Twitter: World’s Most Efficient Time Waster

Get Realistic - Get More Productive!

December 15, 2008 | Filed under: Time Management      Comments(3) | expand » | « hide comments

Monday is a special day in the week. It’s the first day and technically anything is possible. (Same could be say for each day). As the week continues productivity has to be measured and if you haven’t completed some work the pressure starts to set in. Regardless if you planned 5 things to do or 50. If you look at them in percentages if you’re only accomplishing 20-40% of your tasks there will be some anxiety remaining. It doesn’t have to be like this.

I find it very easy to make grandiose plans of what will happen during the week. A “perfect world” set of things to do and accomplish. Sadly life doesn’t always work out as planned and things beyond our control occur which require our time. It’s also easy to make a list that is overzealous and come up incredibly short. I know I have done that on more than one occasion.

The secret to having a fun, productive week …

Track Your Shortened URLs Easily

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: SEO and Marketing      Comments(5) | expand » | « hide comments

Summary for incredibly impatient: Use BudUrl service to shrink URLs and you can track it adding /s to end.

http://budurl.com/qlhu/s
As web addresses continue to get longer and longer it is important to shrink / shorten URLs before sharing them on various social media type sites. That being said it’s also important to track the clicks if you can.
http://www.tinyurl.com
The above is arguably the most popular URL shortening service. There are so many shortening services that I won’t even attempt to list them all. Tiny URL allows you to shorten a URL so it’s easy to share; nothing less nothing more.
http://www.budurl.com
BudUrl is very similar to Tiny Url in regards to shrinking / shortening a longer URL to make it easier to share. There is one additional feature of particular interest; you can track the clicks it receives!
Shrunk URL:
http://budurl.com/qlhu
Shrunk URL Stats:…

Credit Cards for New Businesses

December 9, 2008 | Filed under: Money Matters      Comments(1) | expand » | « hide comment

Starting a new business can be fun, exciting and stressful. One thing you shouldn’t have to stress over is getting credit. By credit I don’t mean borrowing money to make your business run. I mean a credit card to pay for things online and automate some of your routine payments.

When you first register a business unless it is at a bank you already do banking with chances are they will ask for a down payment of ~$1000 to secure a credit card. This essentially makes your card prepaid. I was told at the bank I am at now that it’s “security deposit” is required for all companies without a history of earning ~$35,000 a year. If you’re just starting out there is no way you’ll make this requirement at the time of creating your business account.

At this point you have 3 options; make the $1000 deposit, use your personal card and just keep track of the expenses or get a …

Twitter Grader A Waste Of Time?

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: SEO and Marketing      Comments(10) | expand » | « hide comments

If you’re involved in Twitter to any extent I’m sure you’ve heard of “Twitter Grader” before. It’s a website that grades your twitter profile on several factors. These factors include but are not limited to: Number of followers, power of their network, pace of your tweets etc… It calculates a score for you as a percentile of total users. If you score an 85 it means your account is more “powerful” then 85% of the other accounts in the database. Cool idea but how accurate a depiction is this?

Granted statistically it makes sense that if your friends have access to many other friends the potential for any message you send to go viral increases. No argument there based on logic. However life doesn’t necessary work that way… Seriously now who do YOU think is more likely to be interested enough to read and retweet YOUR latest blog post? A friend who reads your blog and/or writes a …