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Online Systems: People and Relationships

by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 26, 2016 | This Week In Business

Ah people. Chances are, you know a lot of them. Apparently 15ish years in the workforce and 35ish years in the world has translated into roughly 6,000 email addresses in my ‘Contacts’. A pile of email addresses does not a system make. What to do with those...

Online Systems: Tasks

by Kassandra Strout | Dec 23, 2016 | This Week In Business

You’ve probably read something, somewhere, about cutting down on the time it takes you to do one thing or another. Maybe it’s building a Rube Goldberg Machine or Sam Carpenter’s approach to a systems mindset (or, my own translation, ‘Everything...

Online Systems: Outgoing Messages

by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 12, 2016 | This Week In Business

You may ask yourself why we separated the incoming messages systems with the outgoing message systems. (Missed the last blog post about systems for dealing with incoming messages? Click here.) For me, incoming messages are mainly reactive to while outgoing messages...

Online Systems: Incoming Messages

by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 7, 2016 | This Week In Business

If I was going to pick an area I felt least equipped to write about, it would be dealing with messages. I go through stages where I am super on top of things. Sometimes, I’ll completely miss a message only to get a polite ‘Um, did you get my text?’...

Online Systems: That’s a Lot of Info

by Kassandra Strout | Dec 5, 2016 | This Week In Business

As we move about our day, we might see a blog post we want to revisit, or a video that looks interesting but can’t watch right this second. Maybe we have a cool idea for something but need to table it for later when you can give it more thought. It’s...