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Other Added - You'll Never Get Stuck In Email Traffic Again
Talk is Cheap
It has been my experience that most companies do not go far enough when it comes to communicating with their customers. Communicating effectively with your clients can be one of the most significant customer satisfiers in your arsenal.I was working with a company that provided shipping services. The customer would call this business to pick up a package and process it via UPS or FedEx. As part of their process, they would record the incoming call from the client, schedule a pickup, leave the client a receipt for the pick up, and take the package back for processing.
e environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.It has been my experience that most companies do not go far enough when it comes to communicating with their customers. Communicating effectively with your clients can be one of the most significant customer satisfiers in your arsenal.I was working with a company that provided shipping services. The customer would call this business to pick up a package and process it via UPS or FedEx. As part of their process, they would record the incoming call from the client, schedule a pickup, leave the client a receipt for the pick up, and take the package back for processing.
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the act
Address Labels - Useful Tips
Making address labels for letters and parcels can be a real chore. It’s something that has stood in the way of all sorts of people, whether they are large-scale eBay sellers or simply office workers who need to post a big batch of letters.What you might not have realised, though, is that making address labels can be easy when you know how. The best way to do it is to compose your letters using a Mail Merge function in the first place, such as the one that comes with Microsoft Word. This means that your addresses are being stored not in the documents themselves, but in ei
Over the past 10 years email has become one of the most utilised means of communication, in the office and the private. It is a fantastic way of corresponding, because you do not have to wait for the post to be collected and delivered and in many cases it's even better than the telephone, because you do not have to wait for the other person to be at their phone at the very same time.Making address labels for letters and parcels can be a real chore. It’s something that has stood in the way of all sorts of people, whether they are large-scale eBay sellers or simply office workers who need to post a big batch of letters.What you might not have realised, though, is that making address labels can be easy when you know how. The best way to do it is to compose your letters using a Mail Merge function in the first place, such as the one that comes with Microsoft Word. This means that your addresses are being stored not in the documents themselves, but in ei
Therefore it is quiet logical that the amount of emails in the past few years has increased dramatically. According to statistics by the Radicati Group from the first quarter of 2006 the number of emails sent per day to be around 170 billion - thereof 70% are spam or viruses!
This relentless bombardment of one email after another on a day-to-day basis results in distraction, stress, addiction and over all in reduced productivity at the workplace. Each new email brings you off focus and away from your important projects and tasks. This problem does not only effect large organisations where the normal workforce gets between 100 and 250 emails a day. All the professional people, business owner and self employed with 50 emails per day are facing the same problems. The cost for the whole Australian economy in lost productivity is far beyond 10 billion dollar.
If you want to work proactively on your business and on your projects you must change your habits. Otherwise you end up doing the real work after hours and spending the day only to respond to seemingly urgent but not really important messages.
One of the main reasons for this email addiction is the lack of training. When emails started to sneak into our lives about ten years ago it was so easy to send and receive an email. So literally nobody took the time to learn the basics of those programs. During the years this hasn't changed, but the environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the act
The Benefits of Heavy Duty Office Chairs
Heavy-duty office chairs offer comfort as well as extreme durability. Office chairs are an important part of the average office or cubicle. A good ergonomic office chair allows an employee to remain comfortable while sitting for a period of time. It is important that heavy-duty office chairs feature adjustable support mechanisms in order to offer comfort to a large variety of individual body types.Heavy-duty office chairs are typically a good choice for individuals that are large in stature. Most heavy-duty office chairs feature a solid frame that can support up to 4
e past few years has increased dramatically. According to statistics by the Radicati Group from the first quarter of 2006 the number of emails sent per day to be around 170 billion - thereof 70% are spam or viruses! Heavy-duty office chairs offer comfort as well as extreme durability. Office chairs are an important part of the average office or cubicle. A good ergonomic office chair allows an employee to remain comfortable while sitting for a period of time. It is important that heavy-duty office chairs feature adjustable support mechanisms in order to offer comfort to a large variety of individual body types.Heavy-duty office chairs are typically a good choice for individuals that are large in stature. Most heavy-duty office chairs feature a solid frame that can support up to 4
This relentless bombardment of one email after another on a day-to-day basis results in distraction, stress, addiction and over all in reduced productivity at the workplace. Each new email brings you off focus and away from your important projects and tasks. This problem does not only effect large organisations where the normal workforce gets between 100 and 250 emails a day. All the professional people, business owner and self employed with 50 emails per day are facing the same problems. The cost for the whole Australian economy in lost productivity is far beyond 10 billion dollar.
If you want to work proactively on your business and on your projects you must change your habits. Otherwise you end up doing the real work after hours and spending the day only to respond to seemingly urgent but not really important messages.
