October, 2020

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Do You Need To Hire An Executive Assistant? Top 10 Questions To Ask

ProAssisting Blog

There comes a time when business leaders recognize that balancing their growing workload is causing them to drop the ball professionally and personally. The first question that we encounter when speaking with CEOs, c-suite executives, business owners, and non-executive board members who are considering adding daily executive support to their lives is: What will an executive assistant do for me?

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Digital Nomad Numbers Skyrocket Thanks to Work From Anywhere

Small Business Labs

The number of U.S. digital nomads grew from 7.3 million in 2019 to 10.9 million in 2020, a 49% increase. This data comes from COVID-19 and the Rise of the Digital Nomad , which is the report on the third year of an ongoing research series on digital nomads conducted by MBO Partners. Emergent Research (that's us) works with MBO Partners on these studies.

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Taking on More Work Due to Downsizing? Want to Ask for a Raise? Read This!

Eat Your Career

A common question I’m hearing lately goes something like this: My organization has recently downsized and now I’m doing more work covering for some colleagues who were laid off. I think I deserve a raise, but is that a reasonable request given that we just had to let people go? This is a great question…and a tough one to answer. When it comes to compensation, a lot of factors come into play.

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Learn How to Say "No" at Work

On The Job

When the job market is tough like it is now, it's very difficult to say "no." You don't want to say "no" to a request from a colleague for fear of not being seen as a team player. You don't want to say "no" to a boss for fear of being fired. You don't want to say "no" to a customer for fear of losing that customer. There's a lot of fear and angst these days, and that's understandable being that we're in a global pandemic.

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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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Staying in the loop with your Executive while working from home

Practically Perfect PA

How to stay visible and in the loop with your Executive while working from home We are living in strange times. I know many of you will be working from home, trying to juggle your home life and your work life more than ever - while not leaving your home [.].

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5 Ways to Boost Customer Experience Without Spending More Money

Small Business CEO

The customer experience is often considered an intangible, qualitative metric for business owners. However, it has real, quantitative effects on your company. A good customer experience is reflected in your retention rates, your referrals, and increased spending. In fact, 2019 data from Gartner found that “CX drives over two-thirds of customer loyalty, outperforming brand and price combined.”.

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The Wannabe Digital Nomads

Small Business Labs

One of the more interesting findings of the MBO Partners 2020 Digital Nomad study is the large number of Americans who aren't currently digital nomads who say they want to be. Key quote from Bloomberg's When You Can’t Work From Barcelona, Boulder Might Do , which covers the study: " there is a massive and growing reserve army of digital-nomad wannabes — people who tell the survey-takers they’re planning on going nomadic in the next two or three years, or at least thinking about it.&#

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Interview with Krystal Booker of KrystalClear Virtual

Karen Vivarelli

Working as a part-time VA is the perfect career choice to fit around Krystal’s young family Find out how Krystal got started I remember when Krystal first reached out to me via an Instagram DM. She was trying to decide whether to join the next round of my VA Course. We chatted about whether the course was the right fit for her because Krystal was already working with clients at this stage and she wanted to make sure she was going to be learning the right skills and tools before signing up

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The Best Way to Help Employees Feel More Positive

On The Job

Telling employees not to worry these days or to "be happy and look on the bright side" isn't very helpful when it comes to motivation. The times right now are too uncertain, too tough, to think that such platitudes will work. Still, it's also not good for business that employees mope around -- either on site or while working remotely -- and there needs to be some way to put some positivity into their lives if they're going to be effective.

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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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Developing a growth mindset

Practically Perfect PA

Developing a growth mindset Developing a Growth Mindset doesn’t have to be complicated, even in the midst of a global health crisis. Let’s be real for a moment… and put things into perspective. Do you honestly believe that you’ll never progress or accomplish anything new in your career or life? [.].

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6 Tips On How To Start A Successful Work-From-Home Recruitment Agency

Recruit CRM

The concept of remote work has been riding high on success since the Covid-19 lockdown has started and in no mood to be slowed down. No one is certain on how long the effect of the pandemic might last and how it will hamper the global economy but one thing is certain for sure that enterprises will experience challenges in negotiating with the existing clientele or forming a new client base.

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Things Entrepreneurs Should Know When Starting Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Starting and running a business is often overwhelming, especially for first-time entrepreneurs and employed individuals looking to escape the 8 am-5 pm employment. Most people venture into businesses in a bid to enjoy the freedom and flexibility of not working every day in confined offices, not reporting and adhering to strict rules, and the potential of making endless profits. photo credit: Christina @wocintechchat.com / Unsplash.

