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Spam today is a multi million dollar business that takes advantage of everyone out there.

As technology gets smarter for detecting and removing spam from your email box the spammers just become more savvy. They don’t mind phishing around. They don’t mind stealing your email address and then using it to send spam to millions of people.

How do I know that spammers love to steal email addresses?

Because it has happened to me. My email has been stealthed (stolen) by spammers.

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How many times have you been at work, and the phone rings, or someone walks in your office, or the e-mail “blings” and you decide to take a peek, and when you come back to what you were doing, you completely forgot where you left off? And then, it takes you 5-10-15 minutes to figure out where you were, so you can get back to being productive again? Does this happen frequently to you? All the time? This is your “train of thought” getting knocked off its track, and for many of us, it happens too often and really hurts our short term and long-term productivity.
But there is a simple solution to help you get better at keeping your attention train on its track. It is a habit that I’ve used for years now, after hearing about it originally from time management guru David Allen (author of “Getting Things Done”), and it is REALLY simple:

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Trying to get publicity for your business or organization? When you follow these key press release tips, you dramatically improve your chances of getting picked up by the local newspapers.

1. Make Your Press Release Newsworthy
What is new about your business? If you open a new business in January, then let the newspapers know before the opening date so the news is current. Contacting the press the following June is no longer newsworthy information and won’t get published.

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Successful relationships are the foundation of all success in life: both professionally and personally. Professionally, effective relationship building skills can mean the difference between triumph and defeat, particularly in a sales and/or service based environment. The importance of building strong, long-term professional relationships by taking the time to effectively “follow-up,” cannot be overstated. Yet many sales specialists such as realtors, pharmaceutical sales representatives and small business or home-based business owners simply fall short in this area, not for lack of trying, but simply because they lack guidance and expertise. Following-up is an art form that once mastered, will be an invaluable element for sales success. As Robert Collier once said, “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

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People have more email than they can possibly deal with–and it ends up just sitting in their inboxes, even after they have dealt with it. Believe it or not, email inboxes should be empty! Here are some ideas to start moving toward that goal. (Note: The ideas will work for all programs, although the keystrokes are for MS Outlook).

It’s best to print this article for easy reference.

In an earlier article, I had you:

• Set aside “Cleaning up/clearing out” time for this project.
• Start with the “Deleted Items” folder and delete anything older than 6 months and (I hope) even more than that.

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