Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

Michael Hyatt blogger and CEO of Thomas Nelson the world’s largest Christian Publisher talks about something people in sales often learn by hard experience with customers (and some people learn it in marriage much to their dismay!)… high maintenance clients probably aren’t worth the hassle. We fantasize about that “big score”… the client whose business [...]

Feeling inefficient? Here’s a brand new list of 100 Innovative Ways to Enhance Your Home Office… Fortunately, the list has some variety… there are suggestions for improving your productivity in a variety of areas: 1. Technology 2. Comfort and Convenience 3. Organization 4. Design 5. Lighting 6. Clutter issues 7. Feng Shui 8. “Green” 9. [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald ran this article recently Working from home increases productivity. It’s designed to dispel the myth that home based workers really spend their time goofing off, watching TV, doing chores, etc. It also discusses proper metrics for evaluating the results from working from home. I’m not disagreeing with it in theory, mind [...]

Bringing Windows Office Documents To The Cloud will be important if you work from home but need to edit on the run or you just have a template you adapt “on the spot”. The connection is through Office Web Apps: free, lightweight, Web-based versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft OneNote. It’s [...]

As I was doing some reading, I cam across this book… Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive. I always enjoy visiting different Amish communities whether they’ve been in Tennessee, Ohio, or Pennsylvania. I enjoy seeing Amish culture where families work together. For the most part the Amish work at home, [...]

Are you a productivity bug who is constantly looking for ways to improve yourself? If so you may wish to check out this blog: 200 Ways To Be More Productive from Entrepreneur.com They’re up to 95 already, so you can begin your immersion in the tips here!

I was looking at some sources for a new home office chair. A vendor who likes my blog asked me to write a few words about his site and post a link. They wanted me to write about their computer chairs. Normally, I’d buy an item like this locally. I’m just too darn cheap to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]