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Can a Clean Desk Create Inner Happiness?

On The Job

Gretchen Rubin, who I have interviewed many times about happiness in the workplace, has a new book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm." I once created a file called 'active useful documents' and then never looked in it again," Rubin writes. You probably don't need a dictionary, thesaurus, maps or a fax machine if you can do that work online.

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How to Create the “VIP Experience” for Your Clients with a Welcome Packet

Office Organization Success

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Five Things Small Businesses Need to Know About Free

Tips From T. Marie

Even so, I cut back on the things that I could in order to get a business phone line, a multi-function fax/printer/copier and a couple of business books. Compare that to the programs and books that I paid for and you’d find that when I paid for something I followed through. This is what I learned about using free for business.

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3 Easy Tips for Keeping Your Client Information Organized

Office Organization Success

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. I then use this folder for storing all the documents that I send and receive from my clients. Click here to activate your Membership.

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Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word

Professional Assistant Blog

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. O ne of my readers asks: With Word 2007, is it possible to create a “cliff notes&# version of a document using the Styles function or Macros?

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How to Create the “VIP Experience” for Your Clients with a Welcome Packet

Office Organization Success

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

The lady to the left of me had inherited a 12 page job spec which had not been updated in 10 years whereas the lady to the right had a 6 page document. When the printer/scanner/fax breaks down I am ultimately the person who troubleshoots and fixes the machine in question. Life does not come with a rule book.