December, 2010

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Our “Best Of” Blog Content

ProAssisting Blog

After going through all of our blog content from the last year and a half, we thought it would be a good idea to take some of our best posts and content and share them in a “best of” blog post… so here we go: General Assisting Blog Posts Wanna know what the number 1 rule of being an assistant is? We tell you right here. What does your career have to do with pizza?

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Come on 2011!!

Virtual Moxie

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life | Main | Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs » Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST Listen live to Stephanie talk with Michele Price ( prosperitygal ) about her story and the path she followed to create Calahan Solutions, Inc.  You'll also get a

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Don’t Bore Listeners with Stories of Your Life

Ian's Messy Desk

Image by hfossli via Flickr. Have you ever sat in the office lunch room and listen to some co-worker recount a list of the “amazing and cool” things their three-year said on the weekend? Trouble is, they sound the same as the stories told last week, and the week before and so on. Worse yet, are you guilty of recounting the same kinds of stories from your life?

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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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Welcome 2011!

Tips From T. Marie

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It’s a BOY!

ProAssisting Blog

Stephanie and I are very proud to announce our son, Wyatt Bull. Wyatt was born on 11/5/10, weighed in at 7 pounds 11ounces and was 20.75 inches long. It has been a real joy to get to know him over the last 4 weeks and he’s doing great. We think he’s taking it easy on us because he knows we’re newbie parents. Thanks for all of the well wishes and we’d like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday season!

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Look Back To Look Forward With Productive Eye

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. We’re approaching the end of the year. We’re at a point where our hindsight is at its best. What we’ve accomplished this year? Have we accomplished all our goals? What we’ve fallen short of? These are only some of the questions that we need to ask in order for us to look back which enable us to look forward to a yet promising new year.

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5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Tips to Go Almost Paperless | Main | Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST » 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life Have you ever had one of those days or weeks where nothing goes as you originally planned?

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Don’t Bore Listeners with Stories of Your Life

Ian's Messy Desk

Have you ever sat in the office lunch room and listen to some co-worker recount a list of the “amazing and cool&# things their three-year said on the weekend? Trouble is, they sound the same as the stories told last week, and the week before and so on. Worse yet, are you guilty of recounting the same kinds of stories from your life? Unless you get a truly enthusiastic response from the listener, be careful when recounting: A dream.

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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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Build Trust With Your New, High-Paying Clients

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. In this time of economic uncertainty, people are not purchasing big ticket services lightly. So when someone makes a decision to purchase a high-level service from you, it is important to immediately make them feel like they made the right decision. Here are some tips to help your clients be comfortable when they sign up to work with you.

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Pass along your best business tips

Loosely Speaking

AZVAs the podcast begins its second season in February. In 2011, we’re keeping it real: that means that when we interview our guests, we’re asking them to share exactly how they built a successful business, and we’re asking them for specific tips for contractors who want to break into their industry. We’ll give you a sneak peek at the monthly themes covered in the 2011 season in a few weeks, but here’s how YOU can be a part of it all right now.

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My Favorite Inspiring Career Quotes

Eat Your Career

As we enter a brand new year, I know many of you may be facing career changes (both big and small) in the future. While this can be exciting and energizing, it can also easily become overwhelming and draining. Below, I’ve listed a few of my favorite inspiring quotes to help motivate you to take meaningful action towards achieving your career goals now and throughout the year ahead, whatever your goals may be.

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Looking Back-A Tips from T.Marie Round-Up

Tips From T. Marie

With 2010 coming to a close, it seems only fitting to take a look back at some of the posts from the past year or so. I hope you discover (or rediscover) inspiration, information or some small help for your success in 2011. 6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Clients from Your Website Series. 6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Business from your Website (and How to Fix It). 6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Business From Your Website-#1. 6 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Business From Your Webs

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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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Virtual Assistants in Trough of Disillusionment

The Small Business Blog

According to the latest Gartner Report – Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2010 – the adoption of virtual assistant services and technology is currently in the “Trough of Disillusionment&#. Even worse, according to the report this market is not going to mature for another 5 to 10 years. A reason for this may very well be the fact, that most virtual assistants use fragmented IT solutions, which often do not consider client needs.

