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Serviced Apartments – pros and cons

Practically Perfect PA

At first the consultants picked their own hotels and put the cost through their expenses and as you can imagine their choice of hotels varied wildly and so did the price. It is easy to negotiate on the price per night with a serviced apartment as they do tend to discount on block bookings. Filed under: Accomodation.

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Best of the Best: How to Create a Personal Brand Like DJ Khaled

Success

When he was a teenager, the world taught him that life isn’t fair, at the expense of those parents. You’re going to see restaurants, clothing, new products and more music.”. Most of them are signed with different record labels, so licensing and song clearances are a constant negotiation. A furniture line. Podcasts. “I

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10 Questions To Find The Perfect Venue

Office Dynamics

While the right venue is most likely the largest expense of your event experience, it is also the most influential in shaping the overall guest experience. This limits your negotiating power to compare pricing and use your own vendors. Are there in house vendors we are required to use?

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Service with a snarl: What to look for and how to avoid it

Service Untitled

Customer service agents are not FBI hostage negotiators and should not be expected to tolerate screaming profanities, unrealistic goals, and vulgar behaviors. High levels of service are expensive, and it costs more to provide those services, but the costs for dissatisfaction issues are much lower. How is the customer treated?

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc).

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