I keep all of my information on a flash drive that is with me at all times. I also keep a back up of it in my Drop Box in the event I loose my drive and then I always have access to my website addresses, log ins and passwords from anywhere in the world.

Drop Box - Can I tell you how many times I have been saved by my faithful dropbox, which costs me all of about $9/mo?  Dropbox keeps a copy of files on your hard drive out on the Internet and available from anywhere in the world!  At a seminar yesterday, we needed a Power Point Presentation that wasn’t with us badly.  No Problem!  Pulled up Drop Box, opened the file and was editing it within about 1 minute.  If my hard drive were to crash, while it would SUCK big time…I wouldn’t have the stress of having lost all of my data, because there is an exact copy of it out on the Internet in my Drop Box account.  I also love that it is fully automated!  Click here to check it out and save your data from being lost!

A spreadsheet – if you don’t have Roboform - If you get tired of logging in to my affiliate sites to get the same link codes over and over, keep them in a spreadsheet, and make sure to save it in your Drop Box.

I personally use the “safe notes” feature in Roboform, because my Roboform is always up and then I don’t have to keep opening files.  When I get a new link code that I know I will want to use again, I copy and paste it in to my Roboform.  All the links are all in one place and I just copy and paste from there.  My recommendation would be to use Microsoft Works, because every windows machine comes with it and you can open it anywhere, even when using a computer that doesn’t have MS Office.  Make sure to note the expiration dates of any of your link codes so you can update them when necessary.

Artisteer -  Generate Your Own Word Press themes in Artisteer.  I have mentioned this blogging tool several times because I use it so frequently.  I can create a custom theme in less than 5 minutes if I am in a hurry. I can also get really creative and spend as much time as needed to get it just perfect.  You need absolutely NO PREVIOUS DESIGN EXPERIENCE to use this tool and it is super user friendly and easy to learn.  I have created videos to help you learn even faster – click here to see how fast and easy it is.

Quick Press -  Have you read a great article or had a great thought, but didn’t have the time to write a complete blog?  I use the Quickpress feature in Word Press to make notes to myself about blogs I want to write.  I write some notes, save it as a draft and come back it to later so I don’t loose my thought or idea.  If it is going to be a good blog post, it will still be a good blog post two days later!  I wrote this particular blog post as a draft that I came back to later when I had the time to complete my thoughts on it.

Ring Central Phone and Fax- Ring Central is a time saver for bloggers or any small business owner.   This is the service that we use for PrinterBees that makes it “appear” we are in an office location vs. working from a home office.    You have the ability to create extensions for different departments that can all ring to one number, you can accept all of your faxes through Ring Central, to the same number.  All faxes come in through your email and they come through on a PDF so you don’t even have to worry about misplacing pieces of paper and they are very easy to forward to the person who needs to deal with it.  We are very happy customers of Ring Central.

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