Outliners and Money

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 7, 2012 at 09:06 PM

Some years ago, I was organising events for a public environmental body. The events were open, and we usually got 60-70 attendees, from quite specific segments. Once we got around 150, the limit of our small amphitheatre, and from a much broader spectrum. The title of the event was along the lines of “the environment and the economy”. We then realised that if we wanted to bring in more people, all we had to do was to add something related to money in our titles (we refrained from making a habit of it, fortunately).

So, here is a thread I hope will inspire some good discussions, spurred from Reverendmartian’s quote “I rely on that software to do business—-to make money.”

Me too. I can’t say for certain whether I’ve made more money thanks to outliners than if I had spent my time and funds on other tools and activities, but there are quite a lot of things in my job I would have trouble doing without outliners and other PIMs (and they certainly would be much less enjoyable).

I intend to write about a few of these later on, but for the moment if anyone wants to _briefly_ provide their own examples, please be my guest.