Motivation is a funny thing. It tends to work in ways few of us really, totally understand, and yet in business motivation is key. It is what can make the difference between being a winner and being and almost-run.
Motivation is crucial to helping you start the day and getting where you want and losing sight of it can actually get you into hot water even when things are going great for you as even I found out not too long ago.
The trick is not to focus just on the immediate score, the current deadline, getting the job done, finishing that book or getting that pay cheque. There has to be a great deal more depth than that to carry you through the troughs you will eventually encounter and get you to the peaks you want to reach.
As an author I get hundreds of emails each week telling me how useful one of my books has been, making suggestions for titles or content and asking questions. Success stories always catch my attention because they are the litmus...
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Last year I wrote a piece on the ability of Twitter and Social Media to help predict trends and real time results a lot more accurately than any other tool we may have at our disposal.
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Linking strategies used to be the core of SEO practices. Because the web moves as slow (at times) as it moves fast, there are still many SEO firms which cite link-building as the core of SEO and have a price...
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“Social Media is going to transform everything,” “It is the magic sauce that changes every situation”, “Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the corporation”, “Social Media is a challenge.” Stop me if you have...
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The essence of SEO for any webmaster is to see their website on the first page of Google (first) and then Yahoo! and BING. The number of times I have received emails with content that’s basically along the lines of...
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In what is the final podcast of the year for the SEO Made Easy series of podcasts we look at an incident regarding Google search and the reputation of a French company which resulted in Google being fined in court...
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When I was in corporatedom I felt like an outsider. I was a journalist, with a journalist’s inborn suspicion of suits and their dictates, suddenly speaking at meetings and being heard and charged with helping create openness in organizations which...
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As search engine optimisers and webmasters we live with the notion of PageRank and its importance to websites (not to mention the psychological impact it has on site visitors) day in day out. Yet the algorithm that...
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Back at school I was fond of a play the title of which I cannot even remember now where a character cheekily asks another: “Can you tell if I am black from my handwriting?”. There was an egalitarian insouciance built...
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