The best way to do this is mapped out below for your easy
following and use. Included is mind work, ways to capture your
thoughts and share them with others, the best tool around for
learning the languages of the internet, brilliant marketing
resources, and ways to off-load the stuff you don't know how to
do or don't have time to do. In short, this list makes you
smarter, faster, and more clear so you can grow your business.
1.Mind42 (http://www.mind42.com) This is still in beta, but for
mapping out your thoughts and allowing those thoughts to "spin
off" and go down tangents, it's terrific. Mostly because, after
you've gone down the tangent, you are able to recall what you
were originally working on! For a business owner, this is a
priceless commodity.
2.Jott (http://www.jott.com) This one is also in beta (public
beta). Take a moment and recall this morning when you were
driving in to work and you had a GREAT idea, so you either tried
to text it to yourself as you were going down the road
(dangerous!!) or just told yourself you'd just remember it?
Then, when you got to your destination, you discover - *drat!* -
that you either hit all the wrong buttons to text the message or
you'd completely forgotten the great part of the thought? Enter
Jott.com. How's it work? Sign up, they give you an 800 number to
call. You call the number, they ask, "Who do you want to jott?"
You say, "Myself." Then you hear a beep. You say your message
and hang up. When you get to your destination and check your
email - it's there, waiting for you in your inbox, already
transcribed and ready to go! Brilliant!
3.ITeamWork(http://www.iteamwork.com) ITeamWork is wonderful for
collaborating on a project with others, but it's also terrific
for keeping yourself on a schedule. It does take a little bit of
time to set up, but the rewards (the emails you get reminding
you of what you promised to do today) are tremendous! Rather
than dropping the ball on your own projects, you keep working at
them, a baby step at a time, until the whole project is
complete. This also works nicely with those honey-do lists!
4.Didyousmellthat/Intern (http://www.didyousmellthat.com/intern)
Dave Ledoux is an internet marketer extraordinaire. For the
business minded, he's a gem because he's willing to train you to
do internet marketing with his intern program. It helps him -
interns do the work, after all, but you gain priceless knowledge
to apply to your own website. You can go through his 90 day
internship and do only the things he asks you to do, or you can
do the stuff he wants you to do and mimic it parallel for your
own websites and blogs. This is a remarkable experience and the
information sharing he's willing to do is a breath of fresh air.
5.DoMyStuff (http://www.domystuff.com) With owning a business
and trying to work, comes a time squeeze and YOU are the one
squeezed! Domystuff.com lets you find a personal assistant for
the things you're willing to release for someone else to do, at
a price you both agree on. It's like eBay for your time instead
of for your stuff. 6.W3schools (http://www.w3schools.com)
You can certainly hire someone to do all your websites and make
them function, pretty, and all that, but when it's complete,
you're still at the mercy of the Techie who put it together in
the first place. It's time to learn some of the basics so you're
not so lost - to protect your, your business, your customers,
and your future. Take the basic HTML course and learn what's
going on behind the scenes.
7.TheInternetWizards (http://www.theinternetwizards.com) This is
more marketing stuff. Bonnie Boots puts out a gift every month:
an internet magazine that's just chock full of insights and
leading edge marketing viewpoints.
8.Guru (http://www.guru.com) This site is an enormous collection
of geniuses. Where that's not quite accurate, it does make it
easy to find the genius in the crowd. If you need techie stuff,
artsy stuff, copy writers stuff, just other people doing your
stuff - try this spot. It's the first place I go when I need an
artist for my business!
9.GoogleDocs (http://docs.google.com) Most people know about
some Google offerings. One of the most useful sites Google has
in it's public offerings is Google Docs (beta). With GoogleDocs,
you can create an document or spreadsheet, then you've got three
choices. 1) Keep it to yourself. 2) Collaborate with other(s) by
sharing it. 3) Publish the document and make it public, then
share the direct link to it with the world.
10.Silva UltraMind System (http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com)
Silva UltraMind System is perhaps the most valuable of all this
list.
We began the list with the mind and capturing thoughts, now
let's generate some individual genius thought from YOU! It can
be done, you just need the will to do it. If you have the will,
follow their simple email course and get going. You'll be amazed
at the things you were thinking and never noticed you were even
thinking them!
Together, these sites create a truly brilliant business owner.
With these tools in your arsenal, you can think new thoughts,
capture them for later, share the creativity with others, keep
yourself on target, delegate the little stuff, keep the wool
from falling over your eyes and create the kind of businesses
that people want to share.
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