Yearly Archives for 2008

Best Business Books That Make a Diffe...

Best Business Books That Make a Difference

Take a look at my Squidoo lens. You can vote for your favourite books or add the business books that made a difference to you. While you are there, think about making your own lens. It’s an easy way to aggregate information that’s important to you and that you want to share. I’ve set mine […]

Productive! Magazine

Productive! Magazine

Hot off the blogoshere presses: a new magazine. Gathering the best of the productivity bloggers offering their best in productivity tips. This is Stress-Less month, here at BOSC. This magazine will help you do that. There are articles on happiness at work, Getting Things Done, Zen to Done and many others.

What can you do right now to make the...

What can you do right now to make the biggest impact on your success?

Answer: Write down your goals. Start by pretending it is 1 year from now. Write down where you are. For example: I have the best kitchen. The walls are painted a pretty colour and the new south-facing windows bring in a ton of light for my window sill herb jungle. There is plenty of counter […]

The Long Tail

The Long Tail

It’s not about hits any more. We can listen to any music we want, buy more books than any book store can hold, access books from anywhere through the library system and hear from anyone anywhere. It used to be that we listened to what Casey Casem told us were the top 40. We didn’t […]

Blog Action Day

Blog Action Day

Today is blog action day. Today thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. We aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web! After reading Inspire by Lance Secretan, I closeted myself in my bedroom and worked out my destiny, cause and calling – why I’m here on […]

Productive and Super Productive Time

Productive and Super Productive Time

  Productive time is spent building your business, marketing and working on billable tasks.   Super productive time is spent creating systems that will bring you money and do your marketing without you having to be there. For instance you can bake pies for your shop, or you can hire and train others to do […]

Perkonomics

Perkonomics

What Perks can you offer your best clients? How can you make them feel very special? October’s Trend briefing on TrendWatching.com explains the concept of giving your best clients something special. Airlines and hotels have been doing it for years. It’s not about elitism, rather it’s creating incentives to make all your clients want to […]

Back up your computer

Back up your computer

It’s not a matter of IF, but of WHEN.

Success Factors

Success Factors

“We didn’t get the house tea blend with this shipment and we’re almost out.” Mary had reluctantly interrupted our meeting. She knew that Joanne held our pow wow sessions as inviolable, but she also knew that a Tea House without tea wasn’t good either. Joanne excused herself to straighten out the situation. She was back […]

Heirarchy of Needs for Business

Heirarchy of Needs for Business

You’ve heard of Maslow’s Heirarchy of needs, right?   The same concept applies to business. You start by established your product/service, your marketing, your staff and all those other things that make your business work. Then you get a sense of security, knowing that it will all carry on again next week. The sense of […]