Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 18, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Using Email Effectively Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 18, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This can be compared to receiving flyers or junk mail via the snail mail system. Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Don’t EVER send sensitive financial data via email – even if it is split across two emails. Sending info via email is like sending a postcard via mail. Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her. ” at [link].

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Building a successful long-term profitable business isn't about "marketing" your business, it's about "managing" your business - the marketing comes once you have your management systems in place. So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. A couple of places where you’ll want to create individual clients folders are: In your email program.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review | Main | Caffeine-Free Ways to Increase Focus & Attention » You Can Steal Time Back From Email A few days ago I received an email from a reader.  " Email is something that many of us struggle with. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Why Lock Your System at Work? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer? and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 8, 2011

  We do a lot of work with different clients to help them develop systems that allow them to be paperless.    Start with something like electronic faxes.    We use a service that allows a person to fax to a phone number, but rather than a physical fax coming out on our end, it lands in our email in-boxes. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The Importance of the Buddy System in the Workplace We all remember in elementary school going on field trips and being assigned a “buddy”. Letting them know that either yourself or someone will look after anything that needs to be done o when you are away it is important not to deadend your voicemail or email Out-of-Office Assistant.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Eco-Office Gals

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reduce paper use by emailing when possible. A combo fax machine, printer, photocopier and scanner uses less energy. Use VoIP for phone calls as it’s cheaper. Install solar panels on the roof for renewable heating and electricity. Only fill the kettle with as much water that you need. Buy reusable filters for the coffee machine.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Now put yourself in that persons shoes.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Do you want to walk over to their cubicle while their talking loudly on the phone and give them a piece of your mind? Shes always humming, whistling, talking loudly on the phone, laughing hysterically (who knows at what?), This happens to the best of us all of the time. Try as I may, but she annoys the heck out of me.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 7, 2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Emails – We hear this a lot but somehow seem to struggle to release ourselves from the constant beckoning of the email notification. Set time frames to check your email and turn off notifications so your mental flow isn’t constantly interrupted.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. A couple of places where you’ll want to create individual clients folders are: In your email program.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2009

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 17, 2009

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Did your boss just decide to install it on his/her system and yours then told you, "Read the manual, were going to be using this from now on"? Believe it or not, this was quite an easy system to learn. I am sure that this will beef up your productivity with the system. as your client relationship manager (CRM)? Whats next?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Home About Me Advertise Most Irritating Habits of Co-Workers By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 19, 2007 Filed Under: Productivity D o you find yourself among co-workers that are not respectful of your privacy?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

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JULY 10, 2009

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Do you find that your staff are not being consistent with their memos, e-mails , the way they answer the phone , etc.? I worked in quite a few firms, small and large, but my current one is the largest organization that I worked in - well, currently working in.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

Then I have my faxes set up as green. Now you have a new prioritization system set up. For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. This will show up in red, since I know I have to get to this one first, before I can even touch any other one. Repeat steps 1 - 2 for each person that you want to create a different color.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2008

There are some companies that, unfortunately, don’t allow for purchases such as stationary , fax machines , toner , etc. Do you feel that you could find better buys, not just by going to the different stores such as Staples or Grand & Toy , but online as well? Since I work for a large corporation, this is my case as well.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 18, 2008

When youre on a phone call, do people hover over you? You dont want people coming up to you, hovering and waiting for you to put down the phone for a few seconds to let them know that you are in a training session. Are you the main contact in your department? Its inevitable, but its part of your job description.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

» Link Lineup: Time Management, Org Tools, Focus Concentration and Top Mobil Phone Apps February is Time Management Month, so today I'll share some great articles to help you make the most of the time you have.    This is a quick scan article that highlights a short list of highly productive smart phone tools. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Creating a filing system can be tricky, as you need to know exactly how to file your files and what type of information you would need to be able to access quickly. One of my readers asks: I am trying to organize a file room based not on traditional alphabetical filing, but on a retrieval system. as you mentioned in your question.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 21, 2008

Home About Me Advertise How to Cope With Co-Workers Arguing By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 21, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re on the phone with a client and an argument breaks out between two of your colleagues. You try to plug your other ear to drown out the noise. What do you do?

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I am able to get a confirmation from the automated system to let me know that the reservation has been made with all of the details that I need. So next time you want to make a reservation via phone, hang it up and try OpenTable.com instead! Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today.

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