So Much to Do! – How Can You Get Organised? | Time Management Solution Recommended by ‘BBC Click’

There are two ways of failing to make money from  e marketing :

Doing the right thing at the wrong time

Doing the wrong thing at the right time.

So how can you get stuff done on time when  it sometimes seems sooooo complicated, how do you remember what to do and when?

‘Click’ the BBC Flagship Technology Program roots out really interesting application and presenter Kate Russell found this one – Nozbe –  to help get you organised.

Now this might come as a surprise to some but I am not the most organised person in the world (Not a surprise to my wife Bee of course or my Mum – they know!).  More organised means more sales and more sales equals more profit so naturally I wanted to know more about anything which helps me smooth out my working methods.

I downloaded it – no problem there and there are good videos to get you up and off the mark straight away.

I am starting a new e marketing project today and I am going to track it on Nozbe so I spent a half hour finding my way around. Basically it is a productivity application acting as a virtual secretary or personal assistant prompting and reminding you what to do and when. That’s just what I need to keep me focused.

You can quickly and easily make lists of tasks, and group all the information you need – like phone numbers, notes and even pictures – all neatly stored together.

I say a business plan is something you wake up every morning and change but no problem Nozbe makes that easy, once you have a project set up it is easy add new actions to it whenever the spirit takes you. So this plan keeps the creative juices running and all your projects easily accessible in your inbox.

Great news! There is a Free version available for us lonely e marketers which enables us to have full capability for, up to five projects, five sections and 1MB storage but you will soon outgrow that and premium subscriptions offer more  .

One thing to wish for – at the moment you cannot make your own custom sections so you will be shoehorning everything into a few pre-defined actions but everything internet changes day by day and they say there are plans to change this – which will be a great move forward.

The BBC says. ‘There should be more stuff like this in the world’ Internet Marketing Virgin agrees.

Interested? Get it here

Your e mail Signature is your Fortune | How to Use Your Signature to Promote Your Business

E mail signatures (those few lines under your e mail or posting describing you and your business)  are said to be the most effective way of promoting your goods and services when used with your e mail provider on social marketing sites and within an autoresponder.  But how is that done?

Internet Marketing Virgin is test driving Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring products which are designed to find distributors for MLM companies using low cost Internet marketing methods.

 In the of Magnetic Sponsoring getting started section Mike offers advice about content and we recently published a blog on that subject see “How to use your e mail signature to promote Magnetic Sponsoring” below, but newbies might find setting up a signature series a bit of a challenge.

 Is it Better to receive and send your mail in Outlook or Gmail?

 I only used Outlook until last year but then I discovered Google Mail and now I find I use g mail all the time. I like it.

G Mail is easier to use on the move, has a faster and more accurate search facility, a labels system which is far easier that the outlook folder system, a simpler rules and filters interface, better spam filtering, and best of all huge free storage space. BUT there are a couple of flaws.

I have a number of businesses and the signature for one business is not always appropriate for another. In Outlook you can add as many signatures as you like and select the one you wish to use for a particular e mail but in G Mail there is only provision for creating only one.  You can get over this using g mail ‘Canned Responses’ but it is a bit clumsy. A proper multi signature system would be better.

 It is possible to access G Mail using Mozilla Firefox and then download a Plug In from  http://www.wisestamp.com  however if you are an Outlook user it might be better to carry on using a system you are familiar with rather than be distracted by learning something new when time is of the essence.

That’s what I am doing, cutting out time wasting learning of new systems ands using the tools I have.

 The procedure for entering signatures is in Outlook is straight forward.

 Create or modify e-mail signatures in Outlook

There are few better ways to spread the word about your business than a well crafted e mail signature

An e-mail signature consists of text or pictures, or both. If you choose to create and use a signature, Microsoft Outlook automatically adds it to your outgoing e-mail messages.

Create and use signatures

 You can create custom signatures for different purposes.

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, type a name for your signature.
4. Under Create your e-mail signature, insert the text or pictures, or both, that you want to use for a signature. Use the formatting tools to apply formatting to your text.
5. Click Add.

To create another signature, click New, and then repeat steps 3 through 5.

