Leverage Your Time With Online Meetings

July 12, 2010

Are you wasting your time? The first deadly sin of time management is procrastination, followed closely by delay. You know, all the creative little ways you find to put off meeting and talking with people who can and will buy your products or services.
By some measures fully one-half of working time, across the board, is wasted. Taken up by needless chatter, breaks and personal business that is interesting but not necessary and contributes not a penny to your bottom line.

We’ve talked about this before, but one of the best ways to cut out the heart of procrastination is with an ordered set of priorities. Determine your most important objectives everyday, make a list and stick to it. Review the list often during the day. And, most importantly, do it again tomorrow.

Another way to to squeeze more productivity out of your day is to make sure you have all the info you need when you’re selling either your product or yourself to a client. A stellar way to do this is to have a second meeting with your prospect — online — utilizing advanced real time technology. No more apologies to your client for not having the documents or background you need right at your fingertips. It’s all there on your office hard drive or network and with the press of a button it’s available to both you and your client. Or, with a quick cut and paste, your client sees only the information relevant to them. This kind of technology, my friends, separates the sheep from the goats among professionals.