Wow, been really two weeks since I last blogged.
Been REALLY busy lately with a few new projects, so my blogging is behind. I’ve also changed how often I’ll blog my content and some of my blogging is moving in another direction. Having said that, here’s my latest post.
My wife is in real estate and her real estate office is moving toward digitizing their real estate paperwork and files. Some offices are still in the “paper world” and won’t use technology, or at least, may just have a fax as their main move toward technology. So until offices get on board with standardizing their digital processes, there’s this gap between the technology have and have nots.
Current Process
Sending a fax to my wife’s office creates a fax and sends it by email as a PDF to her email Inbox. Because her office is digitizing the files, she gets any number of faxes and PDF files that have multiple documents in each PDF file that need to be split out for her to upload to their document server, i.e. separate out each document so you know if all of the required documents are there to process. It’s hard to determine this when the PDF is one long file.
While her office fax internal processes are better than most offices, it’s still a pain for her to “manually” separate each one. Until I found a simpler process, she use to have to reprint out each PDF document, scan each document separately into their system, then send each document so that each could be uploaded into their document server.
Not any more!
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As a startup entrepreneur you get lists of name in Excel spreadsheets and in most cases there is one column with the first name and a column for the last name, but on occasion both names are in the same column. Or you get the City, State, and Zip in the same column and can cause headaches with having to sort this data.
Along comes MS Excel 2008 which has a data trick that helps clear up your list of names or any list for that matter. Let’s take a look at how we can do this.
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OK, here’s my first ever list of new tools that nearly every startup entrepreneur will use, including using your Mac. My intention for this page is to highlight some of the tools that might be of benefit to others, not just Mac specific, but startup entrepreneur using a Mac specific.
So here goes my first three solutions for startups:
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When I was looking at the next “Monday Motivations for MacStartups” I was looking for another company to profile, but then I saw this blog site and thought, “You know, we’re all motivated by our spaces and how we set up our work and living spaces and the way we set them up tells us how we like to live and work.” If we can’t personalize, we become homogenized, and Macs are not about homogenization at all!!
So, we Mac fan boys and girls love working with our Macs, but have you ever thought of how your Mac looks in your office compared with others? Here’s 60 pictures of other Mac fans and their set ups.
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Fresh off of the results Hurricane Irene and the Colorado and Virginia earthquakes, the question for every business owner is: Would you survive a disaster to your business?
Are you prepared for a disaster?
In business parlance it’s called business continuity. Can you continue in business if you’re struck with a disaster?
What most people may not realize is that there are two results to every disaster that hits a business:
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Having gone to a number of business meetings and kept a number of business cards from individuals from each meeting I’ve attended I recently found that business cards have now become old news with the advent of social media, specifically LinkedIn.
Days gone past. In the olden days you handed out business cards to those you met and kept theirs in a Rolodex file so you could look them up later and call or send them a letter. Then, as the computer age came upon us we transitioned from the Rolodex to contact databases, or even the more advanced CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software. It took you time to enter in each contact’s information, but once it was entered you could use it in a number of ways.
There is one issue with the old business card “technology” that hindered you that with social media this has no longer become an issue.
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As an startup entrepreneur you always look to keep low or no costs to prolong using your capital. During a recent teleseminar I was introduced to Camtasia software. It is billed as the one stop shop for screen capturing and recording your audio all in the same application. But as I said above, entrepreneurs are always looking to save money, and time, and if you can, both money and time. So what is an entrepreneur to do without spending any money?
Well, here’s my answer.
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