Taming The Email Beast
Boy-oh-boy, did this article ever speak loudly to me … in fact, it screamed at me! I’ll be the first to admit it, I am a slave to email. Somebody really needs to start a 12-Step-Program for all of us email addicts. “Hi, I’m Terry, and I’m addicted to email!” Since one of the services I provide as a Virtual Assistant is to manage email for my clients, it is vital that I manage my own email effectively and have good time-management skills. The following article by Debra J. Schmidt, The Loyalty Leader, shares the system she uses and recommends to control and manage your email so it doesn’t control you.
Virtually Yours,
Taming The Email Beast
By Debra J. Schmidt
Do you feel like email is devouring your time? You’re not alone. According to research, the average U.S. worker spends up to four hours each day sending and receiving email. This can create a time management problem for employees and managers.
If email is dominating your day, it’s also damaging your productivity. You need to tame the beast and take back your time. Are you lured to your computer to check email every time it arrives in your inbox? If so, you’re wasting valuable time. These interruptions impair productivity. Now is the time for you to develop an email management system.
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Turn Contacts Into Contracts!
Here’s another goodie from one of my favorite ezines. It’s from the June edition of The World’s Shortest Ezine (Always 200 words or less! Always!). Tom’s ezine may be short, but it always has some of the best tips. In fact, Tom’s one of the featured speakers in my tip series, How to Get More Speaking Engagements: 10+ Tips From the “Best of the Best!” Keep an eye out on my website http://www.myfastype.com for your chance to sign up to receive all 14 tips, plus my new ezine Speak Up and Make Money!, due out in July.
Virtually Yours,
Terry
Turn Contacts Into Contracts!
By Tom Letourneau
Networking is a powerful tool that anyone can use to increase contacts and sales. Here are some ideas to make your networking more effective:
- Come prepared! Make sure you have enough business cards, are up-to-date on current events and, yes, even sports, traffic and American Idol.
- Make your nametag readable! Write your name in LARGE block letters. Place it on your right side so when you shake hands, it moves closer to the other person.
- Have an opening line to begin a conversation! You might comment on the event or even the weather. Keep it light.
- Ask open-ended questions! Get the other person talking about their business, their favorite food or ???
- Act as host or hostess and introduce people! Use your contacts to help others make connections. You’ll have twice the contacts and lots more friends.
- Be positive and upbeat! People do business with people they like and they like friendly, happy people. If you don’t feel well or are in a bad mood, don’t go to the event.
- Have fun! A networking event can be like a big party with the added benefit of connecting with people who could buy from you.
From The World’s Shortest Ezine by Tom Letourneau (800) 845-7553 / www.TomSpeaks.net
Selling Multiple Products? Avoid These Top Blunders
Selling Multiple Products? Avoid These Top Blunders
by Marcia Yudkin
When your web site sells more than a dozen items, you may face a fierce challenge of helping shoppers find what they are looking for. You’ll need to classify products into categories, but these will serve as obstacles and even deal killers if those categories do not match those in the heads of shoppers.
I’ve seen again and again web sites using classifications that aren’t known or understood by a portion of their customers. For instance, I once wanted to buy T-shirts and went to the site of a famous catalog company, where I found a category called “shirts.” So far, so good. But then I had to choose between a category called “woven” or another called “knitted.” There I got stumped. Are T-shirts woven or knitted? I was not sure.
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If You’re Serious About Exploding Your Income …
…you need to be in Los Angeles on August 4, 5 & 6, 2006.
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I just heard about an exciting event that’s coming up later this summer in Los Angeles, California and since I know you’re all about building your business, I thought I’d pass it on.
It’s called the Power Of Voice Speaking Summit and it’s designed to help experts and entrepreneurs like us explode our income as professional speakers.
Some of the biggest and brightest names in the speaking industry will be on hand to share strategies that have netted them thousands, even millions of dollars.
It’s being produced by LA-based Speakers Etcetera, a speakers bureau and speakers development company.
To my knowledge, no other bureaus are opening up their vaults and sharing these closely guarded secrets. But on August 4, 5 & 6, 2006, that’s exactly what Norma T. Hollis and her Speakers Etcetera company are going to do! Reveal their secrets!
This is going to be such a great event that I thought you’d want to reserve your seat before they’re all gone!
If I’m right, you can get an early bird discount right now by clicking on this link http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=415376
Hope to see ya there!
Virtually yours,
Terry
Why use humor?
Why use humor?
By Tom Antion, Washington, D.C.
Why should I bother using humor in my presentations? Can’t I just
deliver my information and sit down? You sure can and that’s what
most people do. The problem is that most people are not effective
presenters. They are nighty nite, snooze inducing, say your
prayers, hit the sack, unlicensed hypnotists. They are ZZZZZs
presenters. They might be experts in their field and be able to
recite hours and hours of information on their topic, but is that
effective?
According to Bob Orben, Special Assistant to President Gerald
Ford and Former Director of the White House Speech writing
Department, “Business executives and political leaders have
embraced humor because humor works. Humor has gone from being an
admirable part of a leader’s character to a mandatory one.”
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