By Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli Founder, Task Army Many people are attracted by the idea of outsourcing but starting outsourcing can be quite daunting. Where to find the right people? How to make sure they will produce the results you expect? How much to pay? I will try to answer these questions in this (lengthy) post. I. [...]
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Sale ends Monday at Noon (PST) …at least for the MicroConsult with Bob Walsh sale. MicroConsults will be returning to their normal highly competitive prices Monday at noon (San Francisco time). So who went for the sale? Well, for starters… A New Yorker who wanted to become more productive (bought the 3 for 2, came [...]
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I don’t know if this is profound or just a case of me finally understanding last month what everyone else gets: Productivity is not one problem, it’s three. For the past decade I’ve been trying to solve how to be productive as if that problem begins and ends in Getting Things Done (David Allen’s productivity methodology). GTD [...]
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By Jenny Wager Founder, LefTurn Labs I am thrilled that there is interest in hearing how Next! was launched. So let’s start at the beginning- the idea for Next! was born from my obsession with productivity and desire for a solution that worked how I worked. There is a certain efficiency that technology can bring [...]
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On another note… I wanted my readers here know about a sale starting today: Buy one MicroConsult for $99 instead of $147 (30% off). Or buy two MicroConsults for $198 and I’ll add a third MicroConsult, free (50+% off!). You can schedule your MicroConsult(s) today or later. And as always, each MicroConsult comes with a [...]
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Well, that sucked. I disconnected StartupToDo.com this afternoon. It was time – past time. If you’ve ever had to put a member of your family who happens to be a cat or dog to sleep, you have a good sense of how I feel right about now. Not that bad, but still. I emailed the [...]
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If you don’t focus, you can’t create. But if you don’t connect, you can’t meaningfully create. Here’s my new approach to the whole “be industrious or be online” quandary. A.M. – Set up exactly what I am going to do and unless there’s an earthquake or a gun shot, do it. No interruptions, deviations, distractions, [...]
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No, I’m not talking about how handsome, beautiful or sexy you are; I’m talking about how beautiful your web, desktop or especially your mobile app had better be. We live in a world today that sees 5 new startups, 50 new books, 500 new sites and what feels like 5,000 new apps taking their walk down the [...]
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If you make desktop software and you’re wondering how in the hell do you get on board the Mobile Bandwagon, study up on Smile (formerly Smile on My Mac). Here’s a little software company whose best-known product, TextExpander, was one of a number of such utilities three years ago, and now they’re are the talk [...]
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After years of being pegged as the impotent giant, Microsoft turned heads and changed expectations today with its first public showing of Windows 8. Windows 8 isn’t Windows 7 with a ribbon bar and new lip gloss: it’s jawdroppingly impressive. Assuming there’s real code behind this demo, Microsoft just kicked PCs as we know them [...]
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