For iPhone owners who aren’t paid-up members of the Church of GTD, life can be hard. Browse through the productivity apps on Apple’s website, and it seems that every other offering is based on David Allen’s system.
It’s almost as though it’s not enough to have a mind like a filing cabinet to get the most out of GTD. You also need a pocketful of whiz-bang gadgetry and all the electronic gizmos you can think of to keep your lists in order.
If you have been blogging for a while, I am sure you have experienced the blogger’s block. There are times when we sit in front of the computer with a rock solid idea but find it hard for the words to flow. The stress and the need to update your blog with yet another valuable post starts taking it’s toll on you. This post contains some insight from some of the most popular and influential bloggers on the web. They write posts that are valuable and offer great deal of value to the readers, time after time.
During this interview we asked the bloggers just one question: How can bloggers be productive in their blogging? I am certain that if we follow the strategy they follow, we won’t have to deal with the blogging stress or the bloggers block
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It’s not likely to be a question you’ve ever asked yourself. Unless you were thinking of taking on AT&T and had a few spare billion bucks lying around to buy up the licenses, then whether you should start your own mobile network was probably not very high on your agenda.
It seems like list posts are all the rage on the web lately. Although providing lists have become one of the most popular way to convey a message through a post, there are problems that are often ignored by most bloggers. The saying “There is a good and a bad side to everything” holds true in regards to these kind of posts as well. Posts that are numbered or have the central idea as a list have been one of the most tried out methods to gain social media traffic and back links, and it has without doubt seen huge success. So how exactly writing a post in a way that brings in traffic and back links can hurt over time? That’s exactly what we will discuss in this post.
Before we get to the details why list post sometimes can pose a threat rather than support, I would like quote Darren Rowse from Problogger, Read the rest…
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Time-sucks come in all shapes and sizes. Google Earth, for example, is a planet-sized time-suck that could draw in hours if you were to allow it to — and especially if your Internet connection is running a little slow.
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For Proust, it was famously the taste of a Madeleine dipped in limeflower tea that sent him spinning into an involuntary memory. He needn’t have worked so hard. Just sniffing the biscuit would have been enough to spark those associations and make him indifferent “to the vicissitudes of life… its disaster innocuous, its brevity illusory.”
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No two businesses are ever completely alike but all entrepreneurs have at least one thing in common: they all have to decide on the amount to charge their customers. That’s never easy. Pitch too high and you’ll struggle to pick up customers. Pitch too low and while you’ll pick up lots of business, you’ll struggle to make it pay.
It took David Allen about 250 pages to explain his Getting Things Done productivity system. You’ll have to read each page at least twice to understand it, spend several hours wondering how to make it work and fiddle around with 43 folders before realizing you don’t need a book to teach you how to procrastinate.
When it comes to productivity tools, nothing seems to be able to beat the old fashioned list. Take a look at the Productivity Web Apps available for the iPhone, for example, and almost every other page seems to point to yet another way of putting one item after another so that nothing gets forgotten and everything gets done at the right time.
It was the concept that should never have taken off. Before 2006, the notion that it would be possible to write a message that would be both meaningful and thought-provoking in just 140 characters would have sounded far-fetched. That complete strangers would be interested in reading those messages would have seemed even odder.
It’s a problem that just about every rising entrepreneur has to face. You know that if you could just get your name out there, the public would recognize the genius of your idea and the quality of your talent, and line up to buy your products or hire your services.
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That videoconferencing, email and chat have made it possible to work with anyone anywhere has opened up all sorts of fantastic opportunities. An entrepreneur in California, for example, can team up with a programmer in India, as well as a designer in England and a specialist in Spain to create a unique product in which they all have a share.
If you are wondering if there is already a market for what you want to offer and in case there is, get to know more about it (price, quality, etc.) you can’t trust only on Search Engines, instead we suggest you use Stumbleupon as you will probably find what you want to find if it matches your interests. The good thing is that the site doesn’t need to be search engine optimized or high quality, if other users recommended it you will find it.
Pros of using Stumbleupon for Marketing Research: Read the rest…
It’s the challenge that just about all entrepreneurs stumble over — knowing when and how to hand over some of their responsibilities to someone else so that they can focus on the most important stuff.
For a growing company, it’s a vital move. For the company’s founder, it’s as difficult as lending their Porsche to their teenage son. There are all sorts of ways to delegate though, some of them easier and more likely to bring success than others.
Listen to the rumors and you might believe that geeks are pale, spotty, have the social skills of Klingons and less chance of finding a mate than a panda bear with an attitude problem. But we all know that’s not true.
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They’ve been called “new Nomadics,” “new Bedouin,” “mobile merchants,” and for the top earners, “the kinetic elite.” But to waitresses and baristas everywhere they — or we, because yes, at Geekpreneur we’re part of the zeitgeist — are simply customers. And not very good ones at that.
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It’s been called the iPod for book-lovers. But if Apple really had produced a hand-held digital reader capable of downloading and displaying books it’s unlikely that it would have looked like an Etch-A-Sketch for grown ups. It would have been sleek, cool and might even have turned trendy teens into avid readers. Well, maybe.
Every great product starts with a great idea. And every great idea starts with a tiny spark. When you’re looking to make money as a geek, the first step is to get those sparks flying. Here are 30 sources of inspiration that can help your idea catch fire.
1. Google
You could just toss your thoughts into the search engine but that might be pretty frustrating. A better place to look for inspiration on Google is Google Labs. This is where the company tries out its own ideas, most of which never get big. Some of those ideas are bit odd but a few just need a push in the right direction. Maybe you could pick one up and supply a shove.
