Does Checking Email Cause You to Lose Focus?
Repeat after me: Today, I vow to shut down my email while I’m working on a project that will grow my business.
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Posts Categorized: Productivity Tools
Time for a Digital Detox?
Feeling stressed and overwhelmed by blogging and social media? Consider taking a digital detox.
Learn the benefits of detoxing from digital devices – whether it’s for a day, a week, or longer.
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Productivity Tool Review: Asana
Asana is a powerful productivity app that helps business people manage workflows and track team performance.
In this review, guest contributor, Jill Phillips, explores the features, strengths, and limitations of Asana.
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4 Content-Distribution Strategies That’ll Supercharge Your Blog
Even if you have the writing skills of Ernest Hemingway combined with the professional knowledge of Steve Jobs, you’ll need a solid distribution strategy for your blog.
In this guest post, Pierre de Braux shows you four ways to get the word out.
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How to Dictate Blog Posts with Google Docs
If you always type or hand-write blog posts, try changing up your routine. Dictate posts with Google Docs voice typing tool.
This illustrated tutorial plus video will get you up and talking in 5 minutes or less.
Plus, you can sign up to receive a handy checklist that includes everything you need to do before publishing your next post. Yep, it’s free.
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Laura’s 12 Favorite Novels from 2015
We all know it’s important to balance work with play. My favorite leisure-time activity is reading novels.
In this post, I reveal the top 12 novels I read in 2015, and why I liked them. I’d love to hear what you read and loved!
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4 Sites that Provide Ambient Noise to Increase Productivity
I tested four ambient noise websites in search of a combination of sounds that simultaneously relax, inspire, and increase concentration. This article reviews my findings and suggests some excellent sound combos, as well as a few to avoid.
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BriteVerify: An Inexpensive Tool for Shaping Up Your Email List
If you’ve been collecting names and emails for your e-newsletter and are now ready to begin using them, it’s a good idea to verify that the emails are valid before you import them to your e-newsletter list.
Why?
Because most email marketing services (such as MailChimp, AWeber, and Constant Contact) base their monthly fees on the total number of subscribers.
This article explains how BriteVerify works and includes examples of how two Blogging Bistro clients used the service to axe the deadwood from their email lists.
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How to Use BuzzSumo To Find Influencers
The right person at the right time can transform your business. Influence can be as simple as a friendly journalist who writes an article about your company.
In this tutorial by guest columnist, Bruce Harpham, you’ll learn a simple technique to quickly identify influential people in your field.
How to Target Influential People
- Learn Their Language: Once you find an influential person, you can study what kind of language they use. This information shows you what kind of terms and words are popular. [ Read more ]
5 Fantastic URL Shorteners
Have you ever received an email with a super-long link in it—a link so long it was unclickable? I certainly have.
Enter the amazing URL shrinker, a handy tool that shortens lengthy URLs (web addresses) to 25 or so characters.
In this article, we look at the pros and cons of URL shorteners, and review five excellent services:
- bitly
- TinyURL.com
- is.gd
- goo.gl
- su.pr