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Personal Attention Is the Key to Winning Business—Start with These 7 Best Practices

Success

Sync all contacts to your cell phone. Over the course of a week, you can easily squeeze in an extra dozen calls simply because you have the phone numbers easily accessible. Open your calendar at the end of the meeting and say, “What does your Thursday look like next week? They will help you produce better results now.

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15 Ways To Treat Yourself: How Rewards Can Help You Succeed

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Promising yourself a small treat for getting through the dishes, folding laundry or making an unpleasant phone call can help you buckle down and get to the other side. If crossing something off a list makes you smile and energizes you, load up your calendar and start crossing things off the list. Make rewards healthy.

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The Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

Worxbee

It includes things like calendar integrations, a habit-tracking tool, and even a pomodoro timer for getting through your work. Conveniently, if you have the app on your phone, you could do it anywhere. Propose times that fit around your executive’s schedule, and people can select what works for them.

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Podcast 090: Being human

Clutter Coach

In case you thought the Internet or cell phones were ruining life as we know it, rest assured, it was always ruined. Is the phone calendar I use the best one? Or worse, they blew off writing a new book chapter or working on their big project proposal in order to fool around with this new gadget. Probably not.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

The Now Habit proposes we schedule fun and play— self-care , time with friends, even Netflix binges—before work. Work gets whatever space is left in our calendars. Great work is almost never urgent work, and so we get swept away by the ringing phone, the jerk in traffic, the phone bill that’s overdue.

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The Secret Tool That Helps My Business Grow & Keeps Me Connected to Important FollowUps

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Back when I had to keep track of phone conversations, email and face-to-face it was simply much easier to do! Here is an example of an interaction that my client had prior to putting a CRM in place: Prospective client calls on the phone about a speaking project and a meeting gets scheduled. Proposal is created and sent.

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Must Have Gadgets for the Modern Entrepreneur

The Small Business Blog

As for time management, built in calendar and reminders applications that can sync over the air with your other devices will make organising appointments and projects a breeze. Writing a proposal, managing accounts or really any other serious work really requires the use of a fully featured computer.

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