Best Practices for Using Microsoft Outlook from a Sales Perspective

Archive for April, 2010


How to Synchronize SharePoint Contacts with Outlook

You can create a contacts folder in Outlook that mirrors any contacts folders on SharePoint and then keep the data synchronized between the two.  You will not be able to synchronize with your main Contacts folder, but this feature is nice for company lists that don’t all need to be …


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 …


How to Prevent an Outlook Folder from Archiving

Some folders contain emails that you may need to reference on a regular basis even after they see their six month birthday.  There is a setting for those folders which will prevent Outlook from archiving any items within them or you can set the archiving date range to go back …


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, …