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Stop Doing It the Hard Way! Ellen DePasquale The Software Revitalist™ & Founder Efficient Office Computing http://thesoftwarerevitalist.co m Small Business Summit 2010

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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!

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Page 1: Stop Doing It the Hard Way - Software Tips

Stop Doing It the Hard Way!

Ellen DePasqualeThe Software Revitalist™ & Founder

Efficient Office Computinghttp://thesoftwarerevitalist.comhttp://www.eocomputing.com

Small Business Summit 2010

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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?

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Stop Doing It the Hard Way!

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What other way is there?

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Stop Doing It the Hard Way!

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ACPOI

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Stop Doing It the Hard Way!

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AutomationCustomizationPersonalizationOrganizationIntegration

ACPOI

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Stop Doing It the Hard Way!

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ACPOI

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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?

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Stop Doing It the Hard Way!Presented by Ellen DePasquale

The Software Revitalist™ & FounderEfficient Office Computing

www.eocomputing.com/ACPOI.pdf

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