Computer and Web Articles

Do your outgoing emails end with your name? If so, you’re overlooking one of the easiest marketing opportunities available: the simple email signature.

You send out many emails each month. Some recipients know you. Others do not. Some recipients know a little about what you do, others know little to nothing. Providing non-intrusive information at the bottom of your emails gives new people the opportunity to learn about you, others the opportunity to refresh their memories about what you offer, and friends, colleagues, and clients an easy way to retrieve your contact information when needed.

Which of the following pieces of information would help market your company or be of use to email recipients?

• Your position at the company
• Company logo
• Phone numbers
• Fax #
• Website address
• Company tagline or description
• Skype name
• Link to your Twitter account
• Link to your Facebook account
• Link to your LinkedIn account
• Pleasant invitation for people to contact you in regards to certain topics/with questions
• List of services you specialize in
• Photo of yourself
• Link to a map of your store
• Link to a page where people can sign up for your newsletter
• Current promotion
• Link to your company’s page on a reviews site like Yelp! or TripAdvisor.com

To learn how to add informative email signatures to the bottom of all emails you send, Google “add email signature XYZ program” (without the quotes, and with XYZ program being the email program you use).

Watch modern-day elementary school children try to make sense of the objects placed before them. Objects like record players, Atari video game cartridges, and rotary phones. How can you not love the boy who guesses that a floppy disk is some sort of camera? Or the girl who comments that the Nintendo Gameboy looks like a tazer.

If you remember much from the 80s or 90s, this video will not only remind you how quickly technology is evolving, it also may make you feel…old. (I was pleasantly surprised, though, that there was one item, shown at 1:39 in the video, that I wasn’t familiar with! I felt momentarily puzzled but a quick Google search told me the item was an 8-track.)

View the video here: http://tinyurl.com/4swrlae (This three and a half minute video is in French but contains easy to read subtitles.)

1. http://tinyurl.com/4j4lj9s - A big claim, yet this machine may very well rank up there on the list of “Most Useless Machines Ever.”
2. http://tinyurl.com/69fe33u - Learn how to customize your Mac boot logo.
3. http://spoon.net – I really can’t say it more eloquently than the words smack-dab in the middle of the site’s homepage: “Spoon virtualization lets you run desktop apps anywhere with no installs – at work, at home, or on the road.”
4. http://printfriendly.com – A simple and helpful tool that makes printing pages from the web easier. PrintFriendly strips all the ads, navigation and miscellaneous clutter from web pages, then makes sure the text is clear and easy to read so that when you send the page to your printer, you get a great looking page with no fluff. All with minimal effort.
5. http://tinyurl.com/2v8cyq3 - “How to Make Money on the Internet” is a brilliant, hilarious, beautifully designed infographic that a recent Fast Company dubbed “The Ultimate Web Cash Flowchart.” Excellent.

Struggling to keep your inbox neat and tidy? Often finding yourself missing action items buried in your inbox? The Producteev team (along with their various Business Angels and Entrepreneur funders) think they have just the tool for you.

Producteev helps you manage your tasks by sending you timely alerts and generating on-the-fly To-Do lists based on the emails you forward to them.

Filters, reports, daily and weekly digests, an intelligent “Hot Tasks” algorithm that automatically prioritizes your tasks and makes suggestions about what to do first –Producteev’s got it all. Sound interesting? Could this be a good fit for your workflow? Take Producteev for a test drive by using their simple, free plan. A two-person account runs $5/month and an unlimited-person account with 500MB of storage runs $20/month. Learn more at www.producteev.com.

To quickly edit a To-Do task in your Basecamp account, hover over the task and press “e” on your keyboard. Nice.

Question:
Hi Erin. Is there a way to track anyone who looks at your FB page? Albeit an already confirmed friend or not?

Answer:
Unfortunately no, there is not. In fact, if you ever run into an application claiming it can track this information for you, Facebook requests that you report them.