Example Uses for AwayFind
And to help explain this to your Contacts…
Not everyone will be familiar with the concept of AwayFind at first. You will probably want to provide context within your auto response message for both getting to your AwayFind page and explaining how accessible you want to be. To get you started, AwayFind offers auto response message templates. Within your account screens, you’ll be able to access:
- Day-to-day templates
- Business travel templates
- Vacation templates
- And more!
Do you sit down at your desk each morning dreading the sight of your inbox? Tired of wasting the most productive hours of your day answering emails?
Use an auto response message with a link to your AwayFind account to inform people of when and how you can be reached
Use AwayFind to
text message any urgent communications to you (or others) while you’re not checking email
Use AwayFind to route messages to others, in order to delegate important issues while you continue to do your own work
Is much of your day spent on the road with customers and clients? Worried that your BlackBerry thumb might become a permanent disability?
Use AwayFind’s secure online inbox, which gives you an overview of time-sensitive messages (so you don’t need to read the hundreds in your email Inbox just yet)
Use AwayFind to text message any urgent communications to you (or others) while you’re away from your email
Use AwayFind to route messages to others, in order to delegate important issues while you’re away from your desk
Do you need to get away from it all? Afraid that you never will, since there are some issues at work that people seem to think only you can solve?
Use AwayFind’s secure online inbox to keep an eye on critical developments without having to read the hundreds of other messages in your Inbox
Use AwayFind to route messages to others, so that important issues get automatically delegated while you’re away
If you’re really worried, you can use AwayFind to have any urgent communications sent to you via text message
If you’re self employed or work in a small office
Whenever you’ve tried to escape the office in the past, you’ve lacked the luxury of saying "Contact [Someone who is not me] for any emergencies" in your voicemail and email messages. But now, you can use AwayFind to send a text message to your cell phone for any emergencies and really travel without checking email.
The following are alternate uses of AwayFind.
Go ahead, have fun with it.To get voicemail emergencies
Add the following to your voicemail greeting, "If this is an emergency, please visit awayfind.com/mypage and I’ll get back to you much sooner." This provides all the same benefits of using AwayFind with email (see above).
As a very powerful company contact form
AwayFind not only serves as an easy and professionally branded contact form for your company, but it also offers advanced routing and notification options that would take a great deal of effort to develop on your own. While it’s not very difficult to create your own company contact form, spending even a single hour on such a task for a web developer would be equivalent to the cost of about two years of AwayFind service.
If you’re, like, really important
Let’s be honest: you don’t have time for most of the little people who are emailing you. Use AwayFind to filter out that detritus (you’re important, you know what that word means) but let the important stuff get to you.
- On your website/ business cards/ assorted paraphernalia, publish an email address that only your assistants check
- Create an AwayFind auto response for that email address
- Optional: To further screen people, have them answer a really difficult validation question that involves integrals and Pig Latin
Have a creative way that you use AwayFind? Send us a note at stories@awayfind.com. If we publish it, you’ll get three months on your Professional Plan! Sweet!
