Organization

When Inbox Zero Sends You Running For Cover

I’ve known several people recently that gathered up their courage and made the big scary leap to Inbox Zero by archiving all their emails. Thousands of messages, years of email, piles of procrastination, delayed decisions and regret – all removed in a single click. Once it is done, relief! What a wonderful feeling to have…

8 Ways To Make the Most of Your Next Conference

Attending a conference can be an intense experience. There’s so much information being hurled at you and so many potential connections, clients and partners – it can be overwhelming (at least for me). But, that’s part of the effectiveness, right? Immersing yourself at a retreats, workshop or an event can catapult you forward with learning…

The Business Owner’s Guide to Email Addresses

As entrepreneurs and citizens of the internet, it’s likely that you’ve got an assortment of email addresses. It can be hard to figure out which ones to use when, and when it is time to create a new one. To answer those questions, I’ve created this Business Owner’s Guide to Email Addresses. Note: this guide…

Have You Lost That Lovin’ Feeling… for Your Apps?

(gone, gone, gone. whoa, whoa, whoa) In almost every aspect of life, after awhile, the “new car smell” wears off and once exciting things can feel boring and blah. Relationships, cars, houses, friends, outfits, hairstyles… even shoes (that’s right, I said it). Technology is the worst though. There’s something new and shiny at least once…

The 7 Biggest Calendar Blunders

Managing a schedule is HARD! Getting people to agree to a time and making sure everyone is available and booking a meeting can be grueling work. And then there are time zones and don’t even get me started on Daylight Savings Time! Ugh. This is definitely something that is in my continuous improvement column (just…

Mythbusters – 10 BS Facts About Email

I have a love/hate relationship with email. Not my email, mind you, but the concept and execution of email in general. When used correctly, email is a wonderful communication tool. But, much like a good part of the English language, it is rarely used correctly. Today I’m going all MythBusters and blowing up 10 “facts”…

How Avoiding Technology is Making You Poor

How Not Using Technology is Making You Poor

Okay, well, some technology can make you feel poorer initially (I’m looking at you MacBook Pro). But honestly, using the crap out of available technologies is really the key to maximizing the time you spend doing that thing that makes you money. And when you spend more time on tasks that translate directly into dollars,…

How I Use My iPhone

As a control freak when it comes to my computing devices, the iPhone would not have been my choice for a smartphone. However, the job I had at the time required that I have an iPhone, so I grudgingly began to use it. As expected, it worked great for contacts, calendar & email. However, I…

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…