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Get Mad Internet Sleuthing Skills

You’ve got questions? Google (or Bing) has answers. The trouble is that you have to know exactly the right way to ask the question to get the answer you seek. While search engines have gotten a lot better about speaking “human,” they aren’t perfect. If you want to get your answers fast and wield Google…

Take Note – Why Evernote Is My Life Database

I attended a local bloggers conference over the weekend and was reminded how “human” it is to want to share & hear stories from other people. The conference was sponsored by the Phoenix Style Collective, so the majority of attendees were fashion or style focused. Amongst the great people, chic style and intriguing blogging discussions, there…

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One Number to Unite Them All – Google Voice

As someone who has needed to have multiple phones at one point or another (work phone & personal phone, then a different work phone), I find Google Voice to be an invaluable service. Google Voice allows you to have one number and use it for all your phones. This has enabled me to simplify and…

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…

Stop Hating Your Passwords

Everyone loves to hate passwords. It seems like just about the time you can remember one, it is time to change it. Even some of the password tricks we use to cope with creating and using passwords are no match for today’s Internet villains (check out this article from Lifehacker). So, how do you keep…

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…

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…

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…

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…