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JUNE 18, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Using Email Effectively Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 18, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. When responding to an email that contains an attachment, use Reply without Attachment(s) option. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Phishers count on year-end stress to trick you and your staff into responding to the “CEO’s” email asking for employees’ W-2 data. With this in mind: Odds are, this email isn’t from the CEO, but just in case it is, fax your response to the CEO’s computer instead of hitting the reply button on your email.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 5, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs | Main | Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization » Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc. Link Lineup! Link Lineup! : Link Lineup!

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For your staff and the C-suite Payroll pros scored a huge success when they quickly shut down the W-2 phishing scam where a phisher poses as an occupant of the C-suite and asks for employees’ W-2 information to be emailed to them. But old scams don’t die, they just slumber. These fixes aren’t so difficult, either.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review | Main | Caffeine-Free Ways to Increase Focus & Attention » You Can Steal Time Back From Email A few days ago I received an email from a reader.  " Email is something that many of us struggle with. 

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? DO use email for informational purposes (i.e.

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Tips From T. Marie

JUNE 16, 2023

Remember the days of faxing documents , emailing hefty attachments or carrying USB drives like precious cargo? Its customization and automation options further enhance productivity, making Box.com a strong contender in the world of cloud storage. Sharing: Let the Files Fly!

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Success

MARCH 24, 2022

Your emails go unanswered , and people who promise to get back to you disappear like Houdini. Average entrepreneurs say things like, “I left a message and he didn’t call back… I sent an email but didn’t get an answer… She must not be interested.” Oh, and I’m going to fax a poem to you. Pauli’s, just down the street.”.

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Tips From T. Marie

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Switch to a fax service that delivers faxes in electronic form to email. Encourage those who send you documents and information to send electronic versions rather than paper. Have a scanner in office and make sure that any paper documents are scanned into electronic format immediately.

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Tips From T. Marie

JULY 21, 2016

Fax Machine- At this point, everyone should be capable of sending attachments via email. for those few technophobes that refuse to be dragged into the 21 st century and insist on faxing you, all you need is Nextiva , up to 500 pages a month for just $4.95.

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On The Job

MARCH 11, 2019

Need to write a tough email? You probably don't need a dictionary, thesaurus, maps or a fax machine if you can do that work online. Gretchen Rubin, who I have interviewed many times about happiness in the workplace, has a new book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm." Rubin says it will be much easier with a neat desk. Get rid of them.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 9, 2011

I think sending emails to the wrong person is an easy mistake to make because it is so easy and quick to press Send, but not so easy to take it back (and the Recall function really does not work on emails to external people and is only hit and miss on internal emails).

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

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). Get a free weekly update via email here and help kick start your career.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2017

Choosing the right tool might mean selecting the best fax machine , which refers to choosing optimum working capacity for your work flow. There is a host of tasks you can do with RoboTask including launching apps, checking emails, creating backups and moving files, downloading and a lot more.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Don’t EVER send sensitive financial data via email – even if it is split across two emails. Sending info via email is like sending a postcard via mail. Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 8, 2011

  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.    Most of the time we look at the fax and file it electronically, or delete it. 

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2010

To put it into perspective, try imagining all of your emails from the last month coming to you on paper – now that’s a scary thought! It is entirely possible for you to essentially eliminate the use of paper faxes by using electronic faxing, in which you generate an in-bound fax to the computer system you use.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 9, 2008

This person was looking for an administrative assistant and asked for resumes to be faxed to her, but people e-mailed them instead. Even after I added in the ad, no emails. I guess we’re living in a techno world where faxes will soon be obsolete, but still - give me what I asked for the first time and no one gets hurt.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

There are so many things we need to check when we first come into work in the morning: voicemail, email, regular mail and faxes and couriers. Email at least can be flagged as urgent, but your voicemail you have no idea until you listen to it how important it is, so best to check that first. Then I check my email.

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Tips From T. Marie

JUNE 26, 2018

With more of us enjoying job flexibility today, and with the probability of up to 58% of workers expected to be independent contractors by 2027 , if you’re not using your smartphone for more than texting, calls and email you should be. We all know about texting, calling and emailing from our phones, but are you collaborating from it as well?

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Eco-Office Gals

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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. For more information, visit Energy.gov and put “do it yourself energy audits” in the search field.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Executives do not share necessary information with their Assistants and do not always include their Assistant in their email communications. Executives and Assistants cannot keep up with the emails that flood their Inbox on a 24/7 basis. Employees feel time-compressed. Executives are independent and tech savvy.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. A couple of places where you’ll want to create individual clients folders are: In your email program.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Emails – We hear this a lot but somehow seem to struggle to release ourselves from the constant beckoning of the email notification. Set time frames to check your email and turn off notifications so your mental flow isn’t constantly interrupted.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 17, 2009

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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Eco-Office Gals

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Reduce paper use by emailing when possible. A combo fax machine, printer, photocopier and scanner uses less energy. Install solar panels on the roof for renewable heating and electricity. Only fill the kettle with as much water that you need. Better still; replace it with a hot water dispenser. Refill laser cartridges.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 10, 2012

single entry from my mobile phone, online or via my email  integration with social media (e.g. All of the contact information that you want is in one place - emails, faxes, appts, tasks, file attachments.    8 - Email Management.   2 - Contact Entry.   3 - List Management/Tagging.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Wipe your telephone handset, keyboard, desk surface, copy machine, fax machine, and other surfaces with disinfecting wipes, or use a disinfectant spray with paper towels. If a coworker is coughing or sneezing, communicate via email or telephone so you don''t have to come into close contact with the person.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We May Not Have Heard From You Recently a wonderful reader responded to one of our posts via email to let us know that she had filled out our contact form and had not heard from us.  Steph Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?   That is just not our style!    That is just not our style! 

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This can include business addresses and mailing information, telephone numbers, email addresses, a fax number, and alternate websites or URLs. This allows potential clients to email you directly from your website to request more information, a consultation or even to offer work.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My first office didn’t have a copy machine or a fax or anything like that. So we went from typewriters and physical mail to email, and we said, oh, that’s so great, because now you can know all that time you spend on writing a letter, you can do it much quicker in an email. They didn’t exist.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work.

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Small Business CEO

MARCH 17, 2014

They might call, fax, email or otherwise solicit you indicating that it’s time to get your business listed in the back of the local phone book, or an applicable business directory of some sort.… Directory Scams. … CEO Leadership offline scams online scams scams'

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The Office Professionals Place

MARCH 4, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010 The ‘Bcc’- Friend or Foe On average, we receive over 100 emails per day. Friendly Uses • If your email has a large recipient list, you can use the Bcc to hide email addresses and protect recipients privacy. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Emails – We hear this a lot but somehow seem to struggle to release ourselves from the constant beckoning of the email notification. Set time frames to check your email and turn off notifications so your mental flow isn’t constantly interrupted.

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