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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact The Tower, The Village, The Path, and The Way Posted on 12/21/2012 // 8 Comments One of the best books I read this year didn’t cost me a dime. Like time spent on social media, for example. This book is called The Tower, and it’s written by Chris Guillebeau.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

I suppose the issue is not how to charge for content, but how to attract readers that are willing to become customers in some form or fashion. The cost of everything else in our lives is going up and up, but we expect bloggers to sacrifice hours every week or every day to provide us content for free? Wordsmithing is an art form.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Listening to Experts is Expensive When new business owners believe faulty information they find on the web, it costs them a great deal. Every business owner should put all his energy into social media and making sure people like him. He buys courses in how to use social media because he thinks clients must like him.

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JULY 11, 2010

I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from social media? I was quite surprised to get back a slightly patronising answer that explained I needed to understand that social media was social. Always fun to take a stand!

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Alasdair McGregor: how to write non-fiction well Reply poch January 4, 2010 at 6:23 am This post reminded me of a wise advice from a site: Anticipate and watch social media trends. Zero marginal cost products will approach zero in price over time. Maybe that’s a social media trend in itself…?)

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JULY 7, 2010

It might cost a bit more but it tells freelancers you believe in their great work and you believe in them. Everyone wins, and it’s a simple, zero-cost, low-effort gesture that makes all involved feel good. Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way.

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MARCH 14, 2010

Those screw-ups cost you money. We usually call this form of advice and guidance Business Coaching (which is a separate discipline from Executive Coaching) … and this involves the provision of advice, guidance and consultancy to achieve specific, agreed-upon business goals and objectives. It’s better to hire a consultant.

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