WHAT I HAVE LEARNT

I have learnt, my clients now are the best. They’re professional and they know exactly what they type of work they want performed. We don’t go back and forth with questions that have been asked a million times before. Why you ask I could say this, well I have instituted a better way of communicating with my clients.

My first initial contact with my clients is a free consultation which is recorded; the client is informed of the consultation being recorded. From that a proposal, retainer or project agreement is prepared. One is email along with the recording to the client. Whatever is said or negotiated on in the free consultation is mentioned in the contract. If the client requires a second consultation before the signing of the contract, that client must first set up a special consultation with me which could be a paid or not paid consultation. It is that simple, I hate stress so I have instituted a better way to service my clients.

What I give back, is my attentiveness to their projects and my availability beyond my office hours. I have extended office hours, Monday to Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.and two (2) after hour voicemails which operates Monday to Thursday from 8:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. EST. One for the East Coast and Central time zones and other for the West Coast and Mountain time zones. I have also added an onboard client’s only voicemail, if I am unavailable for a length of time my clients can call and leave detail instructions of what needs to be done in the next 12 to 24 hours. This number is made available only to my onboard client’s. This is the first thing I check at the beginning of my day, along with my task board.

During the course of my work day, my workspace is opened to the project (s) I am working on; I am either emailing, texting, chatting with my clients, via Skype or our website customer service chat app. I rarely answer the phone; my system is forwarded to my back up.

You might say I am leaving myself available at all time for my client, I don’t think so; I am giving them the service they requested. If an emergency arises, I’ll notify my clients and my back up handles the assignments for the day. Also, my clients know that after 11:30 p.m. Monday to Friday I am no longer available.

With each signed contract, I enclose the day’s I will not work, my vacation for the year and my terms and policies. Each year onboard clients receive my schedule. To some it may sound that I am to organized, but chaos ruled the day before this was instituted; this has worked for the last three (3) years. I LOVE what I am doing. This is not a job, but my AMBITION.

Phyllis L Jackson
Ms. Evas' President
Uniquely40's CEO/ Founder

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Elderly Comic Relief !!! - Have You?

ELDERLY COMIC RELIEF

I am on my computer more than 10 hours a day; my computer is my world. I have my clients' project, names, schedule on my computer. They projects are organized, sometime mine are not and I am slowly begining to realize that. Let me share this with you, my nephew have started laughing at me because, I have started calling him by his sister's or cousins' name. It was just a short while ago, I starting laughing at my mom's for doing the same thing, she is 77 years old and I am still being called by my siblings name. Now I am going through ELDERLY COMIC RELIEF!!! What a pay back. But what he fail to realize is, it will happen to him and I gonna to be laughing, of course, I'll be a 104, but it will be worth it. (LOL). So read on, if this is you, laugh at yourself because someone eventually will laugh at you.

Have you ever wonder why you've forgotten where you placed things? Is senility setting in or is it just carelessness? Have you ever wonder why you've walked out of one room into another and you can't remember why you've entered the room?

Have you started a conversation with someone and forgotten what you were talking about? Have you started driving and forgotten why you are in the car and where you are going; so you continue to drive hoping it will come back to you? Have you walked out of your house without your keys, close the door, and start looking for the keys because you know you have them?

Have you started calling relatives, friends and your kids by someone else's name and get angry because they wouldn't answer you? Have you went to the grocery store, started shopping with a cart, went down the aisle to get an item and returned to your cart, and you couldn't figure out which shopping cart was yours because you couldn't remember what items you placed in the shopping cart? Is this stupidity or a no care attitude?

NO, IT IS PAY BACK TIME, YOU HAVE AGED (LOL) WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LAUGHED AT ELDERLY PEOPLE WHEN THEY'VE FORGOTTEN THEIR WAY OR CALLED YOU BY YOUR SISTER OR BROTHER NAME. NOW YOU HAVE BECOME THEM (LOL)