Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? I’ve let her know what my specific goals are, and we work together to come up with ways to use social media to accomplish those goals. Get Loosely Speaking Products. Thank you for your input.

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The Marq

APRIL 15, 2010

As an added bonus, if I see I can benefit from it, I may even pursue it as a business product or service. I’m making an exception to my “no rant&# policy today because of a product advertisement I saw recently for Kleenex Hand Towels while watching TV. Instead, I read the following on their FAQ.

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Productivityist

JULY 24, 2012

In fact, by being offline for a large part of my two weeks up north I was better able to connect to my tasks, goals and projects far better when I was disconnected rather than when I was connected to the Internet. Ive sublimated this energy into productivity talk, mostly online. It’s a win-win, really. Thanks for the scratch Mike!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

  It is productive content creation.  Last year I was invited write articles for ACCO's "Organize Your Desk Day" To give some structure to the series of 30 blogposts, I decided to create a 10-week "How-to" course in setting up an organized and productive workspace. The list itself could be one.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 12, 2010

Best ways to communicate with your Fans Link: Send an update to Fans – compose Facebook email, include links, etc. This is a must for a site promoting physical product. 5) Create a weekly/monthly video using images of new shoes/products you get in. set up an FAQ page for questions you get asked most often.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Jeff (the gentle, kind soul that he is) pointed out that fact to me recently during a conversation on future goals, amazing plans, business ventures and ultimate world domination involving oceanfront property, beach houses and frosty daiquiris sipped to soft jazz playing in the backgr-… Sorry. Thanks James!) Good for fiction, I hear.

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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

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. Instead of being a marketing consultant, be the guy who helps you engineer a kick-ass product launch.

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

Sometimes we’d forget to ask a question and have to send a new email to confirm a detail – that wastes time. Do you simply direct them to the link on your site or do you email the questionnaire to them? Writing Career Goals – Plot Your Destination Reply Naomi Niles ( @NaomiNiles ) May 11, 2010 at 2:20 pm Yep yep.

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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. Ignorant of the meaning of your product or service. But when they brought the product to the German market, they discovered that “mist” is slang for manure. Be willing to change your copy to meet a goal.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I could throw the text book definition of project management at you… Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. … A project is not about checking your emails each day. In fact, I’d have to agree with you.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. You’re into GTD now, so you need 43 folders to get organized and productive. productive. It will save you time and make you more productive next time. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

The two creators of this course, Johnn and Yax, have both earned some pretty serious money creating products around that passion. New Dynamic Checklist System We all know how hard it can be to keep on top of our goals if we can’t see our progress. Yax’s brilliant creation fixes that problem. Leave a Comment! Click here to cancel reply.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals? Think hard about whether blogging as you are now is helping you reach your goals. Who says we’re doing it right?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 28, 2010

These people’s job is to make your life more efficient, more productive, more lucrative – just plain better. Contact us today – we’ll help your website make your life more efficient, more productive and more lucrative so you can reach your goals of success. Even better? Vance Vance Sova´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2010

Not only does that send mixed signals to your friends and family, it’s also completely destroying your productivity. We’re talking about things like answering every email within five minutes, or doing extra work for a client for no pay, or simply checking blogs and other forums for new information on your industry.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

I am goals-oriented and have great attention to detail. This sounds like the generic stuff you put on your resume when you’re just out of college and don’t realize that your resume shouldn’t sound like everyone else’s, and also that everyone in the world is lying when they say they are “goals-oriented.” No one is goals-oriented.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? Compounding the problem was the president giving me an @comcast.net email address. They’re all small business owners.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like money or happiness, success is not the goal. It’s the byproduct of other, far more worthy goals. Brian Tracey says happiness is not a goal itself. Because success is the byproduct of reaching the goals that we are thinking about and trying to accomplish. “I’ll be a success when…&# Yeah?

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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 try to be as productive as possible, but by keeping this in mind, I know I would be even more so. Thanks for the best productivity tip ever! But you’re not going to be doing something awesome.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 4, 2010

Marketing consultants are good if you have a new product or service that you want to launch, or if you have a product or service that isn’t doing as well as you’d hope and you’d like to figure out better strategies for selling it. Business coaches and life coaches are often good for this. Thank you for the killer recommendation!

