Organizing and productivity

Apr 29

Eliminate Piles of Business Cards in a Snap

By Sherry Borsheim Blog, Business Organizing, Expert Articles, Free Articles No Comments

A Solution for Business Cards

Do you have piles of business cards laying around on your desk, counters and in desk drawers? You exchange business cards with others and they end up in your purse, briefcase or stuffed inside a drawer and can never find the one card you need when you need it.

I’ve got the answer for you. With WorldCard Mobile iPhone/iPad app, you can quickly capture the card image on the spot using your iPhone. Simply take a picture of the business card and it will turn the information into a contact within seconds.

WorldCard supports seven languages – English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. You can also buy other versions in Chinese, Korean, Russian and Eastern Europe. Simply select the language on the business card.

After you scanned the business card, WorldCard instantly uploads the information into your iPhone and you can easily scan for accuracy. After testing a dozen card scanning apps, WorldCard had the best accuracy and so simple to edit if necessary. Save and it’s uploaded into your iPhone contacts ready for you to retrieve at your fingertips.

WorldCard scans many fields, while others had limits and took 24 hours to get the scanned information back.

One cool feature of WorldCard is when you are checking the scanned info for accuracy, you can select a field and view the corresponding field from the business card from your iPhone. Editing is a snap and you can also add a logo or image to the contact name.

If you already have the contact info on your iPhone, Worldcard will ask you if you want to merge with existing contact.

Check out this tool for business cards for yourself:

See a demo of WorldCard here http://worldcard.penpowerinc.com/demo/worldcard-Mobile-iphone_demo.htm and download the WorldCard App here.

Apr 13

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How to Clear Out Your Unfinished Projects

By Sherry Borsheim Blog, Business Organizing, Expert Articles, Free Articles, Home Office Organization, Home Organizing No Comments

Are you harboring emotional clutter? Look around your home and office. Is it full of unfinished projects? Then the answer is yes.

The unfinished projects tucked on shelves, in cabinets, and the bottom of your drawers are pulling you down and stopping you from being as organized and productive as you could be. Still not sure that these projects are really holding you back? Ask yourself these questions:

When people come into your home and office do the unfinished projects and clutter make you embarrassed?
Do you tell people they can’t come in because of the clutter- or make excuses for them not to visit.
Do you have articles and books marked to read, slips of paper, to-do lists piling up, small broken things waiting to be fixed?

Record Your Unfinished Projects

Make a list. Open up a word document or pull out a piece of paper. Start free writing and record every unfinished project you have lingering around. Don’t get overwhelmed, you are taking the first step! And you aren’t the only one with a big list.

Purging yourself of these unfinished projects will help you move forward and become more successful in your business and life.

Go through your list and choose only the projects that will move your forward goals in the upcoming year. These are your priorities. Now that you have your unfinished projects laid out in front of you create a schedule. You won’t finish them and reduce your emotional clutter if you don’t have a plan!

Remember moving forward clutter of every kind sucks your energy. It costs you time and money. Focusing on reducing the clutter in your life and preventing new clutter and unfinished projects from piling up in your life will allow you to have the best year in both your business and personal life!

What unfinished projects will you tackle this week?

Apr 05

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Get Your Personal Productivity to a New Level

By Sherry Borsheim Blog, Business Organizing, Expert Articles, Free Articles No Comments

If you are surrounded by stacks of paper, unanswered emails, and half finished projects than what I’m about to tell you will not come as a shock. All of that STUFF is weighing you down. It is amping up your stress level and pulling down your personal productivity. There is no better time then the present to take stock of what you need to improve in your business life to increase your personal productivity and there by increase your success! Start here:

Take our personal productivity quiz to rate your level of satisfaction

On a scale of 1-10 how satisfied are you in these areas of productivity and effectiveness (1 being not satisfied and 10 very satisfied):

Retrieving your computer files
Managing your email files
Retrieving information from your paper-based files
Staying on top of follow-up
Using your electronic or paper calendar
Managing your project files
Organization on the top of your desk
Retrieving information from archives boxes or storage room
Juggling multiple roles and responsibilities
Regular exercise or recreational activities
Dealing with stress & overwhelm

Now it is time to focus in. Choose 3 areas to improve and be realistic about your goals. You won’t raise a score of 3 to a 10 overnight, but you can bring a 3 up to a 5 or 6. Then set another set of objectives to get you from 6 to 10!

Write down your objectives based on those 3 areas most affecting your personal productivity. This is where you will begin. Once you have written it down you may see opportunities to reach personal productivity goals you hadn’t seen before.

Share your goals for increasing your personal productivity!

Sharing goals makes you much more llikely to meet them. Want to learn more about personal productivity? Check it out here.