Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-workers favourite, OMG! With the increasing use of e-mail as the first choice for business correspondence it opens a whole new world of dos and donts for the assistant. Writing all in caps is a form of e-mail shouting. Who are you?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. Google for all the agencies in town, look on Yelp, or look on LinkedIn. She gave me her business card. They all have different clients and cater to different parts of the city or industries.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

One very unpleasant outcome of a small business venture is the failure thereof. Bootstrapping will mitigate any fallout from a business failure. Remember that business success often comes with experience and experience comes form making mistakes – bootstrapping will allow you to make mistakes and recover from them.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

Just this: If you are trying to give yourself a shortcut by not asking for your clients’ permission before you sign them up for your sales list, newsletter, or any other form of unsolicited information, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. They’re Splogs – Spam Blogs – and google hates them. It’s easier, yes.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

I also can use the recording to make a cd and give to potential clients or current clients instead of a business card or brochure. I have a firm policy that there is no need to "reinvent the wheel" Whenever possible, use what you have. By recording the radio show I have a recording for posting on my website or blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant. But business blogs started to grow and then became essential, and all the while no one stopped to think, “Wait a minute. Reverse order by date?

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