Don't do phone calls
Conference calls and other phone calls can consume a lot of time. Mark Olson from Adwire Media says that he can answer 50 client emails in the time he can take one phone call.
It's less time consuming to answer 100 to 150 emails per day than to have 100 to 150 phone calls per day.
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