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Helpful Hints

Productivity Tip – Set a Timer

November 17, 2009

This will be nothing new to anyone who’s done research on improving their productivity, but it’s a great habit to get into. If you’ve never tried this, just do it for a day and you’ll be amazed at how much you get done. Thanks to Andrea Warner for today’s tip: Get yourself two egg timers, [...]

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How to Delete Saved Passwords in Your Browser

November 16, 2009

If you’re a victim of the latest Twitter malware virus, you may need to clear your cache and delete saved passwords. If you’re using Mozilla Firefox 3.5+ (the latest version on 16 Nov 2009): Clear your cache: Go to Tools –> Options. Open the Advanced tab, then the Network tab under that. Hit the “Clear [...]

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Time Management Tools

March 27, 2009

I use a couple of tools to manage my time – Simpleology and Action Machine. On Simpleology, I brainstorm the things I need to do each day and go through the daily target praxis. Once I

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Get your own tinyurl.com service for free

March 5, 2009

I know I’m not alone in not wanting to send people a link to http://www.example.com/recommends/this?aff=xyz&tid=95&id=42 (don’t bother going there, I made it up ). So I use free services like tinyurl.com and hopurl.com to make them easier to handle. However, last week I was in the middle of promoting a major product launch and I [...]

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What’s the Buzz about Ubiquity?

September 11, 2008

I was checking out the latest on Jack Humphrey’s site when I came across this post about Ubiquity. Ubiquity is in my opinion the next quantum leap forward in browsing. While its still in its infancy, Ubiquity has massive potential for good AND evil. What is it? Basically, it is an addon for Firefox (works [...]

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Multivariate (Taguchi) Test Calculation

April 21, 2008

Testing is central to marketing and SEO. I have researched and worked out how multivariate testing works. It is much better than the standard “A/B Split Test” as you can test multiple elements at the same time, making the testing process a LOT quicker. Multivariate testing has many different forms, depending on what you are [...]

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Problems Viewing Microsoft Publisher Files?

April 14, 2008

Someone just sent me a Microsoft Publisher file (*.pub). I don’t have Publisher installed on my computer, but I thought that, given there is an Excel Viewer, there must be a Microsoft Publisher Viewer. If you don’t want to go and buy Publisher, the only option seems to be to download a free 60 day [...]

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