Work and Life

Don't Balance Work And Life, Integrate Them

by Douglas Merrill

 "Most knowledge workers have a college degree; the average person with a college degree now works more than 50 hours per week, and is salaried, so there’s no overtime."

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Separate the Spam from the Email

Email and Spam – The Two That Shouldn’t Tango

 by Ravali Ravulapati

One important aspect of compiling effective and professional marketing emails is making sure that your intended audience actually receives your carefully composed marketing material.

There are tons of safety and security procedures that are put in place to protect the consumer against spam and fraudulent emails, and several spam filters that can catch a real spammer from a mile away.

 

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Super Secure Passwords

How to Make Your Password So Secret, Even *You* Don't Know It

 

by REBECCA J. ROSEN

 "The process of learning the password (or cryptographic key) involves the use of a specially crafted computer game that, funnily enough, resembles Guitar Hero"

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Remember Your Grammar...

I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why.

by Kyle Wiens 

"If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building."

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Strategy for PPC

Case Study #CS32220:

Paid Search Marketing: Automation increases revenue 22%

SUMMARY: Paid search can be an effective way to increase revenue, but the actual process of managing PPC campaigns can also be very labor intensive. Using software to automate some of the overall effort is one way to help manage and track paid search. One e-commerce site did just that, implementing automation in its extensive paid search campaigns. Find out how it began testing and optimizing its efforts, increased its managed keywords by 500%, and boosted revenue from paid search 22%.

by David Kirkpatrick, Senior Reporter

How Many Minimum-Wage Hours Does It Take to Afford a Decent Life?

Unbelievable! Stats from article,"Want a modest two-bedroom apartment in New York state for the standard 30 percent of your income? You're going to have to toil at a minimum-wage job for 136 hours a week. In California? One hundred thirty hours. How about in Texas, where one in 10 hourly workers make the minimum or less? Eighty-eight hours. Don't forget, there are only 168 hours in a week. That doesn't leave a whole lot of time for sleeping and eating."

http://www.good.is/post/how-many-minimum-wage-hours-does-it-take-to-afford-a-decent-life

Elaine Quinn Celebrating International Coaching Week

Elaine Quinn

Elaine Quinn is an internationally-recognized organizing and time management expert. As a result of 10+ years working with small business owners who struggle with organization, time management, workflow processes, productivity and related challenges, she understands that poor organizational and time management skills are among the top ten reasons small businesses fail. She knows that being disorganized can cost business owners lost revenue, wasted time, professional embarrassment, damaged relationships, and missed opportunities.

Her book, There’s No Place Like Working From Home, is filled with practical, easy-to-implement solutions to these challenges. It also includes sound advice on how to conquer more personal issues: avoiding social isolation, maintaining a positive attitude, keeping a sharp competitive edge and staying motivated.