Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Applications to get a tax ID as part of starting a business jumped a dramatic 77% in Q3 from the prior quarter.  This was the largest increase ever in business applications - and there's nothing even close. As the U.S. Census chart below shows (click to enlarge), both solopreneur business applications (referred to as "Applications Other than High-Propensity") and High-Propensity Business Applications (those indicating they are planning on hiring employees) significantly increas

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Artificial Intelligence: Will it help or hurt the Assistant Profession? I have been very aware of artificial intelligence, as a coming event into my business. In fact, we had a fascinating artificial intelligence client in New York City. And I was just blown away by the [.].

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “The Power of Business Etiquette.” Webinar Description: Etiquette may sound like an antiquated term, but it’s a concept that still very much applies in our modern business world. Contrary to popular belief, etiquette is not about following some arbitrary set of “rules.” It’s about making the people around you feel comfortable and respected.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A Recap of Our First-Ever Virtual Conference for Administrative Assistants Our first-ever virtual conference for administrative assistants had so many monumental moments and nuggets of information.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

There’s no mistaking that feeling of contempt as you log on or clock in for another days’ work. Another 8 or more hours of mental or physical labour and wondering if you’re destined for something else, something better than this…. Believe it or not, more people than ever are moving away from traditional employment and starting their own business instead.

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All Things Admin

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

“What are your goals for the upcoming year?” For many administrative professionals, this is the single hardest moment of your annual performance review. You watch your executive staring at your from across the desk, waiting for a response that you don’t know how to provide. We all want to be more productive, increase revenue, decrease errors, and be a more valuable asset to our executive and our organization.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Completing your Assistant performance review in uncertain times It is that time of year again, performance review season. Except the world has completely changed this year. Completing your Assistant performance review in uncertain times is going to be different. Many of you are working from home juggling work and the [.].

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “Secrets to Achieving Work/Life Harmony.” Webinar Description: You have a “professional” life and a “personal” life, right? But ultimately, it’s all just life, isn’t it? So, how do you balance it all? How do you make sure one side isn’t getting all the attention while the other side suffers?

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

[link]. In this episode, Bonnie continues the conversation with expert Jeremy Spake about the all-important subject of compensation and how HR is really deciding how much money to pay you. They co-wrote a ground-breaking article on this subject that was featured in September, 2020 on the cover of Executive Secretary Magazine (link below.) Listen in as they pull the curtain back on the wage gap, new ways to successfully negotiate compensation, and the global move towards pay equity and pay transp

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When you have a healthy six- or seven-figure income, it’s easy to feel like you have all of your money challenges figured out. But in many ways, more money means more problems. And if you don’t get the basics right, you will fail. Yes, even as a doctor. Here are some simple yet powerful personal finance tips curated with you in mind: 1. Build an Emergency Fund.

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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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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Call it “old school” if you want, a real estate agent recruiting letter is one of the most effective methods of candidate sourcing. With a well-crafted recruiting letter, you can potentially hire the best of the best agents into your brokerage. If you aren’t getting the results you want or expect, it’s probably because you haven’t gotten the technique of writing recruiting letters down pat.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Proposition 22, a California ballot measure calling for the exemption of rideshare and delivery drivers being classified as employees, passed by what could be called a landslide - 58% for vs. 41% against.  Prop 22 passing is a major win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other app-based rideshare and delivery firms.  It means they won't have to reclassify their drivers as employees, which would have been required had the measure failed.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Anticipating needs and other mind reading tricks Over the last few years, I have written a lot about creating a successful Executive and EA partnership. It is the key relationship for Assistants and the one part of the role that you have to get right. Without [.].

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Bonnie Low Kramen

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

By Ruby Swift & Bonnie Low-Kramen | November 30, 2020. In one of our previous posts on ‘What to Do About Virtual Workplace Bullying’ , we mentioned how the massive shift to remote working did little in eliminating the problems professionals used to face in an office setting. In some cases, issues such as workplace bullying, lack of productivity and poor motivation have been exacerbated by the ongoing global health crisis.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Bonnie Low-Kramen | November, 2020 | Published in Career Success Magazine, S. Africa. In my book, “ Be the Ultimate Assistant ,” I devote a chapter to good manners where I make the case that “Good Manners Matter.” In a workplace that has transformed in just a few months, do good manners, common courtesy, and civility still matter? The answer is yes.

