Could you benefit from an upgrade to Office 2010?

There are so many benefits of using Office 2010 that now may be the time for you to upgrade.

Some of these benefits include:

  • Improved visual tools – allow you to express your creative and visual ideas. This can help you to engage with your visual prospect better when giving presentations or creating proposals. Why not use Excel’s improved tools for better data visualisation. This will also help you make more informed business decisions when you need to.
  • Boost productivity with easy to use tools – improved navigation through the menu allows easy access to tools. The tools in Outlook can help you reduce
    information overload! And help manage e-mails more efficiently.
  • Create your own sophisticated marketing material- In PowerPoint you can create amazing digital content in 2010 that comes to life with cutting edge audio/video capabilities and animation enhancements. You can also create timelines and brochures in Word and Excel too.
  • Protected view – Office 2010 provides a Protected View feature to help Protect and guard you against malware in your e-mail attachments and Internet files, as well as your documents.

Microsoft offers a 60 day trial offer so why don’t you take a test drive and see for yourself? Click HERE and download a copy now.

 

 

 

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What does your e-mail say about your Company? Part 2

Finally! Fame at last!

Since the inaugural edition of “Joined Up Thinking” I have had any clients come back to me to ask how they can control signatures across their companies. You may think why – you would want to control signatures? Well a uniform signature gives continuity to your brand and can protect you against legal action.

Let me explain.

An email signature management console can deploy a standard email signature across your user base. You can include your awards, accreditations, testimonials, Twitter and Facebook pages and excerpt of a case study with a link to your website for visitors to read more. Most importantly you can include a standard disclaimer at the bottom of your signatures too. Now a disclaimer is very important. Have you ever thought about what you would do if one of your staff accidentally messaged the wrong individual with confidential information? Well a disclaimer could help in this circumstance.

There is a solution that most of our clients currently use that will allow you to do this. It is a solution that works brilliantly as an Anti-SPAM and Anti -Virus solution and also doubles up as an email signature management console. Interested? Well give me a call and I will explain more….

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What do your e-mails say about your Company?

Recently I was tasked with finding a venue for an event we are due to hold in July (I will tell you more about this Next month). I had requested various quotes from venues in Birmingham so whilst sifting through the myriad of proposals I couldn’t help noticing how different the signatures at the end of each email was. Some were very basic showing the senders name and company name only, other signatures included the company address, telephone number and web address. For me the email’s which stood out more where those that included much more within their signatures. Many listed their awards and  accreditations, some included testimonials, Twitter and Facebook pages. One email I received had an excerpt of a case study with a link to their website to read more (which I duly followed…).

Well to cut a long story short – as a prospect it made it easier for me to whittle down my list by choosing the venues that had best showcased their “wares” and given me valid reasons to pick them over the other suppliers at a glance. I did pick a venue – The ICC. They happened to be the company that included a link to a case study, which took me to their site and got me looking around!

So the moral of my story is – create a signature that truly encompasses your company’s attributes. The awards you have won, the partners you work with, what your customers/clients say about you and how your clients/prospects can stay in
touch with you. It may just be the edge you need to close that deal!

 

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