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This morning, I taught my son to fly a 747!

From Misty:  My husband posted the following on his company blog and since I thought Arrow-Tips readers might enjoy it, he agreed to post it here as well.  Enjoy!

This morning, I taught my son to fly a 747.

Actually, no I didn’t.  But we used a tool pilots use every day:  …


Arrow-Tip #54 Top 5 Benefits of Reaching Inbox Zero

This Inbox Zero thing just gets better and better – I didn’t realized how much I’ve missed it!  For those of you who think it is an impossible achievement – I’ll be announcing some very exciting news real soon so stay tuned.  In the mean time, here are my top five reasons …


Lexus Enform Rocks & Presentation for Professional Women’s Network Next Week

Day 17 at Inbox Zero and it feels great!  My Tasks folder is also up to date and organized which has been great for my efficiency because whenever I have a spare minute or two, I’ve got a prioritized list ready to go.  That list came in handy today when I …


Arrow-Tip #53 Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

As promised this post is the first in a series discussing how I helped my client Gulf Coast Welding Corp (GCW) establish and communicate performance in key areas of their business i.e. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  My good friend and super operations management guru Tim Smith was also kind enough …


Arrow-Tip #52 Don’t Accidentally Archive Your Inbox

Ah, almost 2 weeks maintaining Inbox Zero status and it feels great!  So great in fact that I decided to go back and clean up some other folders as well.  While reviewing my archive folders, I found to my utter mortification that some of my active email correspondence from about a …


Arrow-Tip #51 Limit Your Mailbox Size to Achieve Inbox Zero

Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that for the past week I’ve been very focused on maintaining Inbox Zero status.  For those of you who don’t know, “Inbox Zero” means that at the end of the work day your Inbox has zero messages in it.  Yes, …


Houston Business Connection Presentation: Social Media 302

Thank you very much to Darrell Hail and all my friends at The Houston Business Connection for inviting me to speak at their breakfast meeting this morning.  A year ago this group asked me to give a Social Media 101 presentation to introduce them to Social Media.  They’ve come a long …


Arrow-Tip #50 Keep-in-Touch with Your Contacts

One of our HuntressPro customers recently asked if there was a “keep-in-touch” feature in HuntressPro to allow him to schedule call backs at regular 30, 60 or 90 day intervals.  Making regular call backs to existing or potential customers is always a great idea and we’ve seen it implemented especially well by our …


Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Please note that I made a mistake regarding the date of my presentation to the eWomen’s Network when this post was originally published – my apologies for any inconvenience, I have corrected the date of that engagement as well as added another one below.

Fresh off my Mom 2.0 Summit high, …


2010 Mom 2.0 Summit Link Post

Wow – what an amazing conference!  Congratulations to Laura Mayes, Carrie Pacini, Marla Trevino, the ladies from MMI including Amanda Hansen, Melissa Campbell, Lauren McKechnie, Maggie McDonald and the rest of the Mom 2.0 Summit crew!  I’ll be blogging about my Mom 2.0 experience in a separate post, but in …

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