Sat.Feb 02, 2013 - Fri.Feb 08, 2013

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Social Media Do’s and Don’ts for assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Do you think assistants should use social media for professional purposes? Now I think a lot of you might have guessed where I stand on this question? If you answered positively then yes you would be correct I think using social media for your professional development and networking is an absolute must! That must however does come with a big but! There are many many positives but there are some negatives and you do have to be careful to not damage your reputation in anyway.

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Green Colleges in the US Lead the Way in Sustainability

Eco-Office Gals

Environmental issues have finally and permanently come out of the shadows, with everyone from politicians to scientists to pastors admitting that climate change is a real issue that must be addressed. The super storm that caused massive damage up and down the Eastern seaboard might have been the last straw for those that have been loudly promoting sustainability, and excuses are just no longer acceptable.

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How a Lack of Manners Hurts Your Career

On The Job

The idea for this latest story I did for Gannett/USA Today came from the many complaints I've received over the years about workplace incivility. I've heard gripes about the guy who eats Cheetos all day and leaves a trail of orange fingerprints everywhere. There's the woman who fights with her children all day on her cellphone and the guy who thinks nothing of texting during a business lunch.

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It’s those banks again!

The Small Business Blog

Recently I was looking to open a business bank account for a new venture I’m looking to start- so I thought I would do the rounds with the banks to see what was on offer. I’m not going to name names here, but I was actually quite shocked at what I found. I went in as a start-up business, completely ignorant of what I needed to do and what I needed in general- just to gauge what support the banks could offer.

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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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Great resources for assistants on Twitter

Practically Perfect PA

Earlier this week I wrote a piece on Social Media Do’s and Don’ts for assistants so I thought I would carry on with that theme and try to convince you all to join Twitter! Twitter really is a great place for learning as well as being social. Here is a list of people, companies and professional associations that I think will add real value to your career development.

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The Rise of Coaching as a Business

Small Business Labs

Regular readers know we've long been fascinated with the growing number of personal services jobs and businesses.  These are firms and people that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained and often affluent consumers. Personal services cover a wide range of services - everything from dog walkers to massage therapists to financial planners.   But one of the fastest growing sectors is coaching.

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Top 5 Tips for Business Longevity

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. You can’t predict the future for your business, but it is possible to conduct fairly accurate risk assessments so that you have a decent idea about the things that might go wrong and have a bearing on the direction your business takes in the coming years. 2.

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What Does Your Workspace Say About You?

Eat Your Career

Some of you aren’t going to like this article. I can hear you now: “Chrissy, who cares that my desk looks like a tornado hit it? I can find everything I need and that’s all that matters.”. I’ve got a sobering newsflash, my friend. Brace yourself. My response to that argument? Nope. Wrong. Not true. That’s not all that matters. Organization is as much about others as it is about you.

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The Green Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Workforce

Eco-Office Gals

If you’ve been thinking about starting up a virtual office or transitioning the business that you already have into one, now more than ever, it’s actually a really wise thing to do. As a matter of fact, in the fall of 2012, Business Week did an entire feature on why many companies have decided to be virtual. One major reason is because it reflects the signs of the times; the ever-progressive stages in technology that command all of us to communicate in cyberspace.

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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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Is Traditional Retail Dead?

Small Business Labs

A recent Pando Media article quotes noted VC Marc Andreessen saying traditional brick and mortar retail will be dead within the next the decade.  And by dead, he means really dead - as in we will do all our shopping online. Key quotes from the article: “Retail guys are going to go out of business and ecommerce will become the place everyone buys.

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LinkedIn Success: 37 Thoughts to Help You Get More Out of LinkedIn

Stephanie LH Calahan

LinkedIn is one of the largest and most popular networking sites for business professionals.  However, many business owners don't know how to leverage the fabulous networking tool to their full advantage.  Today, I'm sharing an info graphic from Boot Camp Digital.  They share 37 tips to help you get more out of LinkedIn. So, what do you think?

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Why Your Business Should Monitor Its Online Reputation

The Small Business Blog

It’s true: The Internet has a shocking amount in common with Junior High! People are talking about your business. They are going to tweet about you, review you on Yelp, write about you on Facebook, leave their thoughts on Google, and email all of their friends about you. Do you know what they are saying? Sure, their personal emails are going to be out of your purview, but the rest of it isn’t.