One of the main reasons for this email addiction is the lack of training. When emails started to sneak into our lives about ten years ago it was so easy to send and receive an email. So literally nobody took the time to learn the basics of those programs. During the years this hasn't changed, but the environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the act
Nice Guys Finish First
Volunteering your services can be an excellent way to form new business relationships and raise your business’s profile while lending a hand to a good cause. However, unless you take care, it can also become all-consuming, with little return (besides creating good karma).There is nothing wrong with good karma, or better yet, feeling good about lending a hand in the community. The whole point of volunteering should not solely be to expand your marketing. If it is, you won’t get very far (read reincarnated as a dung beetle). You should honestly be concerned abo
portant projects and tasks. This problem does not only effect large organisations where the normal workforce gets between 100 and 250 emails a day. All the professional people, business owner and self employed with 50 emails per day are facing the same problems. The cost for the whole Australian economy in lost productivity is far beyond 10 billion dollar.Volunteering your services can be an excellent way to form new business relationships and raise your business’s profile while lending a hand to a good cause. However, unless you take care, it can also become all-consuming, with little return (besides creating good karma).There is nothing wrong with good karma, or better yet, feeling good about lending a hand in the community. The whole point of volunteering should not solely be to expand your marketing. If it is, you won’t get very far (read reincarnated as a dung beetle). You should honestly be concerned abo
If you want to work proactively on your business and on your projects you must change your habits. Otherwise you end up doing the real work after hours and spending the day only to respond to seemingly urgent but not really important messages.
One of the main reasons for this email addiction is the lack of training. When emails started to sneak into our lives about ten years ago it was so easy to send and receive an email. So literally nobody took the time to learn the basics of those programs. During the years this hasn't changed, but the environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the act
3 Ways To Start Your Own Business When You Haven't Got Any Original Ideas!
Starting their own company is a goal held by many people today - everyone wants to be the next Branson or Trump. But a large proportion these same individuals erroneously believe they can’t get started until they’ve had a startlingly original idea for a business. Undoubtedly, being original can be a real bonus – especially if you’re looking to be bought by Google in a year’s time for a few billion (as happened recently to YouTube). But if your goals are more modest – make a decent living, be your own boss – there are many ways to own a successful company without inventing the n
s. Otherwise you end up doing the real work after hours and spending the day only to respond to seemingly urgent but not really important messages.Starting their own company is a goal held by many people today - everyone wants to be the next Branson or Trump. But a large proportion these same individuals erroneously believe they can’t get started until they’ve had a startlingly original idea for a business. Undoubtedly, being original can be a real bonus – especially if you’re looking to be bought by Google in a year’s time for a few billion (as happened recently to YouTube). But if your goals are more modest – make a decent living, be your own boss – there are many ways to own a successful company without inventing the n
One of the main reasons for this email addiction is the lack of training. When emails started to sneak into our lives about ten years ago it was so easy to send and receive an email. So literally nobody took the time to learn the basics of those programs. During the years this hasn't changed, but the environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the act
Your Own Business: Deciding What is Right for You
In an earlier article, entitled “Your Own Business: The First Steps,” I discussed what the initial nuts-and-bolts steps are in starting a business. In it, I made the assumption that the soon-to-be entrepreneur had already decided on a business but needed some direction on what to do next.The response to that article has been positive, but the most common question asked of me is “Okay…but how do I actually decide what business is right for me?” So I now want to take a step back and see if I can offer a little direction in helping the anxious entrepreneur make an educated
e environment has changed dramatically (see above) and the software tools are much more powerful and sophisticated today.In an earlier article, entitled “Your Own Business: The First Steps,” I discussed what the initial nuts-and-bolts steps are in starting a business. In it, I made the assumption that the soon-to-be entrepreneur had already decided on a business but needed some direction on what to do next.The response to that article has been positive, but the most common question asked of me is “Okay…but how do I actually decide what business is right for me?” So I now want to take a step back and see if I can offer a little direction in helping the anxious entrepreneur make an educated
Three important tips to save you time
Here are three tips you can apply today to detach yourself from your inbox and give the control over your messages back to you
1. Use rules and folders. .
First you create a folder with the person or projects name on it. Then you simply make a right click on the actual message, and chose "create rule". Here you decide which folder you want this and all following emails to go into. You see, a Rule is really just the direction you want your incoming message to go. It by-passes the Inbox and arrives straight into the folder. The bold title and the number in brackets shows you how many unread items you have in each folder.
2. Turn on manually send and receive
Instead of automatically download every message that's waiting for you and distracting you, from now on you are in control when to look for new emails. And besides getting back into control of your inbox there is a secondary gain: now you can review an email before it's really leaving your computer. That might save you some important relationships.
To turn on the manual send and receive you simply go to the Tool-Options-Menu and look for Mail Setup.
3. Sort out SPAM before it reaches your inbox
You can either use the Junk-Mail-Folder in Outlook® 2003 or buy yourself a useful program like Mailwasher. The principle is the same in both programs: every incoming email is black-listed by default and you learn the system by white-listing your contacts and friends. An additional tip concerning SPAM: do not leave your email address visible on your website - hide it behind a form or link.
Master Your Inbox
If you want your system running with German precision you might consider to learn more about Outlook® or Outlook Express®. We are not only delivering enjoyable courses, workshops and presentation we have also developed an unique email-course "Master Your Inbox".
In just 30 days you receive more than 60 tips which helps you to conquer the day-to-day email overload. Just two tips a day allow you to easily adopt and practice them in small chunks
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