September 2007 Edition

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www.asklilach.co.uk

Dear

Well, Summer has come and gone, and many of you will have taken a break over the last couple of months.  I hope you’ve had time to keep up with our useful tips and information each month.  If not you can find the previous issues here.

If there are any particular issues you’d like to hear about simply drop us an email and we’ll do our best to oblige.

Ask Lilach is promoting its call-minding service but we want to use a short catchy phrase to help explain the service. So, get your brains into gear – a bottle of bubbly (or chocolates if you’d prefer) will go to the person who emails in the best phrase – deadline 30th September, Below is a bit of information about the service.

Sign up for our call-minding service - £20 per month and 75p per minute – with the first month’s fee, and £10 worth of call handling, completely free. We’ll answer your calls personally, in your company name. Messages taken are sent to you instantly, by text or email, and are stored in your own ‘web based office’ which you can access from any location in the world using an Internet connection. 

Ask Lilach has been providing office management support to 4ward PPM since November 2006. It’s a match made in heaven.  Their vision and work ethics match perfectly – as a programme, project and change management consulting team 4ward PPM  has to be very responsive to the client’s needs.  Anyone who joins that team must match that need.  Director, Eloy Mazon, invested a considerable amount of time and effort in finding administrative assistance having tried the traditional PA route.

He says, “There has been a noticeable difference – before and after Lilach joined us.  Our profitability has increased because we can focus on our task i.e. delivering assignments for clients whilst Lilach runs the office for us.”  The company have been so impressed that they nominated Ask Lilach! for an award.

Business Development Director, Stuart Brown adds, “Lilach’s support has been invaluable in freeing up time in all areas of the business so people can really concentrate on their core roles without having to spend vast amounts of time on tasks that are better handled by Lilach”.  This has led to 4Ward spending more time with its clients, developing stronger relationships and identifying new and additional opportunities for 4Ward.

The 4ward PPM team need to be able to forget the day-to-day administrative details and get on with what they are expert in – helping companies to manage their programmes and projects.  No matter what time of day, or night they are confident that they can Ask Lilach! and there is always an answer and help when needed.

If you know a company that needs programme and project management advice you can contact Stuart at 4ward PPM on 07900 561080 or stuartbrown@4wardppm.com or visit the website at www.4wardppm.com

There are more books on time management than you can ever read, however, the one thing that they all demand is that you take action and change the way you work.

If you want to ensure you achieve something worthwhile every day review what you have to do each day and then pick one task that you must get done. Do that one first - you'll be surprised what achieving one task will do for your motivation to go on and achieve more!

Recent success with press coverage shows that public relations does pay off.  Articles include three quarters of a page in the Hemel Hempstead Gazette profiling Ask Lilach – you can read the article by following this link. Following publication of the article I received a number of enquiries including leads for new business.

A press release issued on behalf of Ask Lilach, warning businesses about cowboy virtual assistants, was also picked up by Herts Director magazine.  You can see the original press release and the coverage on the Ask Lilach website.

The kids are back at school and we're all moving out of holiday mode and getting back to business. If you need some extra support to ensure you're doing what you do best and, not the administrative bits and pieces, you know who to call!

I hope you're having a wonderful, productive and prosperous September.

All the best,