Comments on: Want Mad Speed and Efficiency in 2010? Add This Bad Boy To Your Holiday Wish List and Go Double Wide! http://www.topofmind.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/want-mad-speed-and-efficiency-in-2010-add-this-bad-boy-to-your-holiday-wish-list-and-go-double-wide/ Mortgage CRM and Marketing Strategies Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:39:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Brown http://www.topofmind.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/want-mad-speed-and-efficiency-in-2010-add-this-bad-boy-to-your-holiday-wish-list-and-go-double-wide/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 Chris Brown Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:17:46 +0000 http://www.topofmind.com/blog/?p=2473#comment-1146 I have been using dual-monitors for over a year now - and It is a GAME CHANGER. Would love to go 4-wide... though as easily distracted as I get, that mey be more a problem than a solution as I think about it! =0) C the I I have been using dual-monitors for over a year now – and It is a GAME CHANGER. Would love to go 4-wide… though as easily distracted as I get, that mey be more a problem than a solution as I think about it! =0)

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]]> By: Brian Larrabee http://www.topofmind.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/want-mad-speed-and-efficiency-in-2010-add-this-bad-boy-to-your-holiday-wish-list-and-go-double-wide/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Brian Larrabee Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:28:51 +0000 http://www.topofmind.com/blog/?p=2473#comment-1140 Mark, Congrats and welcome to the efficiency club. I recently (finally) found a box that let me ditch my second keyboard and mouse that I was using for my two computer, 3 screen set up with an extra cable fed panel mounted on the wall for the financial news. In moments of extreme multi-tasking and maximum efficiency, I do find myself wanting 6 screens. Whether it's populating our origination system and my own spreadsheets at the same time, pasting back and forth, building PowerPoints or videos with source files for data, photos, etc., all open, while always keeping an eye on the MBS market and communication sources, to mention nothing of always having something to do while waiting for the pesky downloads to finish, there is just no other way to go. There is one downside though and that's grabbing the laptop to go mobile. Opening that up and trying to work while I'm away makes me feel like the big kid that I am hopping onto a toddler's tricycle and trying to pedal... Hey, there's an idea for the laptop manufacturers, a tri-fold screen. You open the top and then two other ultra thin screens fold out from the main. Won't the guy sitting next to me in coach just love that one? Mark,

Congrats and welcome to the efficiency club.

I recently (finally) found a box that let me ditch my second keyboard and mouse that I was using for my two computer, 3 screen set up with an extra cable fed panel mounted on the wall for the financial news. In moments of extreme multi-tasking and maximum efficiency, I do find myself wanting 6 screens. Whether it’s populating our origination system and my own spreadsheets at the same time, pasting back and forth, building PowerPoints or videos with source files for data, photos, etc., all open, while always keeping an eye on the MBS market and communication sources, to mention nothing of always having something to do while waiting for the pesky downloads to finish, there is just no other way to go.

There is one downside though and that’s grabbing the laptop to go mobile. Opening that up and trying to work while I’m away makes me feel like the big kid that I am hopping onto a toddler’s tricycle and trying to pedal…

Hey, there’s an idea for the laptop manufacturers, a tri-fold screen. You open the top and then two other ultra thin screens fold out from the main. Won’t the guy sitting next to me in coach just love that one?

]]> By: Doug Adamczyk http://www.topofmind.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/want-mad-speed-and-efficiency-in-2010-add-this-bad-boy-to-your-holiday-wish-list-and-go-double-wide/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Doug Adamczyk Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:42:41 +0000 http://www.topofmind.com/blog/?p=2473#comment-1130 Mark - it is about time! How did you survive so long with one? I have been using 2 for about 6 years now. Cannot live without it. I am considering going to 3 for work or turning one of them into a 26" like Derek has. (The flight sim box that I am plotting to build will have 5!) The ability to drag and drop windows across screens is a huge time saver for working on reports, articles, and especially having your borrower on one screen in the CRM and their loan details (LOS) on the other screen. Doug Mark – it is about time! How did you survive so long with one? I have been using 2 for about 6 years now. Cannot live without it. I am considering going to 3 for work or turning one of them into a 26″ like Derek has. (The flight sim box that I am plotting to build will have 5!)

The ability to drag and drop windows across screens is a huge time saver for working on reports, articles, and especially having your borrower on one screen in the CRM and their loan details (LOS) on the other screen.

Doug

]]> By: Derek Egeberg http://www.topofmind.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/want-mad-speed-and-efficiency-in-2010-add-this-bad-boy-to-your-holiday-wish-list-and-go-double-wide/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 Derek Egeberg Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:49:27 +0000 http://www.topofmind.com/blog/?p=2473#comment-1128 Mark, Thank you for the reminder of how technology is suppose to FREE UP TIME. There is one thing you didn't mention that is equally important to those of us reading the blog and that is client first impressions. For those that do not have a similar set up or an extra large monitor, try setting that up and watch the reaction of your clients as they sit down at your desk. This is a great ice/tension breaker as you can spend 2 minutes talking about why you have a double monitor or a 26\" flat panel on your desk. I spent $350 for a 26\" flat panel and that is the first thing EVERY client mentions when we sit down is, \"that is a great monitor, must have cost a ton.\" I explain it didn\'t, where I purchased it, and why is it so important that my clients see what we are doing clearly. In two minutes they are relaxed, engaged and ready for business. Mark, thanks for suggesting that I now need a 2nd 26\" screen. SHEEEEEZZZZ! Derek Mark,

Thank you for the reminder of how technology is suppose to FREE UP TIME.

There is one thing you didn’t mention that is equally important to those of us reading the blog and that is client first impressions.

For those that do not have a similar set up or an extra large monitor, try setting that up and watch the reaction of your clients as they sit down at your desk.

This is a great ice/tension breaker as you can spend 2 minutes talking about why you have a double monitor or a 26\" flat panel on your desk.

I spent $350 for a 26\" flat panel and that is the first thing EVERY client mentions when we sit down is, \"that is a great monitor, must have cost a ton.\"

I explain it didn\’t, where I purchased it, and why is it so important that my clients see what we are doing clearly.

In two minutes they are relaxed, engaged and ready for business.

Mark, thanks for suggesting that I now need a 2nd 26\" screen.

SHEEEEEZZZZ!

Derek

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