I hate writing, do you?

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Celebrating 19 years of writing!
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I hate writing and try as I have, I suck at it and yet, I still I do a lot of it!

But no matter what
classes I took to write better, proofread better,
etc., they didn’t work. Like many of you, I’m an
insightful idea person (that’s what my clients
call my out of the box ideas that they use to grow
their businesses).

Some of us are just like that.

But I don’t want all the ideas that could make someone money to go to waste. So I write them down, explain them as best as I can and let the experts do the rest!

Although Chris Mifsud, my marketing manager, isn’t
critiquing this post, it’s because of her,
Karen Kanakanui, and the virtual assistants I’ve had over
the years, that my ideas end up looking so
polished. Heck they look like articles on my
blog, ebooks, workbooks, workshops, etc. – and not
just great ideas.

Sure, I put in my time on those things, but to me, they
do the hard part! Thank you Chris, Karen and the
rest!

Here’s how my newsletter was started in 1998…

I was living in rural Dunn, North
Carolina (I moved there from NYC for those of you
who don’t know). One of the things I did was
teach business classes through a local college at
a business incubator. I taught keyboarding,
internet skills, and desktop publishing classes to
an audience of mostly” new business owners.

To give the students practice (I had to teach many
of them where the plug was to turn on the
computer), I gave them my Prodigy email address so
that they could email me their questions. I
figured that would give them more quality time
with me during the weekly classes.

The first week, I got not emails. Truth be told,
they thought I was kidding them about emailing me;
something they’d never done before when attending
a class. Well, the second week they started
emailing me and I realized that all the students
would all benefit from the questions posed and my
answers. That started my first “computer tips
newsletter”. My second newsletter was a daily
quote newsletter which I stopped producing in
2002.

Thus, a version of my newsletter, originally called “Tech Tips”, was born.

In honor of this special anniversary month, today’s newsletter is full of Tech Tips and 2
webinars you can download and view at your convenience! Enjoy!

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Tech Tips
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Formatting Text Newsletters
After they’re written some code that MS Word puts
into its’ system needs be stripped. Things like
bold and italics need to be stripped. AND the
newsletter needs to be formatted so that it’s 50
or so characters across. To do that the
effortless use the same free service I used back
in 1998. Format it. http://formatit.com/

Microsoft Gives PowerPoint Users an Extra Helping
Hand
Now you can create basic PowerPoint presentation
by walking through a MS PowerPoint template.
While it doesn’t create the whole presentation,
it gives you a head start on creating a branded
deck. Learn more here:
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2017/05/24/microsoft-gives-powerpoint-users-a-helping-hand.aspx

What’s Your Why? App
Simon Sinek specialty is helping people be inspired
by our “why” in all we do.
https://startwithwhy.com/find-your-why/ Now you have
another way to discover your “why” or
the beginning of your why by answering questions.
Do it here: https://whyinstitute.typeform.com/to/GF2TtQ?

Microsoft Previews Forms for Office 365
Sometimes what’s old is better new again. Once
upon a time MS Word included a basic forms app. Then it got
hidden. Now its back. Learn more here
https://redmondmag.com/articles/2017/07/27/microsoft-previews-forms-for-office-365.aspx

Outlook (Email Program)
Make your email program work better for you by
color coordinating it. By the way, you can also
color coordinate your Outlook Calendars (yes, you
can have more than one), too. Choose colors to
use across your firm.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-and-assign-color-categories-A1FDE97E-15E1-4179-A1A0-8A91EF89B8DC

Automatically Send Tweets To Twitter
If your blog is using the WordPress platform,
you’ll want to know about this plugin. What it
does is automatically send out a tweet, based on a
past blog, every 10 hours. Why 10 hours? I told
it to do that! I want people who are online at
various times, to see my posts. You can schedule
this plugin in a variety of ways. Learn more

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