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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Finance and accounting. Customer service. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Meeting and event planning. Project management. Human resources. Sales and marketing. Step 1: Brainstorm.

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Transaction or Lifelong Relationship?

Make or Break Moments

Do your potential customers become dollar signs or lines on your P&L as you think through your finances? You have financial obligations and if you could get just one more customer before the end of the month you’d hit your break even. Will you make your quota? Sometimes it is hard to avoid that trap, isn’t it?

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Banks Change to a Customer-Focused Message

Make or Break Moments

In a recent article in Advertising Age entitled Banks Turn Message Back to What Consumers Want , reporter Beth Snyder Bulik spotlights the fact that banks are listening the consumers and changing their message to one that includes the answer to ‘how can you help me manage my finances?&#

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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

The Small Business Blog

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Be ruthless with your filing.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Following up, Updates, Next Steps

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For example: “Once you sign and approve, I need legal and finance to review it as well. Finance only cuts checks twice a week. However, before finance cuts the check, it goes thru the system and 5 other people need to approve it, including my boss. This way it’s already on your calendar as something to do.

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Work Frustrations and Meaningful Work

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Surely, as executive assistants we may feel this way when we have to do all the boring stuff - filing, expenses, travel, calendaring, and phones. As an executive assistant, I knew I wasn't curing cancer or inventing anything, but that customer service role and making a difference in one executive's life was meaningful for me.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Look at you calendar and write next to each meeting how long it should take and stick too it. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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