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How Efficient is Your Document Management Strategy?

Oce Business Services surveyed business executives about their document management habits and revealed some interesting information.

Encouraging Productivity Away from the Office

A press release issued today by business communications provider Avaya showcased another example of branding a need to hook in attention. They discuss a survey that they conducted regarding the calculation of money lost from a drop in productivity from when employees are unable to make it to the office.

Survey: Money Being Wasted on Spyware

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has shared the results of a couple of recent surveys outlining the damage spyware is having on productivity in small businesses. Both surveys were conducted late last year, with one targeting workers in non-IT roles and one aimed at IT professionals, all in small and midsized businesses.

The Email Burnout Battle

I get hundreds of emails a day, and am always behind on email. Recently I sent out emails to affiliates letting them know that I was changing my model, and let high volume affiliates know that I wanted to give them a free limited trial so they could see what they are selling. It only makes sense to have your best affiliates know what changed.

Ways RSS Feeds Can Benefit Your Business

As I mentioned before, Google Reader is one of my favorite features that Google offers because it allows me to read the latest articles and posts from nearly every website and blog that I read on a regular basis all in one place. This can be a tremendous time-saver and tool to keep you up to date on all of the happenings in your niche, and boost your productivity as a result.Subscribing to Feeds

4 Firefox Add-Ons that Are Useful to Your Online Business

Many of you probably don't use Mozilla Firefox and use Internet Explorer or another browser instead, but I personally have found Firefox to be a very useful and convenient browser. How convenient you make it is up to you and how many add-ons you decide to engage. There are surely hundreds of Firefox Add-ons that you would find useful in one way or another. There are far too many to be familiar with all of them, but I wanted to highlight a few that I have found tremendously helpful. 1. StumbeUpon Toolbar

Google Apps, Ups And Downs

The free suite of online applications from Google offers an alternative to the Microsoft universe and its Office productivity suite.

How Much Money are you Throwing Away on Wasted Time?

As you know, saving time leads to more productivity. If you think about your daily routine, you are bound to find areas in which you are spending more time than you need to be. Multitasking vs. One thing at a time

The Top 10 Google Features I Use

Google has a lot of helpful features. This is certainly not news, but I thought it would be fun to look at the ones that I personally use the most and examine how they could help someone running a business.1. Web Search

Stay Focused to Increase Productivity

The University of Oregon conducted an interesting study back in July looking at how the human brain breaks down short term memory. They found that the average person is aware of about only 4 things at once.This is information that you can use to help you stay focused when managing your business. You may consider yourself to be above average, but why not try using this as a guideline?