&# so when your name goes on an e-book, print book, service, or educational product you’ve build the trust that will have us willing to shell out for a package deal. Not experts who sell consultation time.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Like carrying a business card. Branching out is a great gig—I make friends, I expand my thinking, I have a laugh, and it even has positive business results. Travel Zen: How To Avoid Making Your Vacation Seem Like Work Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) December 3, 2009 at 6:38 pm @Jack – Never apologize for that.

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