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Stay on Track for Productivity

Success

More time-wasters: social media and web-surfing. Look up that new restaurant to make reservations for Friday night, get sidetracked reading the reviews and BOOM! If you’re distracted by web-surfing or checking Facebook, consider using free or paid tools such as StayFocused from Google, Freedom or Anti-Social.

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Redefining “Amenity” in the Workplace

Allwork

Provided that a workplace is well located (a topic worthy of its own article), the community at large provides unmatched opportunities for staff to relieve stress, to create new connections, and to spark new ideas. Instead, the local community should be recognized as an important amenity. Evidently, these groups have different needs.

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Tips for the Traveling Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

Then, when it’s finally time to take a day off and relax, or travel for business, they’re starting from scratch and the planning process suddenly feels more stressful than ever! Use the checklist to help organize your travel planning superpowers so you can feel the joy of a stress free trip. Booking Your Trip. Packing Your Bags.

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The One Thing Small Businesses Need to STOP Doing

Tips From T. Marie

Are you an author, coach, restaurant, or other small business? I’m sure many of the business owners who have elected to do so would argue that they are doing just fine relying on the free social media platform as their home on the web. I also stress that it’s not a website replacement. Listen up.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

Success

It doesn’t include marketing campaigns, friends’ social media updates and all of the other components of a world in which your time is someone else’s commodity, a world in which seemingly everyone is trying to find ways to reach through your phone and into your living room to steal your attention, just for a minute, promise.

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Food Trucks = Business Model Innovation

Small Business Labs

  And the response from brick and mortar restaurants is a classic example of how incumbent industry participants tend to respond - by using their political power to try and fend off the innovative new firms. social media to connect and communicate with customers. alternative, unique and fast changing menu items.

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How to Get Some Breathing Room

Productivityist

While most days are productive on paper, they feel a little bit too busy and a little bit too stressed. When we do have a spare moment, we fill it quickly without thinking by checking the news, social media, and email, almost as if by habit. “No Though they are related, Margin and Stress are not the same thing.

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