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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork.

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Which tasks should assistants manage?

Practically Perfect PA

There are so many ways we can help them with this from managing their calendar effectively, minimising interruptions and generally keeping them on track. The executive’s calendar should be completely controlled by their assistant and the executive shouldn’t edit the calendar at all (in an ideal world!)

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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. 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. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste.

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal. Promise to buy from one supplier for better payment terms, like 60 or 90 days. Getting a better price is especially easy to do right now, since suppliers are tripping over themselves to get business. Get better payment terms by negotiation.

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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. Suppliers will probably thank you for short meetings, so they too can get more done. Large corporations have often the shortest meetings at director level, while lower down in the organisation the meetings go on and on, too.

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SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

PreEntrepreneur – IntraPreneur – Entrepreneur » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 at 4:44 pm and is filed under Office - IT , SME-Blog , Software as a Service , Start-Up , Virtual Assistants , WinWeb. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

I used the migration assistant to move all files across to my new computer and at first all seemed fine. You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in.

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