On today's podcast, Howard grills Kevin about the do's and don'ts of text-based coaching.

When do you ask questions? When do you offer suggestions. How do you deal with the time delays, the lack of auditory and visual cues, and the shortened SMS format? And how can you use technology to become more efficient when writing the same things over and over again?

Here are the apps Howard uses to increase efficiency:

Text Expander: https://textexpander.com/ (Mac/Windows/Linux/Chrome/iOS)

CopyPaste Pro: https://plumamazing.com/product/copypaste-pro-for-mac/ (Mac only) There's a Windows equivalent called Ditto https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ that's open source and free, and we haven't tried it.

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