On The Job

DECEMBER 31, 2010

I thought since many of us are always searching for ways to make business travel a bit more rewarding, some road warriors could share their insight on how they do it. For some road warriors, the solution comes in combining business travel with family vacations or a chance to pursue private interests. Setting a schedule.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 19, 2015

It is without doubt a beautiful city but boy is it expensive! Restaurants, hotels, transport – everything that you encounter on a trip is costly. A great way to save money is to ask the hotel for a Geneva Travel Card which gives tourists free access to buses, trams and boats. Ten trips for organising a business trip to.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 7, 2017

I also organise his business travel. Since my boss travels a lot, I take care of his travel expenses and supplier invoices. Around the corner from our office in Frankfurt we have a wonderful burger restaurant. Sometimes I enjoy an evening at the Zarges restaurant in Frankfurt – another place I can highly recommend.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 21, 2014

After many many years of booking business travel to Houston for my Executives I finally got to travel there myself in January 2014. As you would expect there service levels are incredibly high particularly in restaurants, hotels and bars. For assistants, planning will be crucial when organising business travel to Houston.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 12, 2014

It is a lovely part of Geneva with lots of shops, restaurants and cafes nearby. The kitchen was fully stocked with everything you might need if you can’t quite face the expensive local restaurants and the fridge was thoughtfully stocked with fruit juices, water and fizzy drinks. Our opinions are entirely our own.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 23, 2014

The Nadler Soho is located just off Soho Square which is pretty much in the centre of London’s West End with its theatres, restaurants, bars and shops all within walking distance. Around these parts hotels are pretty expensive (sometimes unreasonably so) but The Nadler is what you would call a hidden gem.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 9, 2016

This is the most expensive room in the hotel and comes with the most amenities as well as being bigger than the other options. The half person obviously taking up most of the space with a travel cot included in the room. The restaurant area has a great atmosphere with lots of comfy sofas and chairs. Let’s talk about the rooms.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here are some of my favourites: Great Apps: Travel. This app is slightly expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. You can set it for your current location or receive alerts from places you are planning to travel too. Tipping in restaurants around the world can be very confusing.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 6, 2013

Booking travel – Concur helps ensure that corporate travel is booked within policy before the trip is taken and reconciles expenses after travel is completed. AnyPerk has partnerships with hundreds of vendors that provide employee discounts in fitness, entertainment, travel and much more.

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Myth #3: Flexible workspaces are too expensive for small businesses. They pop up in, I was about to say the most unlikely of places, but they are actually obvious places because you get lots of people passing through, business travelers and so on, who might need to pop in and use a desk for a few hours.

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All Things Admin

MAY 18, 2022

The pandemic has shown us that putting business travelers first is more important than ever. Whenever employees are ready to get back on the road, administrative professionals have an opportunity to offer their teams a more streamlined, flexible business traveler experience. Offer Ride Options for Every Traveler.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 14, 2015

Once settled we went downstairs for a light lunch in one of the hotel’s restaurants, Cipriani’s. As you would expect the food was a little on the expensive side for what it was. Practically Perfect PA stays admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual Assistant'

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For couples who travel frequently between homes and businesses and have busy lifestyles, this could mean coordinating professional and private schedules across different time zones and in different regions around the world. What Type of Assistant Should I Hire?

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. You can set it for your current location or receive alerts from places you are planning to travel too. And it is also handy for when your manager is travelling. FlightTrack: £2.99

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. You can set it for your current location or receive alerts from places you are planning to travel too. And it is also handy for when your manager is travelling. FlightTrack: £2.99

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2014

I had just spent 2 months travelling around a freezing USA and although back in the UK my body was still a little cold, a little jet lagged and in serious need of some rest and relaxation. Similar to a lot of spa hotels the Nutfield’s Cloister restaurant offers a three course meal (£38 per head) as part of the weekend package rates.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With years of experience running a coworking space in Berlin and extensive research and travel to over 500 coworking spaces across 50 cities, Pauline has gained deep insights into the uniqueness, importance, and impact of collaborative work environments on people and communities. It can really be where it needs. Everyone cooks differently.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 19, 2014

During my time in Geneva it certainly hadn’t escaped my notice that Geneva is an expensive city: you can’t really escape it (unless you spend all of your time hanging around the central train station). I had spent three days in Geneva and was well aware that everything is ridiculously expensive.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 5, 2015

I manage his schedule and monitor his emails, as well as help organise some of his travel, company events, and client dinners, occasional research, expenses and ad hoc tasks – all the general PA duties. There are some fab vietnamese restaurants – I’m partial to a kimchi banh mi.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

When I travel, I take my laptop and Kindle Fire. It is worth the extra expense.   Tips for Health Conscious Travelers. Many of clients travel for work and pleasure, crossing multiple time zones. Even while traveling, they implement very doable and easy practices that give them the healthy edge to keep them on track!

