Archive for July, 2012
Twitter has gotten a bad wrap with a lot of people who view it as nothing more than a site designed to waste time. Don’t be too quick to judge however – you may be passing up a powerful tool for your business and career.
I’ve been learning in the last few months that Twitter provides a great place to meet like-minded people, share stories, make personal connections and form business relationships.
The following are the best business and productivity web articles I’ve come across in the past week.
I try to find the stories that won’t waste your time and have the potential to positively impact your business.
I discovered an absolutely killer site the other day that should come in very handy – Fiverr.com. In short, it’s a site that contains products and services offered by people from all over the world.
The best part? All offerings cost only five bucks. It has a reputation for offering a lot of crazy services, but amongst the nuttiness are some great services that can help your business.
The following are the best business and productivity web articles I’ve come across in the past week.
I try to find the stories that won’t waste your time and have the potential to positively impact your business.
I was doing a bit of brainstorming about the direction of Taming Life over the weekend and something struck me as really important. We know that time is money in the world of business, but that concept is even more applicable to readers of your blog.
Just like money, time is a limited resource. Readers can choose to spend it on your blog or spend it elsewhere, just like money in the marketplace. The question then, is how can you get them to spend their limited time with you?
There’s been a lot of buzz over the past couple years regarding the question and answer site Quora. Even though it’s popular in some circles, I still encounter a lot of people who’ve never heard of it.
Quora was created by a couple former Facebook employees and is a site where users can post questions on just about any topic. ‘’Experts’ with knowledge of the subject post answers. As with many social content sites like Reddit and Digg, answers are voted on and the best float to the top.
Quora originated in Silicon Valley and has since almost become part of the culture of the Valley. Because of this, it contains lots of interesting questions about starting up a business, keeping it going, getting funding, and the like.
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The following are the best business and productivity web articles I’ve come across in the past week.
I try to find only the stories that won’t waste your time and have the potential to positively impact your business.
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When you start a business, especially in the early going, you have to do everything yourself simply because there’s no one else around to do it.
However, as your time gets stretched more and more, you’re going to realize that something’s got to change. You’ve got to start being smarter about how you spend the little time you have and examine the role you’re in.
An essential part of growing the business is figuring out a way to start delegating more and focus more on strategic direction rather than performing manual or routine tasks.
One way to do this is to start using virtual workers.
Getting a business off the ground requires a lot more than just a good idea and some luck. It requires intestinal fortitude, a will of steel, infinite patience and unstoppable persistence.
The good news is that if you have those things, it’s a cake walk.
