Sync up your Contacts and Use Them!
The people in your network and the relationships you develop with them are some of your most valuable assets as a young professional. You look to them first for advice, job opportunities or just to discuss the latest events in your life. How you keep track of all the contact information you have collected in your personal and professional life is crucial to your success.
Contacts Everywhere!
In the poll we took earlier today we saw an interesting breakdown of contact management solutions, from relying on a cell phone to store contact information to using Microsoft Outlook, Facebook and other online sites. Each one of the solutions have their advantages and disadvantages. I have tried every one of the solutions listed with various degrees of success but, what if you could use each of them where they work the best, Outlook at the office, Mac Address Book at home and Plaxo online, without having to manually update each? I recently found a way to centralize and standardize all my contact and calendar information across all the services I use, automatically!
Sync them up!
Enter Plaxo 3.0 beta with Sync Points. After setting up an account, all I had to do was click on the “Add Sync Point” link for each of the programs I wanted to use (in my case Google, Mac Address Book, Outlook, and AIM) and it walks you through the process of putting in your login information for Google and downloading small add-ins for Outlook and Mac Address Book. Now, all of my sources sync together and I can sync all my contacts to my phone through Address Book. Any addition anywhere flows across the systems and is easily accessible.
5 Ways to Utilize and Maintain your Newly Synced Contacts
- Market yourself to the right people
- Maintain your network with an Act of Deliberate Relationship Enhancement
- Improve your intergenerational communication.
- Build a list of contacts to send out your improved resume to (if you are job hunting).
- Find someone to start a blog with you
If you are conversing with client contacts though, don’t forget to save everything to avoid a lawsuit.
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March 12th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Good info Brandon, thanks for the tip. Plaxo continues to get better, in terms of integration, as the months go by. I find it a little difficult to navigate through, but that’s probably because there a lot in the application and I’m just familiarizing myself with version 3.0.