It’s not easy to stay organized. And if you have a team, it’s exponentially more difficult to manage everyone. That’s why we love using shared Gmail labels. For our small team, they let us keep track of our work easily, and in a way that everyone on the team can follow. Using Email to Help […]
The 50-20-50 Productivity Hack that Will Add Hours to Your Week
You need time to build great things. Specifically, you need blocks of “focus” time, especially if you’re creating something new. Unfortunately, many of us aren’t good at carving out this kind of time in our daily schedules. Consider: one study showed the average office worker changes tasks every three minutes. After an interruption, it took […]
How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts (Without Logging Out)
For various reasons, many of us have multiple Google accounts, so this blog post will cover 4 methods you can use to keep track of your multiple accounts. Three of the methods are clumsy and frustrating. The fourth one works like a charm. Let’s have a look: Clumsy Method 1: Logging In and Out of Accounts The […]
The 10 Best (Free) Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Gmail
When Google launched Gmail, it exploded onto the market, offering a fast, intuitive interface and a radical (at the time) 1 GB of storage space. Hotmail, by comparison, offered just 2 MB of storage. There are now over 900 million Gmail accounts, making it the most popular email service by far. Gmail has retained […]
7 Common Mistakes to Avoid with Remote Employees
When your employees work from home, it can be a challenge to keep track of what’s going on. It leads many managers to wonder: should we let employees work from home at all? Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom had the same question a few years ago, so he put together a study to […]
New (and free) Team Chat Tool for Gmail Labels
Why do we use different applications for email and chat? Wouldn’t it be better if we could stay in one app that everyone uses for all communications? We sure think so. That’s why we’re excited to announce a brand new feature for all cloudHQ users: Gmail Label Team Chat—a way for you to chat with […]
Hide Your Smartphone (And 6 Other Ways to Be More Productive)
Until scientists figure out the whole time-travel thing, you and I are stuck with just 24 hours each day. Learning to be more efficient is one of the only ways to free up some of your time. Thankfully, getting more efficient doesn’t have to be difficult. You just have to look in the right places. […]
10 Step Guide To Hiring Remote Contractors
When you bootstrap your business, every dollar counts—which is exactly why hiring help from overseas has become so popular the last few years. 2 Types of Outsourced Work Outsourcing makes the most sense in two situations: Mundane tasks to free up your time for more important things. Skilled tasks when you need […]
How To Integrate Your Cloud Apps
For most business professionals, the most commonly used applications are email, notes, and cloud storage. For sales professionals, you could add their CRM application to the list. The rise of cloud-hosted versions of these apps has led to the development of integration services, including ours: cloudHQ. You might ask: what’s the difference between […]