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Lifestyle Design and Location Independent Living
Lifestyle Design: New Rich versus Deferrers
016 years
I wanted to jump right into building easily managed companies, making loads of passive income and traveling around the world for experience and fun. But… I had no idea how to do that.
The first step of lifestyle design is to get your head around changing some traditionally ingrained thoughts on “work”. We can’t do that unless we understand some new rules, or to put it bluntly understand why what other people are doing sucks. Freeing yourself from the rat-race (i.e. 9-5) is probably what draws the most attention to lifestyle design and location independent living.
Unless you’ve laid the groundwork, you don’t know where you’re going.
Nothing here is blindingly new, but actually thinking it through will change you’re world.
Did I Just Distract You? Here’s How to Stop it Happening Again.
016 years
Are you easily distracted? Did I just distract you? Sorry! Here’s how to stop it happening again.
Distraction is an ultimate success killer.
We distract ourselves to avoid taking the actions we know we need take. We distract ourselves even while we are in the process of doing the things we need to do.
What if you could keep yourself from being distracted, how much more efficient and successful would be? How much more would you get done? How much more money could you make?
There are things you can do to reduce the impact of distraction in your life.
VIDEO: A Brief History of Social Media by Brett Borders
016 years
Here’s a video of a short presentationI by Brett Borders history of social media.
It traces the evolution of social media back from phone phreaking in the 1950’s, to the BBS’s and online services of the 80’s, to the real-time mobile web and social collaboration tools of today.
I found it useful – I hope you will too.
Why It Pays to Talk With The ‘Little Guy’
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There’s a well-documented obsession with “big numbers” in social media. Whenever the media does a story on Twitter, they usually mention how many followers each person has. More is better, right? I don’t believe so.
If you are intent on climbing higher on the social media ladder, you’ve got to decide who is most important and strategically valuable — for you — to spend your limited time interacting with.
Reaching out to the less-connected “little guy” has many big advantages.
Reaching out to all the 4, 5 and 6 figure “big guys” isn’t necessarily the best strategy for making new friends and partnerships. In fact, many of them are too swamped for you to expect anything beyond a flakey, surface-level relationship – if you can get their attention at all.
Benefits of Befriending Less Popular Users:
If someone just started out last month and only has a few followers, many people would automatically pass them over as insignificant. I personally think that’s a huge mistake, as the “little guys” can be some of the most valuable people to invest your time in. Here’s why:
- The “little guy” is more likely to see your updates.
- The “little guy” usually has more time to interact.
- They aren’t overloaded with links and requests yet, and is far more likely to have a spare moment to reply to you, leave a comment on your blog, or Digg your stories.
- The “little guy” will never forget you when they become “big” and popular online.
- New users are starved for help and attention. If you reach out to a newbie and help them figure it out, you’ll stay in their “inner circle” for life.
When I go to a Twitter directory to find new friends, I feel they have it backwards. At the top they show the “power networkers” with tens of thousands of followers. I skip those people – because I know they’re probably too busy to pay any attention to me – and go right to the back of the list. There’s where I like to find friends who probably have to time to chat, or extra space on their screens and RSS readers.
Connecting with influential people is also important… but my own strategy is to spend about 30% of my time establishing and maintaining my relationships with “bigger name” people, and 70% of it reaching out to newer people who seem like they “get it.”
USeful reading
- Why Twitter Confuses Novices & How to Avoid It (hightalk.net)
Simple Ways to Write Effective Link Bait Content
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What is Link Baiting? It means creating content that naturally attracts links.
Many Internet marketers speak endlessly about the best ways to create links. It is often said by most of these people that the best way to build links is to create a good, competitive and quality content regularly, aiming to constantly maintain a level of uniqueness.
This is true to a level. If you are designing your blog or site with readers in mind then the quality and freshness of your content is extremely important. If you are designing you blog or site with search engines and traffic in mind, then relying solely on quality content will not work. Even the best content relies heavily on external factors. Simply said, quality content alone does not get you any attention; it still needs other sites to link to it.
Baiting sounds very unappealing and slightly dishonest. There should be better ways of enticing other webmasters to your site and eventually link to your content. I would much prefer to use the term Link Building. (more…)
Is now the best time to establish a location independent business?
016 years
I started in IT over a decade ago (scary!) when access to the Internet was limited, functionality was poor, speeds where slow (remember 9600 baud?) and the focus was very much corporate to user or education to user.
Basically the user couldn’t create compelling content either due to the limited range of expensive tools that where available, or the fact you needed to be a coding ninja to produce a quality looking site even before you figured out how to secure online payment transactions!
Internet marketing was in its infancy, social media networking didn’t exist and the functionality behind search engines was virtually unknown.
Fast forward to today and the online business sphere is so different it is barely recognisable. (more…)
Are you the most efficient time waster ever?
016 years
It’s amazing how much time you waste. I can say you because I know how much time I was wasting until I started to make some simple changes in daily routine.
Do you even know who much time you waste? Probably not. What is a waste of time? It can be anything that is limiting your productivity or consuming your time with no benefit and is getting in the way of achieving your goals.
Did you know that according to the American Time Use Survey on average 2.8 hours a day is spend watching TV. Over 10% of your day is spent on your ass doing nothing! That is before you hop onto FaceBook, Twitter, or get out the games console! Could you use that time for something more productive? Like achieving your goals? Can you apply the same time management techniques to personal time as well as professional time? Yes! Here’s how…