Thu.Feb 18, 2016

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3 Simple and Low Cost Marketing Ideas to Create Visibility

Office Organization Success

When it comes to building your list, it is not a one-and-done activity. Marketing your business is one of the biggest challenges for any solopreneur – it’s a task we all find quite daunting, and are simply overwhelmed by all the information that’s available. However, list building is something that should be happening year-round in your business via a mix of online and offline marketing strategies.

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Project Puts Productivity Tips to the Test

On The Job

There is a lot of advice these days about how to be more productive , such as getting up earlier to start your day, meditating, cutting out sweets and caffeine and dumping your smartphone. But do any of these strategies really work? Chris Bailey decided to find out. After graduating from college and receiving two full-time job offers, he instead opted to spend a year trying out various productivity advice to see what worked.

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Why Your Home Office May Not Be as Secure as You Think It Is

Productivity Bits

Even if you’ve never had thieves break into your home, you probably know someone who has experienced this. And now that we can take our computers to the coffee shop or the library or elsewhere and access the internet, you don’t even need to have thieves break into your home. Imagine if someone stole your computer. What would you lose? Your documents, your pictures, other things you could never replace, but you have likely also stored personal information on your computer, including p

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Is it the Gig, Sharing, Access, 1099, Freelance or On-Demand Economy?

Small Business Labs

KQED's The Movement to Kill the Phrase ‘Sharing Economy’ points out an issue that has many perplexed, including us. This is what do we call what continues to be commonly called the  "sharing economy""? As the article points out, there's broad agreement that most of the sharing economy companies - Uber, Airbnb, etc. - have nothing to do with sharing.  The article references the Harvard Business Review's  The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Sharing at All 

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Why Theming My Days has Made Me a Better Dad

Productivityist

One of the reasons I do what I do is to have the freedom to spend more time with my kids. I work from home, so I either say goodbye to them as they leave for school or I walk with them to school. On three days of the week when they come home, I’m the only parent there as my wife works on those days. Before establishing my rule of ending my workday at 2:30 pm on those days, I’d let them do their thing when they got home while I did mine.

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Why Theming My Days has Made Me a Better Dad

Productivityist

One of the reasons I do what I do is to have the freedom to spend more time with my kids. I work from home, so I either say goodbye to them as they leave for school or I walk with them to school. On three days of the week when they come home, I’m the only parent there as my wife works on those days. Before establishing my rule of ending my workday at 2:30 pm on those days, I’d let them do their thing when they got home while I did mine.