Time Saving Tips

How A Simple Email Signature Can Get You More Clients

Articles for Reprint March 2, 2012

Whenever you receive an email from me you will ALWAYS see my contact information at the bottom and know exactly how you can get in touch with me.    You will see: My name My company’s name My telephone and fax number My email address (with an active hyperlink) My website address (with an active hyperlink) [...]

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Gmail: Use Mail Merge to Save Time!

Quick Biz Tip January 19, 2012

Just this week I discovered a really neat tool for helping me to create mail merges using my Gmail account.  It was something I used to do all the time when I used Outlook, but could never quite figure out how to do this with Gmail.  And now that I have, it’s a huge timesaver! [...]

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Top Tips and Tools For Managing Emails

Streamline Your Systems December 12, 2011

Earlier this week a client email me asking, “Do you have 2 separate email accounts, one for business and one for personal. That’s what I have right now, but I am wondering if I should merge my email into one account, my business account. What do you suggest?” This was a great question because I [...]

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Outlook Tip: Create Rules and Folders for Simple Email Management

Articles for Reprint October 13, 2011

Do you get a ton of emails each day? Does it take you nearly all day just to sift through them to find out which ones you need to deal with now, which ones can be dealt with later, or which ones are just junk? If this is you, then read on for some tips [...]

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Gmail Email Management: Create Filters and Labels for Quick and Easy Email Organization

Articles for Reprint October 9, 2011

We all know that email is a huge source of overwhelm for many solopreneurs, and also one of the biggest time drains. However, email is essential to a solopreneur’s success, so you have to find a way of organizing your emails. If organized properly you’ll quickly and easily be able to: Focus on the top priority [...]

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Gmail Tip: Filtering Unread Emails

Streamline Your Systems July 29, 2011

I’m not a huge fan of Gmail and only use it when I’m travelling (I much prefer Outlook to run my business), but these past two weeks I’ve had to rely on Gmail a lot as I’m back in the UK due to a family emergency. So, along with that has come some additional learning [...]

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4 Useful Twitter Automation Tools and How to Use Them

Online Marketing April 18, 2011

I stumbled upon this great blog post recently – 4 Useful Twitter Automation Tools and How to Use Them - all about how you can use some of those great Twitter automation tools out there and the step-by-step on how to use them.  I love it when I can automate parts of my online marketing; it [...]

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10 Tips to Beat the Overwhelm and Stay Focused

Articles for Reprint September 22, 2010

Many business owners share with me that one of their biggest problems is information overwhelm which in turn leads to lack of focus, and therefore they don’t actually get stuff done in their business. They’re so busy trying to keep up with all the information that they’re being hit with that they don’t actually get around [...]

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Effectively Utilize Outlook to Increase Productivity and Save Time with These 5 Simple Tips

Articles for Reprint October 2, 2009

Members of my Easy Office Organization program and my private clients know that I’m a die-hard Outlook fan.  I’ve tried many email and contact management systems over the years, but keep coming back to this one tool.  Why? Because it does everything that I could possibly need in order to effectively run my business.  It’s [...]

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Time Management Solutions – 10 Minutes to Spare?

Time Saving Tips February 9, 2009

There are many times during your work day that you find yourself with a spare few minutes – maybe you’re in-between client appointments, or you finished a project earlier than you’d anticipated, or you just simply want to take a break. Rather than fritter that time here are 10 activities you can do in 10 [...]

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