Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 15, 2010

Adults providing care to seniors grew from 17% in 1996 to 20% in 2006. Attendance at arts performances dropped from 15 million to 13 million in 2001-2006; Low income, living in a poor neighbourhood, low parental education, recent immigration, racialized status, and Aboriginal status affect participation in leisure and culture.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 16, 2010

Tom Peters’ “Top 41″ quotes and other free stuff – the Top 41 quotes are a project from 2006 that are compiled in a PDF and offered —along with a load of other free Tom Peters’ material— for download. World’s best quotes in 1-10 words – 10 quotes that are less than 10 words.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool. Meanwhile, the implementation guide I blogged about is a good place to start.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 4, 2010

Ask them for the ideas, tips or secrets to their productivity success. Related articles by Zemanta How to get staff to develop a learning plan (deangroom.wordpress.com) 5 Tips to Boost Productivity in a Small or Home Business (brighthub.com) Telecommuting and Productivity (brighthub.com) Get Some Help! Research on-line.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

I few years ago, when asked for my best productivity tip, I posted, use the system that works for you. Comments Trackbacks Thirty Days » Blog Archive » Monday Link-Fest Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting!

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Loosely Speaking

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Subscribe to AZVAs podcast by emailing ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net. From 2002-2006 Brian played a key role in taking TickCo.com from $7-million to $35-million in sales annually, and driving 40-50% growth year-over-year and 90% of all sales. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. Also success stories. marusya-serial.ru

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Related articles Why Dreaming is Believing (psychcentral.com) Intrinsic Motivation (feld.com) Prioritizing self-improvement (ask.metafilter.com) Related Posts: links for 2006-08-05 How to Keep a Time Log The ABC’s of Self-Motivation Motivation Did you enjoy this post? I believe this list was originally put together by Kevin Flatt.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 21, 2008

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. Also success stories. marusya-serial.ru

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. Also success stories. marusya-serial.ru

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 19, 2010

blogs.hbr.org) Related Posts: How to Conduct Small-Group Meetings links for 2006-07-21 Quotes – July 30 Leadership Did you enjoy this post? Related articles by Zemanta Leading From Below (slideshare.net) Stealth Meeting Facilitation from the Rank-and-File (blogs.hbr.org) Could Your Organization Be Bipartisan?

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

According to the Association for Psychological Science (2006), the unconscious transmission of actions or emotions from one individual to another is possible. Were they dropped out of a spaceship in the middle of the night or were they brainwashed and conditioned by other bad bosses to continue bad behavior? Contagious behavior.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. But now email to return my current computer.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

14 Responses to “Five Tips Before You Hire a Consultant&# Comments Read below or add a comment. All the above tips are very helpful in choosing a consultant. We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I

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Service Untitled

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’d appreciate if you didn’t charge for shipping, and if you have a really easy return policy too. 9 Practical Customer Service Tips There’s no one immune from receiving lousy customer service. Otherwise, great tips! Make my shopping experience easy. If I’m on your website, make it user-friendly for me.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. Also success stories. marusya-serial.ru

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Five More Small Biz Sales Tips Recent Comments Marusya I too agree that a strong team is really vital for any task. Also success stories. marusya-serial.ru

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 4, 2010

The list is not even near to be complete, so feel free to add your own tips in the comments. Mar 4, Time Management Tips: Free How To Manage Time Lessons Reply 2 dragos March 5, 2010 at 11:19 am Yeap, good point. Thanks to share these awesome tips. Reply 31 Farnoosh Brock March 7, 2010 at 11:46 pm So many good tips here.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

A client emails you in a panic and the tone is so urgent that you feel the need like it’s your own. Here’s a tip: make a 48-hour waiting period the standard policy in your business for all incoming requests. For these reasons, I have gravitated toward a “no rush jobs&# policy. Ah, the rush job.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

