Awesome-Grams, or, notes, displays and deeds of thanks, praise and appreciation are easy to write, lovely to read, and can boost productivity, rapport and improve a relationship personal and professional. Sending these is a great replacement behavior for the bad habit of nasty-grams. And for all you Ebineisers out there, sending awesome-grams as a habit can save you real dollars, bring more material perks as well as present new opportunities and prospects. Thank you’s are affirmations of appreciation. They help us acknowledge and celebrate the good things in our lives and counteract our tendency to simply note the negative disruptions and experiences. The smile the awareness brings puts a spring in our steps and we can sail through our days with light and happy hearts. How do we get started? Who do we thank? What are the perks? Have any examples: Read on kind sirs and madams. Read More
We’ve all experienced it; customers wanting to get more for their money by adding in ‘just one little thing’ that ‘shouldn’t take much time at all’. Of course they want more for the same amount (or preferably even less), we all do. And as consultants we always want to say “Yes!” when what the client wants is within our ability to accomplish. That doesn’t mean we have to DO the work, just cause it to be done and charge for the additional overhead.
However, there’s a not so fine line that separates work that fits within the core engagement and the potentially time sucking, project sinking, energy draining activities that the client is trying to ‘train’ us to accept. Not only is it important to define the boundaries for the first engagement, it’s key in setting expectations and precedents for how future work will be added. After all we all know what happens if you let the camel put it’s nose inside the tent. Read More
Logmein, one of our favorite and essential services has an even more epic mobile app called Ignition. Logmein Ignition is a mobile application for iOS/Android/Windows that allows you to remotely access your computers and then some. Read More
Eli Pariser explains in The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
You might be amazed how many people deal with this contact conundrum- the years and in some cases, decades build up of contacts. Layer upon layer of stale and duplicate contact data rotting your Outlook database and virtual Rolodex of various flavors. Avoiding the inevitable time consuming, manual, contact reconciliation. After years spent fighting a losing battle, finally there’s a solution out there that doesn’t put your data at risk and minimizes the time, effort and energy required to sort it out. It’s a service called Scrubly. Read More
What skills and wisdom are required to thrive and lead a balanced life? What wisdom can we carry over from the industrial age? Which practices and mentalities are obsolete? What are the new rules, guidelines and best practices, for life and business in a global, information based economy? If we are to honor in our professions the belief systems and principals we hold personally and individually, how would we go about that? These questions were filling my head in 2010, when I started down a path of seeking answers, cultivating experience, wisdom, skills, discipline and a eventually finding a new Way, new models, that scale and profit in more than just dollars. I’ve since been reviewing and organizing the practice into what I call the Heroik MBA. Read More
How did SEO become a four letter word? It seems to roll off scorched tongues of businesses who have been burned; paying through the nose for services that fail to land their websites on page one. It seems the SEO industry and Google/Bing algorithm folks are chasing each other in circles. When the SEO people learn a new way to optimize your site, the search engines change the rules, business rankings slip, and the SEO folks pass the buck, without taking responsibility. The endless cat and mouse game creates a persisting headache for businesses looking to attract customers on the web.
To avoid the headache, many businesses avoid SEO altogether, choosing instead to focus on authentic content. There hasn’t been a headache free business model, until now. For less than a fifth of the average monthly cost of all of these SEO services, you can get guaranteed position on page one of search results on Google. Isn’t this the original goal/objective that businesses wanted from these SEO services in the first place? How about something that just works for a fraction of the cost? There is a new model out there for this search results, called FPE, First Page Exclusivity. Read More
Our job is to inspire others to Get Heroik. This site is chiefly, an entertaining collaboratory for Heroik Media; a repository for our quixotic adventures (and misadventures), projects, insight, tools, and lessons about life and business in an empowered work environment. Read More
The first step to Get Heroik- cultivate bravery. Recklessness is bravery to excess. Cowardice is a lack thereof. The world prefers cowards, they’re easier to manage and cost less. Perhaps it’s better to fall a bit on the reckless side of the continuum as often times, the risk is not as great as the world would have you believe. At Heroik Media, we have a mantra that allows us to Get Heroik each and every day. We remind ourselves to bring our own bravery; to own and control our efforts and outcomes in life. Every challenge we undertake, every project and adventure, the least we can do is to be responsible and courageous enough not to look to others when it is time to get things done, have a good time, share epic experiences and lend a hand. We bring our own bravery, lead by example; get in there and get dirty. Read More
Picture Batman robbed of his utility belt. He’s still more than able whoop your ass, solve the riddle and save the day. You too, should aspire to cultivate your skills to the point that armed with only the most primitive of tools, locked in an 8×10 room with a magic marker, you (your ideas, filters, lenses and processes) can be just as dangerous and powerful. Do you want more mental clarity, focus, less anxiety and stress? This year, this month, this week, try something different and get back to the basics. Brush the dust off a pen and paper, visit ye olde staples, follow along, get involved, and measure your gains. Spend the $10 on a pad of paper and something to write with. I recommend a moleskine notebook and a good pen. Just as a fool trusts his life to a weapon, do not place ultimate faith in your gadgetry. I’m not anti-tech. I’m a thrivalist. Read on if you want to become a bare knuckle biz champion of productivity. Read More
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