Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies

• Shows readers how to use Outlook as an effective and powerful solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information as they are specifically applied in a business setting
• Discusses managing and maintaining current customers and how to control customer interactions
• Explains the process of using checklists and matching them with Outlook applications-from bulk mailing to planning a telemarketing campaign
• Addresses how to build a prospect profile with an action plan for follow-up until the prospect becomes an active customer
• Provides step-by-step examples on how to set up and use Business Contact Manager

 

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Managing Any Business.

Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business.

Chapter 2: Organizing Yourself with Outlook.

Chapter 3: Automating with Outlook.

Part II: Managing Contact Information.

Chapter 4: Creating an Awesome Customers and Suppliers Database.

Chapter 5: Building Customer Profiles with Forms.

Chapter 6: Kicking It Up a Notch with the Business Contact Manager.

Chapter 7: Working with BCM Reports.

Part III: Handling Communication and Collaboration.

Chapter 8: Surfing Over the E-mail High Tide.

Chapter 9: Managing E-Mail Cleanup.

Chapter 10: Facilitating Teamwork.

Chapter 11: Applying Teamwork.

Chapter 12: Shrinking the Meeting Time.

Chapter 13: Working with Outlook on the Road.

Part IV: Controlling Business Processes.

Chapter 14: Tracking Sales Activities.

Chapter 15: Planning, Prospecting, and Visiting Customers.

Chapter 16: Minding Your Marketing Methods.

Part V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Keeping Time on Your Side.

Chapter 18: Ten Sales and Marketing Tips.

Chapter 19: Ten Technical Tips for Safeguarding and Mobility.

Part VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Calendar Basics.

Appendix B: Tasks Basics.

Appendix C: Contact Basics.

Appendix D: Journal Basics.

Appendix E: Shifting from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003.

Index.