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The compromise here is that you get fantastic views over Golden Bay and the large plot of land means the hotel developers have added lots of on-site entertainment and restaurants. If you do stay in Malta you can visit the hotel restaurants and I would recommend Agliolio, the food is really tasty and not too expensive.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The compromise here is that you get fantastic views over Golden Bay and the large plot of land means the hotel developers have added lots of on-site entertainment and restaurants. If you do stay in Malta you can visit the hotel restaurants and I would recommend Agliolio, the food is really tasty and not too expensive.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 31, 2008

The Chinese restaurant being run out of your meeting room is playing havoc with your diet. Outside business consultants can be expensive, so the powers that be brought in Miss Miller's 5th grade class to give book reports on "How to Win Friends and Influence People." You won't have to travel far for the company retreat this year.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

At first the consultants picked their own hotels and put the cost through their expenses and as you can imagine their choice of hotels varied wildly and so did the price. Generally the apartments do not provide additional facilities such as a gym, restaurant or spa. My director gave me the task of reducing this spend by 20%.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 15, 2012

You're setting up lunches, giving restaurant recommendations to visiting executives, and sending gift baskets of fruit, baked goods, and other edibles. This is not to say they only eat at the most expensive places, but they also know good food that is inexpensive. When surrounded by high net-worth individuals, they know good food.

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Brilliantly Better

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Sometimes, if you travel in small groups, they may be even cheaper than a bus ticket. To make a long story short, in just a matter of minutes I was checked in, in a small one bedroom unit (their name for a one bedroom apartment), unit that I will have to share with my travel buddy (ironically called the same as me, Dragos ).

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And I also played a lot of live stops, traveling to places like Europe and the World Series of Poker in Vegas. And there’s as much likelihood that I’ll be meeting someone and doing some work over in Dallas, because I’m in Fort Worth in Dallas this week, working in their office or maybe at a restaurant.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

I travel far to try and find a full-serve station, but they are becoming extinct. It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. Now, there doesnt seem to be a difference in price at all, it is just common practice that we have to do it ourselves. Recently, I bought a new laptop.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Where the press interview was taking place also becomes an issue - pick too nice of a restaurant and they have expensive taste. So when you book travel, be mindful how it can portray your boss and if they care. Personal details do come to light in articles, expense reports, and in social media.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

She is a lawyer, freelance writer, and dedicated traveler. That childlike wonder of experiencing a new place for the first time is what draws me to travel as much as possible, both internationally and domestically within the US. Start reading travel sites online (Trip Advisor, Frommer''s, Lonely Planet, Yelp, etc.),

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. This is an important thing to know.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." He relied totally on spell check so you can imagine what typos were missed. He was a lawyer and in this particular letter he was writing to a prospective client. Good thing I checked.

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Allwork

JANUARY 22, 2024

And so just right off the highway there’s lab suites that offer people the opportunity companies to have a space to go into and have office space and then utilize the lab space, which is so expensive. Frank Cottle [ 00:05:11 ]: Oh yeah, wet walls are hugely expensive. There are only travelers. There are only travelers.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

I printed his e-ticket and had everything prepared for his travel. Linda (our travel agent) was obviously having a bad day. He wrote in one sentence that he had "expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." I booked one of my former bosses on a flight to Toronto.

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Allwork

JANUARY 22, 2024

And so just right off the highway there’s lab suites that offer people the opportunity companies to have a space to go into and have office space and then utilize the lab space, which is so expensive. Frank Cottle [ 00:05:11 ]: Oh yeah, wet walls are hugely expensive. There are only travelers. There are only travelers.

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 13, 2010

Scudamore believes his philosophy so much that he has invited another competitor, Jason Mohr who runs Any Junk in London, to come visit their offices in Vancouver and even offered to pay half of his traveling costs! It’s expensive to develop your own resources so it makes sense to share. Think of the motor industry.

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