Sat.Sep 28, 2019 - Fri.Oct 04, 2019

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Technology to help with email management

Practically Perfect PA

These ten fantastic pieces of software will help you manage your emails and your Executives. It is worth looking to see which ones will work for you, but they will all help you manage and automate emails! Sanebox: Sanebox turns your inbox back into the inbox it was meant to be by weeding out unimportant […].

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The Economic Impact of Craft Brewing

Small Business Labs

The Brewers Association recently released their small and craft brewing economic impact report for 2018.  The study found that the craft brewing industry contributed $79.1 Billion to the U.S. Economy in 2018 and provided directly and indirectly about 550,000 jobs.  These numbers are based on what are called economic multipliers , which are used to measure both the direct and indirect impact of economic activity.

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Strategic Career Management Fundamentals (Webinar)

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “Strategic Career Management Fundamentals.”. Date: Wednesday, October 23. Time: 11:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Mountain | 1:00 PM Central | 2:00 PM Eastern. Duration: 1 hour. Description: Successful careers don’t just happen; they are the result of an intentional, strategic process. It’s about more than just setting goals—it also involves actively managing your behavior, engaging in continuous self-reflection and improvement, tracking your progr

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Do You Want to Know the Best Home Business to Start? Read this.

Tips From T. Marie

When I was working my soul-sucking, traditional office job back in 2006, I did numerous internet searches on the best home business to start. Back then, it didn’t yield me many results and very few of them were legitimate. Medical transcription topped the list back then, something that was hard to break into and even harder to earn a living at from home.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Why every Assistant should have their own personal vision statement

Practically Perfect PA

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? A great question isn’t it? This is where I started when I created my personal vision statement. I love Practically Perfect PA, and I find the work really rewarding, but I have been doing this for 8 years and it was definitely time to stop […].

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Using YouTube For Marketing in 2019

Small Business CEO

When you’re exploring social media platforms and marketing channel options, YouTube may not be at the top of your list. It’s frequently overlooked, but if you are strategic and use it appropriately, it can be an excellent platform for marketing. There are pre-made dashboard templates for YouTube that let you quickly and easily see how your performing on the site, which simplifies things even further.

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Are You Managing Up Yet?

Executive Assistant Breakthrough

Managing up is an essential tool to have in your executive assistant toolkit. Learning how to effectively influence people above you in the reporting chain not only makes you better at your job, but also unlocks new opportunities in your career. Bottom line … employers want Executive Assistants who can influence a person of authority — even when your position doesn’t carry much authority.

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Create a time audit for your Executive

Practically Perfect PA

Although we do our absolute best to save our Executive’s time, more often than not, we find that they are still running around from meeting to meeting, working on last-minute projects, asking you to deal with urgent matters and postponing essential tasks. When your Executive works in a fast-paced environment, it can be challenging to […].

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7 Tips to Clean Up Your Digital Files

Jen Lawrence

Digital records management isn’t something we spend time thinking about until we need to find a file. We spend far too much time searching, wondering where we would have thought to save the file when we were working in it. Frustration sets in as we jam every term possible into the search bar and still we have to sort through file after file to find what we need.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Episode 264: How to Build Yourself More Time with Jaime Masters

Productivityist

I’m excited to welcome Jaime Masters as a guest on his episode of the podcast. Jaime is the host of Eventual Millionaire. She’s interviewed almost 500 self made millionaires and billionaires. She’s been a business coaching for over 10 years and has taught six and seven figure CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners how to double and triple their revenue.

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The 4 T’s of Managing Up

Executive Assistant Breakthrough

If you haven’t read my last blog about why and when to manage up , it’s a good primer for this one. Now it’s time to learn what I call the 4 T’s of managing up — exactly how you’ll do it and make it look easy. Topic: Get Clear About the What and the Why. Clarity is the first step to making anything happen. Imagine that your boss is the hero of a challenge you’d like her to undertake.

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How should Assistants represent their boss at a meeting

Practically Perfect PA

I can remember the first meeting I went to instead of my manager was terrifying. It was a last-minute decision because she was running late and I didn’t have time to prepare myself properly. I didn’t do anything in the meeting except take a few notes and agree to report back to my manager later […].

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When to Get The Public Involved in your Company’s Affairs

Small Business CEO

Getting unsolicited feedback is never fun. No matter if it’s in your day to day business life, or in a personal matter. However, in business, seeking feedback from the public is key to success. In this article, we’re going to look at some specific examples within business when public feedback can go a long way. 1. Is your Idea Attractive Enough? Firstly, there’s public feedback when it comes to creating a new product.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Episode 264: How to Build Yourself More Time with Jaime Masters

Productivityist

I’m excited to welcome Jaime Masters as a guest on his episode of the podcast. Jaime is the host of Eventual Millionaire. She’s interviewed almost 500 self made millionaires and billionaires. She’s been a business coaching for over 10 years and has taught six and seven figure CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners how to double and triple their revenue.

