Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 docx

[...]... download your brain and organize your issues so that you can hit your goals one by one Chapter 1 Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business In This Chapter ᮣ Moving ahead with Outlook ᮣ Looking out for all parts of your business ᮣ Thinking about business goals and objectives ᮣ Managing sales and fulfillment activities ᮣ Making Outlook your Control Panel ᮣ Planning your goals and activities M anaging any business. .. control 12 Making Outlook Your Control Panel 13 Downloading your memory 13 Planning your goals and activities .14 Chapter 2: Organizing Yourself with Outlook 15 Planning Your Day with Outlook s Today Options 15 Customizing Outlook Today 16 Working with Dates in Your Calendar 17 Organizing Your Priorities with Your Tasks List 21... I: Managing Any Business 5 Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business 7 Chapter 2: Organizing Yourself with Outlook .15 Chapter 3: Automating with Outlook .33 Part II: Managing Contact Information 45 Chapter 4: Creating an Awesome Customers and Suppliers Database .47 Chapter 5: Building Customer Profiles with Forms 69 Chapter 6: Kicking It Up a Notch with. .. and improve your attitude toward your goals 2 Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies Foolish Assumptions During the course of this book, I assume that you know how to turn your computer on, get around in Windows, create a simple a letter with Word, and use Outlook Express to send and receive e-mail I also assume that you want to increase your personal productivity by using Outlook features... confront and manage these issues With Outlook, you can shrink unnecessary demands and even downsize your anxiety and preoccupation to a realistic level, thus balancing your business and your life In this chapter, I cover what you need to know to organize and keep track of your goals Going Above and Beyond with Outlook Outlook can increase your productivity by helping you control your objectives, actions,... safeguard your data Part VI: Appendixes Because this book explains how to configure Outlook specifically for business purposes, it includes instructions for using the Calendar, Tasks list, Contacts list, and the Journal Appendix E even shows you how to move from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003 3 4 Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies Conventions Used in This Book This book is intended for Windows... 23 Estimating your completion time .24 Viewing all your fields in the same list 25 xii Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies Saving the view .26 Tracking meetings and Tasks 27 Designating and supervising Tasks 28 Messaging 29 Organizing your mailbox .30 Sending messages option 31 Chapter 3: Automating with Outlook ... This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: Managing Any Business 5 Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business 7 Going Above and Beyond with Outlook 7 Looking Out for All Parts of Your Business 9 Customers .9 Marketing and sales .10 Innovation .10 Business goals and objectives 11 Customer contact and education... suit your business can improve your company’s workflow Chapter 5 explains how to customize and create forms Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business The most powerful Outlook tool is the on-screen reminder The alarm produces on-screen messages, which reminds you to take action Whether it’s reaching your quarterly business forecast or simply reminding you, year after year, to order your. .. All Parts of Your Business The purpose of business is to create and keep customers Without customers, there is no business But without profit to recover your investment and pay expenses, no business can survive Marketing, sales, and financial control are all key issues, but you also need to innovate — not only in the product or service but also in the general procedures of your business Outlook is an . w0 h0" alt="" Managing Your Business with Outlook ® 2003 FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Marcelo Thalenberg 01_598155 ffirs.qxp 12/28/05 8:41 PM Page iii Managing Your Business with Outlook ® 2003 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_598155. 8:41 PM Page ii Managing Your Business with Outlook ® 2003 FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Marcelo Thalenberg 01_598155 ffirs.qxp 12/28/05 8:41 PM Page iii Managing Your Business with Outlook ® 2003 For Dummies ® Published. 1 Part I: Managing Any Business 5 Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business 7 Chapter 2: Organizing Yourself with Outlook 15 Chapter 3: Automating with Outlook 33 Part II: Managing