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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

It not only lets you check the time in any part of the world, it also shows you color-coded business hours in your specified time zone, making it easier to schedule meeting times. Business Card Scanning Apps: Anyone who’s ever attended a conference or networking event knows just how quickly all those business cards stack up.

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A guide to networking

Practically Perfect PA

Take business cards. A neat and charming business card is a memorable thing, and more to the point, it’s a very practical way of maintaining contacts beyond the events you attend. It can feel like the aim at a networking event is to collect as many business cards as possible, but this rarely leads to beneficial outcomes.

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Call off the cheerleaders!

Practically Perfect PA

That means leveraging a skill we Brits have in spades: subtlety. They browse your Facebook updates. They see what’s written on your business card. They look at your LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook photos. Blowing your own trumpet should be much less obvious than that. They read a blog you’ve written.

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How Do Recruiters Find Clients For Their Recruitment Agency? Here Are 10 Ways

Recruit CRM

Businesses use Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media sites as recruitment advertising platforms in order to hire. You might improve your cold email writing skills by watching a ton of YouTube videos or enrolling in an online course. Cold emails might lead to an empty worksheet that fills up during the weekend.

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The Office* Show and how to be a great delegate

Practically Perfect PA

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 took a few pictures, posted them on Facebook and also on Twitter. This is what I did: I used social media to promote the event and my attendance at it. I attended the after show party.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

No cold calling, no website or marketing, no business cards or networking events. If your Facebook ads aren’t delivering the ROI you expect, read this book to find out why. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. Their prescription?

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Triple the Results You Get from Live Conferences and Events

Stephanie LH Calahan

Many live events now have Twitter hashtags or Facebook groups or pages for people going to the event.  Make Sure You Pack Business Cards. I realize that this sounds like networking 101 basics, but I'm amazed at the number of events that I go to where people forgot their cards.    Bring them!