Category: Productivity
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Mind Readings: Be Ruthlessly Efficient With Your Time
In today’s episode, we talked about being more efficient and ruthlessly efficient with your time. We discussed setting time boundaries and enforcing them, making use of small time slices throughout the day, and reducing the time spent on activities that don’t help you reach your goals. Lastly, we recommended being assertive with those who waste…
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You Ask, I Answer: Scheduling Availability When Working From Home?
Sarah asks, “QUESTION: WITH SO MANY OF US WORKING FROM HOME RIGHT NOW, HOW DO YOU COMMUNICATE AVAILABILITY TO YOUR CLIENTS AND SET EXPECTATIONS ON RESPONSE TIME?” Use great calendaring software that offers allocated blocks of time. You set your working hours first, then set up what size windows you want to offer. Your calendaring…
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You Ask, I Answer: Scaling Content Curation?
Jen asks, “How do you curate content for your social media channels?” I have a list of trusted sources, about 150 of them, that I bring into a SQL database. I run several scripts to vacuum up the article text, index it, and then run natural language processing to identify the contents. After that, I…
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How Deep Are Your Reserves?
The line between success and failure is sometimes how long you can remain in the game. In competition, how many competitors can you outlast? In general business, how long you can remain profitable? In startups, how long can you make your funding last? In marketing, how fast you can go without burning out? To accomplish…
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You Ask, I Answer: Tools for Storing Valuable Information?
Alessandra asks, “How do you keep/store/index all the information you read, and I am sure you read A LOT, that might be useful for future presentations/consulting/business development activities?” Terrific question – it depends on what the information is. Photos: Google Photos. The AI is unbeatable. Notes: Evernote. Short ideas: Apple Reminders. Mind maps: Mindnode maps…
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Great Customer Service in One Slide
Service is the dominant form of industry these days. Everything is a service; in fact, -as-a-service is appended to an enormous number of industries. We have software-as-a-service. (the online apps economy) We have platform-as-a-service. (the API economy) We have vehicles-as-a-service. (the ridesharing companies) We have space-as-a-service. (home and office timesharing apps) Yet how many of…
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Do You Keep a Marketing Swipe File?
If you’ve not spent a lot of time around your creative services team members, you may have never heard the term swipe file before. A swipe file is a collection, a scrapbook of materials that have worked, arranged in such a way to inspire you and give you future ideas. Done properly, it can be…
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How to Use Your Music To Find Your Inner Superheroes
In the martial arts, we spend a lot of time learning how to face and deal with difficult situations, dangerous enemies, and unpredictable challenges. However, the worst, most dangerous enemies we often face are ourselves. We get in our own way. We sabotage ourselves. We make things more difficult than they have to be. We…
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How to manage workflow with sticky notes
On Twitter, Ana Canhoto asked about the stickies on the wall near my desk: Indeed it is. It’s a system knows as the Eisenhower Priority Matrix. I recorded a short video explaining it: Try it out for yourself. It just takes some sticky notes and masking tape to get set up. No expensive system, no…
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What’s my favorite mobile app?
Laura Pezzotta asked: For my favorite mobile app? There are so many to choose from, but if I had to pick the Swiss army knife I use more than most, it’d be Evernote. Why Evernote? Versatility. It’s a document scanner, which comes in handy. It’s a whiteboard capture utility. It’s dictation software (especially when wired…
