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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

" That is what a recent client told me when I opened a drawer in her office and found it filled with business cards. The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.    Over time, she had forgotten who many of the people were or even why she had kept the card. . 

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2019 Joan Burge Innovation Award for Assistants

Office Dynamics

It was very exciting for me to present the first award to Kristie Webber for software designed exclusively for executives and their executive assistants. My executive, Don Harms, tried multiple different task management tools but found that none were designed for the unique relationship between an executive and executive assistant. “My

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

Success

Work with a professional graphic designer at the planning stage of your business and consider all the possibilities for future growth. That logo may look fine close-up on a business card. Your business’ customer service and general responsiveness are critical to your brand.

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52 Templates and Tools for Every Successful EA

Worxbee

Process management tools. Executive assistants are masters of process management and that requires some quality tools to keep track! Process and SOP documentation doesn’t have to be on fancy software, although there are some great programs that are built specifically for that purpose. Email management tools.

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Why print is still important in business presentations

Practically Perfect PA

In the 25 years since its launch, PowerPoint has become the most popular presentation aid, holding 95% of the presentation software market. So much so that Microsoft has been making a significant effort to improve their software and has recently added a moving object functionality.

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Need To Create a PDF? Don't Have the Software? Don't Panic!

Professional Assistant Blog

Dont Have the Software? By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail from your manager. Your manager will be surprised that you thought of this! Home About Me Advertise Need To Create a PDF? Dont Panic!

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Working with an old school Executive

Practically Perfect PA

how many of the Assistants mentioned that their organisations didn’t let them download software, still blocked Social Media sites and used old fashioned and out of date technology. I had one Executive that had a bunch of the old style Rolodex business card holders dotted around his office. Just resistant to change?

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