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Score the most points
Today’s Highly-Effective Productivity Hack: Here’s an addictive game that’s actually good for you—especially if you’re a little competitive! On your list of tasks to be completed today (see this post), assign a point value to each one—depending on the degree of difficulty. At the end of the day, total the points for the tasks you completed—then for the tasks you didn’t finish. Which total is higher? If you like, at the beginning of the day, [...]
Save Emails for Later
Today’s Highly-Effective Productivity Hack: save email for later. Those early hours at work are often the best for giving your day a productive start. So why do most of us start our day with reading emails? Focusing on email makes you concentrate on responding to others’ messages instead of acting on our own ideas. It seems sensible to read missed messages from the night before, but starting the day with email can put you on [...]
Only write down five things at a time on your to-do list
“What?!? No way! I have too many things to do!” How many of you have approached your task list (to-do list) and wondered where you should even start? For productivity: Have two lists! Here's how that's done with PlanPlus Online: One list is your “Master List.” These are ALL the tasks you have to do. Work, home, school, family—it doesn’t matter. Simply put them all down, in any order, as soon as you think of [...]
Write things down as soon as they pop into your mind
Your mind was designed to come up with brilliant ideas—not to hold on to them! So what’s the best way to capture your thoughts and ideas? Go straight to your Daily Notes Center on your PlanPlus Online home screen and click on the “+” sign and enter ideas, thoughts, journal entries—you name it. This convenient feature was specifically created to make sure you never forget an idea again! Get more out of your day by [...]
March 2016 Release Notes for PlanPlus Online
We continue to work on updating and improving the PlanPlus Online experience. Here’s the update of work that was completed in March: Release Notes (165 & 166.1) March 21, 2016 Fixed problem with BCC to note duplication Performance fixes with Outlook & Gmail sync Leads-Leads edit page- after "Updation" system should display text message-"Leads Record Updated Successfully". (890) Fix import to entity fields (930) Fix issue w/ login attendee by default Quick prioritize window freezing [...]
Make this the turning point of your life
“Big doors swing on small hinges.” Sometimes, it’s the small things in life that can result in the biggest changes in life’s direction. One of the most effective things you can do for your life is to uncover your mission. It’s a small thing that consistently produces big results. With the world constantly changing and morphing around us—most of us crave a consistent, personal, unchanging inner-core. Having a mission statement is more important than ever. [...]
Progress Report: Mobile and Sync Beta Status Update
Status Update: March 23, 2016 Good News! Over the past two months, we’ve had over 1,000 people participate in beta testing four new products/features: two new mobile apps (iOS and Android) and two new sync solutions (Google & Microsoft 365). These efforts have been very productive and we wanted to share a few things people have been saying, and answer a few questions that have been asked. First, so what are people saying about the [...]
PlanPlus Online chosen as a best Real Estate CRM solution
10 Best CRM, an online CRM ranking service, has chosen PlanPlus Online for their 10 Best Real Estate CRM Software list. “PlanPlus Online Real Estate is a CRM software that includes an array of enterprise features for professionals in the real estate business,” 10 Best CRM reported in their review. “Such an IT solution gives real estate brokers a lot of advantages in closing deals involving leases and sales of residential and commercial properties.” In [...]
How to know if you need a CRM platform today
Meet Florence Snyder, also known as, grandma. Grandma lived, what is now considered, a long time ago. Back then, when grandma went to buy groceries, something magical happened… The A&P manager would greet her and say, “Good morning Mrs. Snyder! We just got fresh bread from the baker and I’ve saved some of those bananas—just the way you like them!” The butcher would say, “I’m wrapping your cuts right now—hey, take a look at the [...]
How to improve your sales process
If your organization is involved in sales, you already have a sales process. But unless you have an identified and established sales process, you’ll find that random acts produce random and uncertain results. In sales, random acts can be used occasionally, but a systematic and well-defined best practices approach can assure predictable results. In simple terms, a sales process is a systematic (step-by-step) approach involving a series of steps that enables a salesperson to close [...]