Category Archives: Productivity

How fast is your website — free and easy speed checker

By GC | Published: November 16, 2011
This is just a quickie. Here is an excellent tool for checking the speed of your website. Not only this, but it also stages a loading time race with another site of your choice. You can run the tests again and again, and keep comparing the results, it’s quite addictive! Which loads faster?
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Wheel of Life — with a difference

By GC | Published: November 1, 2011
You may have come across the Wheel of Life. It is a very useful tool used in Life Coaching. The idea is that it gives a graphical representation of life, or more specifically our view of our own life. The wheel is made up of spokes and each spoke represents a particular attribute of our ... continue reading ...
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Why do you need a mobile website?

By GC | Published: October 20, 2011
What do the following figures represent? 1.12 – 3.21 – 7.12 Answer: they are percentages from Statcounter and show the usage share for mobile web browsers for August 2009, 2010 and 2011. You might think that 7.12% is not a great amount, but when you consider that most websites render poorly in mobile browsers and ... continue reading ...
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Improve your organisation

By GC | Published: October 18, 2011
Organisation? We are talking verb here, not the noun and organising our business is one of the great challenges for the solo worker. You are busy working the business, who is busy working you? Nobody, because there is nobody else. As solo workers we’ve got to make sure we are as slick as can be ... continue reading ...
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Right Job — Wrong Job
Do you hate your work?

By GC | Published: November 20, 2009
Following on from the previous post starting a new business prompts some obvious questions: what business should I be in? or Why don’t I like my job? Work is much easier if we like what we do, or if we are very good at it, or better still, both. If we enjoy our work some would ... continue reading ...
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What is the hardest thing about starting your own business?

By GC | Published: November 17, 2009
How many people work in a job they don’t like? How many people are not working at all? How many of these people would like to start their own business? How many people have a home business idea or an idea they’d like to turn into a small business? How many will actually start their ... continue reading ...
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How can Google’s Adwords improve your offline advertising?

By GC | Published: November 13, 2009
Anyone who markets their business online will have heard of Google’s Adwords; or they should have done. Adwords is Google’s name for their pay-per-click (PPC) service; it’s the very core of their business. Essentially PPC offers highly targeted advertising, it provides the facility to place your advert right in front of the very people that ... continue reading ...
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Echinacea Does Cure the Common Cold

By GC | Published: July 13, 2007
Well, according to the UK newspaper, The Times, researchers have now discovered what many of us have known for a long time. They say, ‘An analysis of the evidence has found that taking the remedy more than halves a person’s chances of catching a cold and shortens the length of a cold by an average ... continue reading ...
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What is your explanatory style,
and does it matter?

By GC | Published: January 25, 2007
I can’t answer the first part of that question, but I can answer the second with a very firm ‘yes’. If you are in business, particularly sales, then you need to know about this. By explanatory style we mean how you explain the events that you experience. For example, say you’ve just left your laptop ... continue reading ...
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Amazing sales presentation

By GC | Published: October 23, 2006
I came across this the other day in a book published a few years ago. It’s a short story describing a very bold but effective sales meeting. It may not be a strategy many of us would think of using, but it’s a fantastic example of very canny selling; not for the fainthearted though. The ... continue reading ...
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