Saw a great message in a forum last week. It was a sample of email addresses and what they say about the sender. It backs up my own thoughts about email. There is a place for ‘cute’ and ’silly’ email addresses but when you are operating a business and participating in business […]

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One of the services I provide to clients is the maintenance of their databases. Entering business cards and new contacts, updating contact details, and removing bounced addresses.
Databases can get very messy at the best of times. There are always people changing jobs, shifting house, changing their lives and changing email addresses - it […]

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Recently at a VA forum we were discussing developing taglines for your business.
There is a fantastic book called ‘Seven Second Marketing’ written by Ivan Misner who is the founder of BNI. It’s about how to use memory hooks or how to make you instantly stand out in a crowd.
My own ‘memory hook’ really works best […]

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Have you thought about Occupational Health & Safety in your home office? It might only be you in the office but safety is still important.

Do you have leads running across the floor or showing at the back of a desk that is out in the open?
Do you have young children or pets that could […]

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This topic was raised in my forum just recently and several team members came forward with an outline of what they’d done in the past.
It is important to protect ourselves whenever in the process of physically meeting a new client for the first time. After all, in many cases, they are complete strangers to us […]

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I recently had the privilege of being interviewed by Stan Relihan of The Connections Show on the Podcast Network. Those of you in LinkedIn will know him as Australia’s most connected man. Stan has a great sense of humour and I’ve enjoyed getting to know him over several months now. So I was delighted […]

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