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Happy (belated) New Year!

ProAssisting Blog

ProAssisting came into being last year and this year our goal is to expand upon the great successes we’ve had so far… Just to re-cap, in addition to becoming a featured writer for Monster’s AdminSecret , we had a very robust beta testing period thanks to their community of assistants who put our training through its paces.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-workers favourite, OMG! Writing all in caps is a form of e-mail shouting. This is the commonest form of color blindness, but it affects only.4 Copyright © 2005 All rights reserved. 4 percent of women&#. Watson, Jane, J.

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19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Don't Want To.

Stephanie LH Calahan

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.  Today, 19 of my friends and colleagues have shared their favorite tip for keeping control of the electronic monster

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Writing Tips from Blackbeard the Pirate

Men With Pens

Charles Johnson, author of the 1724 book, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates , described Teach as “such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.” ” He’s not the sort of character I’d usually hang around with.

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When you should stop slogging throught writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

There were orcs and goblins and all kinds of fantasy monsters. To get experience points, you bashed monsters. You bashed monsters for hours. You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. To get to the next level, you needed experience points.

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The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone

Brilliantly Better

There is a certain time when all the first three steps are coming together, forming a fantastic realm of pressured satisfaction. I’m just using my newly strengthened friendship muscle. Enjoy That’s the part where the subtle comfort of the discomfort zone really kicks in. As simple or as complicated as you see fit. { get up or stay.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

How I Built My Twitter Marketing Monster From 1 to 36,000 Reply poch January 11, 2010 at 9:19 am Not ‘Check Your Facts Before You State Them’ This is one of the 10 deadly business mistakes in the Online Profits ebook. But trust comes in many forms, both short- and long term. poch´s last blog. Powered by frugal

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