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

Having accountability in that way can definitely help drive us towards our goals. I love that I get emails and comments telling me that a blog post came at just the right time. Give yourself time to play with words – not with any productive end-result in mind, just for the joy of it. Yeah, I’m guilty of this).

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

You tell yourself you should be moving faster, working on releasing your own product sooner, spending more time on Twitter promoting your work – just like he did. The thing that has got me through is reminding myself what my real goals are. I just try to focus on my goals and ignore the commotion! Yeah, RT’d that.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Learning how to learn was my goal. I’ve written about Basque sheep-ranching, Polish weddings, medieval medicine, coal-mining, tree-writing, teenagers, depression, detergent production and Canadian logging. Writing has given me an advanced education. Everything I write involves hours of research. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

MAY 30, 2010

Class is the product. The school is the business trying to sell the product to the consumer. And there are no clear, tangible benefits present to sell that product effectively. Work is the product. The situation with my teen is a perfect analogy on what not to do when you’re in business. She’s a consumer.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 14, 2010

If you really can’t afford to hire a consultant right now, then make it a goal to be able to afford it soon. Dave Navarro of The Launch Coach (www.thelaunchcoach.com) on how to really push your services/products to get more out of them, and how to build your online business to SELL. This doesn’t have to be a drain.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Put downs are lame, and are actually counter-productive. The Newtonian Laws Of Business – The First Law Reply Dean Rieck ( @DeanRieck ) November 30, 2009 at 10:39 am This sort of aggressive copy works for certain products and certain buyers, generally for self-help and get-rich-quick. I also like your point on playing the nice guy.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

Maybe you take part in online forums or swap your work with friends by email. Do You Care About Being Normal Reply Joshua Black | The Underdog Millionaire ( @jblack2012 ) July 22, 2010 at 10:57 am When I’m climbing the mountain of trying to write to create my next product, I like to divide everyting up into chapters or sections.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

that have helped me be more successful in reaching my goals each time I worked with a freelancer. By taking the time to write down exactly what you want to accomplish, you’re much more likely to get a good product and avoid expensive rework because of miscommunications. 1) Write a brief. Writing a brief has a number of benefits.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Product launches don’t bring in the money they used to. Product launches don’t bring in the money they used to. And how much money a product launch brings in depends on the efforts of those behind the product: they can be effective… or not. What used to work last year isn’t working so well anymore.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 20, 2010

Entrepreneur Interview: Chris McClain of Chris McClain Productions Reply Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @Superwahm1 ) April 21, 2010 at 2:04 am Geez Tei, even unicorns aren’t safe around you… Hope you enjoyed that steak my dear… LOL We like to be around people who are like us. Thanks for yet another great post. Leave a Comment!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

If you want to make money writing, you’re far more likely to achieve the goal through non-fiction. Resolved: Coffee Increases Productivity… Reply Shane Arthur ( @shanearthur ) June 24, 2010 at 1:41 pm @James: Now if we can only get Ali to submit. It’s hard to write good fiction. I’d love to say there’s no grain of truth in that list.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Not only because I coded every single line of it, but because this app is the tangible result of more than 3 years of testing, learning and writing about personal productivity. It implements every single concept of this framework, bringing to life a completely new approach towards productivity. Got productive, so to speak.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I’m not talking about the manuals that promote get-rich-quick schemes or dodgy products peddled by snake-oil salespersons. No, the self-help info-products I’m talking about are in fact more dangerous. Self-help manuals and do-it-yourself user guides. Those we can spot a mile away. Marc´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

More of a ploy to sell products than change the world in any way. Far too many businesses are lacking clarity on their goals, objectives, strategies, actions. There's nothing quite like waking up to the smell of money in my email in the morning. The medium-size company I worked for at the time was encouraged to be one.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

That’s our goal with each and every post we put up on this site. When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. The blog is not a product, it’s a showcase. Now, that’s great.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

That’s why I’m learning not to look at the end product (at the goal) but focus on the steps to get there, picturing the actions I’ll take to reach the success and that way I’m already successful because I’m acting and living out my dreams. Product Review: Manta Ray By Advanced Fitness Inc.

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