Do you have a memory like a sieve?

This is a conversation about checklists.

I got this email from a customer this morning:

"I can't tell you how often I've done this: "hurry, hurry - send this eBlast" and then I forget to update the text version!!!!!!!!!!!"

It reminded me of a political campaign I was working on in 2006. 
  We mailed out a postcard that had no contact information printed. On a second mailing we forgot our website.

We immediately instituted a checklist system for ALL outgoing communications (email or printed).  That checklist was followed each and every time. 

Problem solved.
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