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How Big Is Your List? 3 Numbers You Need To Know

Office Organization Success

One of the mistakes I see many, many business owners making is being so focused on the size of their list (i.e. the total number of subscribers) that they’re not paying attention to actually what’s going on in their list. And then they wonder why they’re not making the kind of money they want to be making. You already know that it’s really important to build your list, i.e. the number of people that are in YOUR database that have personally subscribed to receive your newsletter and other promoti

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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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University Cuts $1 Million Off Electricity Bill With Wind Power

Eco-Office Gals

It is reasonable to assume that the majority of states support their local universities. This tends to hold true not only on a financial level, with state schools receiving a chunk of change for their operating expenses from the state in which they reside, but it also pertains to various other types of support from the communities that harbor them. However, it is less often that you hear about institutions of higher education supporting their states.

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5 Fast and Easy Ways to Create a PDF File

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Creating a PDF file (one that can be read easily regardless of the computer it is being opened on) used to be cumbersome. You either needed to purchase expensive software or have a graphics person create the file for you. The other day my client asked me how to create a PDF file. (She was sending an agreement for the first time over the internet and did not want it altered.).

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Raising Your Fees: Tactful Ways to Approach Your Clients

The Small Business Blog

The recession has been very beneficial to freelancers and the self-employed, as it has managed to throw more work their way. However, there comes a time when even the best freelancing en entrepreneurs out there have to bite the bullet and raise their fees in order to make a living. No freelancing professional wants to have to raise their fees, as it can always come with more than a few drawbacks.

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What Goes Around Comes Back Around

Virtual Moxie

William wrote to pick my brain. Anastacia, I really have enjoyed reading Virtual Moxie for the past four years. I’ve learned so much about how to build my graphic design business in your posts here. Thank you. What I want to ask you about is something I’ve never seen you write about—negotiating rates with vendors. What do I need to know or think about in advance of trying to get better rates on things like print services, or from my accountant?

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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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5 Tips for Writing a Compelling Digital Resume

Job Advice Blog

With employers getting smarter, your resume should not just be about impressing the hiring manager. You resume should be such that a computer can also read it. This is the electronic part of the hiring process. Now, keeping this in mind, follow the 5 tips given below to write your digital resume. Be Precise and [.].

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Levi’s New Waste

Eco-Office Gals

If you love wearing jeans, there’s a pretty good chance that you have a pair of Levi’s hanging somewhere in your closet (if you don’t have a pair of them on right now). After 160 years, it’s a company that has mastered the way jeans fit for men, women and even children. Plus, Levi’s continues to find ways to adapt to the times that we are living, including when it comes to making conscious choices about the environment.

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4 Types of Alternative Lending for Businesses

The Small Business Blog

Getting the cash a company needs to remain profitable in the long run can be difficult when traditional routes to financing have been exhausted. In order to obtain the money needed to grow a business, companies can explore alternative lending options to keep the cash flowing. Peer-to-Peer Financing. Businesses that have money to lend have now turned to the Internet to offer small, short term loans to their peers in order to reap the benefits of lending.

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Moxie Tip 314: Why Does Fit Matter?

Virtual Moxie

As I mentioned yesterday, working with a client should have an easy-ness to it 95% of the time. When it does, you’re willing to work when there are problems, because you know they’re far from the norm. But when working together is difficult 95% of the time and there’s a problem, the most natural inclination is to give up and walk away. If you want a business that’s fun and that allows you to do what you enjoy while supporting a life you love, you cannot work with clients who don’t fit.

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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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Are You Looking for a Job? or Are You [Properly] Competing for One?

Job Advice Blog

At times, I am amazed at people in transition who approach the job search the way we used to in the past. Looking for a job nowadays puts job seekers into extremely tough competitions unlike those of the past, and job seekers who do not both understand and apply the rules of the game will [.].

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Sustainable Business Advice for Startup Companies

Eco-Office Gals

Starting a business is no easy undertaking, as most entrepreneurs are no doubt aware. First you have to come up with a great idea for a business, followed by putting together a plan that convinces others that you have a good idea and that you can turn it into a successful venture. From there it’s just a matter of finding lenders or investors to give you the startup funds needed to launch your business so that you can follow through with your plans to get your company off the ground and ear

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Five Reasons To Switch to E-Signature Solutions Today

The Small Business Blog

Contracts and signatures are the bane of many businesses existence. Getting a job is only half the battle when legal matters get in the way of actually doing the work or getting paid. However, e-signature systems are changing all of that. Here are five great reasons to start using the legalities of e-signatures in insurance today. 1. Faster Than Hard Copies.

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Love Your Career: Do you have a career or a job?

Office Dynamics

Dear Monday Motivators, This month, I will be writing around the theme: Love Your Career. Lots of questions come to my mind when I say that phrase, such as: Do you have a career or a job? Is what you are doing today just something to pass your time until a better opportunity comes along? What do you love about your work? During the day, are you busy watching the clock dreading each minute… counting down the hours until you get to go home?

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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