Believe it or not, email marketing can still be an effective tool to use when it comes to getting the word out about your products. Now, unsolicited email marketing has left a bad taste in all of our mouths, however marketing your goods and services to people who have asked for updates can be a fantastic way to bring new eyeballs to your website or keep people informed of what you are doing.
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A Popular List for Just About Anything
Are you one of those people who are just more interested in posts and articles on web sites if they are in list form? If so, ListCamp wants you! This new resource promises to be a new way to discover and share resources from anywhere in lists.
There is no real science here, it is a web site with lists. Lists such as:
Another nice features include the ability to vote a choice up and down, and also the ability to sign in using your Google account. If you feel the itch to create a list (or just read one), visit ListCamp.com.
Force Yourself to Get More Done!
I always love to try out new to-do list applications and web sites, because I am a ‘bit of an organizational nut. With that in mind, I recently started checking out ForcedDo and I am pretty happy with the results.
ForceDo is much more than just your common to-do list. The thing that is special here is that you set mini deadlines in minutes for yourself. Once you hit the “play” button for a to do list item, your clock starts and you see how much time you have left right there on the screen. You can kind of think of it as forcing yourself to become more productive.
Here is a little more information about how to get started from the ForceDo web site:
The key is to split a BIG task into smaller tasks + set priorities + set the (estimated) duration of a task. Lets say, you have a task "Write a blog article". You may have all the plan and ideas in your head about the article, you simply start writing. Thats OK, but if you are a perfectionist you may write the article for 5 hours or never get ready.
Need to organize your time better? Check out ForceDo.com and get yourself motivated to get some things done.
To Do Lists – a Productive Person’s Best Friend
Now I wouldn’t call myself the most productive person I know, but from time to time I go have spurts of productivity and am able to do a large amount of tasks in a small time frame. I have become better over the last few years at managing my time and getting things done. I figured I would share how I get things done in order to better help some of the less organized out there.
One good way of getting more productive is to make yourself a list.
Now I know some people poo-poo this idea because it sets a goal that you can not reach. Your to do list might be really huge, and looking at it might discourage you from moving forward. For me though, a list is a good way to help me remember what my daily tasks should be and what my weekly tasks should be.
You shouldn’t put things on your list like “brush your teeth” or “take a bath”. Hopefully those are given tasks that you know that you will do by the time the day is over with. Things marked on the lists should not be everyday goals you set out to do. They should be the odd little things that take up your free time.
I want you to create two notes to yourself. One should be what you want to get done in a day (normal day to day tasks that you need to make note of). The other should be things you need to get done by the time the week is over with (these can be bigger tasks or jobs that you do not need to do every single day).
For example, if I know I have to write five articles, I could try to write them all in one day – but then they would probably be a little suckstatic in their quality. Instead, I have five days in the work week, so I can write down on my daily to do list – write an article. This way one job that would take several hours can now be spread out through the week and take only a few minutes.
Now what is a good way to write these notes to yourself? Here are a couple of program that should help you out in that department. Both allow you to put little sticky notes on your desktop to write things down on.
+ StickyPad
+ ATnotes
+ Stickies
The great lesson to be learned is to not overwork yourself. Instead of doing one big job today, make it into several little jobs you can spread out through the week. This way you can have more hours of your day to do other things you need to do.
Time Management With To Do Lists
Since I started my new job, I have been trying to manage my time better. I have a bad habit of putting things off till the last minute, and then spending an entire day working on things that I could have spread out a little better. So what was the solution to my time management issues?
Well so far, making lists of things for me to do has been working. I have a daily to do list with all the things I need to do every single day. For other tasks that I do day by day, I have a daily to do list for each day of the week.
So I might have five things I need to do every single day that is on my daily to do list, and everything else gets spread out on smaller to do lists for the days of the week.
So far it has been working out. The only hard part about it all is making myself stick with it, so I don’t have a boatload of work left for me at the end of the week.
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