We’ve been operating in a realm we call “challenging” here in Western Canada. So to help keep expenses in check, we use a host of tools that work not only very well, but also very cost efficiently.
Our website is a wordpress site, if you don’t know what that is, I can only suggest you take a look at what Google produces for your in your search, but it has so many features, plug ins galore and much more.
Now, when it comes to email, well no matter what platform you are using (outlook, gmail, yahoo, etc), you MUST do back ups of your email. Now we use Gmail as an aggregate for all of our emails, it’s easy and we only have to log into one email platform to receive from multiple email addresses.
But, even the mighty Gmail and be shut down for a variety of reasons, or you or one of your employees may have deleted an email that was intended to be kept, there are literally 100’s of reasons you need to back up your email. You back up your HDD right (you do back it up?).
That said, one if the easiest and (IMHO), best tools we us (and did I mention FREE), is cloudHQ. They have a simple email back up tool (along with a host of other simple and easy to use) software add-ons that we also use. I like the fact that every week I have set up an automatic back up so that we will never be without. It’s done right before we back up our HDD so that it captures all of our data in one simple easy to use file. Click a box, then select your emails (either specific ones, tagged ones, ones from specific sales people, etc. It’s highly flexible (the free version is limited but not in a bad way at all), and then click save. You will get notification. It’s that easy. You can go HERE and get your email back up tools, they have many available for you.
Get cloudHQ for other software but get cloudHQ for easy email back up or you will loose at some point, valuable email you wish you hadn’t. We did and we will never make that mistake again. We’ll post more about tools we use in other posts coming down the line.
Again, cloudHQ for tools that work!