The One Killer Trick that Makes Smartphone Instant Messenger Apps Work for You: Pair them With Your Work Computer.

Emails were good in the year of 2003. But today, emails are no longer good for anything that does not need to go through a formal standardized email process.

Some firms have such standardized email processes. These standardized email processes often stem from the times when there was an incoming mail desk which opened letters and sent out letters, and later was in control of the fax machine.

Whenever someone uses a different way – not snail mail or email – for officially communicating with a firm, problems can arise: communications get overlooked, deadlines are missed because they are not docketed, and more.

Today, in the age of the electronic file, these are no longer good reasons for not using smartphone instant messenger apps.

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