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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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3 Ways the Office Party Can Help Your Career

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Whether it's an office potluck or a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant, most workplaces have some type of holiday gathering. Still, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a good time, and getting into the spirit of the holidays can actually help your career. What's your favorite holiday tradition?" you can ask. Mute your phone.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. My dad has always enjoyed days spent swimming in the ocean, followed by hearty dinners at nice restaurants. She loathes whining in all of its forms, always emphasizing the value of dealing and doing.

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Get Organized: Painless Holiday Shopping and Gifting

Get Organized!

Organizing Tips | Organizing Products | Organizing Services Thursday, December 9, 2010 Get Organized: Painless Holiday Shopping and Gifting Have you ever been at a loss as to what gift to buy someone? possible gift ideas all year-round: Personalized Holiday Gift Ideas. Thank you for sharing the personalized holiday gift form.

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Green Gift Giving: Green Glass Company

Eco-Office Gals

Through a partnership with Cave B winery, these tumblers are created from reclaimed Bordeaux bottles collected from the organic restaurant, B&B and tasting room on the Cave B estate. How about giving (or receiving) something from The Green Glass Company this holiday season? Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

If you have a few ideas or requests in your e-mail, it is best to set it out in point form so the person does not have to dig for it. Robbs drivers license; - A completed application form; and - a cheque or money order in the amount of $10 made out to the Ministry of Heath." Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Are there favorites of anything your boss likes - their coffee, restaurants, cafeteria lunch food, etc? Where will you get flowers, baby gifts, birthday cakes, catered lunch, a venue for the holiday party, wine, a list of all the hot restaurants in town? Don't forget about official, company, school, and religious holidays.