| Work-at-home moms know how important time | | | | Organize feature will open at the top of your |
| management is in running a successful | | | | mailbox. |
| business. Often they need help with daily | | | | |
| operational procedures and learning how to | | | | On the left you should find the "Using |
| make the most of their time. Here are some | | | | Colors" option. Click it. The statement in |
| tips to help you run your business more | | | | this feature is simple enough. |
| successfully. | | | | |
| | | | By default it is trying to color messages |
| Organize your email in color! | | | | "from" someone and the senders name from the |
| | | | highlighted message is already filled in, |
| If you use Outlook or even Outlook Express, | | | | so... all you have to do is to pick a color |
| use color to organize your email. I have a | | | | from the drop down list at the end. |
| visual personality so sorting by color | | | | |
| organizes me quicker and without much thought | | | | Click the Apply Color button and never |
| involved on my part so it works for me. Maybe | | | | overlook an email from that person again. |
| it will for you too! | | | | |
| | | | Another tip: Get into the habit of scheduling |
| I have all my clients email headers in red, | | | | a certain time of day to read your e-mails. |
| my personal email from friends in green, | | | | Don't keep your e-mail box open and check |
| family gets blue, e-lists get purple and the | | | | constantly throughout the day. When you do, |
| vendor email is brown. This way I can easily | | | | your Outlook owns you. You will find you |
| scan priority email every morning. It also | | | | will accomplish so much more when you do |
| makes the spam stick out since I leave this | | | | this. A simple just send a quick e-mail can |
| black and can scan through it easier to click | | | | turn into valuable work time being wasted. |
| and delete. | | | | Let your clients know when you routinely |
| | | | answer your mail and then they will be used |
| So how do I color my headers in my email box? | | | | to hearing back from you at that time. |
| The first thing you need to do is to select a | | | | |
| message from the person you want all messages | | | | For those work-at-home moms, time is of the |
| color highlighted. | | | | essence. As successful virtual assistants, we |
| | | | know that we can better do our work for our |
| Next you're looking for the Organize button | | | | clients globally if we successfully handle |
| located on the Standard toolbar. (You can | | | | all aspects of our business in the most time |
| also find Organize in the Tools menu). The | | | | effective manner. |