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How to grow your business despite the holidays

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Another obligatory holiday post. No matter your industry, the holidays mess it up. Are you going to drop all the balls you have in the air because it’s the holidays? If I know one thing about entrepreneurs, it’s that iPhones have made checking email on turkey day even easier than ever before. No, you’re not.

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

Practically Perfect PA

While people were probably ‘bleisuring’ long before the advent of the awkward word amalgam, it has recently gained attention as a trend due to quantitative analysis carried out by several corporate travel companies (namely BridgeStreet® Global Hospitality and Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s 2016 white paper on the topic).

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3 C's To Help Simplify Instructions

Ian's Messy Desk

For example: Your manager wants to improve employee technical skills; mentions the benefits of having a needs analysis to plan the training ; and asks you to look into self-study manuals, seminars, teleconferencing and cheaper training options. You reorganize these instructions into: Do a needs analysis. Comments No comments yet.

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4 Ways to Boost Your Gmail Productivity for Good

Productivityist

To make this post even more effective, you can grab a special report that helps you to improve your email (Gmail) productivity. I got my first email account in 1994. Back then, using email was exciting but somewhat complicated. Email is an integral part of our lives and the volume of email messages is growing all the time.

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What kind of procrastinator are you?

Ian's Messy Desk

Also knows as analysis paralysis. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Even today, some instances of fear makes me procrastinate. But it doesn’t mean that I can’t control it. I’ve started to just flip a coin. It’s much easier.

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The Art of Rapid Presentation Creation

Productivityist

These oscillating fears, bouncing from one to other causes analysis by paralysis. Here’s the solution—create a PDF that has the rest of the information and offer it on your site, or simply gather their emails and shoot it to them after the presentation. The task of giving a presentation can overwhelm the best of us. Usually it’s both.

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Realistic Freelancing |

Men With Pens

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. It’s really easy to get sucked in to one more email and lose an entire evening. Stick To Your Business Hours. I might as well just do it.&#

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