All Things Admin

JUNE 8, 2022

Event Planning. For instance, if you’re working on your event planning page, you might include: Checklists, templates, and forms you’ve created to make event planning easier. Your event planning procedures. A list of events you’ve planned. Photos from prior events. Here are some options to consider: Blog.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

It not only lets you check the time in any part of the world, it also shows you color-coded business hours in your specified time zone, making it easier to schedule meeting times. Business Card Scanning Apps: Anyone who’s ever attended a conference or networking event knows just how quickly all those business cards stack up.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 26, 2014

Create more efficient organizing systems for your office. Update your backup system. Call those folks you met at your last networking event. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Check your website, brochures and business cards.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Why Lock Your System at Work? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer? and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Here are seven ways in which you can market your upcoming virtual event: 1. Get out all those business cards that are collecting dust in your desk drawer, or reach out to past colleagues or clients, and personally invite them to register for your teleclass. Go to as many networking events as you can. Personally reach out.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 17, 2012

Create more efficient organizing systems for your office. Update your backup system. Call those folks you met at your last networking event. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Check your website, brochures and business cards.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

You know how things go at a networking event, or some other type of in-person event… . You go along, meet many new people, collect a TON of business cards, and then promptly put them to one side and never follow up with the contacts again! .

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 16, 2011

Create more efficient organizing systems for your office. Update your backup system. Call those folks you met at your last networking event. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Check your website, brochures and business cards.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

With an activity that you must initiate, it’s easy to let other tasks come first: responding to incoming calls and mail, getting the invoices out, going to networking events, and oh yes, doing the client work you get paid for. Business cards and scraps of paper lying on your desk do not constitute a contact management system.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 2, 2016

I recently organised an event for just over 150 assistants in Leeds and Edinburgh, where we showcased loads of office technology that would help Assistants and their Executives be more productive. During the course of the events you would not believe (or maybe you would!) A simple place to start is during your one to one meetings.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Having a database of names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and other personal information gives you the tools to connect personally with current and potential clients, business associates and even competitors. Are you launching a new service or product, or presenting at a local event?

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Just because someone has handed you their business card at an event or other meeting, doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to add them to your list and start sending them your ezine and other promotions. Doing this only upsets your readers and they’re more likely to unsubscribe. When it’s NOT okay to add someone to your list.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Did your boss just decide to install it on his/her system and yours then told you, "Read the manual, were going to be using this from now on"? Believe it or not, this was quite an easy system to learn. I am sure that this will beef up your productivity with the system. as your client relationship manager (CRM)? Whats next?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Creating a filing system can be tricky, as you need to know exactly how to file your files and what type of information you would need to be able to access quickly. One of my readers asks: I am trying to organize a file room based not on traditional alphabetical filing, but on a retrieval system. as you mentioned in your question.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 3, 2008

A VA can help you here by designing custom cards, calendars, flyers, postcards, brochures, or any other promotional item. #2 Or is it on bits of paper and business cards that you’ve collected over several months, or even years? 4 Planning your Event. 2 Organizing and maintaining your mailing list.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 13, 2008

You can do this by clicking View, Arrange By, Current View, Events. Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips Update: Please make sure to delete the current holidays that you have in your Outlook. Now delete any holidays that you have and add the new ones in.

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Productivityist

MAY 12, 2013

I had a great time at the event because I set myself in such a way to focus on it – and my part in it as a speaker – without having distractions in the way. I took a lot of it in, and stepped aside when there was no capacity for me to absorb anything further (which can happen during the span of a multi-day event).

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. This has been a tradition in our office for quite some time now, where people would decorate the office, dress up in funky costumes and bring baked treats for everyone.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. Hopefully, you weren’t also affected by the FPL power outages.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I am able to get a confirmation from the automated system to let me know that the reservation has been made with all of the details that I need. This has become a great tool for me, since I have to make reservations on a regular basis for my managers. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

Now you have a new prioritization system set up. Click on the particular color that you want to apply to all of these types of e-mails from the particular person and click Apply Color. Repeat steps 1 - 2 for each person that you want to create a different color.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 7, 2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Wireless internet providers provide internet access without attaching cables and wires to your system. I will try to write posts when my time permits. If I find a really great or juicy story, I will definitely post it on here. Web site design is always given high importance as it gives a first impression.

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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. Focus on the challenges and embrace the strengths. Avoid people that gossip, you will only get yourself deeper into negativity. Expand your mind. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 4 Easy Steps to Finding Old E-mails By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, December 13, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you have trouble sifting through hundreds or even thousands of e-mails ?

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 14, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 14, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity , System Security F orgetting your Windows password happens to everyone from time to time. Youd be surprised of how many times people have asked me, "Why cant I log into my system?" Home About Me Advertise Forgot Your Password?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch. What better candidate to take on that role as a career, than the assistant who regularly plans events from small meetings to large conferences.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 10, 2008

From that point on, I just click two shortcut icons that I have created on my desktop, log into my system and voila - Im in! It only took a short period of time and all I have to do is call into the office to ask someone to power on my computer. If you like this post, please subscribe to my feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

If youre looking for a business phone system , check out the PBXs that are currently on the market. So try creating a spreadsheet yourself and let me know how it works out for you. If you think of anything else you could add to this, please share with the rest of the readers here. Whats next?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2008

I provide education for those that need to plan meetings and events for their companies. Try this link: [link] Thanks, Richard Posted on 26 August, 2008 10:54 AM Cathy Clifton, CMP, CMM Hi. I found your blog. Administrative Assistants could really benefit from this education. We have a series of 1-hr. Tele-seminars that started last week.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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