PLEASE look before you click! Â As far as I’m concerned, we could completely eliminate the Reply All button from emails. Â Forever. Gone. Done. No more endless strings of email letting me know that each individual copied on an email agrees. No more stupid replies that don’t apply to me or the 15 other people on an email – just applies to the person who wrote it. Â Done. If you HAVE to use Reply All, I beg you to look at it carefully. Â First, make sure all the people on the list need to see your response. Â If they don’t, DON’T SEND IT TO THEM. It is rude. And an interruption for no reason. Â Be smart and filter. The only time I ever use Reply All is when I think someone may have been blind-copied on the message. Â A reply all will get to them as […] Continue reading
Got a New Computer? What To Do First
Four suggestions coupled with Ask Leo’s article http://ask-leo.com/the_first_8_things_you_should_do_with_your_new_computer.html?awt_l=HtjkF&awt_m=1eaxDWVn_pdfbL
Using Technology to Refine Your Message
A friend of mine does the “education minute” for our BNI chapter. Â He does a great job and often makes one think about things in a new way. Last week, he recommended when we ask for referrals, we run it through the “Google” test. In other words, if you are asking someone for a referral, can you enter that request into Google or Bing and get a small number of targeted results, or would you get thousands of unrelated results? That got me thinking, how else can you use today’s technology to test out your messages? There’s nothing like doing it for real, but can you communicate your value proposition in 140 characters? My experience on Twitter is I often don’t use all 140 characters. And the value in the communication is still there thank you. There’s discussion as to who really said it, but […] Continue reading
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