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Office Tech

Top Five Twitter Apps and Why You Should Use Them

by Courtney Ramirez on October 20, 2011


Like a handful of other social networking sites, Twitter has become one of the most useful sites for creating a following for your business. It’s free, it’s easy to use, and there is no limit to how far your marketing message can go. With the help of these tools, you can attract thousands of followers to your business, who then sign up to “follow” your messages and read what you have to say about your product or service. It’s the perfect complement for marketing your business right from your home or serviced office.

  1. Tweetdeck: One of the most popular Twitter apps, this one combines a number of different social networking sites into one useful application. This allows you to spend less time networking, without losing out on any opportunities for marketing your business. The app allows for the organization of topics, groups and other aspects of your social marketing campaign.

  2. Hootsuite: Sending out Tweets, 140-character messages, is how you make your virtual mark on Twitter. Tweeting consistently is important for grabbing and reaching an audience. However, it isn’t always convenient for business owners to Tweet as often as they’d like.
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Top 5 Best Getting Things Done Tools

by Courtney Ramirez on July 29, 2010

As a business owner, you’re in the position where getting things done is an absolute necessity. If you’re not familiar with the book “Getting Things Done”, it’s a nonfiction book by David Allen that focuses on being more productive, no matter what your industry or your work function. It’s designed to help you take the cloud of activity that surrounds you each day and fit it into workable task lists and projects that you can actually finish. It’s become a huge phenomenon and as a result there are a variety of different tools that can help you make GTD part of your day-to-day work life.

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Mastering Outlook - 3 Tips

by Nick DeGraff on March 3, 2010

Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are all the rage, but for most businesses Outlook is a still the tool that they cannot live without. E-mail is so integrated into our lives we don’t even think about the impact it has on how we do business. But did you know that the majority of professionals don’t fully leverage the simple productivity tools within Outlook?

Here are 3 quick tips to put you ahead of the curve:
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Are You Developing With Technology?

by Nick DeGraff on December 15, 2009

As fast as Technology seems to change and advance, year by year that pace quickens even more. Just consider that in the last 10 years, ‘new’ technologies like e-mail and instant messenger have become old hat and now social and business networking sites such as twitter, facebook, and LinkedIn are the ‘new’ technologies.

Technology has now become the major agent of change in the business world, surplanting marketing, research and development, and even profit. Social networking has become a standard marketing tool. Communications and computing hardware have become mobile Blackberries and wireless/cellular technology is eroding the function of the desktop pc. Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing have even changed the way technology products are delivered.

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Get Onto Google Free With Google Maps

by Nick DeGraff on December 1, 2009

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How To Integrate & Sync All Of Your E-mail

by Mark Assaf on August 21, 2009

Does your virtual office get bogged down in e-mail?  Are you tired of juggling six different email accounts, three different email websites, and two different email clients on your two computers? And what about your iPhone? Don’t have a corporate IT department providing and supporting an Exchange account?  Is there a free virtual solution?

Using a no-cost service such as Google Mail, you can tie all these accounts into one virtual account, and then access that one account through any of your computers or mobile devices and have them all synced up!

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