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Tips to Go Almost Paperless - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers | Main | 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life » Tips to Go Almost Paperless "Steph, do you have some ideas for how I can go paperless?  I have so many piles and I don't want to file it all.

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Win a GTD Productivity Package from Daze End Software

Ian's Messy Desk

One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is to “get organized,&# and one of the most broken New Year’s resolutions is to “get organized.&# Daze End Software can help people achieve their goal this year by giving both the process and tools necessary to become more productive. Daze End Software is giving away productivity packages including: David Allen’s best-selling book “ Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “, and copies of

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Multifamily Households Increasing

Small Business Labs

Good article in the NY Times on the growth of multifamily households.  Called "doubling up" in the social service world, the recession has caused a large increase in the number of households with multiple families.  Key quote from the article: Census Bureau data released in September showed that the number of multifamily households jumped 11.7 percent from 2008 to 2010, reaching 15.5 million, or 13.2 percent of all households.

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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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How to Use E-Books for Linkbait and Inbound Link Generation

Andrea Kalli

One of the most important and ongoing search engine marketing strategies (aka off-page SEO) is to create incoming backlinks to your website. One way to do this is to create value-packed ebooks that include links to your various website pages. However, digital publishing has a reputation problem. Thanks to the minimal barriers to entry and nominal costs of publishing work, there’s a distinct lack of real quality amongst the internet’s most popular titles.

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Puttin’ a cap on the year

Loosely Speaking

Found a quiet moment today to. a. Meet up with AZVAs cohort Tara Fort for a coffee break with recent podcast contest winner Will Hepburn , owner of Hepburn Capital Management. (See our smiling faces below, during our lively conversation about business strategies over coffee at the Raven Cafe here in Prescott AZ.). b. Finish up a a couple of little berets for donation to a local nonprofit.

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Comparing 19 Blog Designs to Mine

The Small Business Blog

Danny Brown announces a new design of his DannyBrown.me blog. I can’t help but compare his to mine. I can’t help but compare other blogs to mine. Contrasting the colors, fonts, images, and backgrounds of 19 random blogs of which I’m familiar, I created a video to compare Danny Brown , Chris Brogan , Kristi Hines , Kim Woodbridge , C.C.

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Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity | Main | Tips to Go Almost Paperless » Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers There are a number of simple things that you can tweak to give you loads of extra time in your day, week, month and even year.  Today I'll share 13 tips.

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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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Paying it Forward: Mentoring

Make or Break Moments

We talk a lot about building customer relationships, but what about other types of relationships? Mentoring is a terrific way to help young business professionals and college students expand their experience by learning from you. Micro Mentor is a free online service that helps you connect – whether you are looking for a mentor or [.].

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Last Minute Tips to Generate Business During the Holidays

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is generally accepted as “down time&#. But, your business doesn’t have to lose momentum because folks are sipping eggnog and opening gifts. Here are a few last-minute tips so your business doesn’t stall while you and everyone else — are enjoying the holidays. 1.

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Old (Smallbiz) Professions That Are Making a Comeback

Small Business Labs

I ran across a slideshow on CNBC on Old Professions That Are Making a Comeback.  It lists 8 professions that are making a comeback due to increasing demand for hand crafted and local products.  Of the 7 professions listed, 6 are small business professions: Farming and related food products. Letterer: the hand creation of signs and posters.

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Merry Christmas 2011

Eco-Office Gals

As another year comes to a close, I want to take a moment to thank all of you and wish you a Very Merry Christmas. May it be safe & happy. May you be surrounded by those you love and may all your dreams and wishes come true in 2011. Click here to view my card to you. Happy Holidays! Jen, Troy, Sebastian, Chloe & Abby Smith. Post from: Eco-Office Gals Merry Christmas 2011.

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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