All Blog Posts Tagged 'time' (8)

Bradley Foster – Giant Steps Coaching You can usually spot a creative person because they seem lost and confused or doing too many things at once. Time management simply bedevils creative types. Whether it’s keeping focused on projects or just getting the stuff of life done, a bubbling cauldron of chaos is usually close at hand. Being creative myself, I’ve struggled with my own three-headed hydra: disorganization, distraction and bedlam. I’ve spent entire days wandering down blind alleys, doing… Continue

Is it possible as I alluded to yesterday to market and measure your marketing to each customer as an individual in real time? There are already easy things you can be putting in place to get your marketing on the cheap. Things like auto-messaging response to emails. On-hold ad messages on your phone. Cross referencing your CRP for name, telephone number, company name, buying patterns. If you were to look at the dashboard or your car and see all the little gages and buttons what do they do as a… Continue

Businesses must stop blasting their customers with normal outbound marketing techniques and move towards a coordinated combination of marketing cohesiveness. Moving into event-triggered, teal-time, inbound, multichannel you will be touching your customers and prospects on different levels of their emotional touch-points. Based on your knowledge of a customer of industry, you should be linking your interactions in a flow of coordinated ongoing dialog based on past experience. You do this by usin… Continue

We are still basically at the start of the year so in an a way I am looking back at 2008, In a down economy one area I am looking at is being in the now, the moment, and when I stop being in the moment how I waste my time. Waist might be too strong a word, but I must say I have knocked myself on the side of the head some days when I see what I have accomplished over what I could have gotten done. Looking at wasted time and missed opportunities. Sound familiar? Tinkering with social media sites… Continue

In order to get more done, you need to invest more time, right? Working ten hour days will make you more accomplished than a colleague that only works seven, right? Studying three hours a day will get you better grades than the guy who skims through a few chapters before the test, right? More work = more results. Not necessarily. If you learn to work smarter you won’t have to work as hard and in some cases working more can actually diminish the amount you get accomplished. I know this oh so wel… Continue

Businesses are realizing free tea and coffee are not enough to keep associates content and happy. Many are resorting to offering free gym memberships, food, unique bonuses and flexible working hours. When staff is happy, they are highly motivated; their work is a lot more detailed, they are faster and more efficient. Thus the traditional motivation style is going the way of the dinosaur and new approaches to motivation are coming into vogue. To me it’s all about creating a culture or exciteme… Continue

Just going through some of those old notes I have stashed away for some-time-I-must-do-something-with-that and enjoying all over some of the bits and pieces that impressed me the first time around. One of the things that I don't like so much about audio presentations, is the lack of a transcript. Give me both, and I'm happy as a clam! My notes are a bit of a challenge, as I write them fast while listening to the podcast, and and I blame my years-ago classes in shorthand for rendering my handwri… Continue

THIS IS WHAT I THINK IT MEANS TO OWN YOUR LIFE When you subtract out the sleeping time, commuting time, working time and time for things you have to do each and everyday of your life, most people don't have more than one or two hours each day to do what they like to do - and then, would they have the money to do it? We have discovered a way for you to learn how to "Own Your Life" by building a home-based business, and we have a system for doing it that is so simple anyone can do it. It… Continue