Persuasive Picks for the week of 08/15/11

A Tomato Lover’s Guide To B2B Social MediaRenegade CEO Drew Neisser creates a great metaphor between B2B Social Media and growing tomatoes in this entertaining read on Media Post‘s Marketing Daily blog. Is Your Social Media Strategy Stalling Because You’re Not Doing This One Thing?HubSpot’s Dan Zarrella shares some interesting stats and advice on boosting engagement [...]

Six Tips for Staying Productive During the Lazy Days of Summer

Here in New England, we’ve enjoyed an amazing stretch of summer weather and all the fun that comes with it. With summertime distractions beckoning, I’ll be the first to admit it’s sometimes a challenge to stay focused on my work. Fortunately, working in a virtual environment, the folks at PerkettPR pretty much have productivity down [...]

Talking Productivity with Robert Strohmeyer

In our fast-paced, often furious, line of work, we communicate with dozens upon dozens of people every week. Few stand out. Accomplished editor, reporter and blogger Robert Strohmeyer is one of the few. I decided to pick his brain on a topic that is a personal and professional challenge for me and many others – [...]

The Way I Am Working Isn’t Working

At least that is what I found out at my favorite SXSW session, “The 90 Minute Solution: Live Like a Sprinter,” with Tony Schwartz, bestselling author of “Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live.” If you are like me, always tired, always working too long but not [...]