Shared Inbox and Messaging Tools
Most people have a love-hate relationship with their email inbox. On the one hand, email can be incredibly useful — whether you’re making progress with a client, replacing a meeting with a (much more efficient) email thread, or receiving an invitation to a fun social gathering. On the other hand, though, email can be overwhelming — especially if you lose control. And boy is it easy to lose control. Many of us get bombarded by new emails on a regular basis, and it’s stressful to know that we might be missing out on the truly important stuff amid the flood of less pertinent stuff. Luckily, there are a lot of tools and free apps for startups that can help us get more organized. In this post, we’ll go through how to best organize your email and suggest some tools to make the process easier. Skip to: Email Organization Basics Best
If you asked me to name the sites and applications I use every single day, Google Drive would be near the top of the list. What’s Google Drive? a cloud-based app used for file creation, storing, sharing, collaboration, and a whole lot more. Download our free guide here for even more tools and tips for increasing your productivity. In fact, Google Drive has more value than meets the eye. Did you know that you can crop photos right inside a Google Document? Or that you can use Drive to send really big files to people — files that are too big for Gmail? Let’s learn how to take full advantage of what Google Drive has to offer. (You might want to bookmark our list of little-known Google Calendar features, too.) Skip to What’s Google Drive? How it Works Google Drive Tips If you have a Google account, you already have
Some things you think will be simple actually end up getting really complex. Google knows this all too well, which is why Google Calendar has plenty of nifty features to simplify scheduling. Your Google Calendar comes with your personal Gmail address, and you won’t believe how simple it is to use and set up. However, when working at a company with a corporate Google account you suddenly have to find out how best to integrate your personal calendar with your weekly meeting schedule. Below are some of our favorite tips, tricks, and features available in Google Calendar. Skip to: Using Find a Time Enabling World Clock Setting Desktop Notifications Creating Appointment Schedules 21 Google Calendar Features That’ll Make You More Productive 1. Create new calendars for different parts of your life. When you first start out on Google Calendar, you’re given one calendar to start with — it’s the one
We’re inundated with email daily — making it hard to keep track of tasks and manage your workflow. However, organizing your emails doesn’t have to be a pain. In fact, it’s possible to get your Gmail inbox to zero in as little as 15 minutes. While we can’t stop new emails from coming in, we can help you organize it better. I stumbled upon Andreas Klinger’s inbox zero method for Gmail years ago and his method still works for me to this day. In this post, I’ll show you how to organize your Gmail inbox according to Klinger’s method so it’s clean, systematized, and easy to navigate — making you a more efficient, productive, and overall happier human being. I’ll also show you how I adapted his labeling system for content marketers. Skip to: Zero Inbox Methodology Overview Zero Inbox Step-By-Step Guide How to Get to Inbox Zero in Gmail
As a marketer, few things are more frustrating than half the registrants for an event you promoted never showing up. Fortunately, you’re about to learn how to send a calendar invite via Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook, so registrants can add the event to their calendars and be less likely to forget about your event. Get instant access to our free meeting scheduling software. No more wasting time with back-and-forth emails or setting up calendar invites. Unless you somehow magically know what type of calendar your target audience uses, your best bet is to include all three major calendar invites in your email, giving recipients a choice that works for them. Outlook and Apple Calendar users will get an .ics file, and Google Calendar users will use a URL-based custom invitation. Note: All screenshots and steps were taken on a Mac, but if you’re on a PC, the
Around the globe, more than 300 emails are sent and received each day, on average. That’s 300 opportunities to market yourself and your business in those individual emails you send. A lot of people treat their email signatures like an afterthought, which is a big missed opportunity. Those signatures are a chance for you to make it clear who you are, make it easy for people to reach you, and give people a place to go to find out more — either about you, about your business, or about something you’re working on. So, if you’re just putting your name and a point or two of contact information in your signature, you’re not taking full advantage of the opportunity to connect and engage with the people you’re emailing. So what exactly should go in your signature? 1. First and Last Name Just like with snail mail correspondence, your name should…