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Create a Customer-Focused Social Media Strategy » Make or Break.

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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Admin Admin, a blog-a-thon inspired poem by a fellow admin

Office Dynamics

The 2nd Annual Blog-a-thon has been a great success all throughout the month of April. We are so thankful to have such active and inspiring readers, and members of this site. Please continue to visit this blog throughout the year! We post new messages like the ones you have read here this month frequently. If you ideas for this blog, please share them with us!

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Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Lets grow together! Thursday, April 29, 2010 Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes Have you ever been on a conference call and couldnt get a word in because there were so many people on the call and they were talking over each other?

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Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity | Main | 16 Productivity-Enhancing Websites » Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day Think about this today!  What is your 20? A few days ago, my blog post on Self-Discipline and Productivity - How to build self-discipline was being re-tweeted and discussed on Twitter.  Here are a few comments:   Ileen

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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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Is Your Small Business Worth Shouting About?

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life!

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The Importance of Customer Listening

Customers Rock!

(Note: This post is a reprise of an earlier Customers Rock! blog post, and one that was very popular with my readers. As customer listening has become a common topic recently, I felt it would be helpful to post it again, especially as it discusses NON social media listening. Important to listen via all channels!). Are we putting up walls between the enterprise and its customers?

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Admin Admin, a blog-a-thon inspired poem by a fellow admin

Office Dynamics

The 2nd Annual Blog-a-thon has been a great success all throughout the month of April. We are so thankful to have such active and inspiring readers, and members of this site. Please continue to visit this blog throughout the year! We post new messages like the ones you have read here this month frequently. If you ideas for this blog, please share them with us!

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How to be content with what you have

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to be content with what you have Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 26, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Do you remember buying your first car?

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11 Halos: Epicenter

Loosely Speaking

Baseball at its best: the minor leagues. The third week of April has us watching the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in the California League. The heart of the game is this great crowd of little leaguers, knitters & crocheters at an impromptu stitch-n-pitch and, best of all, watching our very own third baseman signing autographs for little kids before the game and then going yard during the game.

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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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Planned European Webserver Outage

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals.

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IVAA summit – day 2 – audio tidbit – #IVAA10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 22 IVAA summit – day 2 – audio tidbit – #IVAA10 By Andr

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Make or Break Moments on Paper

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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Succession Plan - Does Your Company Have One For You?

Office Dynamics

Whether you’re young, middle aged or nearing retirement do you or your company have a succession plan for you? Why should you care? Because where are you going without a map. Where do you want to end up? The questions you can ask yourself are the same ones a company may be looking at and if not, they should. When one looks at a career it needs to be planned out.

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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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How to Improve Your Public Speaking

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Improve Your Public Speaking Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! It’s been a few years since I was in high school (okay, a lot of years).

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Blog Hopping Tour pulls into the Loosely Speaking depot

Loosely Speaking

A huge welcome and a big hug for Sharon Williams , president of 24-Hour Secretary! Sharon’s been hopping around the blogosphere answering industry questions and promoting this year’s Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC). Today, she’s hanging out on Loosely Speaking while I am winding down here in Phoenix with other VAs at the 2010 IVAA Online Summit.

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Top 5 Tips for Safe Business Travel

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. You ask a question, I answer! Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP.

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Last day at IVAA summit – day 3 – tidbit audio – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 23 Last day at IVAA summit – day 3 – tidbit audio – #iv

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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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Preparing for the Phone Interview

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Preparing for the Phone Interview On April 22, 2010, In Uncategorized , By CareersDoneWrite.com 0 It has become commonplace for companies to conduct phone interviews before bringing candidates in for a full screen.

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Succession Plan - Does Your Company Have One For You?

Office Dynamics

Whether you’re young, middle aged or nearing retirement do you or your company have a succession plan for you? Why should you care? Because where are you going without a map. Where do you want to end up? The questions you can ask yourself are the same ones a company may be looking at and if not, they should. When one looks at a career it needs to be planned out.

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What kind of procrastinator are you?

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap What kind of procrastinator are you? Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 21, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! This is post 8 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.

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Getting face time with peers

Loosely Speaking

This is the last full day of IVAA Live Summit 2010 in Phoenix. Whatever your industry, getting together for some face-to-face with your industry peers is more important than ever in this virtual world. Summit sounds like : inspiration, motivation, challenges, friendship, and clicking knitting needles and slurped lattes. Summit looks like : long lost friends hugging, shrieks of recognition, networking questions and answers, and glowing laptops in dimmed rooms.

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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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The Zen of Social Media Marketing

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online.

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IVAA summit in Phoenix – day 1 – evening tidbit – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 21 IVAA summit in Phoenix – day 1 – evening tidbit – #i

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Age of Conversation 3 Author Spotlights

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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Business Ethics, Time for the Assistants to Chime In

Office Dynamics

This is a guest blog posting from Office Dynamics Certified Trainer and Speaker, Sue Robach. Business Ethics involves the study of moral (right or wrong) issues and choices in the workplace – and the many gray areas. This term indicates that the behaviors being demonstrated may not be considered ethical or unethical or right or wrong. Whether the behavior is considered right or wrong depends on the situation and the intent of the person doing it.

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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