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Category Archives: Small Business Project Advice
HOW TO: Simple Rules for Producing Remarkable Projects
Just as a business is emergent, so are projects. After all, what is a business but a series of successfully completed projects? So it follows that, as with your business, the future course of a project is uncertain.
Even if …
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Tagged collaboration, getting things done, project management, projects
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[FREE TEMPLATES] to Get Your Projects Done
Making commitments and fulfilling them is a primary focus in my mentoring program, The Alliance.
As a result, projects get done and businesses grow.
Is it as simple as that? Yes.
The success of a business like yours is …
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Tagged getting things done, GTD, project planning, templates
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[FREE TEMPLATE] Step-by-Step Process for Creating Information Products
People love to buy packaged learning and experiences (AKA: Information Products). They’re easy to understand, and therefore easy to buy.
Perhaps you think that your service may not be as easily defined as a packaged product or program, and necessarily has …
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Tagged Book Yourself Solid, branding, business+success, getting things done, info products, information products, leveraged revenue, passive revenue, process+improvement, productivity, projects, Small Business Systems Advice
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A Master Class in Wasting Time
Finally, once and for all, I’ll reveal my laborious, difficult, and unreliable system for procrastination.
I promise, even if you hate wasting time, within minutes of learning my best-kept secrets, you’ll be wasting more time than ever before.
In fact, …
Strategic Alliances & Partnership Success
Strategic alliances and partnerships are my favorite way to leverage my skills and talents while getting around my weaknesses.
When should you form a partnership with someone outside your business? When 1+1 = 3 or more.
You only want to …
“Done?” “Yes, done.”
If you’re working with others and you finish a task or achieve a milestone and don’t say, “Done?” to the people effected by the work, it’s not done. And, if these people don’t reply with, “Yes, that’s done,” it’s still …
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Tagged business+success, collaboration, entrepreneurship, getting things done, leadership, process+improvement, processes, productivity, project management, project work, projects, Small Business Project Advice, Small Business Systems Advice, Systems, working with others
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The Little Known Secret to Creating Information Products
In Book Yourself Solid, I devote a chapter to creating brand building information products. In that chapter, I discuss a five-part process to successfully creating information products. However, I think the most important part of the process is choosing …
Men and Their Eggs
(AKA: How to Be More Productive)
Almost every morning, I make a killer omelet for breakfast. It’s a thing of beauty, really.
Two eggs with a touch of milk, so much spinach that you’d think you’ve ruined it, a massive medley of grape and cherry tomatoes, …
What’s Your Job?
When you start a business, you’re exposed to a seemingly endless stream of diverging themes and complicated processes. I attempt to reorganize them into simple systems.
That’s my job as an educator—to take ideas that have become complicated and noisy …
