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9 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Online Sales Efforts
Today’s article is a holiday gift to myself and to everyone out there who does sales by email. For me, it’s a rant. If you’re an email sales person, then it will be painful for you, though ultimately...
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How to Boost Productivity with Your Keyboard
We love being productive! And we look for big, honkin’ ways to be more productive. Things like forming habits through triggers, or setting up a new email system. We like big changes that we think will...
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How to Write Emails From Your Readers' Point of View
Listener Generosa writes in: How can I teach people to write organized, professional, and to-the-point emails? I continually receive emails from students, colleagues, and family members that are...
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How to Keep Track of Irregular Events
Listener Stacy writes in: How do you track something going forward? For example, “next time I go for an oil change make sure to ask about discounts on a lifetime supply of paisley-colored motor oil.”...
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How to Use Custom Domains and Catch-All Emails
Yes, it’s true! At long last, the surveillance state is here! The government is watching you. Marketers are watching you. Google is profiling your email, while Amazon uses your buying profile and...
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5 Ways Technology is Making Us Anxious
July 4, 1776: the United States declared independence from Britain. July 20, 1969: humans landed on the moon. November 9, 1989: the Berlin Wall came down. Will we look back on June 29, 2007, as one of...
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How to Improve Communication by Text (and Texting)
Text changes the way we communicate. The conventions are changing quickly, and they affect how people perceive you. Back in the Stone Age, people used to communicate with each other by making the air...
View Article7 Pro Tips for Managing Your Bursting Email Inbox
Email! I just love email! No, I don’t. Actually, my current definition of “rich” is having enough money that I can hire people to handle all my email and never have to touch a computer again. Been...
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How to Gently Tell Off Anyone Asking You to Work For Free
I’m so popular! A few weeks ago, I got a call from a woman proudly representing a $6 billion company. She mentioned that twice. Let’s call her “Jaime Sommers.” They had a CEO conference and wanted me...
View Article2 Easy Ways to Manage Multiple Email Accounts
Today’s topic is how to deal with multiple email inboxes. Listener Jodie Kirby, the recruiting yogini, writes in: I’m struggling! I’m a consultant managing multiple Google and Office 365 accounts. I’m...
View Article3 Steps to Perfectly Organized Files
A listener writes in: Dear Get It Done Guy, My sweetheart has just moved in and all is wonderful...expect that his boxes and file drawers full of paper have also moved in. When he tries to sort...
View ArticleTop Tips from My Time as Get-It-Done Guy
Today we're going for the best-of-the-best. In the last 576 episodes, we've covered a lot of territory together. We’ve had big tips, small tips, intriguing tips, and Q-tips. But as you surely recall...
View Article7 Ways to Write Better Email Messages
If you had to deliver a speech, would you knowingly choose the wrong title, bury your point, or say things that would get yourself in trouble with your colleagues and bosses? Of course not. But many...
View ArticleHow to Email Professors in College
They say college is the best time of your life, and unless you got kicked out, the saying is most likely true. Well, unless reason you were “shown the door” was because you loved it a bit too much....
View ArticleSince When is An Email a Rorschach Test?
In 1921, the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach invented the Rorschach test, also known as the inkblot test. This psychological test asks the subject to evaluate a series of inkblots and report what...
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