Productivityist

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

One of the biggest takeaways I received from New Media Expo was the suggestion that you should survey your readers. With that in mind, I present to you The 2014 Productivityist Reader Survey. Incidentally, I discuss the idea of making better things — and making things better — in my latest newsletter. It is totally anonymous.

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Productivityist

MARCH 23, 2014

The results of my first reader survey have been tabulated, a little more than six weeks after asking people to take it. Now I’m going to share some of the data with you… Based on the survey, the majority of my audience is male — over 75%. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Photo credit: yarranz via SXC.HU.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You need to actually get out there and hear people, whether through interviews or surveys or combing through product reviews or forums. “It Launch a survey. Create a five-question survey and put it in front of your ideal audience. Email strangers to ask if you can set up a five-minute call. Don’t try to guess.

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Productivityist

MARCH 23, 2014

The results of my first reader survey have been tabulated, a little more than six weeks after asking people to take it. Based on the survey, the majority of my audience is male — over 75%. With that in mind, here''s some of what I''ve concluded based on some of the answers given: You like the bi-weekly newsletter format.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 28, 2013

Email marketing is a necessary component of a marketing strategy, but some customers may view it as a necessary evil instead. The success of sharing news, products and opportunities with customers can be eclipsed by email burnout or customer resentment of unnecessary emails. Try to see them that way.

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Allwork

JULY 20, 2023

Leverage surveys, feedback forms, and social media channels to foster open communication. Encourage conversation, ask questions, and create polls or surveys to solicit feedback from your community. Utilize your website, social media platforms, email newsletters, and coworking community platforms to spread the word.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 14, 2015

Survey: Three in 10 Workers Think Their Employer Is Ineffective at Showing Appreciation to Staff. But opinions are divided between employers and their staff on what constitutes effective employee recognition, according to a new OfficeTeam survey. MENLO PARK, Calif. 2. Put it in writing. 3. Publicize achievements.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I bet it conjures up all sorts of images of telephone surveys, sending out questionnaires, and standing in the street accosting people to ask them questions (yes – I used to do this type of market research many years ago when I worked for a management consultancy practice). 3. Create an annual or semi annual survey.

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Worxbee

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Executive assistants tend to have vast networks of contacts and can often make requests such as “would you mind placing this in your newsletter?” Your follow-up might include things like: Emailing out recordings. Emailing out attendee surveys. Emailing out any offers that were made during the event.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 24, 2010

The Three Rs aren't cutting it for today's workforce, according to the American Management Association's 2010 Critical Skills Survey of 2,115 managers and other executives. According to the AMA survey, 51.4% I notice many misspelled words in emails to me, or assignments from classes or especially in resume cover letters.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 24, 2010

The Three Rs aren't cutting it for today's workforce, according to the American Management Association's 2010 Critical Skills Survey of 2,115 managers and other executives. According to the AMA survey, 51.4% I notice many misspelled words in emails to me, or assignments from classes or especially in resume cover letters.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As the creator of a weekly newsletter and a host of the future work podcast, Daan’s forward-thinking approach and industry contributions have positioned him as a thought leader in the evolving landscape of remote and hybrid work. But actually what we ended up doing is just send a lot more emails and communicate a lot more.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 2, 2012

They are also known as free reports, eBooks, digital products, audio downloads, and pretty much anything you can create and email as an offer. You’ll get more people on your email list. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer?

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Denise Aday

AUGUST 24, 2015

You’ve already made your signup offer enticing enough for someone to submit their email address (and perhaps more). The default copy provided by MailChimp and other email service providers for setting up our signup pages and messages is the bare minimum — a good guideline and starting point. Typically include instructions about….

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Denise Aday

AUGUST 24, 2015

You’ve already made your signup offer enticing enough for someone to submit their email address (and perhaps more). The default copy provided by MailChimp and other email service providers for setting up our signup pages and messages is the bare minimum — a good guideline and starting point. Typically include instructions about….

