Need to know versus reply to all

February 6, 2010 | No comments

Help stamp out “Reply To All”. I’ve been reading a number of articles lately about this subject. This has long been a closely held belief of my own. It wastes time, bandwidth and frustrates the heck out of the receiver when there’s no need for it.

The latest is a video by Tim Sanders from Yahoo who says,

The more inexperienced you are on email or the more senior you are at a company the more likely you are to use “reply to all” to reply to every email you get including ones from one person in the first place!

Replying to all has been a dangerous practice for many years as has blatant forwarding. How many times have you received an email that has been forwarded to you and it contains every email address from everyone who has ever seen it as you scroll down to find the original message? This is a spam goldmine, folks! Not only that, but back in the early days of email (waaaaaaay back in the late ’80’s) I remember reading an article about a really cool way to build your list – just add a “bcc” to yourself onto an email that has an intriguing story, offer, ad or picture, and you will be forwarded on along and receive any and all addresses that the other people send your original message to.

Believe it or not!

Now, this particular function in email has been outlawed, though, if you can read through the original headers to your emails, (in some programs it’s called show full headers”) you can occasionally still  see where an email has been as well as where it hopes to go.

Another blogger, Jake Kuramoto on AppsLab,  says

So, today, my inbox was choked with about 30 messages all in the same thread. It was one of those ironic spam threads where at least 75% of the replies were unsubs or stern reminders not to reply to all, some of them in all caps, sent of course, to the whole list.

As far as I’m concerned, receiving emails that do not require action on my part or teach me something is a waste of my time. I average 400 emails a day as it is that I need to stay on top of. I’d much rather receive a couple of lines updating me on the final result of a conversation than all the chatter along the way.

So the next time you’re tempted to hit the “reply to all” button on your email program, think twice and resist the urge!

Living A Created Life 6: Lisa Sasevich

February 4, 2010 | No comments

Heralded as “The Queen of Sales Conversion” Lisa Sasevich has x-ray vision for seeing sales conversion opportunities and the creativity to convert them into gold! Remember that we always love to hear your questions, comments and suggestions: createdlife@bitwiremedia.com and we’re @bitwire and @createdlifeshow on Twitter!

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Guest: Lisa Sasevich

Heralded as “The Queen of Sales Conversion”, Lisa Sasevich has x-ray vision for seeing sales conversion opportunities and the creativity to convert them into gold! Lisa teaches her clients how to exponentially grow their speaking sales using Irresistible Offers, get massive results without being “salesy” and maximize profits with little to no marketing budget.

For over 15 years she hones her skills with Fortune 500 companies like Hewlett Packard, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and North American Title. After years of winning Top Sales Awards, she left corporate America and put her skills to the test for a small but promising seminar company. In just 3 short years, Lisa’s creative marketing ideas tripled their revenues from $300,000 a year to well over $1 million. And she did it all with no marketing budget!

Lisa and The Invisible Close (affiliate link)  were recently featured as the Top Story on NBC’s Inside Arizona Business where she offered solutions to help small business owners close a larger percent of the prospects they see, without being pushy or offensive. The Invisible Close is proving to be the perfect solution for those who love what they do, but hate “the sales part”.

If you’re a speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, coach, small business owner, service professional or an expert looking to get your message out in a BIG way, listen up because Lisa has some gold nuggets to share with YOU!

Lisa has graciously offered some special gifts for LCL listeners at The Invisible Close/gifts

Living A Created Life 5: Ratika Hansen

February 2, 2010 | No comments

Ratika Hansen is passionate about creating, observing and thoroughly delighting in the greatness in her life. Join us as we chat about passion, focus and commitment. Remember that we always love to hear your questions, comments and suggestions: createdlife@bitwiremedia.com and we’re @bitwire and @createdlifeshow on Twitter!

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Guest: Ratika Hansen

Ratika is passionate about creating, observing, and thoroughly delighting in the greatness in her life – and helping others do the same.  She discovers and re-discovers the greatness in her own life through the teachings of wise peers and mentors, as well as through attending workshops, camps, and programs about personal growth.  To date, she has been a student of training organizations like The Sterling Institute of Relationships, The Family of Women, Peak Potentials, Landmark Education, Enlightened Alliances, PAX Programs, and Mind Power.

