Tue.Mar 19, 2019

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18 Books Every Administrative Assistant and Executive Assistant Should Read

Office Dynamics

Office Dynamics has put together a list of books for administrative assistants and executive assistants that will help you with your professional development and personal life. Because we had so many great choices we decided to make it a little easier for you to find what you are looking for by breaking the blog into two sections. The first half of the blog contains titles that are dedicated towards the administrative assistant and executive assistant while the second half of the blog contains t

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The Most Common Professions of Skilled Freelancers Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

We're often asked what the most popular professions are for freelancers and independent workers. This is not as easy a question to answer as it seems. Independent workers serve all industries, work with both businesses and consumers and participate in pretty much every job type and profession. They also tend to self-identify in very specific and often idiosyncratic ways.

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Working with an incompetent Executive

Practically Perfect PA

Everyone moans about their boss. Fact! There are occasions when your Executive takes ages to get back to you on something, they are always in a meeting or out travelling. They never have enough time. They don’t manage your needs or expectations. They don’t make decisions, or they make the wrong decision, and they don’t […].

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Administrative Professionals Not Getting Respect – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Ask an admin is your place to ask your question and have other administrative professionals, from around the world, give you their advice based on their experiences. This administrative professional, Seething in the South, asks us: What do you do? How do you handle….a Manager who doesn’t acknowledge or respect my contributions? This isn’t the first time I’ve been dissed.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Proper Domain Name Considerations For New Business Owners Going Online

Small Business CEO

Just imagine how much business you’re losing every time a user mistyped your domain name or worse – forget it. Sometimes the word is hard to spell, maybe it doesn’t make sense, or perhaps it’s unremarkable. Online consumers are prickly people. They won’t spend precious time looking for your location and most of them would just consider other similar product or service on offer.

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8 Reasons Why Strong Branding Is Important for New Businesses

Small Business CEO

Many small business owners overlook branding efforts because they see themselves as a business and not a brand. Global giants like Amazon, Disney, Facebook, and Samsung started as small businesses. The reason why those companies are successful is that they branded themselves. But what’s a brand? A brand usually represents the perception of people on the reputation, customer service and advertising from a company.

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7 Main Points a Young Marketer Should Pay Attention To

Small Business CEO

Students learn about the basics of marketing at colleges and universities. They’re also taught how to apply this knowledge in real life. Today, institutions of higher learning strive to keep up with the times by offering trendy majors, such as social networks or CRM. In this industry, things change even more quickly than Lady Gaga changes her weird dresses during one show. photo credit: Augstudy.com.

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Data Analytics: Helping Healthcare Evolve

Small Business CEO

Data is increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. All industries are adopting data analytics in order to find more efficient methods for operations. This is particularly true in the healthcare sector, where there is a lot of room for improvement, and also a lot of potentially useful data. These are a few ways data analytics is helping healthcare evolve.

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4 Tips to Keep Better Control of Your Inventory

Small Business CEO

Inventory control isn’t just an issue for small business owners, it has almost shut the doors of major corporations. According to reporting by Business 2 Community , JP Morgan lost a staggering $6 billion in 2012 due to inventory spreadsheet errors. They also report that Hershey’s once failed to deliver $100 million in candy to stores in time for Halloween due to a failure in their supply chain system.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Taking Account – The Benefits of Upgrading Your Financial Systems

Small Business CEO

For most business owners the day to day running of their company makes huge demands on their time and energy. It may not even have occurred to them that their business could run more efficiently or that their cash flow could be increased and their customer experience be enhanced, simply by upgrading their accounting software. Often this is a case of ‘if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it’.