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Connectability has been providing IT services in the GTA since 1995, but since June 2014 we’ve been growing faster than ever before!
In the last 3 years we’ve gotten to know a lot of businesses in a variety of industries, but one thing remains the same: EVERYONE NEEDS I.T.
Based on our growth we’re in the process of adding another technician to our team. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Secret To
We’ve just begun our search, Avoiding Email Overwhelm but you’ll have a chance to meet our new technician soon! Do you look at your inbox and happens when they get a “?” email want to cry? If so, you’re not alone. from Jeff Bezos. Business Insider If you know any IT field According to widely cited Radicati reports that the notoriously easy-to technicians looking for a job Group research, the average -contact Amazon CEO will with a fast growing IT and person gets 120 business emails forward customer complaints to Managed Services provider every day. If you don’t manage his people and add only a question please let us know! your emails, you could end up in mark to the original query. Getting another statistical majority. People that dreaded mark is a little like And please be assured that as spend at least 14 percent of their getting the black spot from Blind we grow we will continue to workday on email alone. Is it any Pew the pirate. You know that a deliver a world-class service wonder that a recent Harris Poll day of reckoning is at hand. experience along with world- found that only 45 percent of our Follow Bezos’ lead. Instead of class technology support! workdays are spent on actual answering all emails yourself, ask, work? If you’re looking for the “Can this be better handled by August 2017 solution to your email woes, start someone else?” Forward it to your with some of Silicon Valleys team and save yourself the time. This monthly greats. publication USE AUTO REPLIES provided courtesy BEZOS DELEGATES You can also use auto-reply tools of Ted Shafran, If you want to watch a corporate to manage the flood. Tommy John President of team start to sweat, see what CEO Tom Patterson did just > Connectability
Get More Free Tips, Tools and Services At Our Web Site: www.connectability.com Continued pg.2 (416) 966-3306 IT Insights August 2017 that after his emails skyrocketed from 150 to have over-communicators in your ranks, ask them to 400 a day. He tells Inc.com that “there weren’t tone back the digital flood. enough minutes in a day to answer all of them.” So he didn’t; he set up an auto-reply to tell SET BOUNDARIES people that he only checked email before 9 and Creating a hard buffer between your email and your after 5 — and to please call or text if it was life is another CEO tactic. Arianna Huffington urgent. The result? “It doesn’t check her email for a half forced me to delegate hour after waking or before going to and empower others bed, and she never touches it around to respond,” he says. her kids. That space to breathe is Suddenly the flow essential to maintaining a work-life slowed to a trickle. balance. And if it gets bad enough? Etsy’s Chad Dickerson has a DO YOU GET MORE solution: email bankruptcy! He tells EMAILS THAN BILL Fast Company that every few years, GATES? he just deletes everything and starts And it really should fresh! only be a trickle; Bill Gates reports that he Not all Silicon Valley gurus have it only gets 40–50 emails figured out, however. Apple CEO a day. Ask yourself, Tim Cook doesn’t get 120 business “Should I really be emails a day. No, according to an getting more emails than Bill Gates?” One ABC interview, he gets closer to 700. He just gets up possible cause for email inundation, according at the crack of dawn every morning and starts to LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, is other reading. Hint Water CEO Kara Goldin does the same employees sending too much email of their thing, preparing for a 12-hour workday with a own. He writes, “Two of the people I worked marathon email session. But as you can tell from the most closely with ended up leaving the other people we’ve discussed, this is an exception, organization. Within the span of several weeks not the rule. Emulate Jeff Bezos or Arianna after they left I realized my inbox traffic had Huffington instead and watch your email stress melt been reduced by roughly 20–30 percent.” If you away. Help Us Out And We’ll Give You A Brand-New Samsung Galaxy Tablet For Your Trouble!
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when you got locked out of your dorm building back in college and had to wait for someone to go in or out? Those days may be gone, if new technology out of China has anything to say about it. Dorms at Beijing Normal University are being fitted with face recognition software, which will let residents in — and keep intruders and other unwanted people out. Mashable.com – May 23, 2017
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