Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

This way, you can keep track of all files in any way, shape or form. You can use Microsoft Access to create a database of all of your files criteria and the software assigns a "key" or number that corresponds with your files. You can find more filing tips by reading my article entitled " 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System ".

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 13, 2013

If I’m honest, I am really just lost without them (sometimes I am literally lost without them thanks to my dependence on Google maps to get me around!). Hand over the iPad to a guest who can then fill in a form with their details, take a photo and sign an agreement. Assistants can also recommend all of the apps to their manager.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-workers favourite, OMG! With the increasing use of e-mail as the first choice for business correspondence it opens a whole new world of dos and donts for the assistant. Writing all in caps is a form of e-mail shouting.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 5, 2008

Try checking Yahoo Groups or Google Groups. There are quite a bit of AA forms there. Thanks, Richard Posted on 6 March, 2008 10:49 AM The Professional Assistant Hi Maura, Just wanted to let you know that Ive started up a message forum via Google Groups. Also, Facebook has a few I believe. You can access it through my blog.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The easy way to answer this question is to have you Google interview questions online. However, one of the best ways to approach forming questions is to ask yourself, "Is this the best fit for me?" May I have your business card before I go? Please also feel free to ask more questions and suggest topics.

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On The Job

MAY 7, 2009

Use formal forms of address. Of course, I have taken it a step further and Googled the people I know who are going to be interviewing me. go to vista print and order free business cards that are simple in design with your current name, email and cell phone number. When meeting someone for the first time, always say "Ms."

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. Google for all the agencies in town, look on Yelp, or look on LinkedIn. She gave me her business card. You are doing whatever every business does, but for a company of one.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

One very unpleasant outcome of a small business venture is the failure thereof. Bootstrapping will mitigate any fallout from a business failure. Remember that business success often comes with experience and experience comes form making mistakes – bootstrapping will allow you to make mistakes and recover from them.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

Just this: If you are trying to give yourself a shortcut by not asking for your clients’ permission before you sign them up for your sales list, newsletter, or any other form of unsolicited information, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. They’re Splogs – Spam Blogs – and google hates them. It’s easier, yes.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Web forms (like Gravity Forms) are great for this. Update your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+ profiles – keep going until you’ve updated every account you have. Use Foursquare and find out the businesses listed in your neighbourhood. Your Portfolio.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Your circle of friends or business partnerships are usually formed by direct interactions. 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. Stacy Stacy´s last blog.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

I also can use the recording to make a cd and give to potential clients or current clients instead of a business card or brochure. When repurposing your content, one of the most forgotten ways to create it in a new form, is audio. By recording the radio show I have a recording for posting on my website or blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

It was free because it was idle; it wasn’t supposed to be the sort of business expertise that many companies would shell out good money for in the form of a consultant. But business blogs started to grow and then became essential, and all the while no one stopped to think, “Wait a minute. Reverse order by date?

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