Turn Off Email Notification for Maximum Productivity

If you sit at a computer for most of the day, it’s tempting to constantly check your email to see what’s new. But that’s a time management disaster if you’re trying to make progress in your business.

Resist the temptation.

Here are a couple of tips to help you get that time eating monster under control.

  • Turn off email notification (like the beep or pop up screen). It’s just like a ringing phone that demands to be answered. Even in the instant world that exists today, email can wait.
  • Establish a schedule for checking and responding to emails (this works for phone calls and voice mail too). Put it in your daily schedule and treat the time like an important meeting. Your clients and customers will get “trained” on your response method and you’ll be a lot better off.

What about you? Do you have any tips to share on managing email? Tell me about them by leaving a comment.

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Low Cost No Cost Marketing Will Fuel Your Cash Flow

You don’t need a huge budget to market your business online as long as you’re willing to invest some “sweat equity.”

A good way to put your sweat equity to work and reap the benefits for your business is to write free reprint articles and post them to article database sites. Ezine Articles is the authority and my favorite. The articles should be tell the reader “how to” do something and be helpful.

There are several more ways to market with few (zero!) funds. Here are eight ideas for you.

  1. Write letters to the editor of publications your target market reads.
  2. Get involved in an organization or community project.
  3. Build strategic alliances with non-competing businesses and cross-promote each other.
  4. Publish a special report. A “super how to” list for your specialty area. Distribute freely. Ensure that your contact information is included.
  5. Speak to groups and organizations. Make sure the audience is your target market.
  6. Carefully target relationships with media sources.
  7. Write newsworthy press releases and distribute to your special contacts.

What about you? Do you have a favorite no cost, low cost marketing tactic? Share it with me by leaving a comment.

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