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How to get a meeting with any Silicon Valley exec

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Silicon Valley Meeting

How do you get the attention of a top executive, let alone schedule a meeting with one?

Not only can their contact information seem difficult to come by, but with their full schedules and army of assistants, you need to have a pretty appealing offer to earn an appointment.

The average corporate employee sends and receives over 120 emails every day. For most executives, this number is even higher. How do you stand out in a sea of words? How do you make an offer that they can’t refuse?

Hint: It all comes down to making the right contact with the right person.

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Why an efficient email strategy is essential for freelancers

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Not only can email be a time suck, but if you’re not on top of it, you can…let more things fall through the cracks than any professional should.

Guest post by John Arthur

You’ve heard it a million times: time is money. And email, if not approached correctly, can be one of the biggest drains on your time, and by extension a drain on your bottom line.

Not only can email be a time suck, but if you’re not on top of it, you can miss crucial messages, neglect to follow up with important clients, and, generally, let more things fall through the cracks than any professional should.

Organizing emails to save yourself trouble

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Automatically forward emails to your favorite apps and teams

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We’ve teamed up with Any.do, Evernote, Expensify, Todoist, and many others to bring you simple (and simply awesome) email forwarding.

Meet SaneFwd, an easy way to automate email forwarding to your favorite third-party apps and team members.

So what is SaneFwd all about?
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Is ‘phubbing’ killing your career and relationships?

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It doesn’t take a scientific study to recognize that “phubbing,” or snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention to that person, is becoming more and more prevalent. The evidence is all around us.

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At restaurants, during concerts, even in meetings. We see people more involved in what is happening on their screen than with the people in front of them. Beyond causing us to miss out on what is happening in real time (and annoying those around us), research shows that phubbing may have detrimental impacts on our relationships, mental health, and productivity. Continue reading “Is ‘phubbing’ killing your career and relationships?” →

The worst advice we’ve ever heard about email

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Email has been a leading form of communication in the business world for years, and yet many of us still don’t use it properly. From email etiquette to creating an effective email workflow, there are a lot of things we do wrong and these bad email habits waste our time and stop us from getting results.

If you want to up your email game and simplify your work life, stop listening to this bad advice.
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Stop the Email Madness: Straightforward Solutions for Your Biggest Inbox Issues

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Email literacy is a job skill like any other—some employees have it naturally, but most need a little training.

Sending emails at work

If your headaches at work came with subject lines, one of the biggest ones would read, “Re: Email burnout.”

After all, the average tech CEO toils for 14 hours a day, and email sucks up nearly a third of that time. One study found that Fortune 500 leaders spend nearly two and a half hours a day answering emails.

Why put up with that if you don’t have to? As a business leader, it’s up to you to set the standard for email use within your company—and establishing just a few simple rules for workplace communication could drastically reduce email burnout for you and your employees alike.

And now, a few easy answers to some of your biggest email challenges.

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