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Thinking of Starting a VA business? The time is now…

Practically Perfect PA

There has never been a better time to launch your VA business. If you have been considering it for a while, have proven skills that can be easily transferred into the remote support sector, have a realistic understanding of the hard work and effort involved in working for yourself, and have the funds required to […].

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What Assistant Certification Courses Are Best For You?

Office Dynamics

Are assistant certification courses necessary? At Office Dynamics, we are noticing a tremendous amount of interest in executive assistant certification or administrative assistant certification courses or programs. We regularly see interest in our certificate-based designation programs, World Class Assistant Certification program or our Star Achievement Series® Certification and Designation curriculum.

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Is Craft Brewing a Harbinger of a New Artisan Economy?

Small Business Labs

There have been a number of recent articles pointing out that despite having to compete with several giant beer companies, the craft brewing industry has dramatically expanded over the past decade. Examples include The Atlantic's  Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America , Bloomberg's  Craft Brewing as a Model for Helping the Middle Class , and the Economist's  Crafting a Life.

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3 Dumb Moves That Kill the Careers of Smart People

On The Job

"Success is a lousy teacher," Bill Gates says. "It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." The working world is littered with the careers of people who didn't listen to Gates (or probably their mothers who offered the same advice). Some of these include entrepreneurs who started their business and achieved immediate success -- only to be serving lattes a year later because they crashed and burned.

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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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Technology of the week: Hipmunk

Practically Perfect PA

Today’s Technology of the week: Hipmunk. Here are all the details… What is Hipmunk? Hipmunk is a website and app that helps you plan travel from searching for flights and hotels to airbnb apartments, ground transport and everything in between. What does it do? There are a lot of search engine based website and apps that help […].

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The Post Millennial Generation

Small Business Labs

A fun demography fact is there aren't official definitions of generational cohorts*.  Making this even more fun, different people and groups often use different definitions and even different names for the various cohorts. For example, the generation born between roughly 1980 and 2000 used to be called "Gen Y" (and still is by many).

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Podcast 091: Make your bed

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ? Stitcher ? Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play. You can leave a review here! This is Podcast 91 and it’s about making your bed. First, I have an announcement. I’m going to start a group coaching program for productivity, time management, prioritizing, procrastination and decluttering. The format will be virtual so it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you can still join in.

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We have to raise each other up

Practically Perfect PA

Happy International Women’s Day you AMAZING readers. I want to start today’s post by telling you a little bit about me over the last few years. I started Practically Perfect PA while working as an EA for a whole number of reasons, but mainly because I had a lot to share. I’d learnt and I’d […].

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Research Reveals the One Thing That Can Derail Your Motivation

On The Job

It's not unusual to hear people say that when they've been job searching for a while, they sort of lose their motivation. This loss of initiative can also be found when people are working on projects for work or trying to come up with an innovative idea. I've been through this myself, many times. When I feel my motivation lag, the one thing I don't do is pay close attention to others who seem to be excelling.

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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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Do Uber Drivers Only Make $3.37 Per Hour? (The Quick Answer is No)

Small Business Labs

A study on ridesharing drivers -  The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes - was released last week by the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Their finding that the ridesharing drivers working for firms like Uber and Lyft have median earnings $3.37 per hour was widely covered in the press. The only problem was their analysis was flawed, something they conceded this week.  The main flaw was pointed out by Uber in a post by their chief eco

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How to Trade Penny Stocks: The 101

Small Business CEO

Day trading is one of those pursuits that cannot be quantified into a perfect analytics style that anyone can accomplish. Understanding trends and being able to read charts is important, so you need to have a head for numbers, but you also need to be able to think in abstract terms. You can make money by news trading, or jumping on stocks that could bounce on earnings reports or the United States job reports.

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Day in the life: Jane Condliffe, VA at the PA Pod

Practically Perfect PA

Today’s Day in the life: Jane Condliffe, VA at The PA Pod. This is our first Virtual Assistant to complete the day in the life questionnaire. So, do enjoy! What are the main aspects of your role? As a Virtual Personal Assistant I support small businesses and professionals with their business and personal administration. My role […].

