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5 Big Ways to Add Time To Your Days

“A lot of productivity advice offers great hints for speeding up particular tasks: perhaps by concentrating better, by eliminating distractions and interruptions, or by learning to use Firefox, Gmail and other common programs more efficiently.But what can you do if simply saving five minutes here and ten minutes there isn’t enough? What if you want hours more space in your life, or if you feel constantly overloaded and busy?”
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/5-big-ways-to-add-time-to-you-days.html

Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein: Part Deux

“Given the great response to the article “10 Amazing Life Lessons You Can Learn From Albert Einstein” I’ve decided to publish the other seven lessons that I originally intended to include in that article. These were cut out because I feared the article was too long. However, I now believe that these seven lessons are even more profound than the original ten.For those who didn’t get a chance to read the earlier article, let me begin by…”
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2010/03/amazing-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from.html

5 Ways To Slay The Un-Motivation Demon

“Are you having a hard time getting motivated? Know what you want to do, but it’s a challenge kicking yourself in the butt to get up and do it? You’re being haunted by the un-motivation demon. Fortunately, there are 5 ways to slay it. You could be making attempts to get out there and do what you’re setting out to do. And even begin to get results here or there. But your surroundings, circumstances, and negative or lazy forces…”
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/5-ways-to-slay-the-un-motivation-demon/

How to Cure the Love/Hate Email Relationship

“For most of us, email is our bipolar friend. Sometimes we love it and other times it’s our worst enemy. It’s there for us when we’re bored. It’s there when we’re trying to avoid work that makes us uncomfortable. It provides a delightful kind of anticipation every time we open it. Maybe there’s something new and important there. Maybe something exciting and wonderful. But other times it creates a whole lot of…
http://www.illuminatedmind.net/2010/03/18/stop-email-overwhelm/

Compounding Time: Create More Free Time by Investing it Wisely

“Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that compound interest is the foundation of investing. But what does compounding have to do with the other 8 hours? A great deal. How you invest your other 8 hours determines your happiness and financial success. If you squander this critical time, it’s like putting $50 under your mattress. It won’t provide you with any return. For that $50 to grow, it must be invested. For your…”
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/compounding-time-create-more-free-time-by-investing-it-wisely/

I have just launched a new website about lifestyle design called SwitchStories.com and published a great story of Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamiqu. He managed to get 15,000 Customers in just 29 Months. Have a look at his photo above - beach coding in Mexico. I would appreciate if you could visit my new site and retweet it. Thanks!

Read Peldi Guilizzoni Switch Story ?

While working on your online business you will probably consider using email marketing to leverage products or services. I had a chance to write a post on SEOmoz.org about a few crucial areas you should take into consideration while managing newsletter campaign: 7 Things to Know About Email Marketing. Enjoy your reading!

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It is not a secret, actually. I don’t believe in secrets although it is a common practice to overuse this word nowadays. I believe in hard work and the right STRATEGY. And this is what David Hainemeier Hansson is talking about in his latest presentation at Startup School 08. David is a creator of the web-application framework Ruby on Rails and a partner in 37signals, one of the most agile web agencies in the world.

Watch The Secret of Making Money Online by David Heinemeier Hansson (length: 31:52) on Omnisio

I can’t agree more with David as I am bit tired of all these venture capital talks, “build the new Facebook” discussions and giving away everything for free in the Internet. I believe that quality content and applications should have a price tag. It is not only good for their creators but also for users as we tend to respect more things that we need to pay for. If you have something for free, you can throw it to the bin and forget about it. If you just have paid $30 for an e-book or $300 for an online course, then you will put effort in reading/learning.

In my last post I wrote about Teaching Sells and I am glad its launch was successful and that premium content is getting more popular. We really need more value in the Net as it is just overcrowded with domain parking ads, AdSense spam sites, spam links and a lot of non-value things.

Coming back to David’s presentation, I really like his approach and I share his point. But what I really enjoyed from his video is what he said about developing your own business online - you don’t have to hurry, you don’t need to hire 20 developers and have a new website launched in one month aiming to be another YouTube. There is a lot of space for niche Internet products and you don’t need to be a genius to have your business online that will at least give you the freedom of working on your own.

The secret from David - stop another Internet bubble madness and build some decent business online.

I have found two great studies about being innovative in creating value in the first place instead of concentrating on making money (online).

1. The Art of Innovation - 55 minutes of Guy Kawasaki’s presentation - an Apple ex-employee and current venture capitalist talking about creating meaning, finding the right mantra and a great chance he missed - a lot of interesting examples, humour and many valuable advices. Where are your products and services? In the top right corner of the above chart? Make a coffee, sit comfortably and watch the video.

Guy is a start-up guru with lots of great publications you can find details about on his blog.

2. Brian Clark from Copyblogger has just started his new initiative: Teaching Sells.

In this quick and easy 22-page report (or optional audio recording), you’ll learn:

- Whether blogging is dead or not
- How to avoid the tyranny of Google
- Why you should forget the “Long Tail”
- How to truly leverage Web 2.0
- Why you’re not normal, and why that’s a good thing
- How the true power of the Internet is being missed
- What “teaching sells” means to you

For many months I haven’t read such a good report regarding online business. Valuable review of future trends and an attempt to find the best model for your Internet revenue stream. But it is just the beginning of something bigger. After reading the 22 pages I was ready to ask for Brian’s PayPal account to send money and buy another parts of the report… Very clever addictive copywriting.

After great popularity of del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati it was the time for niche link building platforms. Specialised social bookmarking focusing on specific topics, like Sphinn for SEO gives often better results that promoting on crowded Digg. Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal confirms this theory:

For example, in Search Engine Journal??Â?Â?s case, 100 Sphinn visitors could be much more powerful than 5,000 Digg users as Sphinn members are search engine marketers, tuned into the search world, and highly receptive to our material and sponsorship messages.

If you are interested in building your own social bookmarking platform and gather community around it, you don’t have to write it yourself. There is an open source solution right there for you, called Pligg. And if you have some webmaster skills you can build your own template. Otherwise just find some free ones on the Net. Before you go to download Pligg, have a look on one of the nicely designed pages based on Pligg.

Time Magazine has published 51 ways to save the environment. Global warming is a very popular topic recently and so we should ask ourselves - “what can we do?”.

Read more here:
51 Ways to Save the Environment
“Here is our guide to some of the planet’s best ideas, with an assessment of their impact and feel??Â?Â?good factor.”

We Are What We Do is a new movement inspiring people to use their everyday actions to change the world.

They say the average Briton uses 167 plastic bags every year - 10 billion in total. The answer is the creation by Anya Hindmarch bears the slogan “I’m not a plastic bag”, and is aimed at encouraging people to reuse bags when they go shopping.

A designer bag due to go on sale for charity for ???5 is being touted on the auction website eBay for up to ???175.

The reusable cotton bag was launched at London Fashion Week and handed out to a limited number of celebrities and fashion insiders.

Read more: ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6448687.stm

If you live in the UK you can claim back your bank account, credit card and store card penalty charges. BBC publish a step-by-step guide how to do that:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6170209.stm.

Banks are making billions of pounds each year from penalty charges. But now the legality of these charges - which cost their customers an average of ???30 a time - is being called into question and thousands of customers want their money back.

Read more here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6169539.stm

Wikipedia is a free encyklopedia where people all over the world manage the content of it. You can find the answers to many questions very quickly and without paying a penny. But you need to be careful because this is not as reliable source of knowledge as Britannica.

It came out that one of the promintent editoris and administrators of Wikipedia, Essjay, was found to have posted false information on his Wikipedia userpage. “He had claimed to hold doctoral degrees in theology and canon law as a tenured professor at a private university he was in fact a community college dropout from the U.S. state of Kentucky and had relied on sources such as Catholicism for Dummies when editing articles”. He had edited over 20,000 phrases on the Wikipedia.

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