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Which tasks should assistants manage?

Practically Perfect PA

There are so many ways we can help them with this from managing their calendar effectively, minimising interruptions and generally keeping them on track. The executive’s calendar should be completely controlled by their assistant and the executive shouldn’t edit the calendar at all (in an ideal world!)

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The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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Different Tasks Your Virtual Assistant Can Do For You

Catch Friday

Appointment Management- let your virtual assistant manage your calendar so that you don’t get any problems with your schedule. Event planning- do you need to book a venue and suppliers for an event? Not all of the most expensive virtual assistants do all the best work and not all cheap virtual assistants offer really bad service.

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Selling to Big Companies: 8 Sales Tips to Land Your White Whale

Success

Yet taking this approach to a corporate decision-maker immediately creates objections such as, “We’re happy with our current suppliers.”. If you want a spot on their already overcrowded calendar, earn it. Instead, you’ll be much more successful if you focus on solving a small problem or overlooked need that your prospect is facing.

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SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

It used to collectively refer to companies too small to be attractive for the major Enterprise Software providers – and of course the same held true vice versa: I assume most readers of this blog are in small businesses, and for you the rule has been that "enterprise software" is too expensive. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in. It’s universally almost impossible to get a company to pre-ship a replacement for an expensive product.

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