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The wonderful world of events – roundup

Practically Perfect PA

Here are the links to my previous blogs: How to negotiate when planning an event. The last thing you want is to have malfunctioning equipment and not knowing how to fix it or who should fix it! On Twitter follow the #Eventprofs hastag and a good group on LinkedIn is Making Good Organisers Great. Event Schedules and Speakers.

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Tap Your Knowledge to Tap Into Income

Step It Up VA Coaching

Have you negotiated some tricky issues with difficult clients or team members, financial snafus, or equipment/technology failures? Are Facebook and Twitter your scene? Have you identified key areas in your VA business where things were likely to go wrong, fall through the cracks, or get stuck? Are you a champion networker?

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Book Review: The Customer Service Survival Kit

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Whereas customer service is and has always been all about communication, Mr. Gallagher’s book provides us with a few of the skills used in hostage negotiations, crisis counseling, and police work in order to handle the worst situations calmly and professionally.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. There were charges for audio visual equipment that we never ordered. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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How To Train Your Brain

Brilliantly Better

It also monitors your energy levels sending stimuli of hunger (that would be the equivalent of re-fueling the planes), it does long-term planning (equivalent of upgrading the equipments and planes) or makes estimations (learning by example, for instance, after a plane collision). Toldya you ain’t gonna like this. . -