Quick Wins

[QW13] How to email a perfect file

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]     Once upon a time, the world had typewriters. You typed a page, gave it to a client, and it did not morph into something different. Then, God created the people ... who...

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[QW11] Fixing corrupted Windows filenames

Happy Anniversary to our Quick Win posts! The first QW offering appeared on May 20 last year, and we haven't looked back! I love these. They are short, sweet, and get some useful 'office tech' or other tips in your hands. The QWs usually come from costly lessons...

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[QW10] – Copying an online button or its text

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   . Here are three reasons to copy a website button or the text behind it: You don't have time to check out the information right now. You want to see where the button leads before...

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[QW8] “How do I get past client objections?”

[QW8] “How do I get past client objections?”

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]     "Heard it all before, yadda, yadda, yadda." Of course. But how many of us paid attention? Writing a post on this topic was the farthest thing from my mind. (Except for the...

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[QW7] Two words for ya: kitchen timer!

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]     Here's a mini business tip to start off our new Quick Win year. Enjoy. [QW7] Two words for ya: kitchen timer! This is one of those "Why didn't I think of this?"...

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[QW5] “It’s” vs. “Its”

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Here is a problematic word puzzler where one outlier does not follow the rule. [QW5] "It's" vs. "Its" We often find an apostrophe demonstrating ownership: The dog's bone A...

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[QW4] ‘Democratic’ vs. ‘Democrat’

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Okay, pet peeve time. We in the U.S. are ramping up to an election in early November. And I guarantee: we will hear and see the word 'democratic' misused 99% of the time between...

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[QW3] Don’t confuse ‘I’ and ‘me’

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   One of the most difficult things to get right in sentences is 'I' and 'me.' [QW3] Don't confuse 'I' and 'me' Let me show you two correct examples, and then explain the method I...

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[QW2] Never (!) refer to people as ‘that’

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]   Welcome back to Quick Wins for those pesky 'word puzzlers' in our lives. This month's offering is one of my biggies: [QW2] Never (!) refer to people as 'that' If you've ever...

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[QW1] Companies and groups are not people!

[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ]     Hey! What's all this 'QW' stuff in the headline?! Well-l-l, I recently looked back through some project management notes, where I discovered a pattern of easy-to-fix tech...

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