Talk to a Human in Customer Service Quickly with Dial Zero
In a hurry and frustrated? The last thing you need is to have to talk to the stupid robotic voice prompts when you call a company. Although these menus are probably made to direct you into the proper queue by a semi-helpful and friendly voice, you’re already on your last nerve… It would be nice to know how to finagle your way through the menus to get to a real person as quickly as possible.
With a Dial Zero application installed on your phone, you can do just that!
Dial Zero comes on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. It’s database currently has over 600 entries to get to a live person including tips from other users for getting what they want out of the company.
If you’re on a desktop, you’re out of luck with Dial Zero for the time being (however, their website says they’re working on it). You can use a directory like GetHuman.
The Printable CEO
Editor's note: This was a guest post by me on my good friend Michael's blog One-Year Tightrope.
David Shea’s The Printable CEO (or PCEO, for short) is probably one of the most revolutionary tools for productivity and organization a small business owner—anyone, really—can have in their toolbox.
The PCEO is a collection of 5 printable worksheets for goal tracking, task tracking, daily planning, planned versus unplanned tracking, and individual task tracking. (More about each after the jump.)
Shea came up with this amazing set of working because he didn’t have the ability to focus on moving his company forward:
[It] comes from the idea that a good CEO should focus primarily on those things that move the company forward; since I can’t afford to hire my own CEO, being able to print one out seemed like the next best thing! :-)
It’s about that simple to use PCEO: print, fill out, conquer. Read on. »
Clean Up Your Explorer’s “New” Menu
Do you find that your “new” menu when you right-click is rather overcrowded with all of the different extensions of files you have available?
I do and it tends to make things slower even on the fastest of computers.
Nir Sofer (NirSoft) has created the freeware utility ShellMenuNew that allows you to disable any unwanted entries in the “new” menu.
It’s a standalone program, so it runs directly from the exe file without needing to install. It’s small weighing in at a mere 40KB. It’s also been translated into seven languages.
