ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 6, 2012

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Procrastination is the #1 reason business owners find that their business stalls. Recently, we conducted an informal poll of the 1000 participants that signed up for Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life and found that over half of our respondents had questions around procrastination, lack of motivation and generally just not getting things done! So, I asked my expert panel: Putting off critical tasks for a later date can break a business.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 21, 2012

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that " coworking's all grow'd up "   GigaOm's Jessica Stillman echoes this view, writing in her article The conversion to coworking 2.0 continues : "Coworking, it seems, is growing up and moving out of its original geographic and industry-specific enclaves, penetrating the consciousness of more mainstream institutions."   Cont

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 2, 2012

Whenever you receive an email from me you will ALWAYS see my contact information at the bottom and know exactly how you can get in touch with me. You will see: My name. My company’s name. My telephone and fax number. My email address (with an active hyperlink). My website address (with an active hyperlink). And an active hyperlink to the signup page of my newsletter.

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Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 14, 2012

The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another. You may have several purposes in mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might inform the audience and try to persuade them to act on the information.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 5, 2012

E piphany. Eureka. Idea. How much is an idea worth? It is virtually worth nothing. Really. The great products we see today are brought forth by some kind of thinking process. We call them concepts. Or imagination. Dream. Before we see products, a thought process must take place. But how important is an idea? If we are to put a tag price to a very important idea, how valuable is that idea in dollar terms?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 23, 2012

  One of the questions that I frequently get when I work with clients is "What is the best way to ensure that I get things done? What type of to do list should I use?"   And I often answer: "It depends!" You see, managing your tasks is a personal thing.  There are many fantastic systems out there for managing tasks.  The best tool is one that you will actually use and trust.  Often, people fail with their to do system because they simply don't tr

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 5, 2012

Top 5 Tips posts are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. With the price of fuel so high, now is a good time to make sure that everyone who is expected to drive for your business understands how they should be expected to drive.

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Job Advice Blog

MARCH 23, 2012

Starting around 2008, many organizations’ human resources departments needed to eliminate their own staffs, and thus many of the traditional human resources functions got bounced over to the respective hiring managers. Unfortunately, those discrete departments couldn’t always afford expensive job boards, so they needed to think out of the box in order to meet their [.].

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 20, 2012

The Savvy Admin’s Guide to Travel! Tips for the Tourist in All of Us. I have been hosting the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence for 19 years. I also host a high-end training program for executive assistants and administrative assistants called World Class Assistant , in Las Vegas. I have observed hundreds of assistants travel and heard numerous stories about their travel experiences both while in transit to Las Vegas and during their stay in Las Vegas.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 29, 2012

Email has been around for quite some time now. Email holds a very important role in our daily interaction with our fellow human beings. For many of us, email is a simplistic form of communication – one that wouldn’t take too much of our brain power to do. But if you are like some people, email is not as intuitive as it’s supposed to be.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 1, 2012

by Donna Toothaker. As a VA, one of your most valuable assets is your passion for helping people, and one of the great sources of job satisfaction is seeing your clients happy and their businesses growing. Yes, most VAs are ‘helpful’ in nature and we want to do what we can for people. But are you doing too much, for too little? If you are holding on to low paying clients, you are hindering your own business growth.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 21, 2012

Sometimes not getting a task done really is okay and other times it is a symptom of something going awry in your business.  Recently, Debra shared the following comment to me on Facebook : " I echo what Gina and Michelle shared - I'm still here at the computer. It's the end of the day and I feel "guilty" about taking time to go walk the dog as I haven't gotten everything done.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 28, 2012

Question Time Just before I flew home to Canada I was asked by my inept agent, Tony Robinson OBE, to chair a ‘Question Time’ type debate at a large micro business conference in his home town of Scarborough. Micro businesses (0-9 employees) are, apparently, quite important to the UK. There are 4.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Job Advice Blog

MARCH 8, 2012

If you have been unemployed for some time now or a recent victim to this economy, there is one thing that you can do to keep your resume current. Instead of having a gap from your last job to your current status, how about volunteering and adding that to your resume? It will make a [.].

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Eco-Office Gals

MARCH 28, 2012

With the advent of cloud computing, advancing mobile technology, and the overwhelming majority of products and services being made available through digital means, the ability to switch to a completely virtual plane of business operations has never been more possible. Needless to say, dumping a real-world office and everything that goes along with it will undoubtedly lead to greener business practices.

