Business Tips : How most people blow their first business meeting And How Can you save yours.
Business Tips: How most people blow their first business meeting and how can You save yours You land a meeting with a prospect that you’ve been researching for quite some time. Then you make the same mistake that most salespeople make: You book an hour-long meeting at her office, next thing you know, you blew […]
Become More Organized With Habit Change

Is This You? Improving With Habit Change by Michael Hoffman I’ve seen Hector (a local homeless person) wheeling his cart around Barcelona a few times. It’s massive. It must be extremely difficult to maneuver. One day I went up to him asked him if he really needed all of those things. He actually articulated an impressive […]
8 Surprising Tips To Boost Your Productivity

8 Surprising Tips To Boost Your Productivity by Michael Hoffman Here at LeanMail, we’ve seen that the key factor for productivity and successful email management it is not only to have the right tools and training but to be open to change. So it shouldn’t be a big surprise that Behavioral Change is a trending topic. […]
Email Management For Productivity: Easy To Mistake A Tool For A Solution

Email Management For Productivity: Easy To Mistake A Tool For A Solution by Michael Hoffman Even though most of our customers might call our LeanMail email management software for Microsoft Outlook the definitive solution for email management, productivity, and efficiency, it’s not. It’s easy to mistake a tool for a solution because once you have consciously […]
Email Management Is Not A Tool And It´s Not Bad

Email Management Is Not A Tool And It´s Not Bad by Michael Hoffman Many people refer to email management as a tool, but it’s not. Email is a medium just like books, CD’s, and letters are media. You may not like managing email but that has less to do with the media itself and more to […]
I Wish I Have Time For LeanMail

I Wish I Have Time For LeanMail by Michael Hoffman You have 147 mails in your prioritize view and 239 in your Plan view and about the same in your Today view. If this is you (or something close), then keep reading… How can it be that LeanMail is faster than traditional email management if you […]
If You Are A LeanMail User Who Finds Him or Herself On The Road A Lot…

If You Are A LeanMail User Who Finds Him or Herself On The Road A Lot… by Michael Hoffman If you are a LeanMail user who finds him or herself on the road a lot — perhaps you don’t even start your computer every day, you can still keep up with LeanMail. Here’s how: Of course […]
Why Leaders Are Blind To The Most Important Productivity Opportunity Of All

Why Leaders Are Blind To The Most Important Productivity Opportunity Of All by Michael Hoffman Email is the leading cause of preventable productivity loss in organizations today. Forbes Magazine (2008) Employees spend 1 to 3 or more hours per day managing email at 40-60% of capacity. That means they typically lose 30-60 minutes PER DAY. Not some. […]
Inbox480 – My personal Story: Part I

Inbox480 – My Personal Story: Part I by Michael Hoffman It all started with a client. To begin with, his IT manager had told him that 92% of his incoming email was spam and was filtered out before it ever reached his inbox. So my client never saw more than ninety percent of his incoming volume. […]
Hey Mr. Sales Director, George Trachilis is NOT nuts. Are You Nuts?

Hey Mr. Sales Director, George Trachilis is NOT nuts. Are You Nuts? by Michael Hoffman One of your prime objectives as a sales director is to get your teams out of their inbox and in front of the customer as much as possible. I’m not knocking the importance of email, I’m just saying that you probably […]
Is this you?

Is this you? I’ve seen Hector (not his real name) wheeling his cart around Barcelona a few times. It’s massive. It must be extremely difficult to maneuver. One day I went up to him asked him if he really needed all of those things. He actually articulated an impressive defense. Does that remind you of […]
Weird habit that saves my butt!

Weird habit that saves my butt!I have this weird habit, one might think. Before I click send on a mail that contains a document that I have attached, I open the document and check it one last time. Even if I have already gone through the document, or have just created it, I open it […]