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Tips To Help You Be More Productive

As we approach the end of the first month of the year how are you progressing with your objectives and goals? The chances are you started off the year with great expectations of all the things you wanted to achieve in the first quarter of the year, but one or two things have not gone to plan. Many of us find ourselves in the situation where we want and need to be more productive – in fact I don’t think I have met anyone in the last 3 years who has not remarked that they have to achieve more with fewer resources.

Global Productivity Returned To Solid Growth In 2010

The world economy returned to solid productivity growth in 2010, as GDP in most countries recovered strongly from the 2008/09 financial and economic crisis, while employment lagged behind, The Conference Board reported today. The U.S. economy remained on a higher productivity growth path than Europe in 2010, but their productivity growth rates may converge, at least temporarily, in 2011 as U.S. employment picks up momentum. Global productivity growth may moderate slightly in 2011 as cyclical effects abate.

Utilizing Business Delegation

As defined by Entrepreneur.com, delegation is "the assignment to others of the authority for particular functions, tasks and decisions." It sounds fairly simple, but why is it so hard to do?  

Business Blogs Only Work if You Use Them

The New York Times recently ran an interesting piece about how most blogs on the web are abandoned, or at least very rarely updated. The article cites a study performed by blog search engine Technorati, which found that something like 95% of blogs it tracks had not been updated in the past 120 days (from the time the research was collected). Is This a Problem That Plagues Your Business?

Businesses Not Quick to Jump on Social Media Bandwagon

For all of the positive points that have been made about social media marketing (we've even discussed it a lot here), many businesses are still resisting the urge to jump on the bandwagon.

5 Ways to Make Sure Your Staff is On the Same Page

Making sure your staff has common goals and are working together (even when working on separate projects) is crucial to the success of your business. In other words, if employees don't have a clue what their co-workers are doing, it is likely that projects may overlap or interfere with one another, ultimately causing productivity to decline and perhaps hindering project growth. There are simple ways to keep your employees communicating with you and each other, and just being aware of what is going on within the company in general.

Your Time is Worth Paying For

Every day I still get lots of emails and phone calls asking me to answer SEO questions and how to build their businesses for free. I get far more email than I could possibly answer, but much of it is from people who place a $0 value on my time - which does not scale as a 1 person business, especially after the failure of communism. There are a couple great things about running a paid members only forum in a marketplace dominated by the cheaper faster free mindset

How Efficient is Your Document Management Strategy?

Oce Business Services surveyed business executives about their document management habits and revealed some interesting information.

Encouraging Productivity Away from the Office

A press release issued today by business communications provider Avaya showcased another example of branding a need to hook in attention. They discuss a survey that they conducted regarding the calculation of money lost from a drop in productivity from when employees are unable to make it to the office.

Survey: Money Being Wasted on Spyware

The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has shared the results of a couple of recent surveys outlining the damage spyware is having on productivity in small businesses. Both surveys were conducted late last year, with one targeting workers in non-IT roles and one aimed at IT professionals, all in small and midsized businesses.