In other posts, I’ve talked about answering emails being a huge distraction, but there’s a bigger distraction lurking about 24 hours per day and 7 days per week. Yes, I’m talking about social media. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest, it’s easy to get sucked into the virtual social world. While there can be plenty of benefits to using social media for your business,
In an ideal world, we would go on vacation, leave the laptop at home and never give business another thought. Unfortunately, we don’t live in the ideal world. For most business owners, going on vacation means having to tote the laptop, iPad or other digital device. However, just because you bring it, doesn’t mean you have to have it attached to your hip. Here are
One of the great mysteries about online business is why one person makes a fortune and the next spends a fortune and makes nothing. As a student of learning and motivation I’ve given a lot of thought to this issue. In fact I wrote a post on this several years ago – entitled Not Making Any Money Online. (It has a GREAT discussion with it).
How often have you heard that expression – you’re sitting on a gold mine? Actually there’s a good possibility that you are – in the form of domain names you’ve bought and haven’t used. Now it’s okay to admit it – we all do it. A good friend of mine used to say she gave up buying shoes and started buying domain names. And she
A lot of people tell me that their business slows down in summer. And unless you sell vacation packages, swimming pools and water wings, I suppose it can happen. But here’s the thing…all you need to do is what those travel agents and swimming pool sellers do to get things revved up for summer. No, you don’t have to sell vacations and pools, but you
If you look at the research on vacations in the United States, you’ll see that nearly half the population doesn’t take a vacation. In fact, most entrepreneurs don’t even take the full weekend off. Other countries seem to recognize the value of a vacation and are smarter about taking time off. So why would you want to take a vacation? After all, it’s time away
Just a short post for you today because I don’t want to keep you from getting your work done! Summer should be about enjoying yourself, getting outside and hopefully getting away from it all. Of course, most of us don’t have the luxury of avoiding work all summer long. Sometimes, we’ve got to roll up our sleeves and get busy, but it’s not always easy
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