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Which tasks should assistants manage?

Practically Perfect PA

There are so many ways we can help them with this from managing their calendar effectively, minimising interruptions and generally keeping them on track. The executive’s calendar should be completely controlled by their assistant and the executive shouldn’t edit the calendar at all (in an ideal world!)

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The Industry Snapshot: The influence of Personal Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

According to the Practically Perfect PA survey, 69% of assistants screen calls on a regular basis while over 85% look after their Executive’s emails and calendars. Purchasing Power. This alone gives Assistants a huge amount of influence. Managing the Managers. Assistants do a lot of different stuff.

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

If the supplier knows you are ready to buy for the right price they will cut you a deal. Promise to buy from one supplier for better payment terms, like 60 or 90 days. Getting a better price is especially easy to do right now, since suppliers are tripping over themselves to get business. Get better payment terms by negotiation.

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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

The Small Business Blog

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste. Be ruthless with your filing.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork.

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Apple – a customer support nightmare! | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

You guessed it, as soon as I had done that my new computer started having problems, no calendar or address book data anymore,then my email started going and so on – I rebooted and that was that – I could no longer log in. I told them if I wanted a PowerBook I would have purchased one. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Having looked into the options we have decided to purchase the Interwatch Security system. We have been targeted before and our business in the heart has suffered leaving us no option other than to take the move and research in surveillance and various options. The technology is easy to use and affordable for even small businesses.

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