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An E-Zine of
May, 2005
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Learn to Say "No" -- Then Say It!
Simply saying "No" can shave hours off the time you
spend at work and away from family and friends. Friends, family,
neighbors and business associates can, inadvertently, keep you from
getting the work done in fulfillment of your goals.
Be ruthless and rigorous in evaluating the time you
spend in idle conversations, in non-productive meetings and in
organizations that, while you're working them to the fullest, aren't
producing results. If it isn't working, you can, of course, keep doing
what you're doing, but you can also do it differently or not at all.
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Two sets of
computers are set up to "talk" together, and no: this is not the
start of a bad joke. One set, wired as
master-slave works about as you'd imagine: the master computer has
access to files, hardware and programs on the slave computer. The
slave gets little if any benefit from its relationship to the
master. Now take a look at another set of computers connected as
peer-to-peer. They share resources -- files, programs and hardware
-- and the sharing of those resources is mutually beneficial. Further each
computer's owner decides how much or how little the other computer
gets access to.
Business networking,
unfortunately, looks a whole lot more like master-slave than
peer-to-peer with one person vying to gain as much benefit from
another person as possible without giving anything up. We've all seen
them: the networking sharks. They stroll right up to you and try to
sell you and when they can't, they drop you without so much as an
insincere attempt at asking you what you do and who you are as a
person.
You come home late,
having eaten suspect chicken wings, with a handful of business cards
and thinking, tiredly, of having to get up the next morning and do
it all over again.
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I've had but just didn't know how to use. Her system is
well thought and is taught in a way that breaks it down into
manageable pieces and then - she holds us ACCOUNTABLE for
doing what we say we'll do to improve our business!
Lalita's class has helped me get clearer and
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type of clients I want to attract. I have also learned how
to network with others in and out of the class to form
partnerships that are mutually beneficial and have an
important impact on my bottom line. I have even decided to
get an office outside of my home to accommodate my influx of
new clients.
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Its
Really a Good Thing -- Really...
Thanks to the fine people at
Stamps.com with a little help
from the U.S. Postal Service, you can now print out stamps
personalized with your favorite photo or image.
The re-launch of this program came
after a few glitches were worked out in a 7-week long test launch in
which users created and used stamps they designed and printed out
locally.
Unfortunately, the good people at
Stamps.com (where the service
originates) didn't count on the ingenuity of those intrepid testers,
some of which created stamps with images of Ms. Monica's infamous blue
dress, the Unibomber (who use the postal service to deliver his
deadly homemade bombs), disgraced former governors, people executed
for espionage and world leaders who were found guilty of ethnic
cleansing. Note: They've closed this pesky little loophole with a
really detailed set of Content Restrictions, which, hopefully, will
keep stamps with Ted Bundy out of circulation.
Just create an image with a camera
of graphics program, upload it to
PhotoStamps.com, which can
be accessed from the Stamps.com or USPS.gov (US Postal Service) websites, customize
your stamp, print it and start using it.
Think about it: your company's logo
or your picture on a personalized postage stamp on your mass mailings
and après-networking note cards, a great picture from your
dream vacation (perfect if you're a professional photographer),
your daughter's engagement photo on all her wedding announcements.
Nice.
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Business Card
Conundrum
Here's an ugly
chore. You've come back from a meeting armed with a stack of
newly-acquired business cards. Rather than letting them disappear
into the back of your desk drawer, try this great product.
Corex offers
two easy-to-use business card scanners. Both CardScan business card
scanners will create a picture
of each business card, turn the information on the card into data
than can be transferred to other applications and put that contact
into a contact management system.
The CardScan Professional
version, in addition, will create full color copies of the business
cards you scan, provide an online version of your database (great if
you're away from your office and need a number in a hurry) and even
email out requests for updated information to your contacts.
I tested this after attending an
event. It took seconds per card to scan them in and then just a few
seconds to verify the accuracy of the scan. Since I met all the
people at the same event, CardScan even allowed me to create a
note ("Met at xyz event on abc date) and then automatically placed
that note on each card. Nice.
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