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Steps for Creating a Paperless Home Office

Productivity Bits

Simply configure your scanner software to use optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically turn every scanned document into a searchable PDF, which allows you to find documents by searching for words they contain. Does it contain important information that you will need to reference later? Then place it in the scan pile.

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10 Apps for the Entrepreneur 2011

Eco-Office Gals

Bump: Bump is a business app for the iPhone that makes it easy to swap information with business partners or contacts. Since most people don’t carry a document scanner with them, this makes use of the camera on a phone to scan documents into the phone and put it in a PDF file when a scanner is not available.

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Snail Mail 101

Clutter Coach

I know they have fascinating and important information in them, but you don’t have time to read them and keep up with what came in today. Information is only useful when you can get at it. Just having all that information is not the same as being able to use it. Also shred credit card applications.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills. Evernote information is stored in the cloud (so that I do not have to worry about my computer crashing) but allows me to add a note from my computer, iPad, or phone.

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Tips to Go Almost Paperless - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

"  Determine what steps you would need to take to get the information again should you need it.    Statistics show that 80 percent of the information we keep, we never refer to again.    Eliminate a lot of paper by having your statements sent to you electronically in PDF format. 

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Beyond Books: Building Multiple Streams of Income

Andrea Kalli

Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. Nonfiction authors may also want to spin out portions of the book into several smaller ebooks or create ebooks that expand on the information in their printed book. Smashwords is a good way to get started with ebooks. out of 5 [ ?

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Beyond Books: Building Multiple Streams of Income | Internet.

Andrea Kalli

Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. Nonfiction authors may also want to spin out portions of the book into several smaller ebooks or create ebooks that expand on the information in their printed book. Smashwords is a good way to get started with ebooks. out of 5 [ ?