LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JANUARY 8, 2023

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 26, 2014

Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines. Learn that new software that can likely improve business processes.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 8, 2022

Once you’re confident that everything is in order, then you can include the website address on your resume, business cards, social media profiles (especially LinkedIn), and professional association profiles. Make sure to add it to your email signature and reference lists, too.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 17, 2012

Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines. Learn that new software that can likely improve business processes.

Business Cards 100

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

Will you share your learning with other Assistants thus increasing the ROI? If your executive is adamant that they can’t contribute 100% of the funding or timing, then outline that you are willing to pay for X if they pay for Y. Getting buy-in IS ACHIEVABLE and I managed to successfully get the following approved: Business Cards.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 16, 2011

Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines. Learn that new software that can likely improve business processes.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

You have little to show for your efforts, other than jaw pain from smiling too much and a few paper cuts from passing out so many business cards. It may not be meeting 30 people or passing out 20 business cards. When you’re done, you feel like road kill. You’re exhausted. Networking, you decide, is not the answer.

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Success

JULY 8, 2021

With this new idea, I learned to stop worrying and love sales. Sadly, this is the conventional wisdom on networking: talk about yourself with as many people as you can for just long enough to hand out your business card in the hopes that some of these seeds will sprout, even without watering. You can too—here’s how.

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Clutter Coach

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We learn to navigate around the feelings and the stuff to live our daily lives. You don’t generally pick up one book or one coaster and realize, yes, this is the thing that’s causing clutter in my house! That’s because we don’t usually want to dwell on those negative feelings.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  This is the back of my card as a sample of what I mean: Creating Your Online Business Card An online business card is one site that lists all of your connection points online.    Learn more: www.CalahanSolutions.com or www.ProductiveAndOrganized.net , or call 309.826.5263.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

Part of what makes it such a great personal development program is that speakers are always bringing in excellent ideas for others to learn from. The GAINS model (which Leslie contributed to the best-selling book, Business by Referral ) is truly one of the most powerful and effective methods I’ve encountered for building relationships.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

Part of what makes it such a great personal development program is that speakers are always bringing in excellent ideas for others to learn from. The GAINS model (which Leslie contributed to the best-selling book, Business by Referral ) is truly one of the most powerful and effective methods I’ve encountered for building relationships.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 16, 2011

I learned the hard way.     Keep a regular list of clients to whom you’ve provided your services (even pro-bono) and send them an annual update (I usually write formal Christmas cards) thanking them for their patronage and letting them know about business goals for the next year.    6.   

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

If you’ve never cruised before—book a cruise. Institute a monthly Lunch & Learn. Listen to the sounds of the city as it wakes up and gets busy. Be sure to go to the exhibit hall and collect a lot of brochures, business cards and free samples from every booth. Do it for a week and review your observations.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 3, 2008

A VA can help you here by designing custom cards, calendars, flyers, postcards, brochures, or any other promotional item. #2 Or is it on bits of paper and business cards that you’ve collected over several months, or even years? 2 Organizing and maintaining your mailing list. Is your mailing list all together in one place?

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well. One thing Ive learned over the years is that an arsenal of compelling stories and anecdotes related to my career can be extremely useful. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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Success

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hall learned to appreciate the value of a dollar and garnered a strong work ethic at a young age. “My Knowing who you are, bouncing back, taking all the punches and learning from an experience can create something beautiful. Learning those skills of feedback and getting support when needed is what she says makes the product better. “As

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Take classes, read a book, read current events about new trends that are happening in your field. Learn from them and build on your weaknesses to make them into strengths. See what you can change about yourself, don’t try to change others. Focus on the challenges and embrace the strengths. Expand your mind.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Julie Morgenstern, author of many books including Never Check Email in the Morning (and Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work and Organizing from the Inside Out, 2nd ed: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life says that what we need to do is "anchor" our systems.

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Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

break the meeting into groups of 5 to 8 people and challenge each small group to design a skit, song, rap, dance or other ways to recap part of the “learnings” from the session. Have every group member place their business card into a bowl or container. Then, everyone draws a card other than their own. Change Places.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity? Our lives are increasingly hectic and we are bombarded by so much stuff on a daily basis that learning to be productive, so as to handle the stresses of modern life, is a wise move.

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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. Other ways you can learn new things is to: Subscribe to feeds from various admin or business sites. So how can we know what we dont know?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Whenever I meet people for coffee or a meal, I am always interested to learn about them as a person and their work. I love doing informationals because I like learning about what people do, even if I am not in that industry, and perhaps get an office tour down the line, and make a new friend if they introduce me to someone else.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Keep reading to learn what my colleagues and friends had to say about the "Great Calendar Debate."   It can be as small as a little paperback book, or as big as a cookbook. Running a busy household as well as a business?   Cons of Planning Tool: There is a learning curve.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2008

Now you can learn what went wrong and understand your business better, it will force you to rethink and face facts. Running a business is not gambling, it is taking manageable risks, and the aim has to be to minimise the risks to your home business as much as possible – cash-flow forecasting does exactly that.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 1, 2011

  A good CRM is more than an address book.    Keep reading to learn more about what makes this tool unique and maybe you will decide that it could be one of your Productivity Powerhouse Tools too! Productive Networking: 23 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup. doitnow #youwontregretit.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 16, 2023

Great examples include: How to Order Business Cards How to Order Office Supplies How to Setup a Webex or Zoom Conference Call How to Order Catering from a Local Restaurant On my sample digital portfolio site, I have example procedures on the writing page: [link] You can see an example of creating a procedures manual using OneNote.

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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). Whenever I have to learn something new or have to dig in after some interesting concepts, doing this in my backyard seems to be the best way to do it. For a digital nomad the world is the office.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Small Business BootstrappingHow to start your own small business with no or little money. [.] THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » Book Review: Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch Said on November 4th, 2007 at 10:24 am [.] I have had a few failures on my quest in building a small business.

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Productivityist

APRIL 3, 2017

There’s so much that Deborah shared, some of the things discussed are: How we met at Social Media Camp and the story behind the business cards she handed that really impressed me (1:59; 4:50). Mike Rohde’s Books on Sketchnoting | Designer Mike Rohde. Relevant Links: Visual Life Stories | Deborah LeFrank. 3words | C.C.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

Even in a networking setting when someone gives me their business card, I ask whether it’s OK to put them on my list. If these marketers could learn how to strive for permission marketing instead of asking for forgiveness they’d actually build a business that truly helps people. Occasionally the answer is No.

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On The Job

JANUARY 4, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, January 4, 2010 Eat your salad first, and other career strategies Every year I get loads of candy over the holidays, and every year I feel compelled to eat it as fast as possible.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

Top 5 Tips for Using Technology in Marketing by Stefan Töpfer on Jun 07, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Build an identity for your business online by using ready-made stylish templates. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

I know whenever I’m looking to hire somebody for contract work or to share in projects I’m taking on I always check their website to learn more about them. For most of us, a Web site is as essential as a business card or that first cup of Java in the morning. Thanks for sharing. Thanks again for sharing.

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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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Service Untitled

JULY 15, 2010

He begins his book asking the retailer to identify what type of business owner he might be, and breaks down the four personalities to: - Driver : Extroverted, egotistical, project driven, and makes decisions based on results. . Expressive : Spontaneous, good negotiator,and learns by doing.

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