Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

My wife is a medical transcriptionist. All the “experts” predicted she’d be out of work by now thanks to “automation”.
I guess if any company knows about automation, it IS Google. So I tested their Google Voice’s ability to do some transcription.
I love Google Voice and highly recommend it for your business. I recommend having a [...]

One of the happy problems that result when you learn to market your freelance work at home business is – more business! But that could be a curse. After all, when you’re in marketing mode, you’re not always in working mode. Then when your marketing pays off, it could be that you’re so overwhelmed with [...]

I was very gratified to see this headline:Small Distractions Keep You Focused…
I was always the little boy who, when sent to clean up his room, started reading the books and not doing much cleaning.
If only I’d had this knowledge then and known how to use it!
This is about how to stay focused on those interminable [...]

It’s a pretty good headline for people who are worried about money. This time though, it’s not a come on for an affiliate product, it was an advertisement for “Burpee Seeds”!
If you’re planning to do some gardening for the monetary value – or just the stress relief this spring and summer – I thought I’d [...]

Ok, this is the time of year I go through a planning ritual for the coming year. Part of that – for me – is getting a new calendar for the coming year.
Say what you want about digital calendars, PDA’s or whatever gizmo you want, I want some paper in my hand.
I also like some [...]

Open Office now has version 3. I always liked the idea of this open source alternative to Microsoft Office, but in practice it fell short of my expectations. This is actually a beta so only the stout of heart should try the newest version at this stage.
Here’s a solid review of the office [...]

Tomorrow, Intuit will host its second “Get Back to Business” webinar tomorrow, May 7 at 1 – 2 p.m. PST and I thought you might want to listen in or let your readers know…
It’s called “Cash is KING: Increasing your cash flow during a recession.” It will presented by Pam Newman, president of RPPC Inc., [...]

Google Documents has rolled out some pretty impressive new tools.  You can see What’s New here. Most significantly, you can save documents in a POWER POINT Format now!
(It was already cool that you could save as a PDF file, but this is even better!)
If this were all the upgrades, that would be neat enough but [...]

Do you know when to “Draw the line between Free and Paid”?
This post makes a good point. Many small and home based business people are generous to a fault. They also may want to be loved at any cost and believe giving away their product/service will help them get more in the future. Sadly the [...]

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But here are the ones I like best. For instance, I can’t get into the keyboard shortcuts at the moment.  Do I really want to remember all that extra stuff? It’s like learning a foreign language, and if I’ve got to learn one, I’d prefer one spoken by people [...]