I’m a big believer in incorporating whatever tools you can reasonably manage to save your precious brain cells for your real creative work. Sometimes that involves technology, other times just good work habits and time management skills.
For the last several months I’ve worked off and on with a couple of online task and project management tools that are flexible, powerful and easy to use.
Backpack and Basecamp. They’re both provided by a company called 37Signals, and I’m getting nothing for promoting their services.
Backpack is a place where you can store online information in a variety of formats and share it with others as you go. You can use it for todos, weblinks, storing photos and files, for simplistic contact management, and more. See the examples page.
Basecamp is a stunning project collaboration tool. It’s geared even more towards small and medium-sized teams. It allows you to establish goals and smaller todos, set milestones, share files, post messages the entire group can review, track people’s time on projects, and share free-form notes. Extremely powerful.
As a sales professional, you’ve got to find ways to free up your brain for how you will win accounts, not the administrivia of staying on top of things and remembering the minute details of the day. These two tools will help with that.
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Thanks for the tip for Basecamp – it’s ideal for some of my projects where the cost-per-user is an issue – basecamp has no such restrictions.
By the way, they now have a Basecamp Affiliate Scheme, so you can get paid for recommending it!
(I get paid if you follow that link and signup!)
Best Regards
David Petherick
Director
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