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Calendar Management

Laughing all the Way to Work

I share the CEO''s Outlook calendar with my assistant. Since we both book meetings for him, it is important if we have proposed dates for a meeting that we secure them in his calendar so one of us doesn''t use it for another meeting. Getting the dates is just the first part of meeting organization.

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How to Make Sales Your Top Priority

Success

Do they need a full-blown proposal? Put together a boilerplate presentation, proposal and demonstration—information that you can customize client by client—to show your ability to make a difference. Determine what prospective clients need in order to move forward with you. Do they need a presentation? A demonstration?

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Day in the life: Jeremy Burrows, EA at Ai Software and Founder of GoBurrows LLC.

Practically Perfect PA

I manage the CEO’s calendar and email, book his travel, help with sales notes and drafting proposals, and anything else he needs. Today’s Day in the Life: Jeremy Burrows, EA at Ai Software and Founder of GoBurrows LLC. What are the main aspects of your role? In the first year of the company (2017), I wore […].

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

Success

Open your calendar at the end of the meeting and say, “What does your Thursday look like next week? The more time they believe they are giving up, the greater their resistance to your proposed meeting. Sit down with your calendar on Sunday night and block time to prospect, even if you can set aside only an hour a day.

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

Success

Instead of focusing solely on what goes right, like landing a new deal, focus on goals reached, such as the number of proposals sent out or pitching a dream potential client you might have been too timid to approach. Real achievement requires risk and failure , and learning from mistakes. Make rewards healthy. Play with your kids or pets.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

We encourage people to propose new ideas even when they’re outside the scope of their traditional roles. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. At goLance , one of our strongest cultural values is the importance of teamwork. Be cognizant of the time zones.

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Final regs drop mandatory e-filing threshold to 10 or more information returns

BMT Office Administration

What’s new To begin with, the mandatory e-filing threshold is 10 or more information returns, not 100 or more returns, as contemplated by the proposed regulations. What’s old Following the proposed regs, you must add together all of your information returns—your W-2s, 1099s, 1095s, 3921s and 3922s—to determine if you’re a mandatory e-filer.

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