I'm stumped. We've had 500 visitors to YouAreNotYourInbox.com, from a variety of sources, and under 1% purchase from people who find the product via that page. This is what we call a "learning opportunity." If you have visited and decided not to buy, would you be...
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Do “broad stroke” and highly-specific tips go together?
I'm collecting the final list of tips for the book. I'm noticing there are two categories of tips and am not sure they would work together in a book. Here are samples: Broad-strokeNarrow Use networking for your job searchName files YYYYMMDD when they contain dates...
Giving feedback: is the “sandwich” valuable, or trite and ineffective?
Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about "the hamburger method" here. Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear positive...
Any ideas on how to market my email overload product?
My new product, “You Are Not Your Inbox: Overcoming Email Overload” is ready! The question now is … how do I market it? Can you chime in with ideas and insights?
What do you drop and what do you keep?
I'm overloaded! Yes, it happens to me, too The problem happens when I take on a new project, here's a delay in the project (e.g. I'm waiting for someone to get me a document), and during that delay, I start something new. Once the delay is over, I now have two...
Make your message compelling: Podcamp 3 talk handouts
Thank you to everyone who came to my Podcamp 3 presentation on how to make your message compelling! Here is the handout from the presentation. Enjoy! Link: make-your-message-compelling-handouts-v1
Does humor work in large doses?
Quick question... In my podcast, I use a lot of humor. The humor is almost always tangential to the actual point. After all, how funny are file folders? Not very. But file folders being used as emergency underwear? Er, hilarious. Work Less and Do More is shaping up to...
Does email overload help us? You need to understand the costs and benefits.
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just...
What’s a good name for an e-mail overload product?
Update 8/8/08: Name chosen! The product now exists! You are Not Your Inbox, available at http://www.YouAreNotYourInbox.com ! I'm in the final stages of developing a product that helps people combat e-mail overload. Could you help me choose a title? The subtitle will...
Your little voice may give you better advice than you know.
Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute...