Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 2, 2011

Creative thinking is not just for certain jobs, such as writing advertising copy or developing entertaining training programs. Is there a way to track or store expenses electronically? Generate more ideas – You might be able to come up with five ideas for a new training program… expect none are innovative.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Not only are you focusing on how to grow your business through hiring, training and fundraising, but you are also juggling the million administrative tasks that come up during the day. Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation.

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C-Suite Assistants

JULY 26, 2021

Virtual assistants can give you a lot of freedom by taking on repetitive and administrative tasks and freeing up time to attend to other aspects of the business. Some virtual assistants may cover more than one time zone, or you can work together to come up with a coverage plan. Lower overhead and training.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Project management. Travel planning.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

Event Management, Project Management, Human Resources and Finance have become a big part of my job. Tasks and responsibilities involving heavy project management are becoming commonplace for the admin too.” I started out as a receptionist and ended up as an EA. I’ve had one 2.5%

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s someone who is actively doing, seeking, and implementing, not someone who is simply coming up with ideas or maintaining the status quo. Even if it looks expensive or the process is unclear, my mindset now is, “Who do I get involved to help us navigate this as efficiently as possible? Who can help me shorten my learning curve?

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Worxbee

AUGUST 23, 2021

That’s great, but sometimes being in your own little work world is at the expense of engagement with the wider team. Or, when it comes to messages about tasks or task assignments, project management tools tend to be the best way to keep all information regarding a project in one place.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 27, 2016

She offers 6 template ideas here that will help you build templates for tracking your to-do lists, logging your expenses, tracking meetings, and project management. This link offers up a ton of links that she’s compiled (and written herself) that will help you use Evernote for your own genealogy project.

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Andrea Kalli

MAY 11, 2010

From online role playing games to ultra-detailed advertising training websites, more companies are adopting a continuity billing model to provide customers with high quality membership content. Of course, there are even more benefits to setting up a membership website.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Streamline your project management process. Microsoft Excel for Project Management. When it comes to project management, you can buy some pretty sophisticated software specifically designed to keep you and everything on track. However, not all of us have access to these expensive programs!

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 15, 2010

For others, the expense simply does not bring in any real return, as a community simply can’t be created around each and every business out there. An online community can’t pop up out of nowhere overnight, and it certainly can’t fix a broken business model.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 30, 2010

SEO, in terms of time spent, is a very expensive exercise. Set up short-term SEO earners first. With small articles ranking relatively high with the right linking strategy, even a few quick write-ups can be enough to drive targeted traffic to your offers.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 11, 2010

While this may be more expensive than other video promotion methods, it will give you the edge you need when it comes to getting content published, promoted, and viewed as quickly as possible after a major newsworthy event.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 2, 2010

Podcasting as a Commercial In this day and age, we have all grown up on television, radio and now the Internet. This is usually your most expensive option as it requires hiring a full-fledged advertising agency, outside consultants and/or actors and actresses to get it just right.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

He had a great, cushy job at a studio and decided he wanted to be closer to family so he quit without having anything lined up. He had risen in his career to the mid-level management and has almost been doing his job for 10 years at other well-known companies. I'll give you three examples. I am truly his right (and left) hand!

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Who's the Real Boss?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Perhaps you’re miserable in your role, but sticking around for the sake of demonstrating a half decent tenure, without having to make up some excuse for why you left after so little time. Being heavily involved in recruitment myself, I witness this alwayas as the first criteria that the hiring manager will check against.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

Would hate to pass up this leadership opportunity if it could mean progression for me in the future. Why do I bring this up? Do you want to manage people or actually do the work? So I’m not exactly sure what other high level tasks/responsibilities you may be missing out on when you have to manage the office.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

A massive family trip to Mexico, where I still kept up with my journalling habit and my routines along the way. I managed to read The Alchemist and The Rise while down there for ten days and swam with dolphins. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. MUCH longer. Good times.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

A massive family trip to Mexico, where I still kept up with my journalling habit and my routines along the way. I managed to read The Alchemist and The Rise while down there for ten days and swam with dolphins. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. MUCH longer. Good times.

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a fan of kanban-style task management features to visualize workflows and customer leads? If so, two project management tools lead the fray — Pipedrive and Trello. From assigning and monitoring task progress to customer relationship management, both Pipeline and Trello offer unique advantages for both.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. Although the world of work has changed significantly in the last few years, the way we train our workforce hasn’t.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

You use systems every day – often without even thinking about them – to perform tasks both simple (booting up your computer each morning) and complicated (planning meetings and events). You can create systems for everything you do, but I recommend starting with these five key areas: Time and task management. Project management.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 20, 2010

We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. After everything is up and running, posting new content is as simple as pushing a button. Did you know that I am a Wordpress VA?

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 11, 2010

We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. After everything is up and running, posting new content is as simple as pushing a button. Did you know that I am a Wordpress VA?

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Social Media Microsoft Outlook 2010 Twitter 100

Who's the Real Boss?

MAY 4, 2019

Having all the answers and knowledge at hand of anything and everything that’s asked of you, at any given minute, is not something that everyone can keep up with. Her manager, let’s call him Doug, is so wrapped up in his own world and work demands that he gives Ann no time. Well, the same should apply for assistants.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 17, 2010

Even relatively low-end businesses – dentists, painters, and plumbers – are able to capitalize on the online arena, capturing clients and generating leads at a fraction of the expense a newspaper advertisement would require. Of course, there are limits to the power of localized search engine optimization.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

By taking the time to write down exactly what you want to accomplish, you’re much more likely to get a good product and avoid expensive rework because of miscommunications. beating freelancers up says volumes about the client and their own feelings of business self-worth. Writing a brief has a number of benefits.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

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