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A shift in the manufacturing process can be quite expensive, but if it’s the right step, then the pros outweigh the cons of making such an investment. The question is, how do you know whether that is indeed the case? Staying specific with just CNC Wire EDM Manufacturing for this post, let’s go through its multiple applications and advantages over its alternatives first.

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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

One of the toughest challenges when it comes to setting up a successful recruitment agency is to understand how business development works. Once you have a good grasp over it, you can make the best use of your time and meet all your monthly targets proficiently. While most of the recruitment agency founders understand that recruiting is not all about sourcing the right candidates, clients and filling roles but also about business development which is extremely crucial for success, rookies might

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make is believing they can do it all. While entrepreneurs can (and often do) wear a lot of hats, there are great risks in believing and attempting to run your business by yourself. Sure, you could do research on all the tax codes and piece together something that sounds like a good contract. You could build automations through multiple apps and grind yourself into the ground executing all your day-to-day tasks and business development.

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Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Where do you draw the line? Setting boundaries for Assistants Let's start with a question. Would you say that you are good at setting boundaries? Here is an even more important question - are you good at setting boundaries, and are you good at sticking to them? Assistants need to [.].

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

If a person is really toxic for you, just leave. Get up, get your stuff (if you have any) and leave. That’s it. If, after careful analysis, after weeks, months, or years of attempts to make things right, to balance out the exchange, nothing happened, then walk away. Slowly, no drama, no arguing, no rationalization, Read more. The post How To Remove Toxic People From Your Life appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Karen Vivarelli

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

How to create and send invoices using paid and free online tools: Wave Apps Xero Canva Word Which one is best? This is a trick question but essentially it depends what stage of business you’re in. ARE YOU A NEW OR SEASONED ENTREPRENEUR? Are you just getting started on your business journey and setting up your business foundations for the first time?

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Many people are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars more than their original loan amounts because of interest. Unfortunately, many of those people accept interest as the cost of borrowing and using another person’s money. If all of those borrowers understood how interest works, they could be making money rather than paying more and more to lenders.

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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Everybody loves a good old funny video! We understand that recruiting itself can be a super stressful process and being a recruiter yourself, you would have heard innumerable funny recruitment stories from your colleagues or hiring managers. There may be times when you were subjected to that so-called funny candidate as well. Recruiters, candidates and clients all do crazy things and there have been various spoofs on YouTube regarding the same.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make is believing they can do it all. While entrepreneurs can (and often do) wear a lot of hats, there are great risks in believing and attempting to run your business by yourself. Sure, you could do research on all the tax codes and piece together something that sounds like a good contract. You could build automations through multiple apps and grind yourself into the ground executing all your day-to-day tasks and business development.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

How automation can help Assistants When you’re an Assistant and wearing lots of hats, juggling different tasks, clients and struggling with an overflowing to-do list it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Being organised is key, and using technology makes it much easier to keep on top of things. If you’re spending [.].

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C-Suite Assistants

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today, executive assistants frequently respond to as many as three top-level executives. Companies are looking for the best ways to maximize their ROI, and assistants often take three employees’ workload rather than one. In such a fast-paced, high-stakes job environment, assistants must become experts in time management. Executive assistants not only have to manage multiple execs’ schedules, but they also have various other responsibilities they didn’t have before.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Karen Vivarelli

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Having a professional email signature to sign off with makes you look professional and it also means all of your essential contact info is included for people to find. Luckily setting it up is actually pretty easy and the best part? Well… there’s a free tool to help you do it and it takes about 10 mins to set it up. Wanna know what it is?

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Small Business CEO

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The essence of any successful business is a smart entrepreneur leading the company and all its teams. Nowadays, all businesses present in any market are pretty competitive and are in a constant battle to grasp the consumer’s attention and increase their profits. In order to succeed in their relevant markets, entrepreneurs need to work harder than ever to ensure their businesses can thrive and shine in the crowd.

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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Your clients and candidates have been receiving hundreds of emails on a weekly or fortnightly basis from various recruiters all over the world. Look at your inbox right now.how many unread emails do you have? 200? 500? More? With so many emails that never get opened or make their way into their trash, as a recruiter, you need to realise that there is something significant going wrong.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been at it for a while, running a business can be overwhelming. There’s a lot to consider – legal concerns, tracking financials, and getting all the work done. In the beginning, we all start out doing the best we can. We go from day-to-day fielding emails, doing our best to stay on top of our task list, and hoping we’re piecing everything together correctly.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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