Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Are You Labeling Your Legal Nurse Consulting Tools?

Just about every Certified Legal Nurse Consultant owns a cell phone and some lucky CLNC^® consultants even own iPhones^® or Droid^® phones. More and more of you are purchasing laptop computers for your legal nurse consulting businesses and I’ve even run into a few Certified Legal Nurse Consultants traveling with an iPad^®. What’s the common thread here? At one time or another, one of these fellow CLNC^® travelers will put down their precious device and walk away from it. It’s not a matter of “if,” it’s a matter of “when.” It may be at an airport security checkpoint, on an airplane, at a legal conference or even in a restroom.

Other than buying a leash, tether or lanyard for your phone or laptop, what can you do? Easy, get yourself a Brother Home and Office Labeler. At just under $20, this will allow you to print labels of varying sizes. Simply put your name and phone number (Not your mobile number if it’s on your mobile phone – Duh!), maybe your office address (never your home) plus the phrase “Reward for Safe Return” on a label. Put the label on the top of the laptop or back of the iPod. Put a label on the inside too, near the laptop’s keyboard. For your cell phone, put the label on the back or on the inside of the battery cover.

This won’t guarantee that you’ll get your device back, but if you leave it at the airport or somewhere else, there’s a chance that a good Samaritan will call you to return it to you or even turn it in to “lost and found.”

For any CLNC^® consultants who don’t want to use their own name on the label, you can use a service like StuffBak™. They will provide you with customized, hard-to-remove aluminum property tags marked not just with the eye-catching word REWARD, but with StuffBak’s phone number and your owner’s assigned serial number. The labels are hard to remove (put more than one on larger items) and “found” lost items can be reported 24/7. With this service you’ll get your items back pretty quickly – if they’re turned in. StuffBak offers a $20 reward per returned item and you can supplement the reward yourself if an item is important enough to you. Again, this won’t guarantee that you’ll get your treasure back but it surely increases your chances.

In today’s mobile world, labeling your legal nurse consulting business’s tools are the best way to help keep those tools from going too mobile on their own. As an added bonus, I’ve found my Brother labeler to be handy in the office and at home. I’ve labeled computer cabling, stereo and TV connections and even Vickie’s precious orchids. You’ll find all sorts of business uses. It’s a tool that keeps on giving and the labeling fun never ends!

Keep on techin,
Tom