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.    I went out right away to re-test our Contact Us form and found it was no longer working -- on any of our sites! To your success!

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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. Credit Card Authorization Form: you want to get paid, right?

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This file will contain things like the agreement form from your client, assessment forms, or details of any projects that you’ll be working on. As the majority of your communication is probably done via email with documents going back and forth, you’ll also want to create an individual client folder on your PC.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 8, 2011

Using less-toxic, biodegradable cleaning products not only improves the environment, but did you know that many natural cleaning products are usually sold in a concentrated form?    Start with something like electronic faxes.    Most of the time we look at the fax and file it electronically, or delete it. 

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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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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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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. Taking that one step further, it’s an absolute must that your website include some type of contact form.

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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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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Having VAs I can simply fax order forms to.   Here is an example of why: I was just checking my emails before going to bed (I'm on vacation in Georgia, just south of Russia, 12 hours ahead of pacific time) when I saw an interview request from foxbusiness.com journalist. .  For graphics, my favorite is Instaquote.

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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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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

This file will contain things like the agreement form from your client, assessment forms, or details of any projects that you’ll be working on. As the majority of your communication is probably done via email with documents going back and forth, you’ll also want to create an individual client folder on your PC.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-workers favourite, OMG! Watson Associates for Saying Thank You in an Email : “In our recent poll on pet peeves regarding emails, a number of respondents expressed irritation about receiving messages that contained only the words thank you.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 8, 2007

Using Tasks in Outlook is great if what you are bringing forward is in electronic form. If I send an email that has a date I need it by, I just drag and drop the sent email into my Tasks and assign it a reminder date and then it will pop up to remind me that I asked for something.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tax Tip: Complete a Form 2106 – Employee Business Expenses This form is used for expenses NOT reimbursed by your employer that you may have incurred throughout the year. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Tax season doesn’t have to be a tear jerker.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

  Even if you are not the most technical person on your block, you probably have some form of technology in your life that you love.  It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. I sit in my car and check my email. You won't regret it. Find here: steph.bz/iB5cj3.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Email is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker's favourite, OMG! Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business email. 1 Be Courteous With Email Are you There? Jane Watson of J. This is a great tip from Jane Watson of J.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

2 -- Get Ready to Let Go When you are deciding what to let go of and what to keep in physical form, ask yourself "What is the worst possible thing that would happen if I no longer had this item?"    You still get notified, but it is in your email rather than in physical form. .  400 Gigs Gone!

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

About 90% of my work comes in the form of e-mails, since I want to be able to track anything and everything that managers and fellow staff members send me. There is a simple solution to this - E-mail Templates! There are certain tasks that I need to do on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc. basis and it usually involves e-mail.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

E-mail is no longer just for personal use, with all our accepted short forms: LOL, U, GB and a co-worker's favourite, OMG! Your company may have a policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number.

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The Office Professionals Place

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Form a committee, then within the committee form subcommittees for activities throughout the event. So that means refrain from checking email, or other tasks that are work related, it the holidays.enjoy! Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Don’t go it alone. Do you like to shop for bargains?

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 14, 2008

Fill long registration and checkout forms with one click. If you need to remember lots of different passwords, try using RoboForm. Here are some features directly from the site: Manage Your Passwords and Log In automatically. Encrypt your passwords to achieve complete security. Generate random passwords to maximize password strength.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

This way, you can keep track of all files in any way, shape or form. You can use Microsoft Access to create a database of all of your files criteria and the software assigns a "key" or number that corresponds with your files. You can find more filing tips by reading my article entitled " 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System ".

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

It seems like the tickler file is a good place to keep the papers that go along with the tasks, but there still feels like there's some redundancy when I prioritize my to-dos that are in the form of paper and the daily to-dos on my calendar. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? What are your thoughts in this area?

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The Office Professionals Place

JUNE 7, 2010

I was online completing a form that required a phone number and I didn’t have the phone number handy, while I was conducting a search on the internet, my friend got a regular phonebook and found the phone number before my page could load to show me the results of my search. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Email the report to the boss while you're sitting by the pool. No need to load and check USB flash drives or email documents back and forth from work to home. If there are forms to fill in, one click does that, too -- with no typos! Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? No problem! Errand List And A Map!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or it could be a number of days for an idea that is in the process of forming in your mind. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Think about your idea because not all ideas are created equal.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 12, 2010

  Think of your space in varying forms of valuable real-estate.  Your Electronic Information (Email, documents, social networking, etc.)   Email has inundated us with extra information.    The email and tweets and facebook updates will keep coming.  A different take on the to-do list.

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Believe me, it is the best form of release therapy! Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. I have had the pleasure of meeting some dynamic individuals who have made an influence on my life personally and professionally. Do you need someone to talk to during the day when you are stressed?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 5, 2008

There are quite a bit of AA forms there. Thanks, Richard Posted on 5 March, 2008 5:26 PM The Professional Assistant Hi Maura, Unfortunately, I cant add a forum to this site right now, since it would take quite a bit of work and only can focus on the blog itself right now. Try checking Yahoo Groups or Google Groups.

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Productivityist

AUGUST 21, 2014

Admin/earthly (errands, email, calls). Sometimes we have to answer emails we don''t want to answer. During my print journalism days, an ad dummy was faxed over from the advertising desk to the editorial desk, dictating where the ads and content were to be in the next edition. Reading (studying language, fiction). But I digress.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

In the simplest form this means having more money coming in than is going out. Other services that a virtual office could provide are a receptionist to handle and direct all your calls, as well as having the business mail, faxes and courier documents handled for you. If you enter your URL, your name will become a link to the URL.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 10, 2011

  Habits take time to form and I had to put some very diligent conscious effort into fixing my health situation.    2011 = DECISIVE PRODUCTIVE ACTION     Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST | Main | Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc.   Read, sort and process your email and snail mail daily.  Tweet Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 24, 2013

It’s best not to gossip or form secret alliances. Hopefully you are allowed to buy as many office supplies you need - electric stapler, manual stapler, postage stamps, rubber stamps that say fax, confidential, draft/etc, various binders in different sizes, folders, hanging files, scissors, ruler, 2 hole punch, 3 hole punch, etc.

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Can you bring in new business, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, help build the strategy that will form the company’s future? Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. To prepare this, think in detail about how you can really contribute to the organization.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, if your boss is on a business trip for 2 weeks, how will signature approvals be taken care of - fax, a signature stamp, by the 2nd in command, or will things have to wait? Taking time to argue your points when something is time sensitive is poor form and doesn’t help anyone. This way they can focus on the bigger projects.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier.

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