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Filed under Technology, email, productivity
By Titus Hoskins
The operation of any company will usually entail many decisions that will determine the success or failure of your business. Choosing how you set up your company’s communication system will no doubt be one of those crucial decisions you will have to make.
How your company communicates with its clients, employees, business partners, suppliers, shipping agents… are all vital to the running of an efficient business. Your communication system should be integrated, seamless and available everywhere.
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Filed under Email Marketing, Marketing, email
By Kimberly Clay
Is your email marketing campaign not as effective as you’d like?
Here’s what I do for about 90 percent of the email messages I receive: Delete, Delete, Delete… Some days it’s so bad, I think my finger’s going to get jammed from pressing the “Delete” button so much.
The email messages get deleted for various reasons. Since I now send email marketing messages myself, I try to pay closer attention to emails I receive but don’t read, as well as those I do read. I do this in an attempt to discern what compels me to open and read one message versus deleting another either without opening it, or very soon thereafter. The result boils down to this:
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Filed under email, productivity, time management
by Gary Ruplinger
Email is one of the greatest innovations of the online world, but if you’re not careful it will suck up your time, and be a far detriment to your business than a benefit.
Here are some tips for taming the email beast.
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Filed under Email Marketing, computers, contact management, email
by Kimberly Clay
In terms of their success as effective marketing tools, the composition of email messages is more important than ever. With the mountain of email that’s launched into cyberspace these days, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for marketers to get their messages delivered, opened and read by prospects and customers. The success and effectiveness of email marketing campaigns, whether large or small, essentially comes down to one factor: the message. If the message is not properly developed, nothing else matters.
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Filed under contact management, email
by Janet Barclay, MVA
It’s a scenario we’ve probably all been in at one time or another. You’re working on a project when you realize you don’t have everything you need to complete it, so you fire off a quick email to request the required information. You watch for the reply, and when it arrives, you open it immediately. Unfortunately, you’re still unable to proceed with your project, because the details you were waiting for are missing.
In many cases, this situation could have been avoided by taking a little extra time to compose your email effectively. The following guidelines will help you to improve your electronic communication skills and help you to be more productive.
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Filed under email, office organization
By Jim Estill
Voicemail and Email are two of the most important tools for communication in today’s business world. Are you maximizing your use of these resources?
Using Voicemail
It has been said that you can answer seven times as many emails as you can voicemails. When making your outgoing voicemail message, you can leave your email address on the message, so people know how to get a hold of you electronically. My voicemail message ends with “or better yet, email me at jime@synnex.com”: I then spell my email address so they will be able to reach me.
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Filed under email, information management, office organization, organizing, task management
By Suzanne McLoone
Post It’s are a great invention, are they not? They come in great colors, different shapes, and they have flags, dividers, tabs, and they even come inside of a highlighter! They also seem to act like gremlins after you get them wet. One of my clients called me one afternoon and she swore that after she came back from lunch her Post It’s had reproduced like bunnies and she was now overran with pink and yellow stickies all over her desk. What else could I do but laugh? I thought back to how many times that has happened to me and how many times I had actually done the very same thing.
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Filed under computer security, computers, email, mobile technology, productivity
By Alexander Rodichev
If you are a frequent business traveler, you probably carry a notebook computer with you all the time. But what if you just take a vacation, or simply don’t want to carry those extra pounds of electronics around?
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Filed under Microsoft Office, Outlook, book review, email, task management, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
For a long time, I believed Microsoft Outlook(R) to be a powerful yet highly underutilized time management tool, but was frustrated because the courses I took covered only the basics, and none of the books I read went sufficiently in depth to satisfy my desire to use this program to its full capacity. Then I discovered Sally McGhee’s book, Take Back Your Life! which outlines steps for creating a system to help you to maximize productivity and take control of your personal and professional life.
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Filed under calendars, email, office organization, organizing, planners, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
If you’ve set a goal, resolution, or intention to be more organized in 2007, congratulations! You obviously recognize that being organized can help you to save time, money, and stress. Unfortunately, getting and staying organized is an ongoing process which, for most people, involves changing your daily habits, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen for you overnight.
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