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Academic Studies Show Gig Work Increases Entrepreneurship an Acts as a Safety Net

Small Business Labs

Two recent academic studies illustrate several of the benefits of the gig economy.  The University of Chicago Booth Review article Does the gig economy promote entrepreneurship? covers a study showing that gig economy employment helps people make the leap to entrepreneurship and start their own businesses.  Key quote: Gig work may encourage the formation of new businesses by giving potential entrepreneurs a way to supplement their income during the lean times that many new ventures e

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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VA Interview with Mira from The Life of a Virtual Assistant

Karen Vivarelli

From redundant to fully booked in under 2 weeks!! Yes it’s possible for you too, read on to find out how. Want to know how Mira from The Life of a Virtual Assistant went from being made redundant from her 9-5 office job to setting up her virtual assistant business and becoming fully booked with clients in under 2 weeks?!!! Well of course you do!

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4 Ways to Get More Respect at Work

On The Job

Are you respected at work? For many, the answer is "no" and that can make life a little more miserable when you're at work. People may be rude to you or treat you unprofessionally. While this may not bother you too much, it can add up over time and start making you feel angry or even depressed by such behavior. Whether you're the lowest ranking person in your workplace or the top boss, here's one of the easiest ways to garner respect by others: Show respect to them.

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Putting Your Best Font Forward

My EA Career

Why It’s Time To Boss Up Your Assistant Brand On a nearly daily basis I drive across something called the Spit Bridge. It’s at a spot on Middle Harbour (an arm of Sydney Harbour) called not surprisingly “The Spit” and connects Sydney’s Lower North Shore to what’s known as the Northern Beaches. These suburbs run up the coast with one glorious beach after the other.

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Understanding The Basics Of Cold Emails

Recruit CRM

The total number of global e-mail users are 3.9 billion which is rapidly increasing day by day. It is expected to reach 4.48 billion by 2024. At some time or the other everyone is supposed to use cold emails. These mails are those that you send to someone with whom you have no prior relationship or acquaintance. Cold Email Marketing has a response rate of 29% when the email is personalized.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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3 Key Considerations to Find the Right Private Equity Firm

Small Business CEO

Private equity firms are playing an increasingly important role in helping businesses to navigate and thrive in today’s rapidly evolving markets. Business owners evaluating a new deal or opportunity to work with an investor firm may find themselves having to choose between a fundless or a funded sponsor model. photo credit: Edmond Dantès / Pexels. Both models have their pros and cons, so it’s important for business owners to closely evaluate their options before they sign a letter of intent.

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The U.S. Has 1.7 Million VanLifers

Small Business Labs

VanLifers are people who travel, work and live on the road in vans, RVs, and other vehicles.  And according to the recently released MBO Partners research study on digital nomads , there are about 1.7 million VanLifers roaming the country. Emergent Research (that's us) worked with MBO Partners on this study.  VanLife, which is a subset of the broader digital nomad trend , has been popularized in part by millions of #VanLife posts on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.�

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Why You Should Reach Out to a Staffing Agency to Hire an Executive Assistant

C-Suite Assistants

It’s no secret that having an amazing executive assistant can make all the difference when it comes to your efficiency and productivity. The right assistant allows you to focus on high-value items, while they take care of all the nuts and bolts that keep things moving smoothly. Whether you are looking for an assistant for the first time, recently lost someone you’d hoped would stay forever, or have cycled through executive assistants who were perfect on paper but just didn’t fit, you know that f

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This is One of the Biggest Mistakes Being Made by the Unemployed

On The Job

The standard advice when you're unemployed is to be evasive about that fact when applying for new jobs. Why? Because employers don't want to hire someone who is unemployed, believing that something is "wrong" with someone who is jobless or that the candidate will seize any job that is offered, whether it's truly wanted it or not. Of course, this advice flew out the window when the Great Recession hit more than a decade ago, and the same is true now.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Putting Your Best Font Forward

My EA Career

Why It’s Time To Boss Up Your Assistant Brand. On a nearly daily basis I drive across something called the Spit Bridge. It’s at a spot on Middle Harbour (an arm of Sydney Harbour) called not surprisingly “The Spit” and connects Sydney’s Lower North Shore to what’s known as the Northern Beaches. These suburbs run up the coast with one glorious beach after the other.

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6 Tips on How to Start a Successful Remote Recruitment Agency

Recruit CRM

The concept of remote work has been riding high on success since the Covid-19 pandemic has started and in no mood to be slowed down. No one is certain on how long the effect of the pandemic might last and how it will hamper the global economy but one thing is certain for sure that enterprises will experience challenges in negotiating with the existing clientele or forming a new client base.

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12 Valuable Items to Remove from Your Junk Car Before Selling

Small Business CEO

If you are thinking of selling your junker for some quick cash, pump the brakes a bit before you let the tow truck simply tow it away. In many cases, your old car will have some valuable items inside. If you let the tow truck haul your car away, you’ll use out on some potential quick cash. Remember that auto recycling companies will likely be interested in what is inside your car.

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5 Personal Board Ideas for Trello

Jen Lawrence

When we think about task management tools, we consider all the ways they can help us work better, faster, more efficiently. But have you ever looked at your favorite tool and considered how you could use it to improve your life ? I’ve been using the task/project management tool Trello for almost ten years and have gotten creative with how I organize not only my work but my personal life using their flexible boards.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha