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Monthly Archives: January 2010
2010 The Year of the Scanner
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Well, perhaps I’m a bit behind the times, but I have finally decided to go totally paperless. No more filing cabinets! I’m not sure if the impetus for this decision was that I needed the space or the fact that almost all of my vendors have been pushing hard for me to go paperless. But it makes absolute sense. Bills, Bank Statements, Tax filings (most of these are already filed on line anyway these days), business cards—basically everything that used to go into a file folder will now be filed on my computer and backed up to DVDs. My electronic filing cabinet of choice is going to be Microsoft OneNote, a program I have used for several years and really like. I think the reason I like OneNote as much as I do is that it works a lot like the manual filing system I’ve used for my entire business life, so the transition was easy.
A huge advantage with OneNote is that it has the ability to read and file everything, even graphic images with text; so finding something that might have gotten inadvertently misfiled is a breeze, and a task that would probably be impossible in a manual filing system.
Deciding how/where to file business cards has been an ongoing puzzle for me. Add them to Outlook? my email list? put them in a Rolodex? put them in plastic pages designed to display them and keep them in a notebook? Each had its problems: Business cards for casual contacts in Outlook just made finding the names of current and active contacts difficult; this being compounded now that I have also decided to synchronize everything with my new Droid SmartPhone (another change for 2010). Putting them in the mailing list is a good idea, except that it’s not so easy to access them for anything other than a mass mailing. The Rolodex is just archaic, though I understand there are now ‘virtual’ Rolodex solutions for the computer. Keeping business cards in those plastic pockets that are then stored in a notebook gave me an attractive and colorful scrap-book to browse through, but you could never find a contact number if you needed one.
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George Carlin on aging!
Enjoy the ride. There is no return ticket. 
George Carlin on aging!
George Carlin’s Views on Aging
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
‘How old are you?’ ‘ I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key.
You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
‘How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before y ou know it, you REACH 50, and your dreams are gone…
But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50, and make it to 60.
You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that, it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80′s, and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’
Followbase: A Twitter CRM Starter Kit
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For those of you that are struggling to find a way to get started with Twitter as a Marketing and Customer Relations tool in your business, Followbase might be just what you are looking for. All you need to get started is a Twitter Account which you will then use connect to Followbase; which then scans your twitter stream and sorts them into four customer service related topics: Mentions, Ideas, Problems and Questions.
The service is still in Beta and for now, it’s free. So if you’ve been wondering how to leverage Twitter for your Business, this is one simple place to start.
Followbase: A Twitter CRM Starter Kit
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