"On average RescueTime 3 hours and 54 minutes worth of productive time per week per person." RescueTime is a tool that allows you to easily understand and optimize how you and your team spends their time and attention. RescueTime gets it done with NO DATA ENTRY. RescueTime is all automatic. You install a small application on the computers of choice and the software and web sites which are actively being used is automatically tracked.
Stress is not only holding you back from being successful, it may be literally killing you. If you are an employer, it is on your shoulders to stay very aware of the work environment to know the the staff is stressed.
What is interesting is that collaboration can reduce stress and by doing so, potentially save jobs and lives.
To this point, take note on the infographic which talks about how middle age workers who have poor relationships with their colleagues are 2.4x more likely to die sooner. One solution is: Go Power with Greenlight Thinking, to change the culture of your company.
That said, the data shows that bosses had no ties to an early death. Sorry, I hope this is not dissapointing to you.
If you are starting a business in your garage and you hear a few people laughing, remember these five entrepreneurs who started in a garage and moved on to the Fortune 500:
Promising the unbelievable before delivering on said promise will leave potential buyers knowing you are pumped up, arrogant, over confident and probably out of touch with reality. "Of course you will say that about your own product or service. That is expected."
Watch the Inbound Marketing Movie:
You may have missed the movie and still interested?
This infographic shows the appeal of inbound marketing vs. outbound marketing. Reduced costs and effectiveness are benefits as our culture has changed to gadgets and search engines to solve problems.
If you have not yet changed your marketing plan to include inbound marketing, this infographic gives an overview to help you get started:
The Buzz About Buzzwords by Brittany Lyons highlights the pro's and con's of using buzzwords.
Anyone who's spent any time in the business world knows that regardless of your goals or plans to get there, if you don't have an air-tight presentation, you're dead in the water. Thus, it's unsurprising that thousands of different how-to articles, books or even whole courses have sprung up around the question of building a memorable presentation, and most of them heavily espouse the use of “buzz words.”
But what are these magic little words, and how do they really work? More importantly, what are the dangers of relying on them too much?
You have a great idea for a business, now how do you pay for it? Financing a startup requires some important decision making, and the choices you make now are likely to impact the business (and your personal finances) for years to come. As banks give out fewer loans, entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to credit cards for business owners to finance their endeavors.
The Small Business Administration was close to being eliminated in 1996. For almost 60 years the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been helping businesses get their start by offering an array of services.
Do you have a question about whether Skype, Tokbox or Facetime is best? To communicate long distances video chatting is helpful if you need to have a sense of body language. By using a video cam, the person on the other end knows whether the listener is engaged or reading a book. Which is the best tool for communicating?
Are games a waste of time? Games may be the path to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. This infographic shows how 61% of male STEM college students say that games or toys sparked their interest in STEM; the top factor for men.
Youtube marketing by the numbers. As you can see, the video has been seen almost 57 million times and was uploaded on May 1, 2011. This video on Youtube offers links in the video description area to the website, Twitter and Facebook fan page.
The video is not "professional" in that it does not has perfect lighting, perfect sound nor a studio setting. I am sure those who are professionals who will critique the video marketing project as a marginal production.
