How to Be Faster on Your Laptop

Are you serious about freeing up time for more real selling? This post is for you.

I’m amazed at the number of salespeople who don’t realize how much faster they could get things done on their laptops.

Oh, they get frustrated, alright. Or they joke about how slow they are. But they never do anything about it. They let tasks become projects and minutes become hours as they click or mouse around, ever ignorant of the variety of faster ways to get things done.

Don’t let this be you. Here are a few quick-hitting tips for getting things done faster on your laptop. You’ll find more tips in related future posts.

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Use Your Blackberry to Manage Tasks

Okay, Blackberry addicts, you’re in front of a customer and you just committed to send something, call someone, or be somewhere later today or tomorrow, and you’re without your organizer or planner.

What do you do?

First of all, let’s all agree it needs to be permanently recorded somewhere. We’ve addressed this before here and here.

You can’t write something on the palm of your hand or the first scrap of paper you see. (You didn’t really consider those options, did you?)

You have a few reliable choices here.

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