Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

10 Simple and Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Gifts for the teacher, babysitter, hockey coach, or for the hosts of your holiday parties, don’t have to be expensive. If you didn’t start planning Christmas in August, you can relieve some of December’s pressure by putting these on your November to-do list.

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Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

He recently gained three new clients in three days, and while he is excited, he is also feeling overwhelmed by his now jam-packed calendar. We’ve all been there: Our calendar is a mess and Post-it notes filled with to-do lists cover our desk. I either complete the task immediately or carve out time on my calendar to complete it later.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

  Today you will learn about 12 business productivity tools that they can't live without. The tool allows us to know where the business stands at-a-glance, view client data, track sales and expenses, create and manage invoices/purchase orders as well as see industry trends.   1. Celebrate success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

I don't have to schedule anything. It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. You won't regret it. I use Carbonite. It's great!

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

Dedicated Apple users won’t get much use out of Android-only apps, or vice versa. Some apps require monthly subscriptions, which can get expensive. An app can have many exciting features, like monitoring multiple goals, a task manager or to-do lists, access to a personal coach and integration with your calendar or other apps.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

This role included updating my Executive’s CV, keeping licenses current for my exec, helping with the immigration process (my exec wasn’t a citizen at the time), and my absolute favourite, figuring out how to get a lot of expensive furniture imported from Asia! It is encouraging to be challenged and I enjoy it greatly.”

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

  Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. .    Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. kmmarketing   @ StephCalahan I enter important to-dos as calendar items in my iPhone. Break down into bite size pieces, and put the pieces on the calendar. To dos in back.

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 15, 2010

In the 1990s, you couldn’t walk through an office building without hearing “paradigm” mentioned. The problem is not that people do not enjoy and value the business, but that there simply isn’t a need, or reason to build a community for it. In the early 2000s, it was all about “connectivity.”

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. Many young executives have never had an assistant before and are so used to not having one, that they don't know how to utilize one. He's found having a PA a great thing now and says he wouldn't be without one again!!

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 2, 2010

This is usually your most expensive option as it requires hiring a full-fledged advertising agency, outside consultants and/or actors and actresses to get it just right. Don’t let this be how your audience feels about your next podcast production. The one with the flashiest commercial, of course! Which Approach is Right for Me?

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 5, 2010

Many corporations now allow their employees to telecommute because it cuts down on expenses and the amount of office space needed. This not only helps make you more productive, but it also ensures that you aren’t wasting your coworker’s or client’s time. The solution, go paperless!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Take notes during the interview so you don’t forget what you wanted to ask. If you don’t get it, it wasn’t the right job for you or the right time. If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

If you don’t have e-mail folders, create some and sort messages as they are received. Be sure to include call-back windows if you leave a message so you won’t be interrupted while working on an important task. Manage: Try scheduling e-mail checks every two hours to minimize time spent with the e-mail account open.

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Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Stay away from email! Of course Marinas health came first, and of course wed deal with the expense of making these changes, but could I still arrange to lead my class? All our carefully arranged calendar pages have to be reshuffled, then reshuffled again, often having ripple effects on dozens or hundreds of other people.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

ALL WORK NO PLAY, ALL PLAY NO WORK When I told my boss I had started a blog and was naming it Laughing All The Way to Work, he didn’t get it and said, "That doesn’t sound very professional Patricia." I hope you enjoy them as much as I did in the telling. My current boss says we get along like a house on fire.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 11, 2010

For self-hosted Wordpress sites, don’t forget to install the Google XML Sitemap for Video plugin. You should also include buttons that will help your viewers email your link to others. When posting videos on your Wordpress site, you should include a transcript and make sure to add keywords as well.

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C-Suite Assistants

JULY 31, 2023

Their responsibilities tend to center around the following areas: Communications: A great EA can organize and manage your email, draft emails or respond on your behalf to emails, initiate conversations, and make you aware of potentially important issues that may not surface to your level.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." I hope you don't mind, but I added a link to your blog on my page. Humour is a powerful stress reliever if done in good taste, but timing is everything. Did I not bring them home? Where were they?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in. But now email to return my current computer. You want a little more. You want the whole tree."

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

While these features are indeed impressive, they don’t come as part of any standard Pipedrive plan. Like the lead booster, this add-on isn’t free (although you can try it out free as part of your 14-day Pipedrive free trial). What is Pipedrive? Users can import deals from their computers or build new deals from scratch.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 10, 2006

It used to collectively refer to companies too small to be attractive for the major Enterprise Software providers – and of course the same held true vice versa: I assume most readers of this blog are in small businesses, and for you the rule has been that "enterprise software" is too expensive. You want a little more.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Don’t believe me? And then, suddenly, I realized I wasn’t. Why was it taking me so long to book travel and get it on calendars? Expense reports were taking twice as long to get done. And I just couldn’t seem to get my project reports sent out. But the bigger problem wasn’t my organization.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Don’t believe me? And then, suddenly, I realized I wasn’t. Why was it taking me so long to book travel and get it on calendars? Expense reports were taking twice as long to get done. And I just couldn’t seem to get my project reports sent out. But the bigger problem wasn’t my organization.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I would imagine that most assistants still sit outside their Executive’s office or pretty close by and I can’t imagine this changing any time soon! Many organisations, for security reasons, do not allow staff to use their own devices for work including access to emails etc. Concur for expenses. Skyscanner.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

” DON’T JUST CHECK THE BOXES — CREATE THE BOXES. .” ” DON’T JUST CHECK THE BOXES — CREATE THE BOXES. And don’t be afraid to ask for a seat at the table. “There was one Executive who nicknamed me ‘Radar’ — before he knew what he needed, I knew what he needed,” she says.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  Just to make sure you don't get overwhelmed reading a long post on overwhelm, here are a few tips to consider: This post is not meant to be a step-by-step guide.  it won't get any better. Don't reach for a post-it, a note-pad, a scratch-pad, a napkin, or a scrap of paper. Share your ideas. 

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 20, 2010

Don't worry … you don't have to do this all alone. We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. Wordpress is objectively beautiful. Of course, it is really not.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 11, 2010

Don't worry … you don't have to do this all alone. We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. Wordpress is objectively beautiful. Of course, it is really not.

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Social Media Microsoft Outlook 2010 Twitter 100

Denise Aday

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The common outcry is that email is evil. That’s because there’s so much crap there mixed in with the good stuff and it can get so out of control so quickly that we just give up and ignore it altogether or declare email bankruptcy on a regular basis. Besides my own, I’ve been in a lot of client email accounts.

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

A coffee mug, a book, some papers, a picture on the wall, your calendar, pens… Just a bunch of normal, everyday stuff. The month on the calendar. We just don’t see it. You can’t wing it. This isn’t about grabbing the first freelancer that catches your eye. What do you see? Look again.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Admins hold a LOT of power — the problem is, they don’t always believe that to be true. Many employees are fearful of sharing concerns with an executive, but they don’t mind telling an Admin. ‘I have this big project, he’s not letting me on his calendar, how can I remedy that?’ BE A TRANSLATOR.

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