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AZVAs Podcast 5: Building Relationships with other Small Businesses

Loosely Speaking

Tara and I learned a LOT from this interview about considerations we should all realize when we are using the space, electricity, and wifi at cafes, coffeehouses, and restaurants for business purposes. You can be the subject of one of our interviews or sponsor an upcoming month of AZVAs newsletter & podcast?

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AZVAs Podcast 4: Professionalism In and Outside of the Office

Loosely Speaking

Tara and I took this episode’s theme to heart and made sure that portions of it were recorded in numerous locations: her office, my office, a local restaurant, and in Phoenix Arizona. Our interviews with Jeannine Clontz , VA Biz Coach (and this month’s episode sponsor) and Jennifer Holstad of A Byte in Time.

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Ep 227: David Karandish on Automation in the Workplace, Energy Management, and the Executive Assistant Partnership

The Leader Assistant Podcast

He and his business partner Chris Sims started the parent company of Answers in 2006 and sold it to a private equity firm in 2014 for $960m. HELP ME, HELP YOU (MAKE THE PODCAST BETTER) Do you have questions you’d like me to answer, guests you think I should interview, or suggested topics you’d like me to address on the show?

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

The Latest Entrepreneurial Fantasy Is Selling Cupcakes : Move over restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. Stimulus cash runs out for loan s: The stimulus cash that helped boost small business lending this year just ran out. A new fantasy seems to have taken hold for people who long to own their own business: the cupcakery. — ST.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Good service valued over good food?

Service Untitled

and Canadian consumers about the value of good service over the quality of food they are given at restaurants. A 55% majority of Americans think restaurant service is getting worse, while 32% think service is improving. Part of the value of a service particularly in a restaurant is the customer relation experience.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Panera Bread 2010 “25 Customer.

Service Untitled

So we have a few of Panera’s policies that set them apart from other restaurants, and that includes antibiotic free chicken, no trans fat, many natural ingredients and an impressive list of whole grain breads, but does that have a significant impact on customer service and the Business Week’s award?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » White Glove Service in 4 Steps

Service Untitled

If you have the best employees in the world, but a dirty store, office, hotel, restaurant, etc., If the employees are restricted by a huge number of rules, policies, or procedures (that they don’t have the power to excuse themselves from in certain situations), the customer service experience will suffer. The environment is respectable.