Category: the5

  • Mind Readings: Doing More with Less and More AI

    Summary In today's episode, I challenge the corporate mantra of "do more with less" by arguing the real answer is to simply stop doing useless work in the first place. Here's what this means for you. Cutting unproductive activities like unnecessary meetings, cover-your-ass reporting, and office politics can reclaim half your workload without any new…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Curation Tactics?

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through effective ways to do content curation, comparing manual and automated workflows and showing why purpose beats tool selection every time. Here's what this means for you. You stop wasting hours on curation that produces no measurable result by defining your purpose and performance metrics before picking any software.…

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  • #the5 for the week ending December 24, 2010

    [the5intro] #the5: @whatcounts webinar: 9 Email Marketing Problems (and How to Fix Them in 2011) https://bit.ly/gS7X1M #the5: Latest toys from the Google Labs https://bit.ly/gxHzI7 #the5: @marketingcharts on Small Business Owner Optimism Surges https://bit.ly/dMMyy2 #the5 @finchsells on Nobody Cares How Much Money You Make https://bit.ly/hVxej7 #the5: @revenews on The New Age of Predictive Analysis https://bit.ly/gkLggG #the5:…

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  • #the5 for the week ending December 17, 2010

    [the5intro] Bonus item for #the5, one of mine. Passwords are not enough: https://cspenn.com #the5: WordPress Plugin that tells you if any of your readers are on the Gawker Hacker List https://bit.ly/gPjN6H #the5: Very cool: the WordPress printable gift certificate plugin: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Two powerful email signup form ideas on the @whatcounts blog: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Sixth…

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  • #the5 for the week ending November 26, 2010

    [the5intro] #the5: The @seomoz litmus test for evaluating an SEO professional: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Stunningly inaccurate comparison data for competitive intelligence, says @seomoz: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Stephen K. Hayes on building compassion: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: Psychology Today suggests you reconsider Doing More With Less for employers: https://www.christopherspenn.com/youve-discovered-the-missing-link/ #the5: One of mine, what World of Warcraft can teach us…

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