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Business Travel Planning for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

With more and more companies expanding the reach of their market across the country and even the globe, the role of the business travel planner has become increasingly important. Assistants who need to plan fast-paced and “not a moment to spare” meeting agendas and travel itineraries for their traveling executives know that getting it right is a difficult feat.

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Podcast 128: Time scorpions

Clutter Coach

by Listen or subscribe here: iTunes ? Stitcher ?. Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play ? iHeartRadio You can leave a review here! This is podcast 128 and it’s about finding the hidden ways your time is being spent. These are things that are hiding in plain sight but we don’t notice them because they’re always there, or we discount how much time they take, or they are so habitual that we truly can’t see them.

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Rewarding and Retaining Your Sales Talent

Small Business CEO

Salespeople are unique in that they are both the key to the expansion and consistency of revenue, yet are often treated as expendable. Many a salesperson has found an open door and open arms that stay open just until they’ve exhausted their contacts, and then they’ll find that door firmly shut. This might make sense from a purely economic point of view, but people aren’t mere data and numbers, and mistreating your salespeople will not only drain them of their loyalty, but also their incentive to

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Episode 264: How to Build Yourself More Time with Jaime Masters

Productivityist

I’m excited to welcome Jaime Masters as a guest on his episode of the podcast. Jaime is the host of Eventual Millionaire. She’s interviewed almost 500 self made millionaires and billionaires. She’s been a business coaching for over 10 years and has taught six and seven figure CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners how to double and triple their revenue.

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MetLife Study: 45 Million U.S. Gig Workers and 85% of them interested in Continuing as Gig Workers

Small Business Labs

MetLife recently released The Gig Economy: Opportunities, Challenges, and Employer Strategies. Key quote from the study press release : The report’s findings demonstrate the fundamental impact gig work is having on the American workforce in the changing work-life world, as employees are increasingly drawn to the allure of flexibility, autonomy and desire for purpose in their work.

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How to Gain Market Share in Very Competitive Environments

Small Business CEO

With netRivals you can monitor prices automatically as higher market share places companies at an aggressive competitive benefit. Companies with an excessive market share regularly obtain higher fees from suppliers, as their large order volumes increases their search for power. In this respect, tools like netRivals help retailers in very competitive environments to have a more detailed view of what is going on in the market with their most direct and stronger competitors, either pure-players or

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7 Tips To Secure The Mortgage For Your Dream Home

Small Business CEO

If you are securing a mortgage for the first time, things can be very confusing and challenging. But fear not, these seven tips can help you in getting started on the right foot. Without further adieu , here are the tips: 1. Clean Up Existing Debts. Most commonly, a mortgage will be the biggest debt you and your family have ever taken on. If you have existing debts or loans, these should be paid back first.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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How To Improve Your Workflows: 10 Tips Here

Small Business CEO

Are you having trouble with the efficiency of your company? Are you unable to accomplish your tasks on time? If the answer is yes, then maybe it is time to improve your workflow. All of us want to achieve more and more in our life. For all the business people these tendencies lead to overcomplicate things in work. To tackle all these, a proper workflow plan should be there.

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The Rise Of The Side Gig: Tips To Succeed And Potentially Create Passive Revenue Streams

Small Business CEO

The side gig economy is very healthy all over the world with people making extra money or a living by freelancing. Technology has made it easier than ever to earn from the comfort of home doing a variety of tasks. Passive income is a reality in today’s world but traditional means of earning passive income like renting out a property are still relevant.

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Easy Ways that Your Small Business Can Save Big Money

Small Business CEO

Successfully running a small business is no easy feat. It takes a lot of hard work and patience, as well as the funds to bring your business ideas to life. With that said, however, you don’t necessarily have to be rich to have a great, profitable small business. What you do need is to be able to manage money correctly and to save money wherever possible.

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Stopping Fraud From Ruining Your Business

Small Business CEO

If you fall victim to fraud in your business it can affect you in various ways; the main one is obviously financial but there’s also deterioration of staff morale, reputation, your financial standing among banks and lenders, and more besides. Knowing what frauds are possible and how to combat them are vital in business. Small and larger businesses alike can suffer fraudulent activities; indeed smaller businesses can be more at risk as they tend to be less geared towards tackling fraud than their

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha