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When we stop dithering and let our brains zoom in on getting a job done, we immediately feel more confident about ourselves and life.

Why are people who believe they control events in their life such an asset to the companies they work for? Good leaders also wanted to know what about everyone else? How can they get other team members to adopt that same proactive mentality, even during anxious...
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The Principles Of Successful Freelancing

November 21, 2009  |  Posted by Steve
Thinking about becoming your own boss and embarking on the wonderful and rewarding journey of freelancing? The Principles Of Successful Freelancing is for you. In this easy-to-follow guide you’ll learn what’s important in transforming your skills into a booming freelance business.

This book leads you through the entire process, from getting started, through to winning and keeping loyal clients...
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From Soviet Era CRM Command and Control to Social CRM

November 21, 2009  |  Posted by Steve
I recently did a couple of podcasts with Phil Wainewright to talk about the evolution of CRM from its original command and control origins to the Social CRM that companies like Helpstream are delivering today....
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The End of the Email Era

October 29, 2009  |  Posted by Steve
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.

In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.

We all st...
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The Pomodoro Technique: A GTD Alternative?

October 23, 2009  |  Posted by Lisette
Not a fan of Getting Things Done (GTD)? It might be hard to imagine for some, but it’s not everyone’s favorite productivity methodology. “The Pomodoro Technique” by Francesco Cirillo is another option might be a better fit for your needs. This technique works well for folks who feel anxiety when thinking about the “ticking clock” and deadlines.

The Solution to Anxiety-ridden “Becoming”

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Organizations around the globe that deploy the most advanced Internet protocol-based collaboration technologies achieve more than twice the return on their collaboration investment and perform better than their less collaborative peers, according to a new Frost & Sullivan study released today.

“Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration,” sponsored by Verizon a...
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Web Work 101: How to Escape the Cubicle

October 21, 2009  |  Posted by Amy
Earlier this year, the WebWorkerDaily team put together Web Work 101, a series of great posts for beginning web workers. I decided to collect the best of them in a free downloadable e-book: “Web Work 101: How to Escape the Cubicle.”

While the prospect of working from home (or maybe by a swimming pool, or by a beach hut somewhere exotic) sounds very enticing, it can also bring its challenges. H...
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In any significantly big project, there are bound to be times when you lose the track of what you’re doing, when for whatever reason you stop moving forward and, what’s worse, can’t seem to find the motivation to get going again. When we “fall off the wagon” like that, a kind of psychological wall starts building up, making getting back in the swing of things seem more and more daunting. An ugly ...
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