Michael Reynolds
Marketing / Social Media / Technology / Productivity Speaker and President/CEO of SpinWeb
Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
In a ROWE, every day is a snow day
In: Lifestyle| Productivity| Technology
7 Jan 2010Remember snow days? As a kid, the first big snow of the season was an eagerly-anticipated gift because it could mean that school was canceled, which would be followed by sleeping in, sledding, and other recreational hi-jinks. As we got older, snow days started to affect us in different ways. As employees, snow days could [...]
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- Tags: indianapolis, ROWE, snow, spinweb
Why consider ghost blogging?
In: Marketing| Productivity| Technology
2 Dec 2009You’ve probably heard all the buzz about blogging by now. As you may have heard, blogging can help build visibility for you and your company through improved search engine rankings and distributed content. Blogging also helps add an element of transparency to your business because it allows your customers to learn more about the people [...]
Know when to use your hammer
In: Design| Lifestyle| Marketing| Productivity| Technology
20 Nov 2009“When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I’m sure you’ve heard this phrase before and it makes a great point. In business, we all have hammers and we are all looking for nails. This blog post was inspired by a post by Seth Godin, in which he explains that different professionals will [...]
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- Tags: indiana, indianapolis, Marketing, spinweb, website
Your customers want simplicity, not features
In: Design| Lifestyle| Marketing| Productivity| Technology
19 Oct 2009I was extremely amused by a story I saw today about the new Droid smart phone offered by Verizon. I always get mildly amused when I see the next “iPhone killer” but this one in particular got my attention because of the direct head-to-head challenge to the iPhone as seen in this teaser commercial.
Is the [...]
Is Indianapolis the Networking Capitol of the U.S.?
In: Lifestyle| Marketing| Productivity
8 Aug 2009I realize this is a pretty bold headline and a rather dramatic statement to make but I’ve been thinking recently about my home city of Indianapolis and how active this community is in networking. My blog post was prompted by a recent whiteboard session I attended with Tony Scelzo in which we covered all the [...]
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- Tags: bni, indianapolis, Marketing, networking, rainmakers
Use a System for Making Referrals
In: Marketing| Productivity
9 Jul 2009As a member of networking groups like BNI and Rainmakers, I have a strong commitment to producing quality referrals for members of my network. The “givers gain” philosophy is alive and well and I have seen it work wonders many times over for me and for my referral partners. Staying consistent is tough, however. It’s [...]
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- Tags: bni, indianapolis, Marketing, rainmakers
Process Email Offline to Improve Productivity
In: Productivity| Technology
6 Jun 2009I have been traveling this week and since I have not yet been lucky enough to find myself on a plane with WiFi, I have been able to catch up on replying to emails in my “Action Required” folder while on the plane.
If you don’t know what an Action Required folder is, read up on [...]
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Does Your Commute Suck? Go ROWE!
In: Lifestyle| Productivity
29 May 2009Today’s blog from Cali and Jody was awesome. It is titled “Does Your Commute Suck?” and touches on some things that are extremely broken about today’s traditional workplace. We migrated to a ROWE at SpinWeb last year and we have been very happy with the results. We no longer talk about hours or work schedules [...]
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- Tags: michael reynolds, ROWE
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- Shailendra: Good web design is really important. These days people are using web to assess your services of qual [...]
- Greg Fleischaker: Michael, nice comments, I may be getting into ghost blogging a bit myself, and it's nice to see [...]
- Branden: I've been curious about ghost blogging for a while now, and you answered a lot of questions. Th [...]
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