PRODUCTIVITY WITH YOUR SMART PHONE / ANDROID

One option people are turning to nowadays for finding more time is their android / smart phone. The key to making the best use of your smart phone’s capabilities is to understand the features available to you. If you are not using your phone’s capabilities to maximize your business and personal goals, you are running the risk of falling behind your competition. 

Imagine… there’s more power packed into the cheapest smart phone on the market today than there was on board the Lunar Module used during the Apollo missions.

Focusing your smart phone’s capabilities on personal and professional efficiency unleashes productivity potential that generations before had never envisioned.

The greatest paradigm shift that has occurred since the advent of the information age has been the emergence of social media. Never before has mankind been so interconnected within a honeycomb structure of information accessibility.

The ability to exchange information easily and rapidly across any media platform has transformed the way that people communicate.

Managing and organizing your time, content, media and tasks are each critically important to getting the most out of your performance. Getting the most out of your smart phone is no different. The road to mastering your smart phone capabilities revolve around these concepts.

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

Smart phone apps can convert voice mails to text so that you can respond back via email or text message. You can also set your voice mails to appear in your email inbox, allowing you to work your responses from one setting. You can set designated times each day to give responses, or with the voice mail to email conversion, delegate this to a subordinate.  

You Mail Visual Voicemail is a great example of a smart phone app that does just that. This app will convert your voicemail to text and you’ll receive it by text or in your You Mail inbox. You can then either respond by email or delete. It’s also a great way to block unwanted calls.  

Email Management  

The most routine way to manage your email with your smart phone is by using Host-based apps provided by Google, Yahoo, and Outlook. They are all full functioning apps. You can create email, reply to received email, attach files for delivery, use your spam filters and folders, etc.  

There are also e-mail management apps that help you to manage your email accounts across multiple platforms. If you have several email accounts, whether with the same host or across different hosts, you can manage those effectively with several different e-mail management apps.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

However, the rapid growth of social media also makes it difficult to manage, both on a personal and professional front.

 How can you be present on all these different networks?

You want to stay connected to your friends and family and see what they’re up to. At the same time, you need to be where your market is, since social media is also a critical business tool for marketers.  

Be Everywhere at Once  

Savvy marketers are distributing their messages across multiple social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest – all at the same time.

The idea is to get your message in front of as many people as possible. Your smart phone can be a key ally in using several different popular apps to distribute your content across a broad array of social media platforms.

Content management revolves around promoting your online presence in a way that delivers your message to the people who you want to receive it.

Whether you’re a work-at-home mom blogging about the challenges of balancing work and household responsibilities, or the CEO of a major corporate titan, the impact of what you have to say will be measured in your content’s reach and relevance to the intended audience.

How efficient you are in managing your content will likely revolve around using an app that helps you manage content across multiple platforms.  

Smart phones have become an excellent platform for content marketing while you’re on-the-go. No longer do you have to wait to be sitting in front of your computer to get relevant information to your audience.

It’s easy today to share thoughts, opinions, pictures, and videos with the world in real time. Think about how you can manage each of these different types of content with your smart phone.  

Native Content 

Native content is simply the content that you create yourself. It can be blog posts that you originate, pictures/videos that you’ve taken, or even merchandise that you’re offering for sale. Whatever the content may be, it must impact your customer . 

Smart phones can be used to manage and distribute your native content across media platforms in the same way as any other content.

You can share directly from the location where you created the content, such as in your built-in phone camera, or through an app designed for that type of content.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

Let’s say that you’ve got two fantastic steaks for dinner that are cooked exactly the same by the same chef. One of the steaks is served with sautéed asparagus spears, a seasoned baked potato with all the toppings that you like, and a generous house salad.  

The other steak is thrown into a Styrofoam container, and you eat it in your car. The steaks will taste exactly the same, but one experience is worth far more than the other. Taken one step further, what if you were served the best steak in the whole world, but what you wanted and what you ordered was grilled salmon? Consider the power of the presentation. 

Content is the backbone of any presence on the internet. Your content will mean the difference between your message being effective or meaningless.

Your background doesn’t matter. If you want or need others to see your work, content is the key. 

There is a multitude of ways to go about creating content. You will have likely settled into a method that best suits your interest.

Are you using that method efficiently?

Are you squeezing out the most potential for your content?

Smart phones can help you realize these goals.

Smart phone apps have come a long way in helping you manage customer service. You no longer have to be tied to a desk to stay in contact with your customers. You have real-time data at the ready regarding your customer’s sales experience. Use it to your advantage.

If you own the fastest car on your block, you’re probably not going to be satisfied with anything other than the fastest smart phone. For others, a more modest solution is feasible.

If a smart phone is going to be your major base of operation, you should most likely consider one of the higher priced……………….o.K ?

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