Personal technology to imiprove your productivity
If you’re a frequent visitor to this site you may notice a slight change in the tagline in our header graphic. It now says “Save time and accomplish more with your personal technology.” This is a change in the text but not a big change in the path we’ve been on for the past several years. Personally I’m a geek and love technology. Although I am well aware if its limitations and its tendency to get in our way. Our personal technology can do a lot to help us do things faster and more efficiently with greater ease so that we can...
read moreSocial Media Marketing Takes Too Much Time
Every week someone tells me that they would like to use social media marketing but it just takes too much time. What this really means is “I don’t know how and don’t know where to start.” Why are we talking about marketing on a web site about productivity? Well we’re all about saving time and being more effective. You can become much more effective at promoting yourself and your business if you take advantage of social media. To help shortcut the learning curve I asked social media expert, Julia Kline to share...
read more3 Top LinkedIn Tips
Do you have a LinkedIn account that you rarely (or ever) use? If so, you’re in good company. LinkedIn can be a very powerful tool to help you build your personal brand, but many people don’t use it because they don’t know where to start. Like thousands of other professionals, I had a LinkedIn account that was gathering dust. I was confused about just what to do with it and didn’t have time to figure it out. Until I met Crystal Thies of CrystlaClearBuzz. Crystal is a LinkedIn consultant and social media strategist who helps...
read moreRead more with book summaries
Do you need to read more but find you don’t have enough time? Welcome to the club. I’ve been falling way behind in my reading, particularly business books, and have found it difficult to catch up. There are so many good business books being released that it’s impossible to pick the right ones let alone read all of them. So how do you keep abreast of the latest yet still have time for everything else you have to do? You might want to try a book summary service. Last week I happened to meet Dan Pfister a principle at The...
read moreGet your point across faster with Jing
have you ever tried to explain something verbally or written that would be faster and easier with a screen capture or even a short video? It’s easy to do with Jing, the free screen capture and screen recording software from Techsmith. Here’s a short video that shows you how it works and how to get...
read moreMultitasking is a Myth – Here’s a good resource
If you’ve listened to even a little of my training you know I harp about the evils perils of attempting to multitask. You can’t actually do two things at once you can only switch quickly between them, "switchtasking" it’s been called. I won’t repeat myself here, but I will refer you to an excellent discussion about the subject that took place on the Marketing Online Live podcast a few weeks ago. This episode has nothing to do with online marketing so if you have no interest in this subject fear...
read moreAbout our WishList Member Site
New membership site development service – WishList Master. Since we began to offer our online Outlook program I’ve received a number of inquires about how we made it happen. It seems many of our readers have produced content like training, articles, coaching or consulting services that lend themselves to online deliver Here’s a quick explanation how our system is put together. Workload Master is a very special kind of blog called a membership site. This simply means that someone must be a registered member (or...
read moreAre you spending, investing or wasting your time?
When you begin to think of your time as an asset (like money) you begin to think differently about how you are using it. Try to apply common money terminology to determine if we are making the best use of yours. First a major distinction. You can always get more money (or any other resource for that matter). But you can never get any more time. You get what you get and that’s it. Invest…Spend….Waste We tend to use the term “spend” when we think about how we use our time. But that’s not quite true. For...
read moreIncrease Your Creativity
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta During physical activity, your mind is stimulated and potentially very creative; yet few people take full advantage of this opportunity. Use the time you spend doing physical work or exercising to come up with new ideas or resolve problems. When you do come up with solution ideas immediately pause to jot them down. So don’t just “zone out” when doing something physical, use that increased blood flow to harness the power of your mind. Have a great week! -...
read moreHome Office Time Management Survey Results
Just before the holidays I used Survey Monkey to conduct a time management survey among people who work form home. Since then many of the participants asked to see the results, so please accept my apologies for the delay. However it took this long to get enough responses. My objective going into this was to determine the market potential for a home-based specific time management course. For that reason can’t share the results of those questions at this time. However the most interesting results came from questions I’m happy to...
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