Business Management
Too Many Email Accounts? Thunderbird To The Rescue
Feb 9th
If you run your online business in a way anything at all similar to myself, then you probably have a load of different email addresses to login into and keep track of, for your different business related projects.
I have no idea why it took me so long to realize that I needed to find a more time efficient and manageable system to organize my emails, but it was actually only about 4 months ago that I discovered and started using Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client.
Thunderbird is a little bit like MS Outlook, but way better in my personal opinion. If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, then you will find the layout to be very intuitive, as it’s very similar in design.
Apart from the fact that you only have to open one program, and one window to see where all your email accounts are at, there are many options that allow you to organize your mail better, and set it up so that you are spending a LOT less time checking and managing things. Just as a couple of examples, you can set each mail account up so that it automatically sends anything you mark as junk, to the junk folder for that account, or you can even have junk sent to your recycling bin on your local drive for deletion.
You can also set it so that any new mail shows an icon in your taskbar, if you’re using windows. There are loads of other minor and major tweaks you can do, but Im not going to go into it too in-depth here, just really wanted to alert you guys, in case any of you are still wasting time checking and managing mail the traditional way, via your web browser and multiple accounts.
Highly recommend you integrate something like Thunderbird, it will save you loads of time.
Stay tuned
- Nick
A Simple Way To Manage Multiple Domains
Jan 27th
If you have been online for any amount of time, then you probably have at least 1 or 2 domains. Since starting in IM in early 2008, I have accrued 254 domains, and for that reason it became a bit of a nightmare keeping track of them all.
For that reason I created a spreadsheet, which I have included as a download below this post for you to use and tweak for your own needs. It took me way too long to get around to setting this up, but it’s definitely a handy resource to have, as it gives you the ability to search, filter, and organize your domains based on certain criteria. For example, you might want to look at only the domains you bought and registered before a certain time period.
There are of course software applications that have been developed in order to manage domains, but for me a simple excel file does the trick.
I highly recommend organising your business as efficiently as possible, and this is a great starting point for your domains.
You may want to modify the below template, and add a few things specific to your business model, but it gives you a good place to start.
Here is the template download:
http://www.imniceguy.com/Domain-Spredsheet.ods
(Note: this is in ods – open office docs format, but if using excel, you should be able to open and re-save it)
-Nick
