Posts Tagged ‘operations’
A Free Powerful Tool With A Funny Name…
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
How many times have you just wanted to show something to someone really quick without the hassle of saving it to your computer before hand? There are plenty of free screen shot utilities available, but none have the utility and ease of Jing (rhymes with “ca-ching”), here’s why…
Funny Name, Serious Results
Jing is a free screen shot / video recording utility from Techsmith (the same folks who created the gold standard of screen shot software, SnagIt). What I love most about Jing is that you never have to save a screen shot or recorded video of your screen on your computer. Once taken or recorded, it’s a snap to immediately upload the image or video to Techsmith’s ScreenCast.com media streaming service (which is also free to Jing users with up to 2gbs of storage –that’s a lot of images and short videos!). What you end up with is a link of the image or video that you can send to anyone via email.
From the time you take a screen shot to the moment of sharing it can be done in seconds without having to store anything on your computer. And the same with video recording of your screen as well. Here are some of the ways you can use Jing in your daily business routine:
- Send prospects images of properties and their features from anything that shows up on your screen (e.g. your online MLS system);
- Create short video tutorials for prospects on how to use certain parts of your Website more effectively;
- Create short training videos for staff which then become part of your operations manual;
- Send screen shots to your Web designer annotated with changes you want done.
In fact, CLICK HERE or the image below for a very brief video tutorial on how Jing can help your business:
You can also CLICK HERE to see how I just recently used Jing to give Webinar setup information to one of my VAs.
It’s usefulness is limited only by your imagination. And because it is totally free, your budget will never be a factor in holding you back. Just go to Jing to download and install it, you’ll be mighty glad you did!
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Tool Time With Mr. Internet
Monday, October 18th, 2010
Don’t you wish you had a way to do so much more using less day-in-day out? Well stop wishing because here’s Mr. Internet’s top 10 Tool Tips that make his life and business so much easier and more profitable…
Okay, here’s the quick Cliff-Notes on these tools, most of which don’t cost a dime (CLICK HERE to view our recent Live Group Coaching session that provides full details of where to get them and how to use them most effectively):
- Say Goodbye to Password Angst – here’s a way to never forget another password yet be as secure as possible when working online.
- Copy and Paste Without the Garbage – if you ever tried copying and pasting from a Microsoft Office product (i.e. Word, Excel, etc.) into something that didn’t need or want all the formatting that usually comes with it, here’s a free and instant way to solve that problem forever.
- No More Post-Its – here are a couple of extremely powerful ways to keep track of everything and anything so you never lose or forget them again.
- Screen Shots on Steroids – here are two ways (one of which is completely free and very cool) to take and share screen shots of just about anything.
- Brainstorm Heaven – here are a couple of ways you can “bubble chart” to your heart’s content to maximize your creative flow.
- Free Virtual Meetings – no more expensive GoToMeeting subscriptions when you have this free tool in your belt that can be launched in a heart-beat.
- Free Heavy-Duty File Sender – need to send dozens of files or large files or even dozens of large files easily and at no cost, wait till you see this awesome solution.
- Free File Sharing on Steroids – this is the way I use to connect my entire team and even temporary help so we are all working on the same digital documents.
- Convert PDF to Word – here’s an absolutely free way to convert nearly any PDF file to an Editable Word document no matter how complicated.
- Piece of Mind – this proven automated backup system will give you that and more.
And of course there is more to be found on the video of our recent Live Group Coaching session as well!
This is just the first of many “Tool-Time with Mr. Internet” sessions we plan on having via our Online Dominance Live Group Coaching sessions about every quarter —enjoy!
Free Virtual Hard Drive
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
A few weeks ago I shared a free online file storage and sharing service called DropBox. This week, we have another entrant into this growing field with ZumoDrive. ZumoDrive is a free virtual hard drive that you can install on any PC and it works just like any other drive on your computer. Anything you can store on your regular hard drive you can also store on your ZumoDrive.
Since it is online, you can also give other’s permission to use it as well —perfect for document sharing among your virtual support team. ZumoDrive is free for the first 1 GB of storage. If you want more it will cost you some nominal amount each month. For example, upgrading to 10 GBs of storage is just $2.99 /mo. This service is a great example of something called “cloud storage” which means your virtual hard drive is located among many different servers around the world, creating massive redundancy yet delivering great performance (for uploading and downloading). Let us know what you think of it!
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