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Raise your hand if you like automated phone message systems…

ProAssisting Blog

GetHuman.com is a website that lists thousands of companies along with their various customer service numbers WITH instructions on how to avoid those automated messages and get to a real human!

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10 Tips for Taking Effective Phone Messages

Ian's Messy Desk

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 10 Tips for Taking Effective Phone Messages Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 14, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Write it down on a piece of paper, preferably a phone-message pad. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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ProAssisting's Better Business Bureau Accreditation

ProAssisting Blog

Being invited into this membership is a big deal for us because, as a new company, we want to assure all of our current and future members that we value our reputation and will do what we say we will whether that involves our training, our support or giving you a refund if our training wasn’t what you were looking for. Enjoy this post?

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Rebecca Minkoff: ‘I Never Set Out to Be a Rule Breaker’

Success

If I had taken the safe route and always done as I was told, when I was told, where I was told, I’m pretty sure I would still be answering the phones at my father’s office in Florida. There’s nothing wrong with working for my dad or answering phones; it’s just not what I’m meant to do. Big tech companies now have failure funnels.

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5 Things You Should Know About a Company Before You Accept Their Offer

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. Y ou’ve just received a phone call offering you a job. What do employees think of the company? Knowing what kind of company culture to expect is important, and it will require a little bit of work on your part to find out about that culture, unless you already know people who work there.

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From Executive Assistant to CEO

ProAssisting Blog

She has held many different positions throughout her 30 years working for the company but what is particularly interesting to us here at ProAssisting is how Ursula was mentored in the executive assistant position by her two different bosses. And then this too: Later, the phone rang. She figured that it was not good news.

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Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need

The Marq

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need Technology Review I’m writing today about the use of a single phone line for all business and/or personal phone and SMS communication. You can get a number close to your area code then change later for a $10 fee per phone change.

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