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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

The agent pays to put them up in a luxury condo overnight, covers the change fees on their flights, and sells them a home the next day. Here’s one of five emails I received on one order: Dear Todd AKA Shindigz Customer of the Day, CONGRATULATIONS! I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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I Tried Napping Every Day for a Month—Here’s What I Learned About Toxic Hustle Culture

Success

Setting up a challenge to nap for 30 days is a challenge in itself. Napping for longer than 30 minutes was bad, too—I might wake up groggy and unmotivated to work. Mark Zhang, CEO and founder of Manta Sleep, backed this up. If I didn’t nap in time, I would lie there forever missing important emails and sacrificing deadlines.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

Success

A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. For many employees, the workday does not end when they leave the office,” the authors wrote. The breakdown of work-life balance.

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This Is How You Can Get Better at Reading People

Success

It also includes every way you communicate, whether it’s in person, by phone, by email, by text or on social media. This article originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. That includes everyone, whether it’s an audience, a colleague, your spouse, your kids or a customer.

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Yes, You Need a Website. Here’s 7 Reasons Why.

Tips From T. Marie

Those same new business owners are inevitably going to follow up with a big, old, “Why?”. Engagement on Facebook Pages had dropped 20% in 2017 and with the new changes in 2018 we can expect that number to increase. You can run contests, promote products, have an email list signup, sell and give away stuff to promote your business.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. We read up on attractions, look for deals, and seek out free walking tours. You witness firsthand new trends, or the way old trends have shown up in new places, or the way some trends seem nearly universal.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

When a pilot programme for a four day week was announced in the UK early in the New Year, #4dayweek trended for days on twitter, with jokey comments on how employees taking part in the trial should do everything not to ‘f it up for the rest of us.’ I usually find myself checking emails or returning calls. Cultural mores.

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