Set or change the default signature

1. In Microsoft Word, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. If you use more than one e-mail account in Microsoft Outlook, select the account for this signature in the Select the signatures associated with box.
4. Do one or more of the following:
   1. In the Signature for new messages list, click the signature you want.
   2. In the Signature for replies and forwards list, click the signature you want.

Add a signature to a single e-mail message

If Word is your e-mail editor and you want to add a signature to only one message, you can manually insert it.

1. In the e-mail message, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
2. Click E-mail Options, and then click the E-mail Signature tab.
3. In the Type the title of your e-mail signature or choose from the list box, click the name of the e-mail signature you want to use. Under Create your e-mail signature, select the signature text you want to add to your e-mail message, and then press CTRL+C.
4. Click Close, and then click Cancel.
5. In the e-mail message, place your cursor where you want the signature to appear, and then press CTRL+V.

 Note   The signature will not automatically appear in all new e-mail messages.

Select the most suitable signature for the e mail you are sending

If you have defined more than one signature, you can switch between them.

1. In the e-mail message, right-click the existing signature.
2. Select the name of the signature that you want to use.

Just Choose the most appropriate for the e mail you are sending.

How can I make my computer run faster? | 4 minutes to speed up your computer.

Has it happened to you? Day by day your computer runs slower and slower until it is so frustratingly slow you can hardly bother to log on?
I used to wait until my wife’s son Barnaby visited and gaze in wonder as he weaved his magic and made my P.C or Web Book. useable again. That was until I thought ‘How hard can it be?’ and I asked “Barny, how can I make my computer run faster myself without ruining every weekend you spend with us?”

I was right, it isn’t difficult at all, so if your systems are slow and sluggish, if they freeze up here are a few tips.

MS Config – 4 minutes invested – hours and hours saved.

Tucked away, where only techies look, there’s a simple but powerful tool, called msconfig, It is free, Microsoft builds this directly into Windows. In this article I’ll show you how to activate and use msconfig to speed your systems and make them a pleasure to use again..

Do you have any idea how many programs are running on your systems without your knowledge?
I was shocked when I opened msconfig about two dozen programs were being opened every time I switched on. or if they weren’t switched on they were ‘live’ waiting to be used. Some of them I would never use at all, some just once in a blue moon.
By shutting down many of these unnecessary programs, my computer is now running much much faster and with far fewer hangs.

It doesn’t take long, it isn’t difficult, and there is little or no risk of mucking things up*When you do need them most take no more than a second or two to load manually.

Don’t the program writers love to make things sound complex
msconfig is really just a simple checklist of the programs loaded onto your system when the computer starts up. It lets you select and de-select those programs you’d like to run at start up and you don’t need many!

You may wonder, if you don’t actually need them all the time why are they loaded at startup in the first place? The answer is ‘helpful’ software suppliers have placed them there when you downloaded their programs so they are instantly available for you to use but many if not most simply do not need to run at start up.

A typical example is real-time player, which gets placed in start-up by default when it’s first installed. By de-selecting real-time player in msconfig, you will return huge valuable resources to your computer and speed up your start up plus, real-time player will start only when you need it, not before!

This is what you do to start your declutter

1. Click the Windows Start button in the lower left corner.

2. Click Run.

3. Type “msconfig” (without the quotes) in the box as shown below.

4. Click OK or hit the Enter key.

msconfig startup screen

This box shows all the programs available to start up when the computer starts. Those checked with a tick actually do start as you open up the computer.

Uncheck the boxes of programs you do not want at start up (most of them!)
Leave antivirus, Antispyware, firewall and pop up blocker to run everything else can easily be opened just when you need it.

Click on apply stage 1 done

Now click on the ‘services’ tab and you will see the screen below.

msconfig services screen

Click the box to select hide all Microsoft service.

Then go through the list and deselect any that you do not use or use rarely use , relax, they can be reselected at any time in the future

After you finish making changes in msconfig, click Apply then OK. then Yes to restart your computer.

After you reboot, you may see a popup Window letting you know that you have made changes with msconfig. There will be a check box that you may select to prevent this popup from displaying in the future. I suggest you check this box, and then just close the Window.

That’s it! Now just enjoy the results of your new found knowledge and marvel at just how quick you system is for just this small housekeeping chore

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