Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

It’s a pretty good headline for people who are worried about money. This time though, it’s not a come on for an affiliate product, it was an advertisement for “Burpee Seeds”! If you’re planning to do some gardening for the monetary value – or just the stress relief this spring and summer – I thought [...]

Ok, this is the time of year I go through a planning ritual for the coming year. Part of that – for me – is getting a new calendar for the coming year. Say what you want about digital calendars, PDA’s or whatever gizmo you want, I want some paper in my hand. I also [...]

Open Office now has version 3. I always liked the idea of this open source alternative to Microsoft Office, but in practice it fell short of my expectations. This is actually a beta so only the stout of heart should try the newest version at this stage. Here’s a solid review of the office suite. [...]

Tomorrow, Intuit will host its second “Get Back to Business” webinar tomorrow, May 7 at 1 – 2 p.m. PST and I thought you might want to listen in or let your readers know… It’s called “Cash is KING: Increasing your cash flow during a recession.” It will presented by Pam Newman, president of RPPC [...]

Google Documents has rolled out some pretty impressive new tools.  You can see What’s New here. Most significantly, you can save documents in a POWER POINT Format now! (It was already cool that you could save as a PDF file, but this is even better!) If this were all the upgrades, that would be neat [...]

Do you know when to “Draw the line between Free and Paid”? This post makes a good point. Many small and home based business people are generous to a fault. They also may want to be loved at any cost and believe giving away their product/service will help them get more in the future. Sadly [...]

Read it all at Web Worker Daily But here are the ones I like best. For instance, I can’t get into the keyboard shortcuts at the moment.  Do I really want to remember all that extra stuff? It’s like learning a foreign language, and if I’ve got to learn one, I’d prefer one spoken by [...]

Do you have a deadline and you definitely want to track the number of days you have left? Here’s a free version of a countdown timer (images below) called Time Left. The problem is… you can really only use this with ONE major goal at a time. Otherwise, it won’t help you focus on that [...]

From their press release… Website: www.oprius.comSales and Contact Management Tool Releases Web Page Builder (Victoria, BC, February 26, 2008) – Oprius has always been a great tool for working with leads and customers, but now it can also be used to help generate new leads. This new lead generating functionality has been added to Oprius’ [...]

I was in the car last night and heard something on the radio I desperately wanted to follow up on today. Unfortunately, I was alone, had my hands tied up with – of all things – driving. And I couldn’t stop to write anything down. Then I remembered… I’ll call my Jott account. Then I [...]