We all have a guilty secret. All of yours I will not know, but I’d be willing to guess that you’re an Internet addict. I know I am, and it’s been getting worse. Wait a minute. Why am I talking about the Internet as if it’s such a bad thing? It’s not a donut dipped […]
When I was working as a newspaper reporter in Atlanta, my commute used to be the distance from the bedroom to the home office. When I lived in Hong Kong as a television reporter, that distance expanded to 15 minutes. Nowadays, I’m lucky if I make it into work in an hour. The price of
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Procrastination is like a sore throat; it’s a symptom with many possible causes. Unless you know the cause, the treatment for the symptom might things worse. This column contains the five most common causes of procrastination and how to overcome them. 1. The size of a task seems overwhelming. Explanation: Every time you think about
How do you know someone is famous? One sure sign is that everyone is constantly vying for their attention with phone calls, emails, and texts — mixed with a healthy dose of social media stalking. My guess is that this scenario sounds a lot like your life. You have become a celebrity within your circles
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Steve Jobs once said “Real artists ship.” If you want to make your content marketing strategy successful, you need to regularly ship (i.e., deliver) great content. Using the right tools is crucial to maximize productivity. The right tools help you create more and better content with ease. Though 56% of marketers have a bunch of content
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By Sujan Patel Set SMART goals…. Work according to your circadian rhythm…. Learn to prioritize your top three to-do items and tackle them before anything else … The web is full of productivity advice for entrepreneurs. And while these tips, when implemented appropriately, can be incredibly helpful, there’s a corollary that’s missing. What about the
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I love talking and waxing philosophically about productivity. Knowing how we work is so essential if we want to create that resonant content we crave – and feel like we are all making a positive difference. But I realized recently that I think a lot about my individual productivity instead of the productivity of the
I produce a lot of content. Not for the fun of it (although I genuinely do enjoy most of it), but because I want it to increase awareness of my personal brand, drive traffic to my site, and generate leads. To boost the odds of that happening, I have to ensure that my content gets
Be better. This simple mantra always plays in the back of my head when it comes to what we publish, but it’s becoming louder and louder these days – as the noise around content marketing becomes louder as well. I love content marketing, and I truly believe that – when it’s done well – it’s
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I used to be one of those people who loved to brag about how busy he was. You know the type. Heck, you might even be one of “those” people… I would work 60, 70, sometimes 80 hours a week–it was never enough. I wore my ‘busy-ness’ like a badge of honor… I loved telling
