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Have you seen the Scary side of Social Media?

   photo by scragz Social media gets lots of hype – some of it’s even justified!  There are more than 400 Million users on Facebook (and they’re spending more time on there than ever before).  Businesses are rapidly jumping on board and starting to figure out how to participate and you can’t swing a cat […]

Meet the Dark Lord of Productivity Issues

   photo by kennymatic At times everyone feels overwhelmed with too much to do and not enough time to do.  A lot of people feel like that all the time – it’s as if the evil dark lord has you in his control and he’s causing you to suffer day after day.  You’re tired at […]

Getting organized in the Google Era

We are drowning in information. The Library of Congress is huge (see picture above).  Did you know it took over 200 years to accumulate all the written material to fill the Library of Congress? The information material created in just the last 10 years on the internet dwarfs that amount…there’s a lot of material coming […]

When’s the last time you sharpened the saw?

   photo by tao_zhyn Habit number seven from Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly effective people is “Sharpen the Saw”.  He uses a story of a woodcutter who is struggling after several days of sawing wood – he’s lost effectiveness because his saw is no longer sharp.  From Covey’s perspective, there are different aspects to […]

Five Keys to Effective Email Marketing

The world has changed a lot – you used to be able to send out letters…direct mail and bring in new business with great success. But costs have gone up, effectiveness of direct mail has gone down and there are lots of other marketing choices out there. One of those choices is email marketing – […]

Are you looking for alternatives?

    photo by Monica’s Dad It’s probably time to start thinking about alternatives – not power alternatives (although that’s a worthwhile discussion as well), I’m talking about alternative Social Media platforms other than Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Facebook is now over 400 Million users and over 80 Million of them are playing Farmville (which may […]