Why you shouldn’t fall in love with your new idea, and why you need to test it first
I’ve been excited lately – very excited – about adding a new service to my list. I’m still perfecting the skill, so I won’t let the cat out of the bag just yet. Suffice it to say that it has the potential of creating a very good situation for both me and the buyer. A [...]
Is your invoice template making your business look like a joke? Here’s what to do
Appearances are everything, even in business. If you are perceived to be an expert in your field, people will respect your opinion, you can charge more and you will be in more demand. Of course, you need to deliver excellently because that is the proof of all that you say about yourself. But even when [...]
How one person can bring your company down
This week I’ve sent more angry e-mails than I did in the whole of 2009, and all because of one person and one very inefficient system. Twelve months ago I purchased a technology solution to help me set up membership payments on a website. The what of this matter is not important, so I’ll skip [...]
Why loyalty is bad for business and how to value your time
How many jobs did you promise to do, and of those, how mane have you actually managed to do so far? If your to-do list has as many promised jobs as ‘real’ jobs, then you’re suffering from a sense of loyalty. Let me explain what I mean, and what I did about this, when it [...]
E-mail is bad for you. I’ve tested this!
A couple of posts ago I talked about information overload and how to cope with it, and whilst there are various ways to overload on the old ‘info’, this subject would not be complete without giving due credit to the single biggest facilitator of information overload in the digital age: e-mail. Notice that I didn’t [...]
How 1 cup of coffee can kill your productivity
It’s no secret that I habitually sit and work in Starbucks. This is ideal for me because: I travel a lot I run my business from my macbook (laptop) I run on coffee It’snot surprising then that one day, as I was queing up for my morning coffee, I saw that they actually sell their [...]
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