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September 7, 2011 by matt

5 Resources I Can’t Live Without

If you’re a entrepreneur/information junkie, like me, you will dig the sites below. As an entrepreneur, I am constantly surfing for quality information, inspiration and more to learn as much as possible about the business world we live in and how to build a successful one.  If you consider yourself a creative and run a small business, or a large one for that matter – these sites will provide you with some great material to feast upon.

1) Think Vitamin – this site is a great resource for web designers as well as entrepreneurs. They cover html 5, CSS3, php, business, and much more. While you can learn a lot by simply reading their blog, you can also pay for the membership to gain full access.
Click here

2) ProBlogger - Darren Rowse is the master behind this incredibly successful blog. He teaches everything you need to implement a strategy for turning your ordinary blog into a money making one. Are you ever in a blogging slump? He’s got you covered. If you have a blog, you need to read his. Click here

3) The 99% – This is a site run by the Behance Network. Their sole purpose is to help creatives take their ideas and make them happen. The 99% focuses on topics such as leadership, email strategy, self-marketing, collaboration, organization, and much more. Click here

4) MarketingProfs – This is the all time website when it comes to marketing. They cover everything from branding to email marketing. I make it a point to read through their articles daily and I’ve learned so much already. Click here

5) Action Method – One more site by the Behance Network. I’ve written about this site once already and have to mention it again. This is one application I truly can’t live without. Since first using it a month ago, I have become more organized and efficient in all my projects. It’s incredibly easy to use, and it’s free up to 50 action steps (after that it’s $12/month). Click here to get organized.

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August 26, 2011 by matt

Action Method – How I Organize My Tasks

If you’re like me and have a billion different tasks within 20 different projects and need a way to organize and efficiently execute those tasks, this post is for you! About a month ago I stumbled upon a task management tool called Action Method. In the past I had always toyed with I phone apps, but they were far from user friendly. After trying Action Method, I can honestly say that it is the most user friendly, clean, and feature rich task management service I’ve seen yet. Best of all, it’s FREE!

Action Method

Action Method is a sister company to the Behance Network, a very very robust portfolio website for creatives across all industries. Whether you are on the computer or on the run, this service is accessible both online and through their iphone app. You can create tasks, projects, ect. on either and they will both sync with one another to make sure everything is up to date.

Features I love:

    - Action Steps – these are what tasks are called
    - Projects –     basically a way to organize or collect a group of tasks
    - Events – the milestones or occasions you or your team is working toward. Events are a way to organize all your action steps
    - Backburners – A place to store ideas that you’d like to work on at a later time. For me it’s a great place to organize all of my thoughts from my brainstorming sessions, or a place to list ideas I don’t want to forget about.
    - Discussions – This is a place to share all thoughts with the individuals or groups you are working with. File sharing is available here as well.
    - Delegations – With delegations, you can create tasks and delegate them to whomever is involved in that particular project
    - Alerts – iphone app