One of my favorite books is Yes: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive. If you’re an entrepreneur or just interested in selling (whether its a product or even your words) then you need to read this book. Its a fascinating study of human behaviour. Here is a brief run down of just some (of [...]
Archives: January 2010
Yeah About that Twitter Widget
So about that Twitter widget I recommended (reluctantly) a while back…..it doesn’t work. You know the one I’m talking about – the blue floating badge that is common place on many a blog and is known as WpFollowMe Now Im not saying it doesn’t work on all blogs (it quite possibly performs really well on [...]
The 2 Minute Trick
Here’s a very simple productivity concept for you. The 2 minute concept, which I will explain in a sec, forms the cornerstone of GTD (getting things done) and many other productivity systems. You don’t need to be into productivity or GTD to make use of this though. Its a very lightweight method that you can [...]
How to Capture Every Mention of Your Name
It may seem like an impossible task, but its actually very easy to track every mention of your brand or name online. Thanks to RSS we can grab feeds from a number of different sources and use a realtime tracker to keep up to date. Why Do I need This? I’m not going to argue [...]
A Quick Case Study of 5 Unique Blogs
How do you stand out from the crowd, when there are literally hundreds of blogs in your niche? Not for one second am I suggesting you stop blogging simply because of a similar blog. The huge array of ideas and different opinions is what makes blogging special. Instead, I want to focus on some different [...]
How Being A Jerk will Help Your Blog
In college, I learnt how to write a business plan. You know those crazy boring documents that outline your business and marketing strategy. Subsequently, after launching my own company I learnt that only people who actually read these are bank managers and lawyers. I now don’t have a business plan, I don’t need one. Instead [...]
How to Take a Caffeine Nap
Here’s a cool mind hack for you Caffeine and napping seems like a counter intuitive concept. Isn’t caffeine supposed to keep you awake? True, but read on to find out why scientists recommend this mind hack. The idea of the “caffeine power nap” is to have a coffee, or similarly caffeinated beverage, before your nap. [...]
The Art of Zenware, and Why You Should be Using It
What is zenware and why should I use it? Last week I wrote about the benefits of a clean workspace. As mentioned in that article, a good workspace needs plenty of white space, is free of clutter and has a minimal number of items. Its this description, which perfectly describes a relatively new breed of [...]
The Single Most Important Aspect to Succeeding Online
Make sure you keep reading to the challenges at the bottom. We need you! I started building websites when I was 13. Back then – they all sucked, got no traffic and were useless. Fast forward 8 years and things are different. I’m not saying that it takes 8 years to learn how to successfully [...]
What To Do When You Can’t Be Bothered
Today was just one of those days. You know the one, where the day just drifts on by, you can’t get into the groove and you don’t manage to get anything done. No matter how many “to do” lists you write, sometimes you just have to accept that these days are gonna happen. I woke [...]
