<p>In the course of your business you will come into contact with many people, only a certain number of whom will become customers. One of the key ways to maximise your efforts in networking is to make sure you're collecting their details of every new face that comes across your inbox.</p><p>I've mentioned EverContact a couple of times in this series as it is very useful as a set-and-forget way to collect names from emails. But the standard service only runs once every 24 hours, and if you're into keeping up-to-the-minute records like I am, it's a little too long to wait.</p><p>This week I have been trialling EverContact's browser plugin which immediately adds a contact from any text you select. The text doesn't have to be an email signature it can be on a PDF or web page. Just select the words and click the plugin button in the browser menu and a window appears with the data displayed for you to approve.</p><p>To date it's the fastest method I've discovered for adding contacts to your address book in Gmail (or Google Apps). Users have the option of adding the customer to Google Contacts or to the address book on their computer (a Mac in my case). The latter downloads a .vcf file which on a Mac will add itself to Apple's Address Book when opened.</p><p><a href="http://boxfreeit.com.au/2014/01/22/the-fastest-way-to-add-contacts-to-gmail/">Keep reading...</a></p>