Getting squeezed by email?  Is it reducing your productivity in your home business? Email is, like most new inventions, wonderful and at the same time frustrating.  I talked with one home business owner recently who said she had over 1,000 email messages in her in-box.  That’s not including spam, which she dutifully marked as it came in.  And email is, as Mark Twain said, like the weather – everyone talks about it but no one does anything about it.
In my recent interview with David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, he mentioned that we should consider email like the phone, …read more

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Phyllis, one of our readers has an email dilemma. Can you help? Here are my quick thoughts, but please feel free to chip in and add your own ideas to help Phyllis out.
Phyllis says

I get an email from book order co. and they want me to click on their link to order or not but when I click on the link, nothing happens. where do I reset to let me follow through with the link so I can order or not.
I can`t figure it out. It used to work great. no problems until a couple days ago. I …read more

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We’re talking productivity at Home Biz Notes this month.
How many times have you had irrelevant emails clog up your inbox because senders were too quick to hit the Reply To All button instead of just Reply on a group email?
I’m working hard on taming my emails, so I can really identify with the cartoon below. One ill considered round of “Reply To All” emails is all it takes to undo my good work.

Cartoon Credit: http://www.itsngenius.net
My Thoughts?
It takes just a moment more to Reply to a specific person on a group email, but it saves everyone a lot of time.
Your …read more