stop doing it the hard way - software tips
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A short presentation that introduces "ACPOI" as an alternative to "the hard way" and offers 5 tips on how to get your software to do more work for you!TRANSCRIPT
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
Ellen DePasqualeThe Software Revitalist™ & Founder
Efficient Office Computinghttp://thesoftwarerevitalist.comhttp://www.eocomputing.com
Small Business Summit 2010
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
Doing repetitive tasks – repeatedly
Trying to find the right button or icon
Struggling with reports that have too much data
Looking for where you saved the file
Entering the same data more than once
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What is the “hard” way?
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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What other way is there?
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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ACPOI
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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AutomationCustomizationPersonalizationOrganizationIntegration
ACPOI
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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Your email client can read and file your emails for you using rules and filters.
Microsoft OutlookGmail
EntourageYahooEudora
Automation
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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Menus can be customized so you can easily and quickly find the function you need.
Customization
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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Run filtered reports that include just the data you need to see.
Contacts by zip codeSales by sales rep
Inventory item levelsTop ten customers by revenueTop ten customers by quantity
Personalization
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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Use a structure to name your files and folders that is easy to remember.
Year/Client name/Project/clientprojcontentsrevisiondate.doc
2010/Dell/Marketing/dellmktgstrategiesrev4100316.doc
Organization
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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Get your software talking amongst themselves!
Microsoft Outlook Constant ContactMicrosoft Outlook CRM
Embedded/Linked data (ODBC)Database Database
CRM Accounting
Integration
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
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ACPOI
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!
AUTOMATION of repetitive tasks
CUSTOMIZATION of the right buttons and icons
PERSONALIZATION of reports with the data
ORGANIZATION of your files and folders
INTEGRATION of shared data
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What is the “ACPOI” way?
Stop Doing It the Hard Way!Presented by Ellen DePasquale
The Software Revitalist™ & FounderEfficient Office Computing
www.eocomputing.com/ACPOI.pdf
Small Business Summit 2010