Category: Productivity
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Front loading your day
Ever wish you could be more productive, get more done, work without distraction, or waste less time each day? There’s an interesting answer to this problem if you’re willing and able to do it – front loading your day. Something funny happens to East Coasters when we come to the West Coast. Our days automatically…
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Productivity Tip: BANT on the inside
Those people who are familiar with the world of sales know the term BANT intimately. For those who have not done selling as a profession, it’s an acronym from enterprise B2B sales that helps sales professionals assess a lead’s quality. The term stands for: Budget: Can the lead afford our product? Authority: Is the lead…
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How I get more stuff done
In my newsletter this weekend, I talked a bit about the benefits of improving focus. As I’ve added client work to what I do, the number and frequency of deadlines and deliverables has multiplied far beyond what I had when I was just doing marketing for one brand, so managing those without breaking any promises…
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What Mists of Pandaria teaches us about paralysis of choice
Dr. Barry Schwartz is famous for his TED talk about explaining the paradox of choice: when faced with too many choices, often we choose none. Nowhere is this highlighted more than in the new World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria. Once you reach level 90, you’re presented with a buffet of different choices for…
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Unsolicited Review: Mailstrom
If there’s one addiction I have in the productivity space, it’s constantly looking for better, more effective, faster email productivity apps. Baltimore startup Mailstrom made it onto my radar scope recently via Greg Cangialosi, and it’s pretty darned awesome. What does it do? In short, it lets you take a very fast first pass at…
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The simplest productivity feature in Evernote I didn’t know
If you’re an avid fan of the Evernote application, then you’ll appreciate this little-publicized feature that someone pointed out to me. Take any text list on either your mobile Evernote or your desktop Evernote and hit the checkbox button, once at the beginning of each line, and voila! Instant checklist that you can tap or…
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Mailbag: organizing the workday
Justin Levy asked on Facebook: Also, as a follow up to your daily reading workflow post, I’m always interested in seeing how people organize their days and knowing you, it’s organized for optimal productivity. Great question. First and foremost, I make religious use of my calendar. I use Google Calendar as my central taskmaster hub,…
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How do I get started…?
If I had to rank the questions I’m asked at conferences and online, probably the single most asked question I’m asked is in the form of “How do I get started X”, where X is SEO, affiliate marketing, social media, Twitter, Google Analytics, etc. Fortunately, there’s an answer for you (and it’s not “Let me…
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10 ideas for your monthly reboot
Every month, I typically start with a few tweets to friends and followers asking if you’ve cleaned out your inbox. Generally, I like to say that if you haven’t read mail from the first of the previous month, just archive it now since you’re not getting to it. However, my monthly maintenance routine is slightly…
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Increase productivity by doing 50% less
I’ve noticed something funny about toilet paper dispensers over the years. Some facilities, in order to save money, switch to really cheap toilet paper that seems to inspire the need to just use more of the stuff. As I’ve never worked in facilities management, I have no idea whether they actually save that much money…