I’ve been seeing a lot of news lately for Virtual Assistants. I wish I could say it was in regards to my profession and how awesome we are (because we are), but unfortunately the Virtual Assistants that they are referring to are “Intelligent” Virtual Assistants. These include the likes of Siri (which is coincidentally very […]
You get what you pay for. Sometimes it’s worth it to invest in a Virtual Assistant so that you can benefit by having less stress and not worrying about the administrative side of your business.
[Warning: this post is written by an extremely biased Patriots fan] Talk about underinflated balls all you want, haters. The New England Patriots are still going to the Superbowl and are one of the best teams out there. While watching the past two Patriots games, I believe the Patriots won those games due to their […]
Don’t go to the gym right now. It’s horrible. If you are a consistent gym goer like myself, you know what I mean. You are all of a sudden confronted with an influx of people at your gym (read this great gympocalyspe article). You won’t get your favorite machine because someone is using it (slowly) […]
Think the holidays don’t start until November? Wrong. You should actually begin planning for them in August.
I hung up the phone and looked at the length of time that was flashing on my screen: 8 minutes and 42 seconds. With that time, I can now deduce two things – either the sales call with the prospect went really well and they wanted to start working with me right away, or the […]
Think you are a master of organization and you’re super productive? Think again. I’m a Type A pro, with to-do lists and organization wired into my personality and brain. But there are times when I get really distracted by instagram, Twitter, or – the biggest time waster for me – Pinterest. The worst is that […]
Two weeks ago, an internet frenzy went up due to Twitter’s CFO mentioning that Twitter could soon have an algorithm based feed introduced, similar to what you might see on Facebook. The reason for doing this? To “improve the relevance for users.” Or, as many have speculated, to appease Wall Street and their demand to […]
As Market Basket cousins continue their war, now is a good time to look back and see what business lessons we can learn.
I can’t even count how many times throughout my career that I have received questions on what the difference is between an Executive Assistant (EA) and an Administrative Assistant (AA). The answer differs for a lot of people in the field, but I thought I would provide my points of view on the two branches […]