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Aug 26, 2008

3 (Errr… 5) Ways To Harness Your Talented Team

Posted by Jozzua in Work and Productivity 4 comments

When you have a talented team (in my case, two gorgeous and talented ladies), you become thankful. You are more productive and you are inspired to do more. You eventually want to help them achieve even more.
How does one do that?
Well, go back to that parable of the Sun and the Wind I [...]


Aug 23, 2008

How To REALLY Create Buzz? Start With A Great Product!

Posted by Jozzua in Work and Productivity No comments

I was looking at a nice presentation in Slideshare on Word of Mouth Marketing:
Word Of Mouth Marketing Techniques WOMM
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: consulting napa)

The guidelines for Buzz Marketing mentioned in the presentation:
- Superior Experience
- Contagious Product
- Superior Quality
- Under Promise / Over deliver
- Anticipation
- Reach 10-15%
- Truth
I think - Simply put, [...]


Aug 21, 2008

500th Post Special Edition: Blogging Could Get You Hired

Posted by Jozzua in Featured, Work and Productivity 2 comments

Based on the WordPress back end, this is the 500th post on this blog.
Made me realize how long I’ve been posting my thoughts online. Looking back at this blog’s short history, I’ve been through quite a bit.
I just started blogging for the heck of it. Then I learned I could actually earn [...]


Aug 14, 2008

How To Organize Categories on Your Blog

Posted by Jozzua in Technology & Internet No comments

One of the techniques used in usability testing is to let users define how your site should be organized by card-sorting. This was done by getting an inventory of your site (for example, all the Article Titles of your blog), writing them in cards, and having volunteers group them as how they see fit.
Fortunately, [...]


Aug 12, 2008

Have You Ever Lost A Friend?

Posted by Jozzua in Thoughts & Relationships 1 comment

On music, one of my personal favorites is “How to Save A Life” by The Fray. For some odd reason, I can relate to the lyrics:

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
The repeating [...]


Aug 6, 2008

Quit Complaining and Start Making A Change

Posted by Jozzua in Thoughts & Relationships, Work and Productivity 3 comments

I’m a patient fellow. However, there are times that I get annoyed by people who just complain about things that happen in their lives. In my view, gripe once or twice about a bad day - that’s it. Gripe more than twice and you will see that you’ll start attracting misfortune. I [...]