Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 8, 2013

This company is so ginormous I am having a dizzy time of trying to wrap my brain around what all they do – various forms of power, civil engineering, and then the IT services side of it. For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I am the EA to the CEO of a global conglomerate.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

No delicate tippy-tapping on the keyboard for me. Email is one of the most common forms of communication between freelancers and clients, and all too often, the clients have no idea how they come off. The only upside in my example is that I was the client, so I haven’t lost business, just a good supplier. Or had he?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. Take me, for example. The Problem with Paper Clutter: Creating a Paper Management System Reply Mark W. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text are two great potential examples. Or are you?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. This isn’t just because specialization increases your chances of making a living from your writing – it’s also because it’s easier to improve when you focus on mastering one form.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

If you were, say for example, to add WishList Member to Men with Pens and offer a paid level of content, you would be, essentially, creating a product. For example, if you sell a book for $10, you might sell a workbook for $40. If that kind of fast checking could be allowed on a pay-blog, then maybe the whole system could work.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

For example, you’ve mentioned that you want to be paid for what you do, for the hours that go into your work and exposing yourself so much to your fans. Just once in a while… I find I have those moments as well, and if you’re not right there with the pen or the keyboard, then you’ve lost it. Just grasp that moment, eh?

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Go to Building A to procure form D and turn it into person C. I have an upcoming series of articles on Hong Kong, which not only uses my background in Asian/Chinese history, for example. Of course, my Spanish component nets me translation work, and my K-6 education component means textbook publishers luv me, too.

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