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Client Gifting: 5 Ideas to Show Your Appreciation This Holiday Season

Tips From T. Marie

Of course, before we dive into gifting ideas you'll need to make the decision whether or not you're going to give your clients gifts. With the increase in virtual services and communication done entirely via email, Skype and Slack, you may not even have a physical address to send a gift to. Gift cards.

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13 Ways You Should be Using Your Smartphone for Business

Tips From T. Marie

With more of us enjoying job flexibility today, and with the probability of up to 58% of workers expected to be independent contractors by 2027 , if you’re not using your smartphone for more than texting, calls and email you should be. We all know about texting, calling and emailing from our phones, but are you collaborating from it as well?

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Answering Reader Mail: 1000 Emails Project

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

So the task at hand is tackling the unread emails and sorting them as follow up, projects, inquiries, factory orders, catalog etc. They want to print them out and organized that way, but there are over a thousand emails. I’m a little concerned that 1000 emails went unattended until you were hired. Any advice would be helpful.

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How Richard Branson Lives Life By Making Lists

Productivity Bits

I noticed, in fact, that you even advocated a particular kind of notebook, one with three sturdy staples holding the pages firmly together. [ Buy the "Ten Steps Ahead" book now from Amazon! ]. He wasn’t Sir Richard at the time, he was a still-struggling entrepreneur (of course he was worth about $100 million even then.) 100% No Spam.

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3 Tips for Breaking the Clutter Cycle at Your Desk

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Over the course of history, plenty of landmark scientific breakthroughs and literary masterpieces have resulted from the minds of people with messy desks. Make sure that you have enough drawers to adequately file and store paperwork, in addition to all the tape, staples, sticky notes, etc… that might be lying around scatter-shot.

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part II

Productivity Bits

The 3 staples that hold the paper look sturdy enough to withstand daily use and the constant shoving in the back pocket. Of course there are other practical application for Field Notes Brand Notebook, according to the notebook’s back page: Inspired Ramblings. Your email will remain private. Crop Predictions.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Of course, there are many other features, but these are the highlights, in my opinion. It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. Find here: steph.bz/jI9HDF.