Scan Those Flyers Before You Fly from Your Next Web Conference
Here is an extremely useful tip that WILL save you money during your next conference.
This tip can really be applied to any conference or trade event.
Before you pack all those flyers and information packets up into your suit case, be aware that all that paper will make your bags heavier and will likely force you to either check your bags (and pay one of those new fees that range from $20 – $100 dollars) or it will increase the amount of fuel the airlines burn flying you and your stuff to your next destination which will drive airline rates up in general for you and for everyone.
There’s a simple technology fix to this problem.
Scan that stuff in to your computer!
Its never been easier. For one thing, the easy convenient and low tech way to do this is to simply take a digital picture of all those pages.
You can do this one page at a time or set your camera on the highest resolution, layout all those flyers on your hotel bed, and take a single picture. Then later on down the road you can crop the individual items into single pages.
Alternatively, before you even carry that stuff back to your room, making your back, shoulders and feet groan, ask for a digital copy at the booth, or take your picture at the source of the offending handout provider!
If you are made out of money and you do like lugging lots of stuff around then I’m sure you will be just fine investing in some Johnston and Murphy luggage and organizers and paying a small fortune to fly a dead tree or two around the country in your bags.
But I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that when you get that paper pile back to your home or office that it will just sit there for a while until you ultimately recycle it anyway. In my next article, I’ll share a complimentary tip to make the scanning of this paperwork actually useful for you in addition to a money saver.
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