Small Businesses, Meet Mobile Apps
Smugala’s mobile app lets loyal customers of the St. Louis pizza pub know they can get a cold bucket of six domestic longnecks for $7 every Wednesday or “spin to win” drinks on the shot wheel all day long on any Monday or Thursday. Customers can also use the app to track their reward points, […]
5 Steps to Achieve Peak Productivity
As psychologist Abraham Maslow explored the idea of human motivation, he pondered the concept of what really motivated people. Through his research in 1943, he identified primary needs people must satisfy before moving forward. This became known as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a five-level pyramid that illustrates the pattern of motivation. (You can see what […]
Reading List: Talk Like TED
Ideas are the “currency of the 21st century,” writes communications coach Carmine Gallo. And there’s “nothing more inspiring than a bold idea delivered by a great speaker.” Gallo, author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, set out to identify the techniques and styles that great speakers share by analyzing hundreds of top TED (Technology, […]
Napoleon Hill’s Legacy
Inspired by a suggestion by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill spent 20 years interviewing the most successful people of his day. He distilled their wisdom in the classic 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. Entrepreneur and author Greg S. Reid has followed Hill’s example, applying some of his lessons in Think and Grow Rich STICKABILITY: […]
CORE Exercise: 4 Steps to Get Organized
Feeling you have too much to do and not enough time? To squeeze the most out of every day, try what I call the CORE Method. To be truly organized, follow these four steps: 1. Capture inputs. When you think of something that needs to be done, the first instinct should be to make a […]
Reading List: The Promise of a Pencil
By middle school, Adam Braun says he was “obsessed” with money, “fixated” on making a fortune on Wall Street and in full entrepreneurial mode. At 12, he made spending money as a seller on eBay. At 14, he was buying and selling Gap and Nike shares on E*TRADE. At 15, he spent his summer working […]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s Social Media Do’s and Don’ts
In his new book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook, Gary Vaynerchuk presents dozens of examples of ways businesses have used social media to their advantage… or not. He eagerly rips the companies who blow it, with lots of helpful details about how they could do better, and lauds those who get it right. Check out […]
Shawn Achor: How to Seek Happiness
ABC’s Anne Sweeney Flips the Script
Right after our cover story on Anne Sweeney, one of the most powerful TV executives in Hollywood, hit the newsstands last week, she suddenly announced that she would be leaving her high-level position with the $12 billion mouse-eared empire after this year to pursue a long-held dream of directing. The decision took her colleagues and […]
Reading List: The Improbability Principle
The chance of randomly finding a four-leaf clover is about one in 10,000. But it happens. The probability of getting 26 black numbers in a row in roulette is about one in 137 million. But it happened in 1913 in Monte Carlo. A lucky New Jersey woman won the lottery twice in five months; an […]
5 Tips to Sharpen Your Memory
Want to improve your memory? Learn from Ron White, a two-time U.S. Memory Champion who has trained business professionals on how to improve their mental capacity, leading them to higher income. Spend just 10 minutes a day for 30 days training your mind to access and retrieve information just like your computer. Here are five […]
Tech Tools: The Best of the Best Laptops
Whatever your fancy, there is a laptop for you these days. The current crop includes systems powerful enough to make a desktop workhorse computer blush, and highly versatile tablet-laptop combos. Whether you need a supremely thin and lightweight ultrabook or something more rugged, there are great options gathered here—including some systems for the budget-savvy. [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”17220″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”350″,”style”:”width: […]
