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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

Success

But I did answer the pressing email! A mentor once told me to spend 30 minutes every day staying in touch with my network and business friends. Send an email. The supplier doesn’t like the new product you designed. I admit it, I’m pretty addicted to my phone. I am trying to lessen my phone dependence for Lent.

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. Assign specific colors to categories in your email inbox or use tags to visually group related items together. Here are two examples of this.

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 25, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Make sure that the mentor is aware of what you want from them e.g. cashflow advice. Develop a network of mentors you can rely on for good advice.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. I actually don’t have a laptop at home and conduct all my organising, social media and emailing through my iPhone. Do you have advisor’s / board members / mentors that have helped with the network? It is brilliant!

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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Stepping It Up – What’s Stopping You?

Denise Aday

Service packages are harder because of the broad array of ongoing services we provide in a month’s retainer: Scheduling; email and calls with clients, suppliers and colleagues; wiki/website updates; event/travel coordination; general admin; CRM; email marketing; HR support; purchasing; and oh the list goes on! What’s Missing? –

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Competitive Intelligence: Not Just For Big Business | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Google Alerts are also a great source of information by providing email updates of the latest relevant Google results (news, web etc.) Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 3:38 pm and is filed under SME-Blog. Sponsors Advertise Here?

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