Best Practices for Using Microsoft Outlook from a Sales Perspective

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Arrow-Tip #63 Outlook Has a Journal?

Probably the least well know not to mention the most misunderstood folder in Outlook is the Journal folder.  My new twitter pal Veronica inspired me to put together this post on my top 5 favorite uses for the Outlook Journal folder.

#5 Tracking MS Office Document Time

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Arrow-Tip #62 Maintaining Inbox Zero

I’ve talked a lot about attaining Inbox Zero in the past couple of months, but what are some of the biggest challenges to maintaining it? Vacation or the occasional work or personal crisis are two situations that can lead to temporary setbacks, but again those can be overcome with some …


Arrow-Tip #55 What Is Your Sales Checklist?

As a nod to my husband’s great post on using a check list to help our son get organized, I decided to resurrect this draft post regarding using a sales checklist that I started back in 2008.  Interesting side note: my original post was inspired by an article listed in a …


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 …


How to Insert a Picture in a HuntressPro Contact Form

One of our users asked if we could include a picture field in the HuntressPro contact form similar to the one in the standard Outlook form.  While that control is currently unavailable to Outlook add-on developers, there is a work around you may find of interest.
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