More Great Plugins for Microsoft Outlook

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A few weeks ago we wrote about a couple of great ways to extend the functionality of Microsoft Outlook to better meet the needs of busy sales professionals.

After the initial post, some of you emailed us and pointed us to a few additional plugins that can make emailing a bit more productive. So here we go with part 2 - more great plugins for Microsoft Outlook.

• Email Follow-Up - regardless of the ability Outlook offers to organize your emails with folders and colored flags, most of us still have a difficult time keeping track of messages that need follow-up in the flood of email we receive every day. Follow-Up will watch for messages, show an alert when a reply has not been sent it will offer to send a reminder email (from a customized template) that a reply has not been received. It’s a great way to prevent messages from being pushed down to the bottom of your inbox and forgotten.

  system requirements/download - $25 (20 day trial available)
   

• CloudMark - a simple toolbar that installs in minutes and starts blocking spam, email-borne viruses, and phishing scams automatically. It claims to have the best spam-blocking accuracy rate in the industry and it is a lightweight application that becomes part of your Outlook toolbar, not a separate application that can slow down your computer’s performance. If you mark a message as spam, the message is forwarded to Cloudmark’s central database for automatic analysis. If more users receive the same email and identify it as unwanted, all users’ Outlook add-ins are notified to block it. It’s an effective, network based, approach against email spam
  
  system requirements/download - $40 (15 day trial available) 

   

• Attachment Processor - this plugin saves attached files in a selected folder on a local or network drive instead of keeping it in your inbox. No more searching through thousands of emails for that one presentation you received last month - no more cluttering up your inbox and exceeding your email server quota because someone sent you a 6 megabite PowerPoint. After the file is saved, the attachment can be removed from the message, replaced by a shortcut to the saved file or by a text file with a description of the saved attachment. Moreover, this plugin re-attaches the files back to the messages when forwarding.system requirements/download - $25 (20 day trial available)

   

• SendLater - an easy-to-use and convenient email scheduler with a recurring email option allowing you to handle your e-mail correspondence in a timely manner even if you are away from your computer. There are more than one way to get this done - we wrote about l8r in a previous post. Your own requirements will determine the best product for you.
  
  system requirements/download - $25 (14 day trial available) 

   

• Print Tools - this add-in will help you automatically print incoming and outgoing messages with attachments (as well as messages and attachments separately) without even opening them. This Outlook plug-in automatically unpacks and prints packed “*.zip” and “*.rar” attachments, and supports manual and automatic working modes.system requirements/download - $25 (20 day trial available)

More suggestions or ideas? Post them in the comments!