Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 16, 2010

1) Organize Lack of organization is one of the major causes of anxiety. Taking the time to be organized will give you more confidence, which in turn will allow you to focus energy into your presentation. These tips will show you how to recycle your stress into a positive form that will help you become a better presenter.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Ready Retreat Series digital workbooks focus on four different areas of personal productivity: task management, email management, idea management, and time management. The entire library of workbooks is valued at $20, and I’m stoked to be unveiling them as part of Kickstart the Year.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

This housekeeping revolves around some events I’m going to be at over the next couple of months, some of which I am organizing and some of which I am not. 2 Finally, I’ll be appearing at Social Media Camp.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Blog Action Day 2008 Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 1:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging As a participant in Blog Action Day 2008, I asked everyone I know for information on programs (actual or planned) which combat poverty.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Building on your skills Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:46 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources It’s the time of year when we all do some self assessment and then look ahead to changes we want to make in the coming year.Â

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Service Untitled

AUGUST 30, 2010

Elizabeth used to spend countless hours replying to customers and answering questions by email; so much time that she didn’t have time for her own family, so what did she do? When the FAQ and forums are not enough to help her customers, Elizabeth also has a Help Desk. Next came the forum that Elizabeth set up. Thanks for asking.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 12, 2011

Here are a few suggestions: Always start out with a FAQ. Begin the process as soon as possible, and if you don’t have an immediate solution, then follow-up with an email or phone call as soon as you do. Imagine how insignificant and angry a customer could become if they don’t hear from the online organization?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Last year I was invited write articles for ACCO's "Organize Your Desk Day" To give some structure to the series of 30 blogposts, I decided to create a 10-week "How-to" course in setting up an organized and productive workspace. Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. Let the articles begin.

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The Marq

APRIL 15, 2010

A perfect example of a product they could develop is one by PeopleTowels: reusable hand towels made from organic cotton and ink. Instead, I read the following on their FAQ. If you're still interested in receiving a free copy of Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, please email me your mailing address. " What a disgrace.

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

They will conduct a panel discussion on this topic and invite you to submit your questions in advance: please post them in the comment area below or send an email with your questions to ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net. Thanks to companies and organizations who have offered giveaways for our event!

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 12, 2010

Copy from website, paste into HTML editor, use tables to organize content if needed, copy html from code tab, then paste into Static HTML Image tools: Fireworks, Gimp, even Powerpoint can create an image out of a slide. Best ways to communicate with your Fans Link: Send an update to Fans – compose Facebook email, include links, etc.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. You’re into GTD now, so you need 43 folders to get organized and productive. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Send an email to your client. Ask how to get that round floss out of your teeth.

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 5, 2022

That’s not to mention how difficult communication can be if you use email. Before you know it, you’ll have 15 email threads to keep up with, as well as loads of time-tracking spreadsheets for each team member. Question & answer center (FAQs). Support-wise, they offer: An extensive knowledge base. Enterprise Plan.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I could throw the text book definition of project management at you… Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. … A project is not about checking your emails each day. And project management is what I do best.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

That means possibly posting something to your blog, sending out a press release, tweeting a public notice or emailing clients. Twitter,Facebook, your project manager, your to-do list app, Google Analytics, your bookkeeping software, or your email accounts? Then email (a client) and ask him to help you sell my sites.&#

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Colleges and local organizations can offer courses to help, like web design and workshops on e-commerce and blog creation. For many people out there an organized degree and university class structure is necessary because if they don’t have someone else pushing them to reach a goal, it wouldn’t happen. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

It’s more difficult to organize a coherent train of thought through 50 pages than it is through 5. I thought I’d share my personal method for organizing much longer projects just in case one of you gets hit up tomorrow for a ghostwriting project. If you have colleagues, get them to come in and help you organize. Move again.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

I love that I get emails and comments telling me that a blog post came at just the right time. It’s not a “I must do this&# thing, it’s more like “woo, I get to play with my novel while my brain is still fresh and uncluttered with emails and to-do list stuff&#. Email Marketing Basics Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

As soon as you believe, as a person or organization, that you are more important than the next person or organization, arrogance and disdain creeps into your tone. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

5 Quirky methods I use to stay organized Reply Tia - BizChickBlogs.com ( @bizchickblogs ) April 21, 2010 at 12:26 pm Ha! We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I In addition to all this, perfect people are boring!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

I believe that for this reason, a lot of clients out there are simply wanting unique contents to push their websites on the organic listing ( search engines ). We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

One other thing I’d add for freelancing–and it’s either a pro or a con depending how you look at it–is that you need to build your network of freelancers through professional organizations, meetups or some other way. You should do this before taking the plunge. JB´s last blog. Don’t Quit…yet.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

8 Ways to Organize Content Creation and Business Chaos Reply Dave Doolin ( @websiteweekend ) July 22, 2010 at 8:49 pm Going first is always a freak out, not just with horses. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2010

For you to maximize the blog’s potential, we want your content and organization to live up to that stylistic focus. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? Compounding the problem was the president giving me an @comcast.net email address. They’re all small business owners.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

I’m a player, not an organizer…!) Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? No, don’t look at me. I completed NaNoWriMo.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

By starting to organize the app at a higher level I created a bit of light over the whole project. Now I had a complete visual implementation: tasks were nicely organized by date in Today, Soon and Overdue. I also added a Help and FAQ section. Calling the class in other views was problematic, though. Loads of bugs.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. It’s really easy to get sucked in to one more email and lose an entire evening. Most are better at running businesses than for-profit organizations are!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

Top 10 Online Project Management Tools Reply Þórey Ómars ( @thoreyo ) June 22, 2010 at 6:00 am @ Murray You´re not going crazy The difference between our everyday speech and our inside-the-head voice, is that when we use the inside-head one we are reading or in the process of writing organized text. That’s amazing. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 18, 2010

Getting back into a new and organized approach is rocky, but expect that will change. Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Doing all of that at once also helped me develop strong organizing and executing skills! Sonya – I do have to admit that most people who email me their resume and quote an English degree tend to have some of the worst writing in the world… Not sure why that is, actually. Wish I knew.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

No matter how good you are at multi-tasking, you’re going to get a lot more done in a single hour of uninterrupted work than you would if you answered an email every five minutes and picked up the phone halfway through your 60-minute time frame. I deleted well over fifty feeds and email newsletters and ended up with just six.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

Like, say, emailing us to ask if this is the right email to email us at, when the email you should use to apply is written on the job ad. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# Someone wrote an email to “Mr. Bangamon.&#

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Men With Pens

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m planning on creating a “write for us&# page on the blog and was actually thinking on how to organize the page and what requirements I should include. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. First, it’s a crappy way to organize content. Imagine if your library organized its books that way. A big part of the problem, I think, is the blog format itself.

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