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Attention Members of the Media
Peggy Duncan is a personal productivity expert and is  available for interviews. She has experience on all platforms. Topics include business organization, time management, end-user technology, computer training, starting and running a business, Internet meetings, and using a virtual assistant. She does not do home organization, but she can discuss using business principles to run a household.

Please contact her at or
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Click here for an online media kit of Conquer Email Overload with Better Habits, Etiquette, and Outlook Tips and Tricks.

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Story Ideas

Get organized and manage your time with Outlook: tips and tricks from an expert professional organizer, time management consultant, and computer trainer who combines all these skills.

There is more to email than SPAM. Stories are constantly written about email and SPAM, but what about the good things about email and how it's used as a time management tool when used correctly?

Conquer email overload with Outlook tips and tricks. Also better habits and etiquette. From an organization, time management, and Outlook expert.

Use business principles to manage a household.

How disorganization contributes to one of the
top three reasons businesses fail.

What people contemplating a business need to do
before they quit the day job.

Handling interruptions at work.

Volunteerism can grow your business by putting
you in front of decision makers and enhancing
your credibility.

Calendar of Events (National holidays for media themes)
Media Releases
Peggy's Profile
Photos to Download
Media Appearances

Consider this:

• A moderately disorganized person spends about six weeks a year looking for things in his or her office. 

• In 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported that 68-75% of executives are near burnout. 

• USA Today recently reported that baby boomers cited trying to maintain a balanced life as the major source of their stress.

• American Express conducted a recent survey of small business owners. When asked what type of consultant they'd choose if given one free hour, a time management consultant was the number one choice.

• Gartner reported that untrained employees can take six times longer to complete a task than trained ones. And allowing employees to figure things out on their own can cost employers three times as much as paying for training up front. 

• In 1997, 90% of the calls that came into the Microsoft® Wish Line asked for features that already existed. 

• According to Duncan, so much of this stress and hours spent working is drastically reduced once people honor their goals and values, get organized, streamline processes, and make better use of technology. "People are stressed out, drowning in paperwork, and waste so much time doing everything. And so much of it can be improved with the right kind of training and planning," Duncan says.

Media Releases      CEO Profile    Calendar of Events

      Interview: Atlanta Business Chronicle
TV Report with Crystal Edmonson
"Life After Layoff"

PRINT

Author, Conquer Email Overload with Better Habits, Etiquette, and Outlook Tips and Tricks. This book is written for business people who have hundreds or thousands of messages in the Inbox. Lots of tips and tricks in Outlook, but this book is different from other Outlook books because Peggy incorporates her organization and time management expertise. She not only teaches the reader how to use a feature, but also how to apply it to save time doing everyday work.

Author, Put Time Management to Work: Get Organized, Streamline Processes, Use the Right Technology. A book for busy professionals and small business owners that will help them examine every aspect of how they spend their time and develop ways to stop wasting it.

Author, Just Show Me Which Button to Click!: Computer Training for Busy People. Unlike those big, thick books that overwhelm you, this book is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide that streamlines everything in plain English. Letting you know which buttons to click! And featuring lots of pictures to show you exactly what your screen should look like.

Procrastination: Breaking the Habit
Comercio Magazine, June 2004.

Time Management Tips
0, The Oprah Magazine. April 2004 Issue

The Home Office: Start with Questions and Trash Bags
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. January 2004.

Make More, Work Less and Win the Game
MyBusiness Magazine. August/September 2003.

Embracing Technology
Onyx Magazine. Fall 2003.

10 Ways to Save Time
Fitness Magazine. January 2003.

Time Bandits
PowerPlay, Black Enterprise Magazine. March 2002.

60 Seconds with Peggy Duncan
Atlanta Business Chronicle, September 2001.

Weaning a no-tech manager
Essence Magazine, February 2001.

Cut the Clutter
The Atlanta Business Chronicle, January 2000.

Covered in Clutter
The Washington Times, January 2000.

We've got to stop meeting like this
How to get started (and stop) on time
Competitive Edge Magazine, Sept/Oct 2000.

Efficiency expert teams with Office Depot
The Atlanta Business Chronicle, "Smart Moves" section, June 1999.

Getting organized
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 1999.

Help for messies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Gwinnett, September 1998.

Start the new year in organized fashion
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 1997.

RADIO

Regular Guest, "WorkWorlds Radio Hour"

Former Co-host, "TECHTuesday," WAOK News & Talk Radio, 1380 AM-Atlanta. The show is a call-in show and uses a special computer hook-up to help callers step through their answers. The show helps technology users at different levels, and airs the first Tuesday of each month. 

Interviews: The following radio interviews were discussions on the need for people/businesses to get organized and better computerized.

WTOP (104.1 FM)-Washington DC. "Speaking of Women" with Alicia Dixon. Part I-April 28 and Part II-May 5, 2002.

WAOK-Atlanta. "Unwrapped" with Chris Askew on time management. January 2 and again on January 17, 2002.

KTAR Morning Show, Phoenix, AZ, "Junk e-mail." April 2001.

The Les Brown Morning Show. Magic 107.5 FM. March 2000.

WCNN-AM 680 with Tom Hughes. October 1999.

WSB-AM/FM-Minority Perspective with Condace Pressley. January 1999 (back by popular demand).

WVEE-Business in the Black with Felecia Church. January 1999.

TV

A Woman's Place with Angela Harrington Rice (WAIB-Atlanta). Discussion on new book, Put Time Management to Work. January 02.

Joy in Our Town, TBN. Getting organized for the new year. January 02.

A Woman's Place with Angela Harrington Rice. (WAIB-Atlanta). Discussion on new book, Put Time Management to Work, 11/01.

Atlanta Business Chronicle Report, PBA. Interview with Crystal Edmonson on life after layoff.

A Woman's Place, MediaOne. Interview with Angela Rice and discussed new book.

Inside the Atlanta Tribune, MediaOne-Channel 33. Businesses getting organized.

EyeWitness News-Macon, GA. Discussion on how being disorganized can disrupt a person's entire life and everyone around them.

WEB

Editor, COPE, a free, monthly online magazine for busy people. COPE gets you Clear, Organized, Productive, Efficient, monthly.

(3/12/02 - 3/26/02) "Time Management at Work," an interview on www.about.com with Stress Management Guide, Melissa C. Stoppler, M.D. About.com is one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet (#6). A collection of content-specific pages make up the About.com Network. About.com features more than 450 sites that together cover more than 50,000 topics and feature over 1 million links to the best resources on the Web. Real people called "Guides" who are an expert in their field put the network together. (If the link above has changed, you can find Peggy's interview on the About site if you go to the stress management home page, and click on Time Management (or search on time management).

"7 Ways to Manage E-Mail Overload." Article featured on TechLinks, February 2002.

Articles featured on home page of office.com and allbusiness.com, managing e-mail overload, December 2001.

Quoted in article on teleworking by Jeff Zbar, Network World, December 2001. 

Tips featured in article on getting organized, www.blackenterprise.com, December 2001.

"That mess on your desk." Article featured on TechLinks, May 2001.

Software Savvy. Tips for creating powerful presentations, www.blackenterprise.com, October 1999.

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