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7 Ways to Free Up an Extra 25 Hours a Week

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Fax me a copy of that minute-by-minute breakdown and let’s chat. When your email chain reaches more than five back-and-forth responses, it’s time to pick up the phone. Instead, pick up the phone, have a quick chat, close the loop and move on. Pick up that phone. The good news is, you can. No more long email chains.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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Start off by getting a mailbox at a local UPS, get set up with a toll-free phone number through Grasshopper.com, register a professional domain name at NameCheap.com, and get business cards and marketing material from Vistaprint or PrintingForLess.com.”. This article was published in October 2011 and has been updated.

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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

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Pick up the phone, knock on the door, reach out to those people, and go for what you want. Oh, and I’m going to fax a poem to you. Pick up the phone and let’s make some money! This article was published in June 2017 and has been updated. The big accounts, the ones you’re not ready to call, the scary ones.

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Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In.

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Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? Or have you played the popular “phone tag&# game?

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How to Create the “VIP Experience” for Your Clients with a Welcome Packet

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On this form have space for your client to fill in all their details and a place for them to sign so that they can fax this back to you – and include all the details about your program/service that you’ve already discussed. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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4 Simple Steps to Securely Send Credit Card Information

Office Organization Success

Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her. Sending info via email is like sending a postcard via mail. Instead use one of these options: 1. Put your CC info in a Word document, and send to her via a secure file transfer service like Send This File or Dropbox.

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Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need

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TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need Technology Review I’m writing today about the use of a single phone line for all business and/or personal phone and SMS communication. You can read more about UC in this Wikipedia article. Enter Google Voice. Don’t worry.

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