Turn It Up Tuesday: Tips from Insightly to Take Your Business to 11
Welcome to Turn It Up Tuesday, where we bring you 3 weekly tips—a tip on running your business, a tip on using Insightly CRM, and a tip on improving your life. Enjoy this week’s tips!
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Go With the Flow… |
| If you perform well under pressure but are easily distracted by the dozens of other projects you’re juggling, finishing that marketing plan or blog post swiftly can be, well, a bit challenging. If you’re game to sweat it out under a different type of pressure, there are apps out there that will put your writing focus to the test: Flowstate or The Most Dangerous Writing App.
In a nutshell, these two apps allow you to select a time increment in which to complete a writing task. If you don’t keep that keyboard moving for the duration of your session – here comes the scary part – your progress will be erased! Go with the flow for the entire session and your prose will be safe.
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Fast Pass to Adding New Items in Insightly |
| You can add a new contact, opportunity, project, task, event or organization from any page in Insightly with just one click. This little shortcut is to the left of the search box at the top of the page and is labeled with a plus (+) icon. Just click the icon to bring up the menu.
Insightly remembers the last ten items you viewed, and creates a list of those items so you can quickly jump between them, or jump back to them and continue where you left off between sessions. You can access the Recent Items list on the right side of the central search box at the top of the page. Just click the icon and the list will pop-up. Initially it won’t be populated, but as you view items like contacts, projects, opportunities, organizations, tasks or emails – the list will add those items in.
This week’s tip comes from our resident product expert, Tony Roma. Tony’s been helping businesses implement software solutions for over ten years.
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Feeling Lightly Blue |
| We love our smartphones and tablets and laptops. In fact, it’s hard to imagine life without them. But, are they loving us back? Recent studies show that the light emitted from these devices can be disruptive to our sleep cycles. Research from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America found that those who read on a light-emitting device like an eReader were sleepier come morning time and they took longer to wake up.
So what’s the remedy? Power down those devices 90 minutes before you tap out for the night and you will likely enjoy a noticeable improvement in the quality and length of your sleep. If you want to take it a step further, Lighting Science offers a variety of products that are designed to address the needs of round the clock lighting while keeping the needs of our biology and circadian clocks in mind. Send Us Your Tips. Would you like to share your tips with Insightly customers? Send them to us! If we use one in our weekly feature we’ll send you a $10 Amazon Gift Card! Contact us on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or send us an email. Check out Insightly’s features and plans on our pricing page or sign up for a free trial of the best CRM around. About the author: Marta Bright is Insightly’s Content Manager. She’s been writing about the “business of technology” in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade. |
