Just a quick post to let Arrow-Tips readers know that I have not abandoned you or my May goals. My dear father is very ill and I am taking some time off to be with him and my mother. I do plan to blog about my experiences and how I’m still using Outlook to help me get back on track when the time comes so please stay tuned. And thanks so much to all of you who have sent your prayers and good wishes for my father and our family - they mean so much!
Last week I promised to talk about how I use the Tasks folder to help me achieve my goals. So here is my Outlook Task strategy… Read More
In this Arrow-Tip I will be discussing how I’ve used the Outlook Calendar to help me achieve my goals and I’ll give you a quick update on progress toward my May goals discussed in Arrow-Tip #26
This week, the Outlook Calendar was definitely my friend. Because I’ve over booked myself, getting all of my hours in was a real challenge and I had to dip into a few evenings and then my weekend for an emergency non billable issue that came up. Read More
Just wanted to make a short post to let all my real estate followers know that I didn’t forget you! Look for a post on describing our upcoming product HuntressRealtor in the next day or two including some screen prints to tease you. We’re hoping to have the beta some time in July.
There have been a plethora of blog posts regarding Twitter.com that have come to my attention over the past few months - I’ve even written a couple. Everyone seems to be feeling their way around the Twitter world and wondering how to get the most value without being sucked into the time wasting vortex. Do I think Twitter can be a time waster - absolutely, but do I think it has to be - absolutely not. More importantly, I think twitter can add a lot of value with the application of a little discipline. So here is my strategy for getting the most value out of Twitter…
Every year my family travels with our best friends to the beach for a week. We always have a wonderful and very relaxing time and I want to make sure this year is no different. But there are some goals I want to achieve before our trip at the end of May so that I can relax and feel I’ve really earned my vacation. Some of these goals are personal and some are professional. But one thing I know from experience is that it can be hard to achieve your goals without a regular reality check. So in the month of May I’m going to be blogging and twittering about how I use Microsoft Outlook to help me stay on top of my goals and achieve them - read on to find out how.
If your answer to this Arrow-Tip title question is “yes” then you may want to consider a mail server solution - even if you are just a one person business. Your next question is most likely “how can you afford a mail server if you are just one person?” The answer is that hosted mail server solutions have become very affordable and reliable. Read on to see if you are a good candidate for a hosted email server solution. Read More
I have gotten such great comments from Arrow-Tip #23 Could a Plug In Increase Your Outlook Efficiency that I thought they would make a nice post of their own. Also, one juicy piece of news has been circulating since Arrow-Tip #23 was posted - Microsoft has supposedly signed a letter of intent to acquire Xobni. If its true then congrats to the Xobni guys! Read More
More and more clients are experiencing issues with the size of their Outlook mailbox which can lead to corrupted data and very slow performance. One of the largest hogs of mailbox storage space is taken up by attachments so that is one of the first places I usually look to get my clients in the optimum mailbox size range of 300 - 500 MB. Of course the biggest challenge I run into is that users are afraid to lose their attachments - but lucky for them because they don’t have to. Read on for some ideas on how to shrink your Outlook mailbox through better attachment management. Read More
When my friend Josh Tabin President of Mosaic CFO and co-Author at StartUp Houston asked me to write a blog post about my favorite Outlook Add-ins I was only too happy to oblige. The only problem is that I really don’t use that many Outlook Add-ins so I recruited a couple of people to add their input to this post including my old friend intellectual property attorney and author N. Stephan Kinsella and my new twitter pal Henk-Jan van der Klis. There were several other folks who wanted to contribute, but were pressed for time so if you are one of them (or even if you are not) please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts! Read More
