By Kip Gregory

Scanning headlines is a critical part of keeping up with news and events affecting you and your business, but did you realize that just 15 minutes a day reviewing articles in the Wall Street Journal or other sources consumes more than a week's worth of time each year?

If your daily ritual includes skimming a variety of morning papers or websites for valuable or time-sensitive information, take a look at Quickbrowse, a subscription-based service that will collect and deliver content to you by email from different sites—all on a single page.

Build and save as many collections as you like, and update them whenever you want.

Follow these three steps to get started with this terrific tool:

1. Visit Quickbrowse to open an account.
Click on "Try It!" and select a subscription account ($12.95 for 3 months), a free (and fully functional) 14-day trial account, or a corporate account (discounted for 3 or more users), then follow the setup instructions.

2. Customize your content.
After login, decide what Web content to collect using the MyQuickbrowse feature. Pick from 15 popular news sites or add other webpages you want to review regularly; then click on the Quickbrowse button to scroll through your customized collage of sites. Build and save as many of these collections as you like, and update them whenever you want. You can even add sites to existing collections while surfing, with buttons that can be inserted into your browser's toolbar.

3. Set up a delivery schedule.
One of best features Quickbrowse offers is delivery of your collections automatically by email--daily, weekly or whenever a site's content changes. This means one less thing for you or your staff to remember when looking for nuggets of knowledge that can give you a time or information advantage.

Quickbrowse is a great tool for keeping tabs on news of top clients, tracking press releases on target companies (like layoff or retirement announcements--think money in motion), monitoring market commentaries from various analysts, watching the competition and more. How many different uses you discover for Quickbrowse is limited only by your imagination.

Kip Gregory, principal of The Gregory Group, is a consultant, trainer and speaker on marketing, sales and technology issues for the financial services industry. He can be contacted at 202-364-6913 or by email at kip@gregory-group.com. To sign up to receive his technology tips, visit http://kipgregory.com and click on "Register for Kip's Tips."

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