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Skyrocket Your Productivity with Online Tools
Joshua Zerkel, Certified Professional Organizer®
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Key areas of productivity
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Let’s define “the cloud”
What are online tools?
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• Lives online
• You pay monthly or yearly (if at all)
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Pros of going to “the cloud”
Why use online tools?
• Easy setup
• Cross-platform
• No software upgrades or IT needs
• Additional backup
• Usually cheap!
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Cons of going to “the cloud”
Why NOT use online tools?
• Need to be connected
• Different UI than desktop software
• Security
• Will this company be around in a year?
• Never “own” software
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The parameters for our list:
The rules
• Web-based
• Cross-platform
• Has real utility
• I’ve tried it
• Under $25/month (per user)
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How we’ll be looking at our choices
Evaluation criteria
• What it is
• Why you’d want it
• Ways to use it
• Cost
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The types of tools and services we’ll be looking at
Our categories
• Scheduling
• Collaboration
• Social Media
• Notes, Ideas, and To-Do Lists
• Paper & Document Management
• Multiple Computers and Backup
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Scheduling: TimeTrade
• What it is:
– Online self-scheduling tool
• Why you’d want it:
– You don’t have time to play phone/email tag to set up
appointments
• Ways to use it:
– Let leads self-schedule phone consults
– Clients can self-schedule meetings
• Cost: $30/yr
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Scheduling: TimeTrade
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Scheduling: TimeTrade
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Scheduling: TimeTrade
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Scheduling: TimeTrade
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Scheduling: Doodle
• What it is:
– Online individual and group scheduling tool
• Why you’d want it:
– Because scheduling multiple people can be hair-
pullingly frustrating
• Ways to use it:
– Team meetings without shared calendars
– Client meetings
– VA scheduling for you
• Cost: Free; $29/yr for Premium (ad free, reminders)
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Scheduling: Doodle
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Scheduling: Doodle
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Scheduling: Doodle
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Scheduling: Doodle
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Scheduling: Doodle
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Collaboration: Basecamp
• What it is:
– Collaboration and project management tool for inside and
outside your company
• Why you’d want it:
– To help keep track of all the pieces of working on a large
project – to-do’s, messages, files, milestones, and more
• Ways to use it:
– Manage to-do’s for your team (or just yourself)
– Communicate and centralize changes to a client project
– Share business development and marketing ideas with a
consultant
• Cost:
– $24/month for Basic plan, 15 projects, 5 GB storage
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Collaboration: Basecamp
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Collaboration: Basecamp
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Collaboration: Basecamp
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Social Media: Postling
• What it is:
– Central dashboard for keeping up with your profiles
• Why you’d want it:
– To sidestep the social-media time suck
• Ways to use it:
– Pre-schedule all your posts for a month
– Track and reply to all comments from one spot
– Have your assistant report back on all your social media
activity
• Cost: Free for basic profile management; $25/month for RSS,
tracking Yelp & CitySearch, reposting items, and web stats
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Social Media: Postling
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Social Media: Postling
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Social Media: Postling
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Social Media: Postling
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Notes, Ideas & To-Do’s: Evernote
• What it is:
– Online and software-based system for keeping track of notes,
photos, website, ideas, and more
• Why you’d want it:
– To get things out of your head an into a searchable system
• Ways to use it:
– Take photos of whiteboards, notes and napkins from
meetings for searching later
– Create a notebook for an upcoming meeting with notes,
research, and related web sites
– Create a shared notebook for each client with websites or
resources they could find useful
• Cost: Free; $45/year for Pro (more storage, sharing, syncs files)
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Notes, Ideas & To-Do’s: Evernote
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Notes, Ideas & To-Do’s: Evernote
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Notes, Ideas & To-Do’s: ReQall
• What it is:
– Voice-to-text memory aid
• Why you’d want it:
– So you won’t forget important things while you’re on
the go
• Ways to use it:
– Automatically transcribe client meeting notes
– Send tasks to your VA while on the road
– Create notes or to-do’s for you to handle later
• Cost: Free; $25/year for Pro (Integration w/ other
tools, GPS enabled)
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Notes, Ideas & To-Do’s: ReQall
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Paper: Shoeboxed
• What it is:
– Receipt & business card scanning and database
service
• Why you’d want it:
– To finally get those business cards & receipts
scanned!
• Ways to use it:
– Scan receipts and create reports for bookkeeper
– Get biz cards into your contact manager
– Eliminate (or at least reduce) stored receipts
• Cost: $10/month, 50 scans
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Shoeboxed – Getting documents in
You can:
Send mail
Forward email
Snap with
smartphone
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Shoeboxed – Analyzing your receipts
Shoeboxed captures:
• Vendor name
• Payment type
• Total expense
• Purchase date
• Auto-categorizes
your items
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Shoeboxed – Organizing your stuff
Shoeboxed scans,
data-enters, verifies,
organizes, and
categorizes
everything
Easily search
expenses
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Shoeboxed – Creating reports
Easily create:
• Expense reports
• Category reports
• View individual
transactions
• Search and sort
by vendor, date,
etc.
• …and more!
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Shoeboxed – Business cards
Shoeboxed captures:
• First Name
• Last Name
• Company
• Phone number(s)
• Address(es)
You’ll also be able to
view the front and back
of the scanned cards!
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Paper: OfficeDrop
• What it is:
– Document scanning and database service
• Why you’d want it:
– To reduce paper without scanning
• Ways to use it:
– Create a virtual file cabinet
– Send OfficeDrop all your mail for scanning, then you
can process online later
– Clients can send their documents to OfficeDrop and
you can access them
• Cost: $15/month, 50 pages scanned
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OfficeDrop – How it works
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OfficeDrop – Getting documents in
You can also:
Scan
Send paper
Sync with QB
Supported doc types: pdf, doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, odt, ods, odg,
odp, txt, rtf, html, tiff, png, gif and jpg
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OfficeDrop – Organizing your documents
Organize your way:
Folders
Labels
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OfficeDrop – Viewing your documents
Retrieve & collaborate
• Search
• Browse
• Share docs
• Download
• Send to Evernote
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Multiple Computers & Backup: Mozy
• What it is:
– Super-simple online backup
• Why you’d want it:
– Because it’s essential to backup your data
• Ways to use it:
– Backup just your key files
– Backup everything on your computer
• Cost: Free (2 GB), $5.99/mo (50 GB)
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Multiple Computers & Backup: Mozy
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Multiple Computers & Backup: Mozy
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Q&A
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The Profitable Productivity System
– Filled with tips to help you
manage your paper, space,
time and technology
– 4 CDs plus an interactive
workbook
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Special Offers
Email Me!
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For access to every tool and app in the presentation,
as well as these special discounts:
OfficeDrop: $10 Off First Month or Bulk Scanning
Postling: 10% Off Postling Premium