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Arrow-Tip #34 Managing Inbox Overload Part II
Now that you’ve done some of the no brainer clean up from Arrow-Tip #33, its time to address the emails that need to be kept, but don’t need a response. In order to deal with these emails, you need a place to put them. My best analogy for …
Arrow-Tip #33 Managing Inbox Overload Part I
Inbox overload - we’ve all experienced it and once you get there, its easy to get trapped in a downward spiral where before you know it your email count goes from 100 to 1000. Never fear, this arrow-tip will be the first in a five part series this week …
Coming Soon - Keeping Calm While Managing Email Overload
OK, I know its been a while! Never fear - I’ll be back next week with a post on managing email overload and an update on the Arrow-tips tweaks to come. In the mean time, to combat stress from email overload, try keeping Puppy Cam running in …
Be Back Soon
This is just a quick post to let Arrow-Tips readers know that we haven’t forgotten you! We are in the process of making some changes to the Arrow-Tips site which will hopefully make it a better resource for you. So please bare with us during this transitional period and in …
Arrow-Tip #32 Use Meeting Requests to Set Client Expectations
While working with a member of one of my client sales teams this week I was reminded of a little trick I learned years ago to help prevent no shows for sales meetings - use an Outlook Meeting Request as opposed to an email to schedule meetings with prospective clients.
I …
Nice Post on Outlook Add-ins
Check out Two Outlook Add-ins You Can’t Ignore by my friend Mark Schmulen President of NutShell Mail - I tried the YouSendIt add-in after reading it and find it is pretty good for attachments under 100 MB. And look for a post from me during the next week regarding …
Arrow-Tip #31 Using Tasks to Help Organize Your Team
One of my clients has engaged me to manage his sales and marketing team and they have been really great to work with. Obviously we use HuntressPro and some customizations to help them manage their call back list, opportunities and capture sales history. However, I was reminded last …
Arrow-Tip #30 Using the Outlook Calendar to Record Mileage
Some of you have may have read Arrow-Tip # 13 Can Outlook Help Me Track Billable Hours which discusses using the Microsoft Outlook Calendar to track billable hours. Thanks to Jim Long of Verge New Media for inspiring me through a twitter post to write about how I also use …
Arrow-Tip #29 Using Outlook to Get Back on Track
Most of you know from my previous posts that I recently lost my dear father after a 7 month battle with cancer. Dad’s illness and death definitely had an impact on my work which you may have noticed from time to time if you have been following this blog …
Update
Tonight we lost my dear sweet Daddy Charles Hibbler. Thanks again to all of you who sent your prayers and good thoughts our way. I am more determined than ever to accomplish my goals because I know that is what my father would have wanted. In the …