Denise Lee Porter

I am the most disorganized entrepreneur on the planet. I have great ideas that I never actually do anything about since I am always too busy to do what I should be doing (did that make sense to you? cause I think I just confused myself).  I sometimes feel like I am just spinning my wheels, accomplishing nothing, and definitely not making good use of  the 24 hours that I am gifted with each day.

My son Rahsheen started writing about GTD over a year ago and did of course introduce me to every single tool and application that he came across. I finally made the  switch to GMAIL (since Comcast was frickin useless to me as a business owner) and adopted Google Docs, Mozy, and My DropBox as my “cloud computing” tools.

Unfortunately, applications are only as good as the person using them and my self-diagnosed ADD causes me to forget what I should be doing and even where I stored my task list!  I would keep notepad open and write my thoughts, ideas and daily tasks there -  I now have 50 or more of these lists orphaned on all the laptops that I have used in the past year ( and one or two on Google Docs). Needless to say, I have not been getting very many things done.

Recently Rahsheen mentioned Manymoon in passing and I decided to give it a shot. Manymoon “allows you to track your tasks and projects online”, so it’s basically project management software, but not as cumbersome as a tool like Microsoft Project for example.  At the time I had just taken on several projects and was in a state of confusion as to what I should be doing for each and when /how I would get them done.  I took a look at Manymoon found it aesthetically pleasing and created a project and some tasks but had some trouble , so I sent them feedback.  I was pleased when they responded several times  via email ( but I had already determined that the trouble was due to operator error).

Two weeks ago I got an email  from Amit Kulkarni at Manymoon customer service asking if I was interested in seeing a demo of the new version that they were working on.  Of course I said “Yes” and he called  me late on a Friday afternoon to do a demo. He  showed us (Rahsheen was jealous and got on the phone with me -:) the different options they were considering and asked us which changes we found more useful and what we liked or disliked about the various designs.

Let me stop here to explain why I am telling you all of this.  If you are a marketer of any sort, what Amit did should resonate with you. He made a personal call  to me an average (and heretofore unknown) user of his internet product, showed me things that others hadn’t seen yet, made me feel that the company really cared what I thought about the product, and gave me a say in the future design and therefore direction of Manymoon!  Because he  involved me in the creative process I am now more interested in the success of the product, and definitely more likely to use it and tell friends and co-workers about it!

Right now I am using Manymoon to get focused, I create projects, assign tasks to each project assign people  to each task  and so on. The cool thing is that Manymoon integrates with Google Apps, so I can pull documents over from Google Docs and add tasks to Google calendar.  Not only that, but I can send emails to task@manymoon.com and the email shows up as a task, I can use this for marketing, keeping track of  prospects, and keeping on top of emails that require some action on my part.  That’s what my world needs now,  seamless integration so that I can finally get things done.

As someone  who has a home-based business, a full-time job, and multiple blogging duties, Manymoon is  a great addition to my bag of tricks. Imagine what you can do with Manymoon and go do it!