Nov

28

Work Around Your Energy Peaks

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How many times have I read a blog post extolling the virtues of waking up early - too many bloody times!

There’s no damn way I’m getting up at 5am to sit around sipping a herbal tea, silently contemplating my upcoming day and then wafting over to my computer until the rest of the mob (aka family) wearily wake up.

I tend towards being a night owl and I know there are many of us out there. Yet we are continually being overwhelmed by the morning-is-the-best-thing-since … baloney.

My advice: Work around your energy peaks.

We’re all different creatures, we all have our routines, a certain time of day when we are in top form … in the zone. There doesn’t have to be any rhyme or reason to it, it just is. I bet if you take stock for a minute or two you can tell me when you are at your best … when you are at your most highest peak, energy wise and nothing can stop you.

It might be a 2-3 hour period and it might be at 1am. Whatever works for you.

Go and grab a piece of paper and for the next week or so, write down the times where you did the most productive work. I’ll guarantee you’ll see some trends appearing - follow those trends and implement them in your working day and you’ll get more done.

Why work 8, 9, 12 hour days when you can do it all in one 4 hour session.

I know it works, because I’m currently doing it and have been so for weeks now. And when are my energy peaks? Between 9pm and 1am.

How about you?

Nov

26

Why a Bigger Email List is Not Always Better

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You are a home-based business just about ready to jump on the internet and blogging bandwagon. You have heard of the potential to make your riches: give something away for free in exchange for capturing an email address. Easy, eh!

Do it for a while and push real hard on the marketing side of things and get as many emails as you can. 5,000 … 10,000 … 20,000. Heck, I’m sure if you become savvy enough you’d have no trouble reaching 100,000 email captures.

Cool. Now sell them everything under the sun, sit back and watch the money roll in.

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Nov

25

2008: The Year That Went Off the Rails

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This is a very personal post. I think I owe it to myself and to the readers I still have left.

Read it at your own peril but it’s something that I just have to do.

Where Do I Begin

For me personally, 2008 has been one heck of a ride. The roller coaster from hell. It was violent, heart-breaking, emotional, sometimes fun, it was crazy, I did crazy things, crazy things were done to me. It was pure gonzo, heck it was pure madness.

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Nov

18

Tough Economic Times Ahead, So Why Not Streamline Your Home Business Now

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So it seems we are in for some tough economic times ahead. It might be time to tighten our belts, do some cost cutting and generally begin the process of running our home businesses as bare bones as possible.

Is this scaremongering?

Well who’s to know. All the economic experts throughout the world never saw the events these past 8 weeks have produced - collapsing Banks like dominoes; the house market in a sudden utter mess (a basket case really); the sharemarket’s dropping billions/trillions in value; Governments joining with each other to prop up the world economy; Governments forced into spending taxpayers billions and so on …

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Nov

16

Easy Sunday Reading #1

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Sunday/Monday, Morning/Night, Autumn/Spring … wherever you are in the world, can I point you to a select few posts I’ve come across my rss feeds?

These posts are all quality reads…

Sometimes we need people like Seth Godin: massively insightful posts in short bursts - thus his short post The number one secret of the great blogs is almost the ideal blog post: it’s short and leaves you thinking. Perfection!

Chris Brogan. This guy pops up everywhere. I don’t even know how he ever got on my radar. But one day there he was, a Twitter follower and from then on: a “real” social media expert in my opinion.

Two of Chris’s posts caught my attention over the weekend: When Not to Sell Me Something is a skillfully written piece with a simple message. And if you still don’t “get it” then the analogy ending the post - and it’s a vivid one - will.

And then there’s The Right Numbers. Here Chris talks about all those numbers that we - and we all follow our stats, admit it! - want to reach. Be it unique visitors, rss subscribers, email subscribers, conversion rates, revenue.

It’s different for everyone, but there comes a time when you’ve done all that you can do - ie: you’ve reached a saturation point from your own world view - and it’s now time to focus more on the relationship. Me, liking nice big round numbers, am moving every time I read it to a 1,000 true fans model that Kevin Kelly put forward in March.

Finally, I have on my To Do list (which is growing bigger by the day and is all paper-based) a whole section on how I was going to tackle the topic of virtual assistants.

I’ve been noticing a big upward trend of interest in all things virtual assistants over the past 6-12 months - but then I saw that Home Office Warrior has a special department called: Virtual Assistant and the body of work, so far, is plentiful and full of insight and … is written by a real virtual assistant. So head on over there and check it out.

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By the way, if you’ve noticed: Yep! I transfered the blog from one server to another server and got into a bit of a tangle - hence, older posts and comments have gone. They’re backed up and all, just wouldn’t or couldn’t play nice with the transfer - and I’m damned if I’m going to personally re-create all my old posts from scratch. :-) Lets just say I’ve wiped the slate clean and am starting all over again … yes, that’s what I’ll say.

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