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How To Build & Destroy Your Brand On The Web

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Books I Like, Communications, Social Media, Tips, strategy

Gerry McGovern provides this week’s guest article. You build a brand on the Web one click at a time. You destroy your brand by wasting your customers’ time. I am a customer of a number of banks. I judge these banks, at least partly, by the experience I have with them online. I used to [...]

12 Steps To Getting Started as a Consultant

February 24th, 2010 · View Comments · Books I Like, Career, Communications, How To, Linkedin

Most people think it’s difficult start a career as a business consultant. I used to think the same in my early 20s when I started in IT. In retrospect, I should have made more efforts to establish myself as a consultant earlier; the benefits certainly outweigh the downsides. As luck would have it, I was [...]

7 Ideas to Inspire Your Business & Laser Focus Your Blog

January 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Career, Communications, How To, Productivity

Denise Wakeman asks, “How am I going to come up with fresh content for my blog three times a week?” She lists some excellent ideas designed to help save you time and stimulate some new ideas. Here are some others you might want to consider.

How To Make 200 Extra Minutes Every Week & Leave The Office Before Everyone Else

November 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity

Looking for time-saver tips? This works. I get between 60-200 emails every day. 60 is low. Once I got over 480. As I run my own business, every minute is counted. Even when I worked 9-5, I kept a tight control of my email. If you don’t control it, it’ll control you. What I want [...]

Chris Brogan: If You Intend To Blog Seriously

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Social Media

Image via Wikipedia Chris Brogan writes: Blogs are not traditional media, and bloggers are not journalists. Unless they are. But it’s not a requirement. A blog is software. It’s something one puts up on the web to capture information, of whatever type one wants to put on there, and thus, if anyone tells you that [...]

How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format

October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity

Image by jonathansin via Flickr Do you want to update your blog every day? Chris Brogan provides this framework for writing a blog post (almost) every day. He adds that while it’s not easy, once you develop the right habits, they stick with you. I’m writing quite regularly now, but it took me several years [...]

How to Get Your Email Answered

October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Books I Like, How To, Microsoft Excel, Productivity

Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone. He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would [...]