More importantly to her, when she is living passionately, she is sharing what she is learning – the insights, processes, and personal a-ha moments – with others.  Her intention is to lead others to new perspectives on their own lives which motivate them to inspired, positive, and empowered action.  She began this path after attending her first workshop in 2001 and joining a mastermind group to deepen the lessons.  She  has been mentoring and leading women all over the country in that group, supporting them to create lives they love, and loving it.  To enhance what she offers others in supporting them to live the lives of their dreams, in August 2008, she became a Certified Passion Test Facilitator and then started her company, To Your Passionate Life.  Equipped with the program that is based on a New York Times Best Seller and has been shared around world, she has facilitated The Passion Test for over 1000 men and women worldwide in both  one-on-one and group settings, privately and corporately at Intel here in Portland.  She has consistently received rave reviews about the difference The Passion Test has made for her clients and she is utterly enjoying what it is doing for the world around her.

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DES: A Not So Silent Danger

February 1, 2010 | No comments

Were you exposed?

I just lost another friend of mine to ovarian cancer. She was also a DES Daughter and we had shared and commiserated for many years.  DES  continues to steal away women and now men whose mothers took DES to maintain problem pregnancies.

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic hormone that was given to women from 1938 to 1971 who had issues with pregnancy and infertility. The children of those women run a high risk of reproductive tract cancer. When I was growing up, they talked about the DES daughters, but now they have found that the sons are also affected, as are third-generation. There may even be some effects in the fourth generation. The mothers who took it are not safe, either. They run an enhanced risk of breast cancer (like 2 1/2 times higher). I lost my own mother in 1997 to brain cancer, but it began with breast cancer before spreading and her oncologist has said DES was probably a major factor.

Not Just A Human Thing

The worst part of this whole scenario is that even once they found out how bad the effects were from the drug, they continued to inject it into farm animals to encourage them to eat more so there would be more meat. I worked in a feedlot in the late 70’s in Arizona where they regularly gave it as an injection until the cows reached 700 pounds then switched to a different one after that, and all so the cows would be heavier when slaughtered so the people who invested in them got more money. And I’ve heard it was given as late as the 90’s! The results of this hormone are so far reaching, that there have now been correlations discovered between obesity and sterility in humans who ate the DES enhanced foods! Watch for an update and I’ll provide the links to the studies.

No known medical test (such as blood, urine or skin analysis) has been developed that can detect DES exposure. However, the Interactive DES Self-Assessment Guide is designed to help you assess whether you might have been exposed to DES between 1938 and 1971. Just click on the graphic above to be taken to the assessment site.

Go Ask Your Mother

I encourage you all to speak to your mothers, your doctors and your friends. Have your mothers get their pregnancy records because in the early days, women didn’t question prescriptions and may have never known they were given this potentially deadly drug that has had deeper effects than even Thalidomide!

Firefox 3.6 launched – finally our loyalty rewarded

January 14, 2010 | No comments

If any of you are fans of Mozilla’s Firefox browser (I most certainly am), the upgrade we’ve been waiting for is just around the corner. The beta version is out, and the final version is said to be just about ready.

The choice for many bloggers, power users, and WordPress fans, Firefox 3.6, code named Namoroka, resolves a lot of the issues many users and bloggers were having with the most recent update, and adds some fantastic features that will benefit all users.

Among the changes, according to Mozilla’s site are:

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

The final release of this version is due out in a few more days, but I just had to download the beta.

One of the things I really liked about installing/upgrading to the new version was the communication available. It stopped and let me know which add-ons probably wouldn’t work before it installed the upgrade. This is different from the last two updates and I liked it. Not only that, but I didn’t need an IT professional standing over my shoulder or a how-to document the size of the Los Angeles phonebook to do it. Super easy, two clicks, anyone can do this.

I’m also thrilled with the Personas option they’ve added. Not that this is an option critical to the running of the browser, but I’m really happy to find a way to skin the browser to reflect me and my tastes. The only downside I found was that with some of the gorgeous designs available, you can’t read the rest of the stuff on your browser bar, so you have to be careful which one you use.

Mozilla also has released a new version of Thunderbird. So far the jury’s still out on that one. I’m still exploring the changes.

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