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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2018

Three Shots Ahead

Last night, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham embraced International Women’s Day at a special event hosted by the Council’s Town Hall. A group of women, leaders in their industries, joined a discussion panel to discuss the situation of.

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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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Why You Shouldn’t Spend Time Journaling In The Morning (And What You Should Do Instead)

Productivityist

I’m a big fan of journaling. But I’m not a fan of taking time to write in your journal in the morning. Before I dive too deep into this subject, I don’t want to get the idea of writing in the morning confused with writing in a journal in the morning. The idea of “morning pages” as made popular by Julie Cameron in The Artist’s Way is a good one, but I don’t consider that to be journaling in its purest sense.

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4 Reasons Why Every Business Should Use ID Cards

Small Business CEO

Identification badges have become an important part of the business world today, evidenced by the fact that one of the first things a new employee gets upon joining an organization is their ID badge. Employee badges help in enhancing security as well as serving to boost the integrity of an organization, working not only as a quick form of employee identification, but also helping businesses streamline their relationships.

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3 Key Ways Your Small Business Can Save

Small Business CEO

Keeping down costs as much as possible without sacrificing quality is critical to any small business if it’s going to stay competitive, maintain a high customer satisfaction rate, and ultimately grow into a medium or even large-sized business somewhere down the road. Many small businesses these days can be run by only one or a few people, at least in their “infant stage,” and sometimes can even be run entirely from a home office with no physical business property.

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Legal Liability in the Workplace

Small Business CEO

America is a fairly litigious society, although we’re not quite as bad as our reputation suggests. The truth is, there are good reasons for many of the civil lawsuits that are currently winding their way through the court system. There are far fewer frivolous lawsuits out there than it may seem. When we think of “legal liability,” we often think of in terms of someone slipping and falling on a wet grocery store floor because the employees didn’t put out a “caution wet floor” sign.

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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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Make Your Business “POP” With Eye-Catching Displays

Small Business CEO

If you want to attract more dollars to your business, start by attracting eyeballs. The products that get the most attention are usually the products that get the most sales. photo credit: aldask / Flickr. That’s right: whatever you have for sale, you’re likely to sell more of it when you grab your prospect’s attention with something as simple as an eye-catching “Point Of Purchase” (POP) visual display.

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Negative Restaurant Reviews: Best Ways to Respond

Small Business CEO

A common misconception among many local restaurant owners is that it’s best to take the high road and ignore negative reviews. The thinking being that it’s better to walk away than fight, further damaging your reputation. There’s a big problem with this thought process. Over 90 percent of consumers now read online reviews of a local business before deciding to make the trip.

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Boosting Information Retention During Staff Meetings

Small Business CEO

According to Harvard Business Review , 15 percent of an organization’s collective time is spent in meetings. This percentage has increased year-over-year since 2008, meaning many organizations are now devoting even more time and energy to meetings than in the past. Staff meetings can be invaluable for disseminating important information across a company and encouraging collaboration.

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How to Get More Millennials Coming to Your Restaurant

Small Business CEO

Millennials rank dining out as one of their top guilty pleasures. Ranking this activity even higher than buying electronics, apparel, beauty products and accessories. It’s a fact that over half this group of diners eats out at least three times a week, regardless how much money they make or if they have a family or not. Why? People who’re aged 18 to 34 are the biggest demographic on the planet, recently taking the crown from the baby boomers who used to dominate the consumer marketpl

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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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What Motivates Getting Things Done with Mary Lamia

Productivityist

This episode of The Productivityist Podcast is sponsored by Health IQ, an insurance company that helps health conscious people like runners, cyclist, weightlifters and vegetarians get lower rates on their life insurance. Go to healthiq.com/vardy to support the show and see if you qualify. Today’s guest is Dr. Mary Lamia – a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and the author of the new book What Motivates Getting Things Done.

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