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Stay on Track for Productivity

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workers have packed up their cubicles and headed home to do just that. You can mark these blocks on your email calendar—Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, for instance—so it sends you reminders to stop and start. A huge time-suck for home-based workers and entrepreneurs is checking and responding to emails.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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Gerber, 38, now a serial entrepreneur and author of Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter , published in 2018, has become an evangelist for entrepreneurship, particularly for resourceful young go-getters who may not be cut out for life as cubicle dwellers.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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For the past decade, BELAY has been witnessing this phenomenon firsthand through its network of contractors who supply virtual support as assistants, bookkeepers, web maintenance professionals and social media strategists. You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. Email strangers to ask if you can set up a five-minute call. Capture them on your email list. After word-of-mouth, email marketing is the No.

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Why You're Annoying Your Colleagues

On The Job

That’s why you consider yourself a good colleague – certainly not like that annoying person in the cubicle next to you. The buzzing and beeping of your phone signaling incoming texts or emails also annoys your colleagues, and 59% say they dislike it when you fail to silence or turn off your phone when appropriate. You’re sloppy.

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Authentically Gen Z: The Values, Aspirations & Drivers That Will Re-Define The Future Of Work

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The values, mindsets and behaviors that define this generation have been substantially shaped by several key factors including the group’s deep connection to technology and social media, the globalization of the world economy and the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, they want more out of their workplace than a standard cubicle.

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The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

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The lion’s share of our sales comes from email marketing , but very few blog readers (1%) subscribe. If we increase our email subscriber rate from 1% to just 2%, we could capture 150 additional leads each month just from our top two blog posts. Your gut says email marketing has huge potential if only you’d double your efforts here.

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