Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 26, 2012

Follow up with your new contacts; E-mail all the folks whose business cards you received, along with any of the conference staff, host, or speakers with whom you made a connection at the event. Did you hand out as many business cards or meet as many new faces as you had intended at the event?

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 17, 2012

Catch up on your filing. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Catch up on your reading. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 16, 2011

Using this time efficiently can help things to run more smoothly during busy times, and can even allow for an increase in sales and service requests just by spending this time more effectively. Catch up on your filing. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Catch up on your reading.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 27, 2014

You have to send this to the client anyway, so why not wrap it up in a nice package that says “you are important to us and we appreciate you.”. It includes their contact information and fun things like their birth dates just so I can send them a birthday card, their kids’ birth dates, anniversaries of their business; those types of things.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

What you need to understand is that promoting your brand isn’t a one-off gig – you need to keep up a steady stream of positive impressions on a daily basis. Sometimes they’ll pick up those clues via written channels : They note the tone of your email. They read a report or memo you’ve authored. They get your voicemail message.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 16, 2013

You have to send this to the client anyway, so why not wrap it up in a nice package that says “you are important to us and we appreciate you.”. It includes their contact information and fun things like their birthdates just so I can send them a birthday card, their kids’ birthdates, anniversaries of their business; those types of things.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 6, 2013

And, since Seamless saves clients up to 30% on food related costs, making administrative professions the office hero, really impacting their company’s bottom line! Calculate how much you can save with Seamless.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 24, 2011

Spring is coming, and with it, an opportunity for a little sprucing up! Time to make a clean sweep of your office, your business systems, and even your mind! You may be one of the many who feel you never really set up your office properly in the first place. Clean up electronic files and documents. by Donna Toothaker.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you’re reading this newsletter then chances are that in order for it to reach your inbox, when you very first signed up, you would have received an email from me asking you to confirm your subscription. Here are my top five tips for best email management practices: 1. Confirmation/double opt-in. This is what’s known as double opt-in.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows. One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Put birthdays on your calendar and send cards to your clients – your kindness will be remembered, and so will you when the opportunity comes up for a client to refer somebody to your company. A good way to keep track of client birthdays and send out cards automatically is to use an online service like SendOutCards.com.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

You have to pay for airline tickets, hotels, food, entrance fees and more – it is all a business expense. Donna Toothaker is CEO, founder and coach of Step It Up VA Coaching, and the creator of the 6 Steps to 6-Figure VA Success System. Now, think about the hours per month you spend actively marketing.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

Such was the case last week when my long-time friend and Las Vegas BNI ( Business Network International ) Director Leslie Taylor presented a speech that outlined a simply brilliant model for building effective relationships. N-Networks —What groups or organizations are they a member of? Notice none of this is about you!

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

Such was the case last week when my long-time friend and Las Vegas BNI ( Business Network International ) Director Leslie Taylor presented a speech that outlined a simply brilliant model for building effective relationships. N-Networks —What groups or organizations are they a member of? Notice none of this is about you!

Networking 100

Networking Business Cards Travel Goals 100

Ian's Messy Desk

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Have every group member place their business card into a bowl or container. Then, everyone draws a card other than their own. When generating or responding to ideas, participants assume the persona of the person on their card and respond from their (assumed) point of view. Report back to the group. Change Places.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits. Truths of a Shy Writer can help you when you’re in a bind.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 13, 2013

If your manager needs to pick up a souvenir for their kids this app will tell them (or you!) By taking a photo of someone’s business card the app allows you to immediately transfer his or her contact details to your phone or tablet. The app also links up your social networking details with theirs. CardMunch: Free.

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On The Job

JANUARY 4, 2010

But a quick look at the hundreds of e-mails awaiting your attention, the foot-high stack of reports leaning against the wall and the constantly ringing telephone makes you quickly scrap the plan. A lot of companies like to say they’re focused on quality, and deluge employees with memos and reports on the subject.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 25, 2007

You want to tell your co-worker that you need to get a report from them within the hour. Yet you go on and on about how you want it to look, going into great detail of the type of report you want. Avoid any attachments, since it could clog up the receiving person’s e-mail account (unless it’s absolutely necessary).

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2008 Cubicle 2007 Google Docs 100

Small Business CEO

AUGUST 3, 2012

There are limited hours in the day so do you update the database, make those new business calls, work on that report, meet with your product vendor, confirm meetings…. If you are like me you probably answered, “Yes, I do it all and stay up late to get it done.” In falling into this trap you create a bottleneck. I hear you!

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 3, 2013

So, if I think it is tough being a traveler in the United States, just imagine how difficult it is for the executives who travel great distances often—and have to show up for meetings! I am sharing with you a few things to consider when you plan business travel. Business cards. If so, are you doing this every time?

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In other words, it does the dirty work for you, transcribing your unordered piles of paper into meaningful reports. After the receipt image is processed, you get a chance to generate a report from within the same iPhone app and send that report to you (or to someone else) by email. Namely, receipts. A lot of receipts.

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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. What separates a good networker from an average one is the ability to follow up. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

I think Tasks is one of Outlooks best-kept secrets, but it shouldnt be and is a great way to follow up on items. If I send an email to a co-worker requesting information, I immediately drag it from my Sent items to my Tasks, set a reminder to follow up and write in the Subject line "Did I get this information". 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Your ideas, stories or lifestyle have made their trip up to one of the farthest places in this world: the heart of a lonely, frustrated and inhibited person. 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.

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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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