I recently came across a video on the official Harvard Business Review YouTube channel titled, The Secret Weapon of Great Leaders, and thought it would be a good topic to start a discussion about here on this site. In the video, author and business professional Melba Duncan makes a case for why executives and leaders should hire executive assistants. She explains that leaders with executive assistants have the ability to become more successful, more productive, and can even [Read more…]
How To Boost Productivity with Family-Centered Entrepreneurs
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How do you boost your productivity with family members? In most cases, you don’t get to choose your family, they choose you. Your family can make your time more productive in business and in life.
I have three tips that make my life more productive with my family. Watch the video below to find out what they are:
What other tips do you have for people interested in boosting their productivity with family members? Leave a comment using the Facebook Comments feature below. Thanks!
5 Ways To Get Better At Meeting Deadlines
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How are you at meeting deadlines? If you’re looking to improve, I have some great tips that will help you. I was recently reading through an informative list of 101 Common-Sense Rules for Leaders on focus.com, and came across ten tips on meeting deadlines that you could benefit from reading through. Here are five of the tips:
Meeting Deadlines Tip #1: “Only promise what you can realistically deliver. Don’t create deadlines that you know you can’t meet. By only promising what you know you can do, you’ll be able to finish on time.”
Meeting Deadlines Tip #2: “Set clear goals. Once you know what you need to accomplish, it helps to know how and when you want to do it. Put your goals down on paper and make sure everyone on [Read more…]
How To Boost Productivity by Creating Case Studies
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A case study is a story—a business story—about how your product or service has assisted someone or shown someone how to get to the result that they have been looking for.
I have three tips to make your case studies more productive:
Tip Number 1: The PAR Formula
Tip Number 2: A Challenge or Contest Model
Tip Number 3: Post Video Testimonials
Learn more about each tip now by [Read more…]
How To Boost Productivity While You Travel | Productivity Tips
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If you’re like me, you travel a lot. Whether your traveling for business or for vacation, it’s important that you learn and understand how to enjoy yourself. Traveling can be stressful. I’d like to offer you a few tips that I use in order to boost my productivity while I travel. Take a look at the video below:
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Are You an Inventor Or Improver in Your Business?
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“Never invent, always improve.”
This four-word sentence is indelibly etched in my mind right now. I also have that quote framed and hanging on the wall of my home office.
The marketing philosophy of choosing improvement over invention has generated millions of dollars for my info publishing business and my students’ businesses.
Although the idea of becoming an “Improver” is not as sexy as being known as an “Inventor,” it is improvement, not invention, that has generated billions for some of the most renowned Thought Leaders in history. Ironically, many of these folks have been inaccurately dubbed as “Inventors.”
Here’s one example: Nikola Tesla invented the modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems. Thomas Edison improved it. Telsa died broke. Edison died a millionaire.
Here’s another: Charles Haanel is the true “father of personal development” in my opinion. He invented The Master Key System, yet he died in obscurity acknowledged by only a few loyal followers. [Read more…]
The Seven Secrets of Action Management
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Secret Number 1: Create Your Master To-Do List – Don’t write your list the day you want to do those things, write it the day before – sometimes a few days before. You want to write your master to-do list for the future. Why? Because it’s easier to come to a desk that’s clean and has a master to-do list that’s already been written sitting on it – that way, you can start your first prime-time hour by attacking that list and crossing things out. Isn’t that a lot easier than trying to invent things to do?
Secret Number 2: Block out your daily prime-time hours – A prime-time hour is anything you control 100% percent of and is going to generate revenue for you now or sometime in the future. Now, you can have just one prime-time hour a day or two a day, even four a day. Most people don’t have any.
Secret Number 3: During prime time, put pressure on yourself by using a timer – Put the timer where you can see it, right next to your computer screen. When that thing is counting down, is that putting pressure on you or what? When the beeper goes off, stop everything you’re doing. It’s incredibly important because you’ve got to give yourself a break.
Secret Number 4: Capture your big ideas digitally – Record three, four or maybe five thoughts that come into your head during the non-prime-time hours. And once they’re recorded, you don’t have to think about them anymore. You can purge them from your mind, freeing your brain to come up with more.
