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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

She equips leaders, employees and organizations to clearly define goals and create a roadmap to achieving them, which allows for better alignment with corporate culture, leading to increased productivity and profitability. Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Over the last few years there are plenty more online communities and in more recent times we have taken networking to a whole new level with local networks, organised by assistants, springing up all over the place. Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. It is brilliant!

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I

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Please Mind Your Manners

Loosely Speaking

Networking and other live business meetings often take place in local restaurants. Let’s face it: organizers love to schedule these at restaurants who have space and are willing to host meetings at no charge or with no minimum purchase. Get Loosely Speaking Products. We can all use the reminder. Loose Ends.

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

“You had to start with the most important things because you’d inevitably hear a knock in the background, and the production assistant would say, ‘We need you on the set.'” She also was often tasked with booking restaurant reservations, a duty much more nuanced than it sounds.

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VA Industry Leaders: a conversation

Loosely Speaking

In addition to not totally understanding the blogging craze, I am really stumped on how social networking could possibly help me market my services. I am in linked in and facebook but so far all I have been doing is adding names and it seems that I am overrun with requests to join groups that are not at all productive.

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Arizona Virtual Assistants Retreat

Loosely Speaking

We will use ning.com, a social networking site, to continue brainstorming on how to best serve people who need emergency help. Get Loosely Speaking Products. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. The ideas kept flowing. Other retreat attendees joined us. More ideas. More questions. Loose Ends.

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