When you are researching other websites, quickly grabbing and saving your research is really important when it comes to incresing your productivity. And, if you are like me, you lose all your notes and websites either buried in your favorites folder or lost in a stack of notes you made on plain paper. Now, none of that has to happen to you.

eGems Collector Pro (about $79.00) lets you copy snippets from different web pages and save them along with the source document URL and a time and date stamp.

Let's say you are searching the web for sites complimentary to your topic that you want to approach about selling your ebooks. You sit down and start searching Google or your favorite search engine and find your first site. You simply highlight a section of the site and tell eGems to save it to it's database. You can select different "treasure chests" AKA folders to save your Gem. You can also make notes about the page which will be saved along with everything else about your Gem. You can give the Gem a descriptive name that means something to you.

If your research is eventually going to end up in a publication, eGems will save all the research and create a Bibliography for you.

eGems also has a powerful search function and you can email your Gem to a colleague or paste it into a document.

In my example above you would quickly and in an organized fashion have a list of Gem websites that would be prime candidates for becoming an affiliate for your product. Since eGems lets you put notes about the site, you can use that information to personalize the email to that site which is very important. Webmasters get spam emails all the time requesting them to join affiliate programs. When you personalize the email, they pay more attention because they know it's not a spam email. This gives you a much greater chance of getting them to partner with you.

Find eGems at the link below:

http://www.egems.com/

More automation techniques:

• Reduce spam by using your email filters (this is not really available presently in AOL, but then you shouldn't be using AOL as your main email anyway if you are a Great Internet Marketer). In Microsoft Outlook, click on "organize" and experiment with the spam and adult content filters. (we'll have a complete article on this soon)

• Automate your backups and store them off site with http://www.connected.com This is a cheap insurance policy for your most important files. The backups can be set to run in the middle of the night automatically.

Upcoming topics for this section

• Organize your email

• Reduce the impact of SPAM email

• The greatest keyboard shortcuts

• Respond to emails while you sleep with autoresponders

• Using templates so you never have to reinvent the wheel

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