We are super excited to share an early design of what Handy Elephant will soon look like with you!

Our powerful new app sees the addition of some pretty awesome features (though we say so ourselves!) Handy Elephant will, very soon, be covering every aspect of your multi-channel comms enabling you to avoid the dreaded communication overload.

We waste so much of our valuable time keeping up with the inevitable deluge of daily comms across a multitude of channels. Doing it one by one, having to read all the unimportant bits and having cluttered interfaces makes it even worse. Handy Elephant provides you with a single slick interface across all channels allowing you to move instantly from one message to the next – bash through your communications like never before.

Revised Handy Elephant multi-channel interface

Our goal is for your Handy Elephant to empower you to effortlessly manage your comms regardless of channel with the world’s fastest messaging interface! With each of your actions available to you with a single click (or even keyboard shortcut), you will quickly and easily be able to engage with your contacts across all channels.

Zero overload.

We would love to hear what you think of it and how we could improve it further  With your input Handy Elephant continues to evolve!

Go to beta.handyelephant.com to transform your email productivity today… (more…)

Social Network

When it comes to networking, most people think of going to events and building new relationships. While this kind of socialising is getting talked about a lot, we do spend most of our social time with the “strong ties” in our network – people who we have a strong and stable relationship with, like family and friends.

Credit to Meer

It seems we have a mental limit when it comes to relationships.  Once upon a time, an anthropologist by the name of Robin Dunbar theorised that a person can have a maximum number of 150 ‘stable relationships’ at any one time in their life.

Anyone outside this circle becomes an acquaintance rather than a friend- people you remember, but who aren’t currently active in your life.

But I have 563 friends on Facebook, and although I rarely speak to Jane anymore we were inseparable for about 10 years during school!  Yet Dunbar would describe the likes of Jane, and other important inactive relationships, as ‘dormant’, residing outside the circle of 150. (more…)

Credit to Marc Falardeau

Handy Elephant would like to thank all its users and officially welcome you to the app that will transform your work productivity without you ever having to lift a finger!

So what is Handy Elephant?

Well let’s start with the problem:

These days most jobs involve the maintenance and growth of important relationships. Salespeople and recruiters are prime examples, but for most business professionals, success can all too often hang on the subtle maintenance of good relationships, whoever they may be with.

However this can be very tricky to get right, especially now that the number of communication channels take multiple forms (e.g. phone, SMS, twitter, facebook to name the usual culprits…). Not only is basic maintenance of relationships harder now due to the sheer mass of them.

But overkill is also easy which can be just as detrimental to a long term important contact. We are all guilty of leaving 7 missed calls and texting and emailing when we need an urgent response. But this is not always effective, and can sometimes leave an unbalanced, therefore bad impression.

So we oh so kindly came up with the answer your problem… (more…)

My name is Sarah and I have just joined the Handy Elephant on the marketing and business development frontier.

The last couple of months have been a hell of a ride for Handy Elephant; we have made some exciting developments that shall be revealed to you all very soon! (more…)