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Virtual Moxie

MARCH 19, 2012

My deep thanks to Tami for suggesting this topic--it's a goodie! Divorcing, firing, ending the relationship with, telling them to eff off--by whatever name you give it, this is one aspect of owning a VA practice that often creates a lot of anxiety for people. I think the reason for that is often because we don't like confrontation, and we see this kind of conversation in that light.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 8, 2012

by Donna Toothaker. Is it really true that the more technical training and certifications you receive, the more valuable you are to clients? There are many classes and services readily available, but is it really necessary to do it all? In reality, this approach could backfire because it’s impossible to be everything to everyone. There is a good reason why Virtual Assistant specialists are more valuable than generalists who try to know and do everything.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 29, 2012

So, you’re not happy at work. “But,” you wonder, “is anyone?”. Maybe you expect too much. Maybe you have some unrealistic idea of what career fulfillment looks like. Maybe this is as good as it gets. Maybe. After all, no job is perfect. But, there might be one that’s a little closer to perfect. Or a way to make your existing career MORE perfect. Here’s one way of looking at it: If you were to rate your career satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is perfectly satisfied and 1 is perfectly

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 28, 2012

We don’t know what we don’t know I always chuckle to myself when big companies that sponsor awards to start up and existing small business give, as part of the prize, mentoring or advice from a senior executive in their company. Perhaps it is no laughing matter.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 19, 2012

The Edelman 2012 Trust Barometer is out.  Edelman is a large public relations firm and they've been conducting an annual trust survey for 12 years. They cover a lot of ground.  The survey is global and they look at trust levels for media, government and corporations.   The key data for small businesses, I think, is their data on who is credible.  The groups they asked about the and the percent who felt they are credible are: Academic or Expert - 68%.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 14, 2012

$99 can get you the chance of increasing your “learning rates.” But are you willing to spend that if it involves sending your brain “increased amount of electrical current”? The DIY Kit, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), as described in a BGR report , is “a safe and effective means of increasing cognitive performance.” The way I understand it is it stimulates some part of your brain which then somehow increases neuronal excitability.

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Eco-Office Gals

MARCH 6, 2012

There are a range of methods which can be employed to make your workplace more environmentally sound. Though they may be harder to implement, due to the requisite approval from your employer(s), they are definitely worth being mindful of; this article outlines a few ways in which improvements can be made. Minimize the amount of paper used. A nice starting point; this can be achieved in many ways.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 15, 2012

by Donna Toothaker. Business a little slow? You might wish you had some passive income right about now. The good news is – now you have a little extra time to create some, and it may be easier than you think. What is passive income? It is a source of profit that occurs with little or no effort on your part to maintain. An excellent source of passive income is an information product, also known as “knowledge-based goods” or “digital goods,” to be distributed online.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 15, 2012

Remember on Seinfeld , when George Costanza’s dad decided to rebel against the commercialism of the winter holidays and celebrate a holiday called Festivus instead? One tradition was to stand around the Festivus pole and air your grievances. Well, the spirit of Festivus must be in the air because lately, it seems, quite a few people (including top level executives) are being very vocal about their employment grievances.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Entrepreneur Conferences need a business health warning. November and March are always the biggest months for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship conferences. Last week, I was lucky enough to be in Liverpool for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 28, 2012

Even if you've been living in a cave the last year or so you've probably still heard of Pinterest.  As the chart below from Comscore shows, it's the fastest growing social networking site of all time.         If by some chance you haven't heard of it, the site allows users to post, organize and share pictures of things they are interested in.  Think of it as an online, photo-sharing pinboard of interesting pictures - hence the name. 

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 12, 2012

How to teach kids more effectively? The school environment is the most important portion of that. There is no doubt about it. There is an urgency that school children need to learn more math and science. That is specially true here in the US. What if the parents can utilize a cool tool to augment their kids’ learning? What if the hardest part of this tool is convincing kids to sit down and watch videos (I guess, that is not hard at all)?

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 10, 2012

Unfortunately today is the last day for this Massive Giveaway Event. If you have not already taken advantage of it, do it now. Don’t hold it for another day. It will not be there tomorrow: [link]. Just to recap: A whole bunch of top VAs, OBMs, trainers, coaches, and others have teamed up to give you TONS of Products at no cost to you: training. e-books.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MARCH 29, 2012

by Donna Toothaker. One of the principal ways I created a business so quickly and successfully was by creating an affiliate program. What is an affiliate program? It is a reward system for referrals to your business. In my case, I would offer a commission to peers, clients and others (affiliates) when people they referred to me signed on as clients.

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Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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