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These Are Nicole Lapin’s 6 Money Tips for Living Your Richest Life

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If you waste several minutes fussing with the coffeemaker each morning, then it might be cost-effective to buy your brew. Negotiate your bills and purchases, and find extra money by making your social network work for you. Lapin likes to negotiate and once bought a floor-model couch for about 70 percent off. Behold the new LBD.

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Maintaining Friendships Is Hard—Here’s Why It’s Crucial for Your Well-Being

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I have a lot of people I consider friends, but there are a lot fewer of those I can pick up the phone and talk to if I really need some solid advice. Put boundaries on your time and make it non-negotiable. Even in tough economic times, relationships don’t cost anything, yet are infinitely valuable.

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Emerging Technologies for Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Gone are the days when filing, phone skills, and semi-legible shorthand were key requirements for an admin job. Collectively, these skills allow a company to reach more customers and serve them more effectively while cutting costs and setting themselves apart from the competition. Let’s look at each component individually.

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

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Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’?

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’?

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. Executive assistants are running meetings, making hiring decisions, giving presentations, negotiating contracts, managing budgets and are considered co-leaders.

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

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The universe offers an infinite number of opportunities, but also opportunity costs. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. 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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