Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein Here you are in 2011. You have the opportunity to start the year with a bang. By taking off the right way, you have a better chance of finishing the year with your goals and objectives achieved. So what…
Italian Proverb: Often he who does too much does too little. You have clarity right? You know what you want out of business and life? I sent out a Productivity Pearl to my email list with a video exercise to help with gaining clarity. Are you signed up to get Productivity Pearls yet? Get Productivity…
“The guy with the most resources doesn’t win. The guy who utilizes his resources best wins.” – Chuck Knight Have you seen the TV show Hoarders? It’s kind of sad. It shows people living with the disorder of compulsive hoarding. Wikipedia defines compulsive hoarding as the excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or…
He was my second appointment for the day. Someone that has started a website, looking to sell products and services. He wanted to set up a PayPal account in order to collect the payment online, accept credit cards and make ordering easy. He didn’t know how to do it, just knew that PayPal could. That…
“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” – PETER DRUCKER Time Is A Horrible Metric To Measure Success And Productivity Unless you bill by the hour…time is a horrible metric to success and productivity. Please stop measuring your production in hours worked. People brag about hours…
I’m a janitor. I clean up messes. Real estate agents, Brokers, Small Businesses, get advice from people who kinda know what they are doing…but don’t have the complete understanding. They don’t understand the individuals strengths, goals and vision. They don’t know how to create a business development strategy. The only thing they do know is…
Using video is becoming a trend in real estate. Hell, using video is becoming a trend online. Techcrunch reported that By 2013 Video Will Be 90 Percent Of All Consumer IP Traffic And 64 Percent of Mobile. So with all the platforms that you could be hosting your real estate videos on like Vimeo, Viddler,…
I’m not a huge fan of measuring social media success by quantity. “Fan” pun intended. I’m clever aren’t I? I look for an engagement. I’ve never asked anyone in the Productivity Junkies community on facebook to ask their friends to join. I didn’t bribe. I didn’t badger. I tried my damndest to engage the PJ’s…
Note from ProductivityJunkies.com Founder Darin Persinger – This is a guest blog from my old podcast partner Matt Haze. Matt is a new media guru and does some amazing things for real estate agents with podcasting. With the growth of content being developed by people online everyday, it can be an exciting decision to jump…
I’m a big fan of elimination. I wouldn’t say I’m a minimalist. I would admit to being pretty materialistic. I have multiple homes. Multiple vehicles. Numerous guitars. An abundance of wakeboards and snowboards. I’m also very driven. I feel like I can do anything. Because this is my natural tendency, I’ve learned the behavior of…
Yesterday, I did a webinar for SMM Camp 5. We had about 1600 real estate agents register for the social media training event. I’m pretty confident that with all those real estate agents that attended, very few are going to implement what they learned. Why? The difference between making the decision and being committed. Many…
Blackberry is losing market share. The iPhone and the Droid have become the superstars of the mobile device world. They are fun. They are sexy. They have touch screens. They have apps. They do a lot of things that a Blackberry can’t do. So what does Blackberry do? Do they try to play on the…
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul J. Meyer 3 Questions To Ask Yourself To Increase Productivity This Week Keep in mind…I’m not about being a Busy Junkie. I’m about being a Productivity Junkie. Click this link to find out…