Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 1, 2012

Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday. That doesn’t mean throwing it in the recycle bin as soon as you receive it, but you need to know where things will end up after they hit your desk. It adds up. Create a record retention policy.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

We’ll post the names of the companies offering these goodies and they are firmed up. Branding Iron Designs —Discounted business card and brochure printing, including complimentary design! This needs to be written up for IVAACast, too. At 110 in the Valley, it’s too hot to dress up. Got a Better Idea?

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Be sure to add your signature to your business e-mail with your coordinates. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face. Jane Watson of J. Who are you?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). Those who are too busy will probably just read it and delete. She gave me her business card.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

If you need to warm up your lunch, please try to keep it in the lunch room. Its up to the individual to analyze this culture in addition to the individual relationships around them. The constant noise from that drives me up a wall. In the mean time Im going to discretely tape up a copy of your etiquette rules somewhere public.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. Build your own network! Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. What is Small Business Infrastructure?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’m on a bunch of lists I never signed up for. I get snail mail from credit card companies who could not possibly have my new mailing address unless they scammed it off some list. I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I have a crazy-busy RSS feed. Don’t just sign people up for your stuff.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Upon waking up, he can’t remember what he wrote and promptly enlists George, Elaine, and Kramer to decipher his text. When he’s not listening to Rush absorbing intelligence or networking like an S.O.B Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 15, 2010 at 1:17 am As a stand-up comic, I could attest to this wholeheartedly.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Just come up with 3 or 4 niches that you actually give a damn about. One of the best benefits of spreading into other niches is how you’ll come up with out-of-the-box ideas on how to one-up the value you offer to your existing customers in your main niche. Like carrying a business card. & marketing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. 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. Never Throw Anything Away!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. We want you to learn, to better your business, to succeed. That’s our goal with each and every post we put up on this site. There’s a new free post that goes up every day.”

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