Improve Your Life: Backpack, Highrise and Bradtastic!
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I use both Backpack and Highrise… I wouldn’t offer them if I didn’t agree with them. I could actively promote Basecamp as well, but I don’t personally use it. I know it works for a lot of businesses and helps them to be more productive; but I don’t (yet, at least) use its power and I want to personally be able to take a little bit of time to walk people through the services, my reasoning for the tools and how I personally use ‘em.
If you’re wondering “Why the hell would I need these services?!” please just ask me. Strike up a conversation; send me an email, find me on instant messenger, whisper me at Rejaw. If you’re just wondering why you should use my links, well… it could save you some, it’ll be a better use of time, it’ll make your experience better… and it’s an easy way to say “thanks” for showing you a huge game-changing time-saver. I’ll likely make less than a few dollars from it, it won’t cost you anything extra, either.
These tools have changed my life; these services change and improve businesses everyday, 37signals makes products that increase productivity and cost costs dramatically. On top of that, their stuff is fun!
How much time and money are you willing to spend to make your life dramatically better? How much is that worth to you? What if it doesn’t take that much time or cost that much money? Let me show you what I know—you can always change your mind.
While BackPack and HighRiseHQ haven’t exactly changed my life, I can definitely see both of them doing so in the future.
Whereas my first few encounters with both services left me unimpressed, my recent re-discovery of BackPack and HighRiseHQ really blew my mind and made me think “what the heck was I missing out on?”
Oh yes– and I can also safely say that Bradtastic is lifechanging. That, he most certainly is.
I’ve signed up with both Backpack and Highrise, and am in the process of adding my contacts onto the latter.
Backpack’s calendar feature seems particularly iuseful; I may invest in the full version when I get my paycheck.