Email

Don’t Panic – How to Tell If Your Email Got Hacked & What to Do Next

It can happen even to the most careful user, that stomach-dropping feeling when someone replies to an email you didn’t send, or texts you asking about the Google Doc on wealth management tips you sent and why it needs a password. First, don’t panic. If you still have access to your email account, IMMEDIATELY change…

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The Fortune is in the Follow Up

Automating Follow Up

For me, remembering to follow up is a hard thing. Sure, I can create a task or appointment, but those follow up appointments and tasks tend to get lost in the avalanche of actual meetings and urgent to-do items. Plus, following up is usually something that needs to be done at a certain time. I…

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Find email

Quickly find all emails from a sender in Gmail

Did you know there’s an alternative in Gmail to sorting by sender? Obviously, Gmail doesn’t do that (sorry Outlook fans). If you are looking for all emails from a specific sender, here’s a FAST way to get that done: Google Does Search Best An awesome thing about Gmail is its super-duper search capabilities. However, it…

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Inbox CRM - Streak

Track Customers and Sales in Gmail

Ah email, it becomes the default place for everything – the to-do list, customer tracking, event information and so so, so much more. Obviously your Inbox is not the ideal place for trying to manage customers, that is why CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software was invented. However, Streak is just the glue to bring CRM-level tracking…

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Gmail Labs

Make Gmail Even More Full-Featured With Labs

If you are a regular Gmail user you are probably already familiar with Labs. Per Google, “Labs is a testing ground for experimental features.” For you, Labs is a way to further customize your Gmail experience and can be very handy – especially for those who have favorite features of other email programs (I’m talking to…

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Magic contacts

Automagically Add Contacts in Gmail & Outlook.com

The truth is, I’m lazy. I admit it. Putting people in my contact list isn’t hard, and yet I want it to happen without me doing anything. Luckily, I found Writethat.Name; a service that connects to your Gmail or Outlook.com (the service formerly known as Hotmail) account and checks email signatures of your messages. When…

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