Success

AUGUST 29, 2022

I traveled the world from Australia to Switzerland, selling tickets and packages to corporate clients for the world’s largest sporting events. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I supplied tickets to more than 8,500 people, netting over $1 million in profits. It all started in 2001 when I launched a service business based on just an idea.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 19, 2009

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 Training On-line Recently someone asked me a question about training on-line so I thought I would share the answer in a post. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. Training On-line 10 Things = Frustration "Mom, I'm sick!"

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 14, 2019

In 2008, things got really crazy. Unfortunately, that company is no longer in business, but I spent a few years as their community spokesperson, writing professional development articles for admins and traveling the country to meet our admin community on a regular basis. Sign up today and take your admin career to the next level.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 17, 2008 Filed Under: Travel Y ou’re standing in the elevator and everyone is crammed like a can of sardines. Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? You start to feel the same way and wonder when your floor will hit next.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Your blog’s role in your professional visibility Monday, October 12, 2009 at 11:11 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Ever wonder where blogging is headed now that social media web sites have become mainstream tools?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity D o you know what a macro is? Posted on 16 October, 2008 3:50 PM The Professional Assistant Hi, Thanks for the comment. Do you know how to create them?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Round up #3, Prescott Style Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:48 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Election Day 2008! This one feels like Christmas. I voted early by mail this year.

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs I am such an SOB! Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss , the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 26, 2010

Glenn Friesen | Customer Service Training said, Thanks — I mention the difference only because colleagues in the distant past totally misunderstood the Pareto principle. Water travels downhill! You know her. I talk about her often. That’s because she always has some interesting little tidbit to share that speaks volumes.

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. Its focus is to train 100 graduate students each year about the fundamentals regarding energy efficiency so that they will be well-equipped to go into Corporate America and share the knowledge that they have with the places where they intern.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Put a smile on that face Monday, December 15, 2008 at 9:42 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life Feeling too busy? Not busy enough? Maybe all you need is a little gingerbread house. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can you say “sidetracked?&# Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:41 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant I could blame it on the economy. Melodee Patterson Comment // December 6th, 2008 // 5:01 pm choke Cubbies!?! Happy Holidays!

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Thinking Outside the Job Description Box By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 20, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog.

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APRIL 2, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Congratulations to Ryan Perry! I can’t say I know him, but my son was his teammate for the 2008 Wildcats season and I am pulling for Ryan, as he’s the first teammate we’ve ever watched to go on and make it to the show in his rookie year.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The reality is that germs can travel with the handshake. I became acutely aware of the seriousness of this as my husband underwent 7 months of bi-weekly chemotherapy in 2007 and 2008. Tags: Admin Assistant Training Professional Image. We discussed the importance of the handshake as a good business tool. What do you think?

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Updating to WordPress 2.7 Comments: 2 2 Comments Posts about Wordpress 2.7 blog.looseends.net » Dissecting a WordPress Blog Crash Pingback // March 5th, 2009 // 10:08 pm [.]

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Reasons why work slowdowns can be good Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 11:12 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant My DH had his first-ever no work day in 35 years as a Land Surveyor. Not that he has never taken a day off. Loosely Speaking�A

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs All I need is $4.59 Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:37 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life , Life of the Virtual Assistant I won’t tell you how long it’s been since I became a Google Adsense Publisher. But I WILL tell you I have only $4.59

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Are Social Media sites today’s biggest time suck? Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 9:25 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Web/Tech Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand.

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Redistributing your work-life balancing act? Comment: 1 One Comment Pages tagged "dazed" Pingback // December 15th, 2008 // 9:06 am [.] bookmarks tagged dazed Redistributing your work-life balancing act? saved by 2 others itachi12123 bookmarked on 12/15/08 | [.]

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care? Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Prescott Arizona I used to love (and be good at) gardening. Pingback // December 13th, 2008 // 10:46 am [.] Give a share! A Virtual Assistant’s Blog » All I need is $4.59

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 1, 2009

As we head into the New Year it will be easy to forget and put 2008 instead of 2009. Training On-line 10 Things = Frustration "Mom, I'm sick!" Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? .© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 1 January, 2009 Happy New Year! Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Off the needles! Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10:47 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Every girl needs a pair of bell-bottomed yoga pants. Baby hat and bell bottoms. Here is a little outfit for Avery Elizabeth Pogue, newborn daughter of Eric and Sierra.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? Social networking became the trendiest way to stay connected in 2008. As a hot new niche market, it’s natural that training programs have sprung up for VAs who want to offer this service.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views. September 19, 2008 Patricia Robb said. September 20, 2008 Anonymoussaid. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Loosely Speaking

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast Episode 1 Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast , Life of the Virtual Assistant AZVAs Podcast launches today! Task Crate was founded in 2008 by his wife and partner Jennifer Talbot.

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MARCH 1, 2009

Under My Favourites, I have added a Meeting section with some useful sites and combined many of my travel related links under one title simply called Travel. I have also combined all the tutorials, training and other education-related links under the title Training. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Prepare now for when business picks up again Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 12:54 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Here’s a list of things to do now, if you are in a work slowdown, so that when things pick up again you’ll be ready!

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Allwork

MARCH 7, 2023

But we started reinstalling travel processes and saying, no, the executive team needs to go to where the work team is. So, let’s get our executive team traveling out to where the remote workers are or where the distributed workforce is on an ongoing basis. We’ve already had flight simulation training in VR decades ago.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The reality is that germs can travel with the handshake. I became acutely aware of the seriousness of this as my husband underwent 7 months of bi-weekly chemotherapy in 2007 and 2008. It’s funny that this question would be asked of me today, as I was just speaking on business etiquette in Raleigh, NC. So what is a person to do?

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Climate change and the 6 Americas Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 7:55 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging , Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant What do these things have in common? failure to use a condom 2. volcanic eruptions 3. wildfires 7.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. If outside the city, make travel arrangements: are flights required, train or will he or she be driving. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 November, 2008 We have a winner! ► June (3) ► May (7) ► April (4) ► March (5) ► February (7) ► January (8) ▼ 2008 (215) ► December (3) ▼ November (6) Can you afford not to take a vacation? Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 9 November, 2008 Contest! ► June (3) ► May (7) ► April (4) ► March (5) ► February (7) ► January (8) ▼ 2008 (215) ► December (3) ▼ November (6) Can you afford not to take a vacation? Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

Many times the administrative assistant position is a good way into an organization and what a great training ground to know an organizations inner workings than in this profession. I think many university students are seeing the value in having this kind of training. So much is expected of executives these days. Introducing Goo.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? I also do not claim to give any medical, financial, psychological, veterinary, retail, personal training or HR advice, although at times it may seem like I think I know what Im talking about, it is just my opinion. The importance of having someone to talk to Psst!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? I also do not claim to give any medical, financial, psychological, veterinary, retail, personal training or HR advice, although at times it may seem like I think I know what Im talking about, it is just my opinion. The importance of having someone to talk to Psst!

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