CCC Newsletter

USE OUTLOOK EFFICIENTLY

Time Management and Reminders

You can set Outlook's reminder feature to tell you about important recurring activities. To use recurring tasks:

• Open the Outlook Calendar. Click the functions menu and click New Recurring Appointment.

• Select a start time and set the end time equal to the start time. Set the duration to 0 minutes.

• In the Recurrence Pattern section, select the desired option and click OK. Type in a name for the reminder, click save and close.

You can also use this feature to remind yourself about staff birthdays, monthly emails or any task. Using Outlook as your personal assistant can help you stay on top of your game!

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SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF SITE DESIGN

Avoid The Common Website Pitfalls!

1 – Focusing on the organization and not the client. Your website should be a resource for clients and prospects. Provide information they will find interesting, link to helpful resources and make contact information available.

2 – Static content. Changing your website’s content frequently prevents content from being stale. New content encourages visitors to return and positions your firm at the forefront of the industry. If you cannot provide dynamic information users will seek their answers from another location.

3 – Navigation headaches. Visitors expect to find what they are looking for on your site in three clicks or less. Consistent placement of navigation choices (menus, logos and links) will make it easier for your visitors to stay focused and to expand their use of your site.

4 – Screaming websites. If your website is filled with busy graphics, heavy animation or dizzying backgrounds, your visitors will lose focus and interest. If your pages take a long time to load or require downloads, your visitors will jump ship. Let your content be the main focus of the site.

5 – Inconsistent design and bad colors. Ensure that your website has a consistent design and color theme used on every page. Use lighter colors with accents for backgrounds and darker colors for text. Then, changes to content will become more visible and important to your viewers than the sites’ web design or its colors.

6 – No access to past content. Provide easy access to all articles and content featured in the past. By building your library or archive, you will be viewed as the expert!

7 – Forgetting about your website. Just like you periodically review your business processes and marketing plans, your website is subject to review and needs regular maintenance. Since first impressions are so important, your website must remain appealing and operate as expected by your visitors.

MANAGING WEB SITE CONTENT!

Is it easy to change your website's content?

If not, call us for help. Use our online tools without having any web expertise and make changes at your convenience!

USE A SPREADSHEET OR DATABASE?

Databases might be simpler than you think.

How you store your records can be the difference between facing overwhelming numbers and operating a business intelligently. People work with spreadsheets and are very comfortable keeping their data in the format of columns and rows and some are uncomfortable with moving to another platform of data storage.

Large datasets are easier to manage in a database. If you find yourself constantly revising your spreadsheet to search for or combine data you have reached a point where a database may provide you with faster queries, and a better look at your data. To learn more, do not hesitate to call us! We can custom build a great data manager.

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