Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Price isn’t everything. There are plenty of deals out there to be made but you shouldn’t select suppliers on their price alone. Alternatively, select suppliers that have great reputations, have been in the business for a while and understand your requirements.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Administrative and clerical positions require focus, diligence, and superior workplace organization skills to keep the office running at full speed, but a workplace that feels impersonal or distracting can disrupt productivity and efficiency. Thankfully, your home doesn''t have to be your only sanctuary.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 16, 2012

Live conferences are a fantastic way to gain actionable knowledge for your business, rekindle former relationships and make new relationships.  Yet, many people don't take advantage of the investment like they could.   Once I get to know you, I'm comfortable and in some instances you can't shut me up! 

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Many companies do not pay for their assistants to receive training and they don’t encourage assistants to keep their skills up to date. I also wanted to make sure I attend a good mixture of talks and training sessions and I also wanted to speak at the very least half of the exhibitors and exchange business cards.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

That doesn’t mean you have to do ‘jazz hands’ every time you say something, or hire a troupe of cheerleaders to follow you about. That means leveraging a skill we Brits have in spades: subtlety. They see what’s written on your business card. So promoting your personal brand is imperative.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We attendees all got busy networking, exchanging business cards, talking and laughing as we chatted easily over lunch. T S Eliot). Presentation skills. For lunch, we’d left the gorgeous Pavilion Ballroom; taking an easy, short walk to Tbones restaurant for a great buffet. The décor is smashing! Creativity.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 18, 2011

1000 MOO cards (Custom business cards to show off your amazing skills.). Small business books. BatchBlue t-shirt. They will review the stories and pick the top ones. Some will even be posted on their blog at a later date. The grand prize: Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect. Free for Life” Batchbook account.

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Every time we try to peek out from our own little personalized cubby-hole and think about the possibility that something – an idea or skill within us may one day possibly turn into a full-time career – and make us an overnight millionaire too! Read the following list of small business ideas. Adult Paper Route.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Show people your skills and how you are making a difference. See what you can change about yourself, don’t try to change others. At times, the person that conveys this tone doesn’t realize they are coming across in a harmful manner. Remember to smile, do your job well and increase your foundation of skills.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 28, 2008

Of course, you have to present yourself well, answer the interview questions properly, have the skills and knowledge of the position you are applying for and a few other factors that help you get the job. We both had similar skills, education, etc. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter! My phone number is (XXX) XXX-XXXX.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Networking Like a Pro One of the best ways to boost your career and hone your skills as an administrative assistant is to practice networking. You need confidence in yourself, confidence in your abilities, and confidence in your networking skills. Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Do you feel that they are overbearing and don’t know when to keep their opinions to themselves? Don’t allow yourself to become them. Remember that you want to be the bigger person and don’t sink to their level. Don’t let your work performance suffer. Practice, practice, practice!

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2007

This is definitely good for sharing ideas and skills among teammates and other departments. We hold meetings every so often (since everyone’s busy and can’t really figure out when these meetings work for everyone), but we do try to meet at least once every quarter.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Seminars for Professional Assistants By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Productivity A re you looking to improve your skills and catch up with the latest office trends ? Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter! This definitely helped my position.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills. Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Dear T, Thank you for being an avid reader and for submitting a question! :) I hope my blogs have been helpful to you! -Is When you start brainstorming, you can also ask questions to help showcase your talents and skills better too. I’m always very eager to learn a new skill or become an expert in the programs I already know.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter! This person sounds like a typical self-indulgent hipocrit who is climbing the ladder because of her people skills (kissing up) and not actual work related skills. Next she starts complaining about people around her, her friends, her spouse’s friends, kids, etc.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Business Cards Are Nice Too Now, what do you do if you have some human powered work force, some OCR software to do the dirty job for you and a lot of audience (Shoeboxed is pretty popular, you know)? So, the next logical step was to give you a complimentary service, in the form of a business card transcribing service.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

You can also attach a file from Word, Excel or PowerPoint or a business card from your Contacts if it is someone you need to remember to call and want that information available. Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway?

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.”. No cold calling, no website or marketing, no business cards or networking events. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? Bootstrappers don’t waste their money – they make money. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." 1 week ago More updates.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 25, 2010

Doesn’t have an office and most of the time doesn’t have business cards either (the new dial tone being twitter , of course). I don’t have a specific room, I sit down at whatever office may be free. For a digital nomad the world is the office. Or so I thought. I drink a tea and sometimes I pick a sandwich.

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On The Job

JANUARY 4, 2010

Heres the story I did on resolutions for your career for my Gannett column: The problem with making resolutions regarding your career is that you become so busy with your job, or so stressed by everyday work events that you quickly lose sight of the things you want to improve. Improve skills.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

It’d be nice to have a website, but I don’t really need one. I have my offline business and that does well. I’m not here to push people into doing something they don’t want to do or don’t need to do. That wasn’t the case here. He hasn’t signed it yet, mind you.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

It’s like dating – don’t make a move for a home run when we haven’t even gotten to first base yet. “I don’t GET why you want to guest post – my readers aren’t even your target market. You’re into athletics; we’re into business and writing. What a twit.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The smallest building block of this circle is your business card (if we’re talking about business relationships). I gave up business cards a while ago. I don’t consider myself as someone who does business anymore (although my business side still pops up every now and then, as you already know).

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. These aren’t your average 15-minute fire-offs, folks, no matter how fast Taylor and I can type. We can’t. Written by James - 106 Comments “I’ve been blogging for five years.

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