I find the measly $5 a month I pay Transfer Big Files to be good value for money considering how much I use it and the fact it allows me to delete massive files quickly and not clutter my hard drive up or use up valuable space in Dropbox.
I could share using Dropbox but for clients who don’t have a Dropbox account I’d then have to explain how to retrieve them and this is just easier and quicker. The problem is these files can be HUGE and it’s impossible to send via e-mail. I film all client sessions that are on Skype and also some on Google Hangouts. However, that is a price worth paying to protect for mission critical data. I currently pay $399 per year (I think) which is like buying a new external hard drive every year. When you start having a lot of video files like I have it can become expensive. You can set up shared folders with other people and exchange larger files easily and/or be able to have access to a joint project.
Very secure and safe and there is a free version. This side of Armageddon kicking off Dropbox will not fail, and if Armageddon does happen, the last thing I’ll be worrying about is if I’ve lost a few videos and screen casts. Secondly, an external hard drive is great, but if we got burgled I doubt the thieves would leave a $500 back up device behind to help me out.Īlso back up devices can and do fail as I mentioned. I just log in to my online account from any computer (or even my iPad) and everything is sat there waiting for me to use should I so wish. The two huge advantages with Dropbox is that it’s a breeze to access all my files remotely on my laptop.
Prior to using Dropbox I had an external hard drive (a Mac Time Capsule) and that was cool….until it failed. Dropboxĭropbox hasn’t so much saved my bacon, but gone out and bought me some new bacon, cooked it to perfection, delivered it on a silver platter and then cleared up afterward.Įvery single important file I have is synched to Dropbox, so when I hit save it is automatically gets saved to ‘the cloud’. It’s an awesome product, especially as it doesn’t cost me a penny. Now I use it I’m not sure I’ve found any. It’s entirely free and if you want to share access on joint projects you go ‘Pro’ and it’s still only $45 a year It also allows for tagging, so if you are saving a lot of information you can tag it and make it easier to find. I am then presented with all the different folders I have set up and I can drop it in the most relevant one. If there’s something I want to save I click on the elephant logo in the main menu at the top. I use the free version of Evernote and this allows me to simply and quickly save anything online I come into contact with. Sure there were online articles, but there was also infographics, links, images, graphs and I wanted something a tad more flexible than a document folder. When researching a book it’s relative easy to open a folder and just copy and past information into a word, or my case, a Pages document.įor the Life Coach training however, I wasn’t just saving text. However, even though I’d had an account for a number of years, I only started using it seriously when I was prepping up for Coach the Life Coach.Īll of a sudden I realized my laissez-faire hit and miss approach to filing research had to change. It’s tricky to see as I had to change the color so you could read them, but if you want any, just click on the name and you will be taken to the relevant siteĮ vernote has been around for ever (no pun intended). Note: All the subheadings excpet fro Grab are links. I am merely sharing tools that I think you can benefit from and I don’t stand to make any money whatsoever. None of these will make you a better Life Coach or attract more clients, but they will help you to be more productive so you have more time to prospect for clients.īy the way, there are no affiliate links in this post. Today, however I’m going to share with you 6 ways of making you’re online life a lot easier, especially if you’re new to all this technology malarkey. I was tempted to replicate it here, but as I’m sure you know Google hates duplicate content, so I abstained. If you’re a Life Coach or soon to be one, I highly recommend you check out.
Earlier this year and before this site was even a glimmer in my eye I wrote a post on my A Daring Adventure called, ’ 12 Mistakes Life Coaches Make’.