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Once Upon a Time in Marketing: The Power of Storytelling

Success

It’s two pieces of paper and a staple,” said Anne Tomsic, who previously served as vice president of communication for pet insurer Trupanion. “In In addition to being shown at industry events and trade shows, these customer story videos were emailed to new customers upon buying the insurance. Case Studies.

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Staples.com National Admin Day Survey Finds Businesses Can Manage Without the Boss, but Not the Admin

Laughing all the Way to Work

I received an email referencing a survey conducted by Staples. Please find below a copy/paste from a portion of that email. The link to the full article with the survey results can be found here. according to the Department of Labor. according to the Department of Labor. percent) than without the boss (30.3 percent).

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

Success

That is, even the folks who couldn’t think of anything to do with the paper clip besides holding papers together were just as likely to write and direct a successful play as the people who had loads of MacGyver-type tricks for the humble office-supply staple. Divergent thinking doesn’t always predict creativity. But it still counts.

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part II

Productivity Bits

Author's Note: This is the last part of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" and a quick Review of Field Notes Notebook ]. Using the “context tag&# of a digital version of task management, such as Nirvana , may not be effective either. Your email will remain private. Follow me on t witte r.

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Ten tips on preparing board papers

Practically Perfect PA

Constantly chasing people for supporting papers, printing thousands and thousand of pieces of paper only to be told that the documents have been amended, stapling through massive reports – god I hated it. That’s not even mentioning the unbelievable amount of paper cuts I got!

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Answering Reader Mail: 1000 Emails Project

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

So the task at hand is tackling the unread emails and sorting them as follow up, projects, inquiries, factory orders, catalog etc. They want to print them out and organized that way, but there are over a thousand emails. I’m a little concerned that 1000 emails went unattended until you were hired. Any advice would be helpful.

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Thank you for joining our Admin Blog-a-thon, what’s next?

Office Dynamics

IAAP teamed up with Staples to #CelebrateAdmins. Business Management Daily had a daily free download or gift. Here’s a recap of the great content that was discussed this month: 10 Steps to Supporting Multiple Managers (4/1/2015). Office Ninjas offered daily flash give aways and they had some really incredible gifts.

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