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Five Techniques for Corralling Your E-mail Inbox

01/06/2012 - 17:55 - 3298 reads

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Like it or not, your e-mail inbox is likely the place where you spend the majority of your time at work. That means it's time to take some practical steps to improve your handling of e-mail; i.e., spend less time in your inbox and more time on productive, value-added activities.

Three Irreverent Time Management Strategies for the Digital Era

12/08/2011 - 14:50 - 5524 reads

Getting through your to-do list faster isn't what time management is about – at least not anymore. After all, this is the digital era! Rather than managing our existing time as if it was finite, we need to find ways to multiply it and make our lives better.

How to invest effectively by being contrarian

05/11/2011 - 10:58 - 1461 reads

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In the world of investing, herding is usually quite detrimental to financial returns. And, ironically, the herding impulse is quite strong among investors, who often look to others for confirmation on their investing positions.

How to make your blog an effective firm marketing tool

04/28/2011 - 12:18 - 3819 reads

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The primary – and only – goal your firm’s blog should have is for it to be a worthwhile marketing vehicle. If it is not, then you shouldn’t bother blogging!

Eleven cool mobile apps for running your practice

02/16/2011 - 16:51 - 5054 reads

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We recently featured five cool Web apps for running your firm that were highly recommended by your accounting colleagues. Now we’re going to stay on the productivity app beat and take a look at mobile devices.

Five cool Web apps for running your firm

02/03/2011 - 10:45 - 6802 reads

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You’ve probably noticed that most new software is now developed for the web rather than the desktop. This actually isn’t a trend; instead, it's expected that Web-developed software will become the norm, and perhaps even accelerate, in the years ahead.

It's about time: New Year’s resolutions to maximize time

12/13/2010 - 13:07 - 2976 reads

Don’t let the stubborn consistency of time get you down. If you’re smart about it, there are plenty of ways that you can get more per hour in 2011. We asked some of your forward-looking colleagues to chime in with their time maximization plans for 2011.

Making the most of customer, client, and employee rapport during the holidays

11/15/2010 - 11:29 - 2834 reads

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The holidays: a nice, quiet time of year to enjoy with friends and family, while methodically preparing for the upcoming year and a busy tax season.

How to strengthen the CPA/attorney relationship

11/01/2010 - 15:33 - 2495 reads

There’s nothing better than a warm referral – and most CPAs are always on the hunt for new sources. One great potential lead source that is often overlooked is the attorney who practices in areas that are complementary to your expertise.

It’s about time: How much time should staff spend on social media activities?

10/05/2010 - 09:45 - 4333 reads

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It’s likely that your employees spend a sizeable percentage of their time using social media. As work/life balance continues to blend into one homogenous string of activities, social media activity is happening in your workplace whether you realize it or not.

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About Brett Owens

Brett Owens is the CEO and cofounder of Chrometa, a software company dedicated to automatically capturing and making sense of your time for you, so that you can accurately and easily account for your billable and project time. The inspiration for Chrometa came from a good friend of Brett's, an attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, who hated reconciling his time manually, and wanted a completely effortless piece of software that would do all of the heavy lifting for him by automatically recording how he spent time on his PC and other computing devices.

Chrometa was initially adopted by attorneys, whose gains included discovering previously undocumented billable time, saving time on billing reconciliation, and improving personal productivity. Chrometa's time capture software has since been increasingly used by CPAs, and the product has already been featured in CPA Technology Advisor, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune, and a host of other leading online and print publications.

Brett also is chief editor and founder of popular investing blogs ContraryInvesting.com and CommodityBullMarket.com, as well as a regular contributor to two leading financial media sites, Seeking Alpha and Minyanville.

He has a Bachelors Degree in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

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