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are also known as free reports, eBooks, digital products, audio downloads, and pretty much anything you can create and email as an offer. You’ll get more people on your email list. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer? They create trust.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 30, 2013

Start by surveying your existing client base (no matter how small) to understand future buyers better. There are free tools such as Google Docs and MailChimp that let you create a survey and distribute it easily and affordably. The results of this survey will let you write an extensive profile of your typical customer.

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Eco-Office Gals

JANUARY 1, 2013

You can do this by sending out periodic surveys or pitching out questions from time to time on your Facebook profile page or even your Pinterest account. Make sure that there is both a phone number and email address where your staff can be reached and try to go no longer than 48 hours without providing, not just a reply but a viable solution.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

E-Mail Five Best Email Clients - [link] - Lifehacker did a cool survey of their readers to find out what e-mail tools you like the best.  Click to get posts as we publish in email or you might be interested in less email?  .  Fortunately, you don't have to do that this time!  To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 16, 2009

If you have a few minutes, I'd love it if you would go to www.AboutOne.com  and take their market survey.     Please help the team ensure that the product meets YOUR needs by taking the survey at www.AboutOne.com - it takes less than 10 minutes and you can win an iPod Touch every month too.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

In the age of advanced media choices, use email, blogging, and twitter to a company’s advantage. Survey customer satisfaction and encourage feedback by surveys, polls, emails, and personal correspondence if needed. Even negative feedback can help to bring about customer loyalty.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. Some of those become blog posts, newsletter articles, parts of books. These kernels of wisdom are the perfect prompts to expand into blog posts, newsletter articles, ebooks and presentations. BLOGS, ARTICLES, NEWSLETTERS, PUBLIC SPEAKING - OH MY!!!

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I can keep up to date with the Guernsey PA Connect website and emails, my personal and work emails, along with always being able to call anyone if I need to. Cath is always on the end of the phone/email when I need her and I appreciate that. We have a quarterly newsletter and Julie kindly takes care of our social media.

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Service Untitled

DECEMBER 2, 2010

When customers share feedback, whether it be through complaints to a customer service department, comments to an employee working the front end, thank you notes, or solicited surveys, a company ideally will have a way to communicate with customers when changes have been made. “You spoke – we listened.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

After conducting a survey of about 4000+ of my Twitter followers, I learned that people have a real challenge figuring out where to pay attention and how to figure it out. PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )? 

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Service Untitled

JULY 30, 2010

All it took was my phone number and email address, and I would earn money back on all of my purchases. It’s so easy to communicate with someone once you have their email address, and doing it through newsletters, and promotional updates provide an interesting and upbeat way to stay in touch with all of your loyal customers.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. This skill has expedited the growth of my audience from under a hundred to over two thousand email subscribers in eight months. It could be customer satisfaction surveys, customer order data or social media data.

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Andrea Kalli

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Generally, these actions include signing up for a free trial program, joining a new website, or completing an online survey. Using email, address, or name submission forms, affiliates are paid for every user that submits their contact information to the advertising business. Opt-in programs are particularly popular.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

  A survey from the American Dietetic Association finds that 75 percent of office workers eat lunch at their desks as often as two or three times a week. PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?  Why is that?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

  Accenture conducted a survey of 1,000 middle managers in large companies in the U.S. Email is the ultimate distraction that most of us face now.    Try to prevent any incoming email from coming in and bugging you.  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 13, 2010

Before investing in any search strategy, reputation management or otherwise, plan things out, survey the options that are available, and take action. If you are interested in using SEO as a reputation management tool for your business, these five strategies, tips, and tactics could be of value. 1) Create brand-friendly domain names.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Tame Your Email 1. Turn off email alerts when emails arrive in your inbox. If you know that you will never answer an email, delete it right away. Create email folders same as you would for word doc and paper files. Examples: If you have a full email box, then schedule an hour each morning to tackle it.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ask employees recently recruited or run surveys on what content they would have liked to see or found useful. However, social media profiles may require daily updates, whereas email newsletters may find once a month updates sufficient. Keep in Contact with Applicants So you’ve finished recruiting for an open role.

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