If your a young entrepreneur still in education be it high school, college, university or perhaps already have a job elsewhere and need to keep on top of your own startup business or freelance job then keeping on top of your emails and to-do items is a must when travelling about. Here are some tips and applications that are used by the Entrepreneur Student:

A must have is a reliable email provider and if you are serious about your business then its best look look more professional than using a Hotmail or Yahoo email address so first things first go grab a professional looking domain name if you haven’t already. Now go ahead and setup email with your provider either POP/IMAP, but for the most feature rich option then look for a company that can provide you with a Microsoft Hosted Exchange email solution such as iBox-Security (quote ES4 for a free month of exchange email) or Rackspace who offer a more expensive package but have great support.

What a Hosted Exchange email service allows you to do is not only receive your emails instantly without the need to keep hitting refresh or check mail as they are PUSHED to all your connected devices/computers at once. This also works with your contacts address book, task list and calendar. In our case each member has a laptop for work, home computer and mobile phone (in my case an Apple iPhone) so all that is needed is to add your Exchange email account to your computers, laptops and phones which lets you get all your emails, calendar events and contacts up to date every time there is a change.

Now when you meet a new business lead and you are out of the office simply add their contact details to your phone and instantly they are added to your address book on your laptop and pc allowing you to later email your new lead as soon as you get back to the office.

Email is a great tool if you use it correctly and efficiently, the next post in this series will talk about phone applications for better productivity.