I was all excited back on March 13, 2013 when I sat down to write my next blog post. I had been wanting to get this out there for a while and especially since I had specifically discussed doing it with Charlie Russel I knew that he would be excited about it. We had talked about doing a post on Google Reader and RSS feeds in general to help people understand what they were, how they worked, and ...
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Are to do lists really useful? Do they help us or hurt us? I suppose the safe answer is that like anything in life if we use them properly they can be useful. Melissa Galt recently put out a blog post in which she offered a tip for how to break up you to do lists into bite sized chunks that you can easily digest and accomplish.
Melissa suggests starting with a piece of legal size notepad paper and then ...
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When I recently interviewed Eric Pulaski, CEO and Founder of SmartVault I was blown away by what SmartVault can do.
I have used and still do use several file sharing services including Drop Box, ShareFile, and Google Drive. ShareFile is expensive and I have been looking for an alternative to it for some time. The key to ShareFile for me was that I was able to have a branded login portal through which I could send and receive files ...
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The best way to learn and retain information is based on the way YOU think!
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Try The Brain Here:
It’s that time again when everybody is thinking. We’re thinking about how to wrap up last year and we’re thinking about the year to come. If only you could create a map of your mind to keep track of all of your ideas! With so many goals in so many areas, ...
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The Sleeter Conference is starting tomorrow night!
www.sleeterconference.com
I was excited and with a head full of ideas I couldn’t sleep so I thought, “WHY NOT RECORD A VIDEO ABOUT HOW I’M GETTING ORGANIZED?!!!!”
So here is a bit on Evernote as well as the conference schedule and what I am thinking about in terms of looking ahead and making some decisions about what I want to accomplish while I am there.
A while back I was playing around with If This ...
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In the previous segment on how to stay productive in this social media world I showed you how to use MS Excel to lay out a simple model for tracking your billable time in a way that helps you stay focused throughout your day to be sure you are earning the minimum that you want to each day in order to reach your goals. That segment focused mostly on what this looks like if you charge by the hour. ...
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For those of us who bill by the hour it comes down to billable time. Then there are those of us whose job it is to bring in new business. So we set our goals a little differently. How much in new business are you bringing in? This can be looked at annually and then broken down to monthly and if it helps, even daily numbers. I have found that when I have my own system built around this ...
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Listening is becoming the key marketing skill these days and as the technology develops this critically important skill will become increasingly more important. There are those who want to push a message and then those who want to drive people in to hear what they have to say. The “listeners” will build tribes. The “pushers” will create sales channels of people who will mostly be annoyed by them. Which side of this do you want to be on? I thought ...
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My wife was fired from her job yesterday. Why? Simple. She “..cares too much.” I am not making this up. I couldn’t make this up. She was called in to her.. well I am not sure what his role is there. He is an entertainment lawyer, or he’s a musician, or maybe he is just the wife of the vet who runs the animal hospital where my wife used to work. Whatever he is (and no it wasn’t an accident ...
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How do you keep up with everyone?
Join me live tonight on Google Plus or YouTube for an interview with Jon Ferrara, CEO and founder of Nimble.com.
First you have family members that don’t even really DO online, right? They probably have a Facebook account like my parents do but good luck ever communicating with them through it.
Where is YOUR home ...
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