Prior to starting my own business, I often found myself feeling frustrated. I felt stuck and stagnant, as though I would never improve, and never do enough to really make a positive impact on others’ lives. After learning from two great mentors, I finally built up the courage to let go...
The Big Question: “What do you do?”
It’s one of the first questions we ask one another when meeting for the first time, or even when just running into someone we haven’t seen in a while: “What do you do?” It seems innocent enough, and admittedly it’s often what I resort to in casual conversation, but what...
Judgmentalism and Using Pokémon Go to Improve Your Life
How we can all use Pokémon Go to improve our lives: Watching everyone walking around town on their phones looking for Pokémon can certainly elicit many judgmental feelings: “People are just on their phones all the time!” “Don’t they have something better to do?!” “I wouldn’t be doing that because…...
Customer Acquisition Hacks for the Multi-Channel B2B Marketer (Radius)
I downloaded a good eBook from Radius today titled Customer Acquisition Hacks: For the Multi-Channel B2B Marketer. There are hacks for each stage of the buyer’s journey: Awareness Stage, Interest Stage, Consideration Stage, and Decision Stage. The full eBook can be downloaded here: http://discover.radius.com/meet-radius/customer-acquisition-hacks/, and my notes on the...
The Benefits of Digital Document Management
How do organizations big and small benefit from a good document management system? We’ll start with a reminder of what a digital document management system is at a high level: a software solution which indexes all the information and documents of an organization. It’s important to reiterate that, these...
Link Increasing Productivity
It’s always good to learn more about how to be productive. This article holds a good list of 15 things to increase productivity at work, but these principles can be applied to productivity in general as well. Many of us have heard some or most, but here are the ones I personally didn’t really consider:
Track and limit how much time you’re spending on tasks
I suppose it’s always been something I’ve thought about, and I know I’ve read about Rescue Time, but it is #1 on this list and probably for good reason. I also have to admit, I’m one of the 83% of people who wouldn’t be able to “accurately estimate the passage of time.” I’m signing up for a Rescue Time account now!
Hold standing meetings
No, not a meeting every week, but a meeting where everyone literally stands. Certainly would make falling asleep difficult (and much funnier/dangerous than usual).
Take exercise breaks
Good to know activity and getting blood pumping can increase focus.
Turn off notifications
Although this is one I have known about and firmly believe in, I find many of us ignore this piece of productivity gold and are constantly interrupted by calls, texts, and email alerts. And now with every app on our phones trying to send us push notifications, it’s worse than ever! (This ties directly to the strategy of minimizing interruptions, #15 in the article.)
Work in 90 minute itervals
This was really good to know. And yes, to be able to work 4.5 hours a day and still be a top performer would be pretty great!
And of course, it’s not enough just to know these strategies; we don’t ever improve without practice, practice, practice!
Stay humble, grow stronger!
-Steven
Article link: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/15-ways-to-increase-productivity-at-work.html
What is Integrated Document and Enterprise Content Management?
For anyone unfamiliar, Integrated Document Management (IDM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) are the strategies, methods and tools used to capture & collect, store, preserve, manage, secure, retrieve, track, archive, maintain, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. These tools and strategies most often involve the use of one or more document or content management...
Link DocuWare Expansion
Article on the growth of DocuWare in 2015. Pretty impressive numbers:
DocuWare Group Achieves 24.5 Percent Growth in 2015
Link Document Management Software – Delivering Pathways for Modern Integration (Lauren Ford)
In this article, Lauren Ford simply and eloquently reiterates the advantages of Document Management software integration and lists a few of the most common integrations, accounting/financial, CRM, and eSignature. It’s important to keep these common integrations in mind, as they are typically easy wins when it comes to bringing value through EDM solutions. It’s also important to keep in mind the capability of many EDM solutions to “integrate” with virtually any software system through the use of OCR, data connections, and screen-scrape technology. With so many software systems all performing their own specialized function in the business world, many EDM solutions have limitless potential when it comes to improving efficiency by providing a central repository and workflow space for an entire business’s documents, data, and processes.
Document Management Software – Delivering Pathways for Modern Integration
Link Content Marketing from the Sales Lion- how to get your customers to buy before they even talk to you
If you haven’t already heard about content marketing from Marcus Sheridan at www.saleslion.com, the basic principal of which is simply “They ask. You answer.” Check out the webinar:
How to Use Inbound Marketing to Dramatically Increase Web Traffic, Get More Leads and Earn Way More Sales (October 2015)
The link is to a webinar page, so hopefully this particular webinar is still available when you get to that page. If not, check out his website www.thesaleslion.com. Here are my notes:
- 70% of the decision to buy is before “zero moment of truth” (before you even get contacted)
- There’s Negative emotion with buying a used car
- Fears are
- Don’t want to buy lemon
- Want to get good value
- Don’t want to haggle and deal with salesman
- Buyers remorse
- Carmax looked at every reason and wondered if it’s possible to eliminate these fears
- No Haggle price
- 5 day moneyback guarantee
- Good Inspection system
- They are transparent
- Fears are
- Content Marketing– your company’s ability to be the best and most helpful teaching resource in the world
- A culture of listeners and teachers
- They ask, you answer
- How to produce content that people and search engines love
- People do a lot of research before buying
- It’s all about trust- be honest and transparent
Stay humble, grow stronger!
Steven
