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5 Time Saving Tips for Home Businesses

Tips From T. Marie

Set a time to make/take phone calls. Instead of answering the phone whenever it rings consider setting aside an hour or so each day specifically for taking and making phone calls. I’ve written before about how much time can be consumed in your day by a phone call. Create and use an info packet. Do you hate invoicing?

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First Impressions Online: How PAs Virtually Greet Business 

Practically Perfect PA

I am a keyboard warrior. In recent years I’ve found myself in the online space where first impressions with clients happen over live chat, email or phone. Not necessarily by choice, but rather by circumstance. I’ve worked as a PA and Office Manager across the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and now Foodservice industry since 2011.

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What 30 Days of Productivity Taught Me About Finding Time

Success

When she asked me to play the assigned pieces, it was clear I hadn’t touched any part of my keyboard or even glanced at the sheet music outside of her practice room. I didn’t have a ton of time to go exploring, so I settled for quick-hit tasks like making phone calls that were long overdue. I actually prefer hooking up my keyboard.

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Is the Next Generation Confused About the Value of Remote Work? 

Success

Or are we working while we check our phones and answer the door and stir the chili and put in a load of laundry? She adds that “it also makes it harder for them to see the boundary between our work life and our home life, leading them to interrupt us and seek time with us even when we have told them we are working.” How confusing for kids.

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Welcome to your first day on the job.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Keyboards Our hands are all over our keyboards. Previously used keyboards should be cleaned out and sanitized for the new person and in some cases replaced. Telephones We speak into our telephone receivers and punch in phone numbers on the keypad. Some people also eat at their desk and food can get in between the keys.

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Must Have Gadgets for the Modern Entrepreneur

The Small Business Blog

If you’re leading the meeting you can take your notes in with you and if you need to make notes during the proceedings you won’t need to annoy your colleagues by tapping on a laptop keyboard. Some modern phones offer this functionality but often with less features and to the detriment of battery life.

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10 Apps for the Entrepreneur 2011

Eco-Office Gals

The software allows you to speak into the phone and then it writes the words into a text file of some type. From there, you can text, tweet or write memos without needing to find a computer or laboriously typing it out on the tiny keyboard of a mobile phone.

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