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We leverage customer questions and FAQ information to create content for the questions people are asking versus just trying to rank for keywords. Get social. Have your finger on the pulse of what your audience is doing; mine are all on socialmedia. Give people what they want. Content is still king.
One week can focus on prepping holiday socialmedia posts, the next on planning that special holiday bundle. Set aside time to write all your holiday-themed blog posts, emails, and socialmedia updates in one fell swoop. The holidays are busy enough without manually handling every single post or email.
You may even use the survey as an opportunity for further direct engagement such as with follow-up direct calls, emails or product offerings. As a thank you, you email her a coupon for $20 shoes on sale for $15. Your website, socialmedia or app likely serve as your potential customer’s first experience with your business.
Even online retailers need phone support (there’s nothing worse than going to a website and having to unravel the great mystery of figuring out how to contact them beyond the FAQ list!) Out-serve competitors (don’t bash them – just be better!)
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Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. For example, if you have a video, you can use the whole video or clips, you now also have access to just audio, you can transcribe what you have and that can be used for articles, blog posts, socialmedia content and posts, and as a manual to go along with your course.
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I’ve already been forwarding tasks from my various mail apps ( Postbox on Mac, Mailbox on iPhone, Mail.app on iPad) to my Mail Drop address, and now I’m inviting the most important person in my life to email tasks directly there instead. Will it stick?
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Elizabeth used to spend countless hours replying to customers and answering questions by email; so much time that she didn’t have time for her own family, so what did she do? When the FAQ and forums are not enough to help her customers, Elizabeth also has a Help Desk. A customer logs in and sets up a user account.
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Appesia is a nice enough app, but not nice enough that it has changed the fact that my iPad isn’t a device I’m using for socialmedia all that much anymore. Sure, I still have Tweetbot and Buffer installed on my iPad, but every other social networking app has been relegated to sparse use at best and uninstalled at worst.
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I wasn’t going to revisit the series with this epilogue so early, but with the company’s acquisition of Sparrow ( my former email client of choice ) late last week I felt that moving it up a week or two wasn’t a bad idea. email back to Google Apps. email and making a return to OmniFocus for individual-based task management.
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email and making a return to OmniFocus for individual-based task management. The road has a way of bringing that to the forefront – as well as a lot of other things. And they all have a sense of “home” to them. This week I’ve already talked about going back to Gmail for Vardy.me
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I have one less email account to check. Being able to remove contexts and ship projects in progress off to somewhere (or someone) else isn’t just liberating today – it frees you up to be liberated going forward. I no longer have a scroll bar when I’m looking at my task and project list. I have far less people to concern myself with.
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And I used AwayFind far more than ever before to make sure that only emails that needed to reach me immediately did just that. I created a very small window using the Do Not Disturb feature on my iPhone so that I controlled the elements. I didn’t distance myself from online consumption. This one was tricky.
Your slow brain would prefer that you check email on a schedule. If you take your time. If you slow down. Your slow brain is not getting enough stimuli for growth in this fast expectation world. It would be better served if you took some time to think about the responses you wished to craft before you sent them.
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30/30 allows me to be very flexible with the time I allow for tasks, meaning I can spend one hour on Lifehack editing and 20 minutes on email if I choose, rather than following the structure that The Pomodoro Technique mandates. colleague at Lifehack, Mr. I started using 30/30 with a clearer purpose.
I’ve used all of these methods at one time or another when the events of an email gone wrong or some other item of note has me off my game. Still, it was frustrating. So I tried other ways to get out that state of “stuckness” instead.
The juice just hasn’t been there (even though I gave myself some great content fodder by taking on a search for a new email app ). Trackbacks The Search for My New Email App of Choice says: 08/14/2012 at 8:10 pm [.] Talk about taking some steps back…and not the right kind of steps. Perhaps it’s a case of burnout. Real humility here. [.]
But Im still getting a lot done during these experiences, and my return to Google has consisted of moving my mail back to Gmail (which took very little time to do -- as opposed to trying to work within my self-hosted email constraints would have) and shifting back to OmniFocus isnt something im doing overnight or in a wholesale manner.
I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from socialmedia? I was quite surprised to get back a slightly patronising answer that explained I needed to understand that socialmedia was social. Thanks for raising the tough questions.
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