Your PDA Can Help Your Home-Based Business

by: Rodney Gainous, Jr.

Just about everybody has a PDA (personal digital assistant) but do we really need them? We get these tricked out, hyped up cell phones with all the bells and whistles on it but we probably use about 20-30% of the features.

Since you have one you might as well us it to help you build your home-based business and increase your profits. That’s right, don’t waste your money paying the bill (that you’re locked into for 2 years) for technology you’re paying for and not get full use of it. Take advantage of all of that high tech stuff.

What are some of the things you can do? I’m glad you asked.

Plan Something-Use your calendar on your phone as a planning tool. Most phones can synch to Outlook so you might as well synch your PDA with your computer so you can have all of your contacts and appointments on you at all times.

Get Motivated-All of these PDA’s are mp3 players as well so while you’re downloading you music, you should also download those motivational, educational or training CD’s on your phone. Take your training where ever you go so you’re constantly learning and developing your skills. You can also listen to that electronic book you’ve wanted to read but never got around to it.

Take Good Voice Notes-I can’t tell you how many times I think of something great while driving my car and no less then 15 minutes, I totally forget. Get smart and as soon as a thought comes to your mind, record it on your PDA in the voice notes. Since I started doing that, things have worked out well for me. I no longer depend on my memory to keep good notes. I let my phone do it for me.

Send Emails-Just imagine someone emailing you some important word document or an excel spreadsheet that needs to be reviewed. PDA’s today have that capability where you can receive documents as an attachment and open them on your phone. This way you can reply to someone immediately without telling them you’ll respond after you get back to the office.

Keep Everybody Updated-Many of us use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as business tools so why not continue to update your status or send out a tweet from your phone? Just about every phone, if not all of them, have the applications for the phones. Just imagine informing 5,000 of your closest Facebook friends immediately about a product your company is coming out with? Do you think you’ll get some interest in the product? Of course you would so start updating that status and start tweeting.

These are just a few things you can do with you phone but don’t forget functions like texting, surfing the web and conference calls. These also are good tools you can use to help your home-based business.

Make sure you read the Resource Box for more information on a great home-based business and follow the instructions there.