How to save and make thousands and change the world at the same time
There is a fine balance between charging ahead and being in action and sitting on your butt and researching and asking yourself questions forever. Believe me, this is one I know well! I spent well over $100,000 (U.S.) buying courses, big ticket coaching programs, attending conferences, grabbing onto the latest and greatest software tool that would make
7 DO-ABLE ways to manage your email and find more time in your day
*&&!&!&!&!, I just don’t have enough time to… Work out. Or play with my kids… Or go to a movie… Or add Pinterest to my overloaded social media schedule… Or write a blog post, again… Or go to another networking meeting… Or write a blankety blank book… How can you possibly want me to add something else to my schedule! Sound familiar? Ever said
Freedom from Inbox Overload: Prioritize Messages
Although all emails can start to look alike after a while, not ALL of them need your attention right now (and may NEVER need your attention, EVER!).Taking the time to put your emails in the right priority first, then reading and responding to them gets you through that task a wholeeeeeee lot faster. Just adding this
Freedom from Inbox Overload: read your email ONLY at preset times
So, ever find yourself in the endless loop of reading emails all day, every day?(Ask me how I know….lol…so read on for a solution.)Reading (or, in my case, putzing with) email can suck away your day so quickly your head will spin! Use this approach to handle all that email and you may just find that
Freedom from Inbox Overload: automatically sort messages
Most of the email reading tools I’m familiar with (such as gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, MacMail) have an option to “pre-sort” the messages you receive.Different tools call the feature different names (for example, rules or filters) and the result is the same.You use an email address or specific words to tell the software what to do
Freedom from Inbox Overload: sign off lists you’re not interested in
If you’ve been hanging around the Internet for a while, learning how to do this, that or the other, you’ve probably popped your email address (and maybe your name) in a couple of boxes.And, voila, you’re on somebody’s list, getting all sorts of email messages from them. You may have wanted a specific product they offered
Freedom from Inbox Overload: use groups to send email to multiple people at the same time
Email tools are constantly evolving and changing how you can do things. One thing that doesn’t seem to change is that we tend to have groups of people we send similar things to.It may be your family. Or a group of co-workers. Or all those vendors who are working on a project for you. Although it
Find more time in your day, Tip #6: use special symbols to focus your attention
Once you get on a roll and start filing your email in folders (or putting labels on them in gmail), you can end up with a ton of different folders and you’re scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to find what you’re looking for. Using special symbols like asterisks (*) and exclamation marks (!) moves those ever-so-important folders up
Freedom from Inbox Overload: take action while reading a message
 Don’t fiddle fool around with emails…take one of the following actions while you’re reading it:Respond to it as succinctly and clearly as possibleFile it in one of the folders you created for taking action later (see Tip #2: prioritizing your emails)Forward it to someone for actionDelete itKind of like the recommendations for managing the hard
Success Story: An Industrial Painting Company
The challenge…This was the first time I had gotten a call from this type of company and my first thought was “hum, I wonder what they’re struggling with and whether this will be something I refer to a colleague.” During this call, it struck me that, underneath it all, businesses really are the same even tho’
Success Story: A Chip Manufacturer
The challenge…The call that came in was a common one in my business… the doc department manager was short handed, had just been given another product line to document, and the deadlines were getting shorter and shorter every day.And, as always, the marketing team wanted to get the newest “thang” out the door before the
Success Story: A Business Consultant
The challenge…The gentleman on the phone sounded overwhelmed and ready to give up. He had been reading tons of material on the good ole’ interwebz, taken a ton of classes, and all of them said “they had the RIGHT way” to grow an online biz.I could relate…I had done the same thing when I switched
Success Story: A Paralegal Practice
The challenge…I met this paralegal, who works with bankruptcy lawyers, at a networking event several years ago. As her practice grew, so did the challenges of keeping up with the massive amount of paperwork (“content”) involved in filing claims, following up with the client, getting the right documents to the court, and on it went,