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16 FEDA News & Views Start the New Year with these Time-Saving Tech Tips for Your Sales Team and More By Beth Ziesenis, The Author of Nerd Know-How: The 27+ Best Apps for Work Start the New Year with these Time-Saving Tech Tips for Your The Author of Nerd Know-How: Time-Saving Tech Tips for Your By Beth Ziesenis, As we head into New Year's Resolution season, you might consider adding "Get Organized" to your digital To Do list. Here are 10 tech tools to help you save time (and money) so you can concentrate on sales and prepare for a great year. As we head into New Year's Resolution season, you might consider adding "Get Organized" to your continued on page 18 weekly digest. This allows you to get one email with links to all your subscriptions instead of a stream of inbox-clogging newsletters that you never get around to reading. Organize Your Bits and Pieces Evernote evernote.com $0 for the basic version or paid plans starting at $34.99/ year Evernote is the ultimate organizer for all of the random bits of information you need to save. Photos of whiteboard notes, descriptions of new products, audio notes you made about a client meeting—Evernote saves anything that can be stored in electronic format. You can organize information globally into "notebooks" or use tags to link individual items together. Everything you upload is searchable, even handwritten notes! The free version lets you synchronize across two devices, while paid versions offer unlimited synchronization, offl ine access and more. Also check out Microsoft OneNote and Google Keep. Organize Your Photos Google Photos google.com/photos Free Chances are you have approximately 4,532 photos on your phone — everything from foodservice products to pictures of your kids. It's almost impossible to fi nd what you're looking for unless you spend hours downloading and organizing. That is unless you're using Google Photos. Use it to automatically download your photos from your devices, and once your imag- es are in its system, Google uses advanced image-recognition Organize Your Passwords LastPass lastpass.com $0 for the basic version or $12/year for deluxe If you do nothing else in the new year, at least get a grip on your passwords. LastPass saves all the passwords in its vault so you don't have to keep using the sticky-note system around your computer monitor. Use the Security Challenge button to discover all the usernames and passwords for every site you've visited—then let LastPass identify duplicate and weak passwords to replace them with safer choices. Also check out 1Password and Dashlane. Organize Your Contacts Contactually contactually.com Starting at $29/month If your contacts are basically in one big pile in your contacts tab, Contactually can help. With an entertaining game (as enter- taining as contact sorting can be), you can quickly toss your contacts into "buckets" to get them organized. Contactually is also a CRM that helps you track leads, fi nd contacts on social media, view opportunities and keep your sales projects orga- nized. Also check out FullContact and Insightly. Organize Your Email Unroll.me Free Between social media notifi cations and weekly newsletters, your inbox is clogged with information that may interest you but ends up being overwhelming. Unroll.me sweeps through your web-based inbox to list all your subscriptions. Then, it gives you the option of unsubscribing from each one with a click or organizing the ones you want to keep into a daily or