You have many options: landline, cellular phone, texting, fax line (yeah, many people still fax), email, website contact form, Twitter direct message, LinkedIn message, Skype, and lots more. Yes, you have to manage your time and you can’t email all day, but don’t get so efficient that you become unreachable and aloof.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Alright, well, I know he emailed me to let me know I had a broken link in a post. And I know he was interested in what that link led to, which made me think well of him, so I emailed him back. In less than 5 emails, in fact. In this post, I share some of Neil’s writing tips that can help scribes of all levels.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Write a detailed apology to the friend you sent that chain email to who asked you not to send stuff like that anymore. Send an email to your client. Check your voice mail.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. In fact, he provides copywriting tips for smart copywriters at Pro Copy Tips. cheers Reply Coreen ( @ctmarcom ) April 8, 2010 at 6:00 pm Fantastic tips! You’re Just Ignorant. He’s a nice guy.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Between them, they’ve founded a role-playing gaming company, written for gaming publications like Wizards of the Coast and Dragon Magazine, written nine books, and host three incredibly popular websites, RolePlaying Tips , Campaign Mastery and Dungeon Mastering. Leave a Comment! Click here to cancel reply.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I recently had a discussion via email with someone regarding the CAN-Spam Act (US) and Anti-Spam Act (Australia). In the US it’s legal to sign someone up to your email list without asking their permission. They could have asked. I have a crazy-busy RSS feed.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

CondoFinder – I think you should read our comment policy. Billing, answering emails, and little tasks are usually not a problem unless you have one of those “oh god please let me die&# type of sicknesses where you just don’t care what gets done. Nice tips DesignFellow´s last blog. Thanks dude.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

Checking email, reading blogs, watching videos on Hulu. I am going to send a couple “I love you&# emails. I’d just focus on the real work instead of spending time doing non-important things like checking emails/twitter every 10 mins. Thanks for the best productivity tip ever! Thanks for the reminder.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The posts I write that combine personal experience, a story, some expertise and action tips that you can take away are always my favourite. Hopefully the scales will continue to tip the right way. And this one about carnies , and this one about a rotten roof. Oh, and this one about a camera. I hope you’ll allow me a second link.

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Men With Pens

JULY 4, 2010

Theres some great experimenting to be done with the tips you’ve shared, so I know that I’ll never be bored while I still have different styles to try out. I believe your tips will help me continue this personal writing project I have which I had left unfinished for three years in a row. Million thanks! Enjoy the cognac!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

That means possibly posting something to your blog, sending out a press release, tweeting a public notice or emailing clients. Twitter,Facebook, your project manager, your to-do list app, Google Analytics, your bookkeeping software, or your email accounts? Then email (a client) and ask him to help you sell my sites.&#

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Customer Service Tips (2) Reply Jeff April 7, 2010 at 6:52 am I have learnt a lot more in my year out in the real world than I ever did at university! We respect your email privacy Well never rent, sell, or otherwise share information we collect, because thatd be a violation of everything we believe in. "I Lucy Thorpe´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

gardening blogs, “green waste, not just for the tip&# , “your garden trash is landfill treasure&# , “how to harness the power of septic tanks for your garden&#. Everybody shares at least one tip, laughs or cries over one unusual story worth repeating, and hears at least one question or problem from a customer in a week.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

I love that I get emails and comments telling me that a blog post came at just the right time. It’s not a “I must do this&# thing, it’s more like “woo, I get to play with my novel while my brain is still fresh and uncluttered with emails and to-do list stuff&#. Email Marketing Basics Reply Go ahead.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. Enjoy – it’s a good one! Good question. But there IS one right answer for you. Which one have you chosen and why? Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. Eric – I sincerely tip my hat to you and pat your back for staying at home with the kids AND working. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

50 Time Saving Tips – Guest Post By Gordie Rogers Reply Heather ( @TylinaVespart ) January 22, 2010 at 10:09 am @Josh Have to agree with you there; if people care enough to come and read, then they deserve to see the person that attracted them to the blog in the first place. Josh Hanagarne´s last blog. Josh Hanagarne´s last blog.

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