Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. TWITTER.
So many people mumble on and on about twitter including me.
But you know what?
Twitter sucks for 5 big reasons:
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Always remember that everything is always your fault, always.
Realize this and realize you have the power to fix problems instead of look for people or things to blame.
When realize that it’s always your fault you will possess an unfair advantage over 99.99% of the rest of the population of the world.
Why?
… Because you will use your energy to solve problems instead of wasting it on people and or things to blame.
I like to use Twitter, but to be honest it isn’t entirely productive.
The way I see it, most people are on twitter because they are goofing off.
But if you stop and look at twitter from a business perspective and look at the opportunities it presents, it’s obvious to me what the single greatest opportunity is.
No it’s not spamming people with lame tweets to affiliate links or automatic direct messages linking to those same affiliate links.
The biggest opportunity is meeting SPECIFIC people. Read the rest of this page »
There are a bunch of free Firefox SEO addons you can use with the hip browser Firefox.
I recently tried out some new SEO addons over the weekend such as SEOpen, SEO Toolbar, SEO Moz Toolbar and a few more.
But, I didn’t really like any of them. Read the rest of this page »
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Like a gazillion people I use photoshop to manipulate digital images.
In fact I use photoshop nearly every single day.
And you can do seriously cool stuff with photoshop. You could even use photoshop to create an image just like the one you see above with a screenshot of this website plastered onto a billboard … Read the rest of this page »
I am writing to you right now about something that completely sucks!
It's called Writers block. It's defined as:
"When a writer loses their ability to produce new work."
It sucks because when you have something to write like:
- content for the internet,
- a book,
- or a script
- or a whatever
... You can't get done what you want to get done - you have writers block!
Read the rest of this page »My best friend is always telling me:
"Alan, you should tell people about what you do first thing in the morning!"
Up until now my reply has always been:
"Do you really think they want to know?"
But now I am coming clean.
Every morning I spend 1 hour mindmapping.
You may already know what "mindmapping" is.
Of course you do.
But in the unlikely event that there is someone somewhere who doesn't here's what this sexy activity of the supercool is all about: It's a way to organize ideas and information and create what's called: "mindmaps".
It allows you to think visually. Plan projects. And generally brainstorm ideas. Read the rest of this page »
Monster productivity. Let's talk all about it.
When you have work to do and you have a deadline, do you tend to work faster and better as that deadline approaches?
If you don't then this blog post will be totally useless for you.
But if like me you tend to work faster and better as deadlines approach then I got some "magic sauce" for you.
A couple of years ago I read a book. In this book I read a tip about productivity. It involved a kitchen timer.
The tip was this:
I have two awesome tools for you to enable you to be on the pulse of what's happening in the world whenever you want ... The first is:
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