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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

Success

From an early age, we learned to recoil at the word. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. Pick up the phone, knock on the door, reach out to those people, and go for what you want. Oh, and I’m going to fax a poem to you. Pick up the phone and let’s make some money!

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork. Office managers may also draft documents, help with payroll, keep an organised office environment and communicate via phone, email and fax (yes, some companies are still using fax machines).

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Cost Effective Ways to Greenify Your Business

Eco-Office Gals

You can communicate via email; you can use things like Google Docs, Adobe and e-Signature to send documents and contracts; even faxes can be sent and received online thanks to companies like FaxZero and MyFax. Thanks to the internet and the myriad of services that it provides, there really is no need to use as much paper to conduct business.

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Learn 5 Secrets to Put Procrastination Off Until Tomorrow!

Stephanie LH Calahan

» Learn 5 Secrets to Put Procrastination Off Until Tomorrow! You can overcome procrastination if you learn a few simple secrets.   Then, as you learn things, you can make modifications. This is powerful if you learn to use it. Comments Learn 5 Secrets to Put Procrastination Off Until Tomorrow!

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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

You have to learn a whole new way of doing things, from how to log onto the computer to filling out a purchase order form. Even though they can seem like small things, at the beginning you are trying to do your best to impress and can feel a bit helpless when the phone rings and you realize you don't know how to answer it.

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Simple Things You Can Do to Go Green in Your Business

Stephanie LH Calahan

  I learned this first hand when I spent some time with Karen Hanrahan this past month.    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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Five Things Small Businesses Need to Know About Free

Tips From T. Marie

Even so, I cut back on the things that I could in order to get a business phone line, a multi-function fax/printer/copier and a couple of business books. This is what I learned about using free for business. The free WordPress theme required more time to learn how to change headers and colors than a purchased theme did.