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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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Raise your hand if you like automated phone message systems…

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Digg Email Facebook Google Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati TwitThis Comments The Assistants Toolkit - Free Assistant Training Join ProAssistings free 10-part assistant training series delivered weekly to your inbox: CLICK HERE TO JOIN NOW! Just another use of technology to bypass a level of technology that drives me batty.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

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Your phone, the apps you use and every website you visit are designed to capture and hold your attention. Consider the real reason you check your phone more than 150 times a day on average: It’s a principle called random rewards, and it also explains why people keep pulling a slot machine lever over and over. It’s the world we live in.

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Organize Your To-Do List into These 4 Categories

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I often find myself pulled in too many directions, reacting to phone calls, email and other stuff that pops up. I used to try and squeeze them in between phone calls, emails and posting on Facebook, but there were days when I’d leave my office without accomplishing anything. Categories to organize your to-do list.

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10 Bad Habits You Really Need to Break

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Using your phone, tablet or computer in bed. Most of our favorite evening devices—laptops, tablets and mobile phones—emit short-wavelength blue light brightly and right in your face. When you click out of your work because you get an itch to check the news, Facebook, a sport’s score, or what have you, this pulls you out of the flow.

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How to Make Reading Part of Your Daily Routine

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You can easily spend 30 minutes browsing emails , answering text messages or watching dog videos on Facebook. Put e-books on your phone. You can always find time to read as long as you have reading material with you—and what better way to do that than through your phone? Work out your body while you work out your brain!

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Keeping it Real When Working from Home

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When the bulk of your communication is done via email or text it can be easy for those we do business with to lose sight of the fact that we are real people. When the bulk of your communication is done via email or text it can be easy for those we do business with to lose sight of the fact that we are real people.

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