Business Travel is a growing industry. In many cases travel is a necessity with many jobs. The battle for the business travel dollar is a big one for many hotels and one thing that hotels can use to differentiate from other hotels is by providing 24/7 business services through the hotel.
Business services such as powerpoint presentation support, proposal creation and proposal management, word processing, event management and project management are all key in making sure business travelers stay productive and keep earning money while they are on the road.
Prairie Business Partners LLC is there to help you while you are on the road. Differentiate your hotel services with Business Travelers when you provide business services at your hotel 24/7.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Business Travel 24/7 Virtual Assistant
Business Travel is hectic enough without having to worry about your work getting done.
Are you a Road Warrior? Do you travel extensively for work? Then you need to know Prairie Business Partners LLC. Prairie Business Partners LLC provides technical proposal management, power point presentation creation and word processing services for you when you need us.
Have you ever used Shipley's, that proposal management powerhouse that will come to your company to help you put out your proposal fast? Prairie Business Partners LLC will provide you with that type of robust services while you are on the road. Prairie Business Partners LLC provides 24/7 services when and where you need them.
If you are staying at the Amerisuites in Schaumburg, IL, you are already exposed to the type of services we provide.
Feel free to contact us at http://www.prairiebusinesspartners.com/.
Are you a Road Warrior? Do you travel extensively for work? Then you need to know Prairie Business Partners LLC. Prairie Business Partners LLC provides technical proposal management, power point presentation creation and word processing services for you when you need us.
Have you ever used Shipley's, that proposal management powerhouse that will come to your company to help you put out your proposal fast? Prairie Business Partners LLC will provide you with that type of robust services while you are on the road. Prairie Business Partners LLC provides 24/7 services when and where you need them.
If you are staying at the Amerisuites in Schaumburg, IL, you are already exposed to the type of services we provide.
Feel free to contact us at http://www.prairiebusinesspartners.com/.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Virtual Assistant and Why We Work for Ourselves
I was asked one time to collect my experiences in the work place and create a book about why Virtual Assistants work, well, remotely. My goal would be to educate folks with a little humor to help drive points home hoping folks will learn from my mistakes.
I think I'd like to start off this series by rewinding to my first job out of college and my boss' boss to help paint a picture of why I thought working for myself can't be all that bad. First some background: I was working for a US Navy Contractor in Virginia and I supported a Surface Combatant. This was in 1989 and yes, this was before women were allowed on ships, before the Internet, and before anything was virtual. Back then, Business Support included putting on my pumps, another dose of lipstick and running to "The Navy" to deliver a report or letter. Yes, you are getting the irony here, I was required to support the technical equipment of a ship I wasn't allowed to board to even see what the equipment looked like.
So my Boss' Boss, we'll call him "Napolean" for obvious reasons, was tired of my boss being gone to the bars for lunch because he would come back to the office drunk. Everytime my boss would go out for lunch, I knew "Nappie" would come after me. This went on for about 3 years. The first year I didn't say a thing. The second year I cried (I was only 22 afterall) and the third year I yelled. One time, "Nappie" had gone too far and after answering his questions more professionally than I thought was in me, I knew that was it.
The next day a port hole/mirror on his wall found itself just slightly higher up on the wall so he couldn't reach it to look into it. I saw him the next day in his office, in the dark staring at that mirror wondering what had happened. Revenge can be a good thing.
I think I'd like to start off this series by rewinding to my first job out of college and my boss' boss to help paint a picture of why I thought working for myself can't be all that bad. First some background: I was working for a US Navy Contractor in Virginia and I supported a Surface Combatant. This was in 1989 and yes, this was before women were allowed on ships, before the Internet, and before anything was virtual. Back then, Business Support included putting on my pumps, another dose of lipstick and running to "The Navy" to deliver a report or letter. Yes, you are getting the irony here, I was required to support the technical equipment of a ship I wasn't allowed to board to even see what the equipment looked like.
So my Boss' Boss, we'll call him "Napolean" for obvious reasons, was tired of my boss being gone to the bars for lunch because he would come back to the office drunk. Everytime my boss would go out for lunch, I knew "Nappie" would come after me. This went on for about 3 years. The first year I didn't say a thing. The second year I cried (I was only 22 afterall) and the third year I yelled. One time, "Nappie" had gone too far and after answering his questions more professionally than I thought was in me, I knew that was it.
The next day a port hole/mirror on his wall found itself just slightly higher up on the wall so he couldn't reach it to look into it. I saw him the next day in his office, in the dark staring at that mirror wondering what had happened. Revenge can be a good thing.
Friday, October 12, 2007
A Road Warrior Dream
Being a Road Warrior is a hard life. Changing planes with a 2 hour lay over just to save the company some money. Trying to check on emails in the airport lounge, or better yet, at the gate with your laptop wabbling on top of your knees. You are trying to get some work done. If you had an administrative assistant, this wouldn't be so hard. Wait! You do have an administrative assistant. She is Virtual and she assists business travelers, or Road Warriors like you complete your work on time.
All you have to do is send her an email, the rough draft of your slide presentation. Ask her to add the contents of an email you are forwarding on later in the right spot in the presentation, send it to Kinko's on Wells street in Chicago, across from your client and ask them to make 70 copies, print double sided, bind it, put on a cover and deliver it to your client. It should make it to the front desk before you do. Now you can put your headphones on and sleep on the plane. All you have to worry about now is what are you going to do with all of your free time in Chicago? Hmm...
All you have to do is send her an email, the rough draft of your slide presentation. Ask her to add the contents of an email you are forwarding on later in the right spot in the presentation, send it to Kinko's on Wells street in Chicago, across from your client and ask them to make 70 copies, print double sided, bind it, put on a cover and deliver it to your client. It should make it to the front desk before you do. Now you can put your headphones on and sleep on the plane. All you have to worry about now is what are you going to do with all of your free time in Chicago? Hmm...
Virtual Assistants and Business Travelers
In Corporate America, how many times do we email the person in the next cube? How many times do we dial in to a meeting that is taking place just down the hall?
In this line of thinking, then, we are all there virtually, we are participating, it is just virtual. How much, then, is this a stretch to become a Virtual Assistant?
So why do we email the person next door? For the paper trail, right? If that person says he never got the email, we can quickly pull up our Sent messages and show that the communication existed.
What then is the difference if the person is next door or in the next state? The work gets done, the communication takes place.
Something to think about Virtually.
Gretchen Koehler-Swaney
Prairie Business Partners LLC
www.prairiebusinesspartners.com
In this line of thinking, then, we are all there virtually, we are participating, it is just virtual. How much, then, is this a stretch to become a Virtual Assistant?
So why do we email the person next door? For the paper trail, right? If that person says he never got the email, we can quickly pull up our Sent messages and show that the communication existed.
What then is the difference if the person is next door or in the next state? The work gets done, the communication takes place.
Something to think about Virtually.
Gretchen Koehler-Swaney
Prairie Business Partners LLC
www.prairiebusinesspartners.com
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
