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Facebook is Down! This is Why Your Business Should Never Rely On Social Media

Tips From T. Marie

Back in 2015 I wrote an article about using a social media page as your website. Today Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down. In fact, they are still offline as I write this article. I can’t help but wonder how many businesses are in a panic because they use a Facebook page as their website. How about GooglePlus?

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Start by learning about them via LinkedIn , Google, Facebook and even the customers’ own webpages; you’ll arm yourself with their photographs, knowledge of their businesses, circles, hobbies, favorite music and special interests. Here’s one of five emails I received on one order: Dear Todd AKA Shindigz Customer of the Day, CONGRATULATIONS!

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

Success

Because every once in a while when you look again, you might get a winner (or a good email) so you keep checking in case there’s a random surprise waiting for you. Every time you catch yourself mindlessly scrolling through your Facebook News Feed, remind yourself that you are the product and your attention is being sold.

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Stay on Track for Productivity

Success

You can mark these blocks on your email calendar—Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, for instance—so it sends you reminders to stop and start. A huge time-suck for home-based workers and entrepreneurs is checking and responding to emails. Check that Facebook page, start following a couple of interesting threads and BOOM!

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Organize Your To-Do List into These 4 Categories

Success

I often find myself pulled in too many directions, reacting to phone calls, email and other stuff that pops up. I used to try and squeeze them in between phone calls, emails and posting on Facebook, but there were days when I’d leave my office without accomplishing anything. Committing my priorities to words focuses me mentally.

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Episode 360: A World Without Email with Cal Newport

Productivityist

Cal Newport is back on the show to uncover his magnum opus on why we work the way we work today, and why we need to change our relationship with email. Email simply doesn’t scale – its back and forth nature is what drove Cal Newport down the rabbit hole of finding a better way to work. A World Without Email’ by Cal Newport.

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How Do You Train And Retain Tech Talent? Use Podcasts, Says CEO Jen Grogono

Allwork

Grogono works with Dell, Salesforce, Facebook and others to change their meetings, blogs, and internal newsletters into engaging, streamable podcast episodes only available to employees. . We can’t measure the consumption of print and email to understand how and if it’s actually being consumed.

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