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Productivity

Are you going stale?

February 22, 2010
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So here we are, starting another week at your software company. Are you excited? Eager to make new friends, features and customers? If you are not, it will show. Maybe you’ve been doing what you’ve been doing for too long. Or maybe the press of business and constantly tending to your software application has left [...]

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8 new habits you need for your microISV or startup.

September 2, 2008

Starting a microISV or startup, putting bread on the table and having a life of some sort is definitely a tall order, but it can be done. The biggest step is dumping the habits, patterns and assumptions that may have served your cause when you’re a corporate drone but spell instant failure as a rock [...]

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12 Tactics to stop stealing time from yourself.

August 1, 2008

My post Monday, Stop stealing, garnered 66 comments – definitely a record for me. As I said Wednesday, there’s both strategic ways to take control of your attention, focus and productivity, and there are plenty of tactics that can improve your productivity.
In fact, there’s too many. Way, way too many. Take for example this and [...]

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5 Strategies to stop stealing time from yourself.

July 30, 2008

My post 2 days ago, Stop stealing, seems to have hit a nerve – given 57 comments so far. So, I thought I’d better pony up the big and small ways I and others have found to stop stealing time from ourselves.
Two things I want to make clear – I fall off the productivity wagon [...]

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Stop stealing.

July 28, 2008

It started innocently enough a few years ago, didn’t it? It wasn’t like you were actually breaking the law, being a criminal, being a Bad Person hurting people. No one was getting hurt – if there’s no victim, there’s no crime, right? Besides, everyone else was doing it! It was no worse than swiping that [...]

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5 tips for focusing on your MicroISV

June 6, 2008

In some ways, it’s the hardest hat a microISV can wear: how do you stay focused and keep moving forward as you build your microISV?
It’s not easy, as “The Tired One” lamented in this post at Business of Software recently, but it can be done.
But first, you’re going to have to disenthrall yourself from the [...]

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With a little help from my friends…

January 2, 2008

If 2007 was the year scarcity of information went to the dustbin of history, 2008 is going to be the year we all become much more sophisticated at living in a world where scarcity of attention rules. Or else.
To that end, I’ve started sharing the items I think have value above and beyond the noise [...]

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Peering into the New Year

January 1, 2008

January 1st is easily my favorite day of the year. It’s the one day out of 365 when you can legitimately forgive yourself of all sins of omission and commission, turn over a new fresh page in the story of your life and resolve to do and be better than you were last year.
For me, [...]

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Coming up with a microISV product idea.

August 31, 2007

This final 47hats.com tip for microISVs for the month of August has to do with a question that gets asked often at the Business of Software Forum: How do I come up with an idea for my microISV?
It’s damn hard, no doubt about it.
In some ways, the answer to the question “What product should I [...]

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Be bold when you blog!

August 16, 2007

[A 47Hats Tip.]
Andy Brice did it today in the U.K. Collis Ta’eed did it today in Australia. Maybe it’s time you did it in your microISV’s blog. Today’s 47hats.com tip is be bold when your blog.
Take a stand. Make some noise. Kick up a ruckus. Muckrake. Kick some ass. Lead.
Blogging is no place for watered-down [...]

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Get x-ray vision to see your microISV customers

August 15, 2007

[This is a 47hats Tip.]
Wouldn’t it be nice to have X-ray vision and be able to see your customers where ever they are hiding? Today’s 47hats tip is how to get the next best thing: Get a free CrazyEgg account and see where your prospective customers are clicking on your web site.
Yes, you may be [...]

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Ask your readers and customers what they want!

August 13, 2007

[This is a 47hats Tip.]
Today’s microISV tip is use an online survey to find out what your customers and readers want. It used to be in the bad old days P.I. (pre-Interent) that even small companies would spend thousands of dollars trying to find out what their customers wanted.
Now, you can simply ask them.
Taking my [...]

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What’s on your microISV Not-To-Do List?

August 13, 2007

[This is a 47hats Tip.]
Tim Ferriss continues to amaze me. For those of you who’ve not heard of Ferriss, definitely put his bestselling book, “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” on your summer reading list.
Ferriss challenges a lot of the established truths and conventional wisdoms people in (or escaped [...]

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Another Friday Tip – Drain your Disk Swamp

August 10, 2007

[This is a 47hats Tip.]
It’s another Friday, another slow day, another piece of advice I hope I need to take more than you do: Turn your Disk Swamp into a trusted and trustable system.
You may have noticed there was no tip yesterday – that’s because I spent nearly the entire fracking day trying to find [...]

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6 reasons your microISV is ready for YouTube

August 8, 2007

[This is a 47hats Tip.]
Today’s tip is for all those older (like me) microISVs out there who may not be keeping up with the times: it’s time for you to put your microISV product or service up on YouTube for all the world to see.
For example, take this YouTube vid, “7 minutes of Ajax [Video] [...]

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