Secret Number 5: Offer one free consultation per week or per day – This is a free consult with a twist. The clients know that at the end of that consultation, if they want to continue to work with you, they are going to pay up at the end of the session.
Secret Number 6: Find a mutual coaching buddy – It’s great when you can give something to somebody, and they can give something back. Find a mutual coaching buddy.
Secret Number 7: Set your revenue quota every ninety days – First, figure out what you can make in a year, then divide that into weekly goals. Make sure it’s realistic. I like weekly goals because they’re easy to measure. Write down every week if you made it or not. Then, every 90 days, review how you did and adjust it – either up or down.
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WEBSITE CONVERSION: Turn Prospects Into Customers and Customers Into Raving Fans
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How do you boost your productivity with website conversion?
What is conversion? Conversion to me means turning prospects into customers and customers into evangelists or raving fans.
Boosting productivity with conversion involves three incredible and uniquely simple questions, which make good websites great.
See below:
How To Make Money On Your Website
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What other questions do you have for me about your website? Ask me in the comments section below.
Judgment Versus Experience, What Do YOU Think Matters Most? [From ClickAndBeFree.com]
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I wanted to take some time to share a great blog post that was recently posted on the Click and Be Free blog.
It’s a the first of a series of blog posts that ask the following question: Judgment versus experience, what matters most?
It’s a question that Fast Company has asked the most successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and businesspeople to answer on one of their sister websites, www.30secondmba.com.
So what do you think is more important in business, judgement, or experience?
Here are two responses that you might want to take into consideration before deciding.
Can’t decide yet? Look for the next installment of the series to watch more responses.
How To Be More Successful And Productive: Block Out Your Daily Prime-Time Hours
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One the most important internet marketing secrets is to block out your prime time hours.
What is a prime time hour?
A prime time hour is anything you control 100% percent of and is going to generate revenue for you now or sometime in the future. Now, you can have just one prime-time hour a day or two a day, even four a day. I have four. I don’t think you should have more than four. Most people don’t have any.
Think about this. If you only have one prime-time hour a day and you work five days a week – many of us work many more than that – that’s 225 work days per year. How many prime-time, revenue-generating hours are you giving yourself as a gift for the year? You are giving yourself 225 hours.
As a guerilla marketer, don’t you think you can generate some revenue with that? I think so. Isn’t it a sin not to? Aren’t we robbing ourselves? I would like all of you to block out one prime-time hour a day starting next week.
Which hour is the most important of the day? It’s the first hour of the day. Why? You are fresher in the morning than you are after having been beaten down by the events of the day. You start with the positive.
But, what is the first thing that you typically do when you get in front of your computer? Check email. Is that an interruption? Yes.
And worse, it can start your whole day off badly. What if you wake up and see an email from someone asking for a refund? Doesn’t that put you into some type of emotional tail spin which you don’t want to be a part of?
Now, what if you do this instead? Rather than checking your email, you generate revenue for one full hour first. Don’t you feel good about yourself? You’ve already crossed out some things on your master action to-do list. You can handle that bad news a little better now. See what I am saying?
When people get the bad news first, they concentrate on that bad news, not the good news. When you start with good news, it is not so bad afterwards.
So, start with good news. Start your day with a revenue-generating activity. Make sure if you only have one prime-time hour, that hour is in the very beginning. Eventually, you want no less than two hours a day that are prime time.
Another element of prime time is to focus only on revenue-generating activities you can control. I think everyone knows what that means. The third element is always avoid the daily interruptions you cannot control, like email. Just turn email off. Don’t listen to your voicemail. Don’t take phone calls. That’s why you have voice mail (but don’t listen to your voice mail either). Don’t open your letters. Tell your family it’s prime time and have them support you in saying they cannot enter the office or call you. (Unless, heaven forbid, it’s an emergency.)
Start with a revenue-generating activity, and you will feel great about yourself.
How are you using (or how will you use) your prime time hour(s)? Leave a comment for me in the comments section below.
