How to use Twitter: Top 10 tips

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What exactly is Twitter? According to Twitter’s own website, it’s ‘a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting’. But to the novice, this twittering, chirping, messy online community can seem overwhelming. The only way to really get a sense of what it’s all […]
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How to make sure you achieve what you want

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Following a great response to my previous blog post inspired by my Direct Line for Business calendar, I’ve looked to March’s page for inspiration. The suggestion for this month is to have no more than three priorities at any one time, on the grounds that ‘identifying three priorities will enable you to work with focus […]
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Eat that Frog! by Brian Tracy

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Eat that Frog! is my favourite book on productivity, and I often find myself rereading it in January, to remind myself of the disciplines and practices I’d like to follow in the coming year. While there are 21 tips in the book, these are really just variations on a few key themes. These themes are […]
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How to get your new year off to a great start

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At the Business Startup Show back in November I picked up a Direct Line desk calendar. Turning to the first page this week, I saw that the business advice for January is ‘Have a clear number one goal’. The full tip reads: Work out your top goal: you will then be able to identify the […]
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Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done, by Oliver Burkeman

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As the title makes clear, this book doesn’t offer the holy grail of happiness, productivity, time management or work-life balance. Help! is a tongue-in-cheek swoosh through the morass of self-help advice that assails us from the heaving shelves of the popular psychology sections of the bookshops. Liz GoosterI like to describe myself as happily ‘At Large’ […]
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Personal branding wins out

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The polls are now closed, your votes have been counted and verified, and the final result is: change my website address to www.lizgooster.com. 59% of you plumped for this option, while 32% voted for www.businessclasscoach.com and 9% for other (with a couple of people suggesting I use both urls). It seems that the concept of […]
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Want to start up a business? Go to the library!

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Ask most people what you need to do to set up a business and chances are they’d say things like: come up with an original idea; write a business plan; raise some capital; get a website – maybe even apply to go into the Dragon’s Den or into the boardroom with Alan Sugar! But how […]
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