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“Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity — and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.”

Nigel Marsh is a renowned performance coach who has worked with a great variety of businesses during his career, including some of the world’s top companies. In this TED talk, Nigel speaks from direct personal experience, giving his views on how to get the best out of business, life and those around you.

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You are probably using social networks – like most people – in especially freelancers – do. If  so, you should follow some rules or else you will get addicted much faster than you might think.

Here are some tipps referring to the seven deadly sins:

Lust
Do not use every social network from the beginning just because it is “trendy” at that moment. Look for the one that is most fitting to the aim you want to reach.

Gluttony
Do not go over the top – in the user-generated media, the right balance is very important. Start with a manageable extend and never lose your overview.

Greed
Not the traffic and the product are important, but the direct and authentic dialogue with your target group.

Idleness
Don’t be lazy: who has no contact with its target group, gives his control in someone else’s hands. You will need the dialogue and relationship with you target group sooner or later.

Envy
Copying successful ideas of others is useless. Be creative and write your own story of success.

Anger
It does not work the way you have planned it? Avoid impulsive reactions and keep cool. Be prepared for problems and risks and think about possible solutions in advance.

Pride
Of course you will be criticized by your target group. Therefore, be prepared and critics won’t stay in your way.

How about you? Are you a social network addict?

Based on: http://www.mittelstanddirekt.de/c364/m329/um671/d184/default.html

Hamburg, February 25, 2011. projektwerk, the easiest project marketplace on the web for freelancers and companies, turns 12 – and celebrates this event with presents for its users instead of a big birthday bash.
Everybody who books a premium membership on projektwerk.com between February 24 and March 3, 2011, receives a festive 12% discount. And because a birthday with two presents is twice as nice as a birthday with just one present, projektwerk ups the ante: For every annual membership subscription in this period the thirteenth month is free.

The twelfth year of existence was a year of major steps. Not only has the project marketplace projektwerk successfully launched the specialised platforms it, creative, consulting, engineering and fashion and thus made customized industry solutions accessible to its users. It has also developed an innovative matching technology that facilitates a fast and efficient recruiting of projects and freelancers.

To benefit from the birthday discount, please use the promotional code bday12pw.

Founding a company is not easy…but it seems to be that there are certain characteristics that conduce a positive outcome when founding.

Here are ten interesting results of studies concerning founders personalities.

1. Incorporators shouldn’t be too self-reliant:

No doubt it is good to be self-confident. But persons who are founding a business should be able to question themselves. Briony Pulford of the University of Leicester found out that test persons who overestimate their skills rather come to irrational decisions. Extremly self-confident persons would e.g. establish a restaurant in a city where the branch is already surfeited. This can have a negative aftermath. Here you can look up the survey: Market Entry Decisions

2. Being too optimistic can raise complications as well:

Keith Hmieleski of the Texas Christian University applied himself to find out which influences optimism has on the prosperity of a business. The conclusion of his survey is that too much optimism is not helpful. The reasons for that are not clear. One possible conclusion might be that overly optimistic people might be more unthought than people who are less optimistic.

3. Founders hold more testosterone:

Hormones play a decisive role in working life, especially for men. Roderick White of the Ivey School of Business in Canada alleges that businessmen have more testosterone than people who have no experiences in business life. He tested just under 100 Students in his study.

You have one minute to explain yourself, your business, your goals, and your passions. Your audience knows none of these. Are you prepared? Can you present your vision smoothly, enticing them to want to know more?

An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define an idea, a product, service, or organization and its value proposition. The name “elevator pitch” reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes.

Start crafting yours @ the Harvard Business School Elevator Pitch Builder

About this talk: “In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.”

We just completed our first projektwerk tutorial! This short video aims at showing you in simple steps how to create an account and publish a project or profile on either the IT, consulting, creative, engineering or fashion platform.

The tutorial will be integrated into our platforms soon but wanted you to watch this in advance.

Feel free to tell us what you think of it!

Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders online using file synchronization. The tool has great potential: No more fumbling for lost or damaged storage devices and always up to date with the latest file versions. Alternatives: Zumo or SugarSync.

“…your files follow you to whichever device you happen to be working on.”

JWT is one of the largest ad agencies in the U.S. and the fourth-biggest in the world. JWTIntelligence, the firms marketing communications network, is a well-known center for provocative thinking. It focuses on identifying changes in the global zeitgeist and revealing cultural shifts: “We make sense of the chaos in a world of hyper-abundant information and constant innovation – finding quality amid the quantity”.

100 Things to Watch in 2011 is a wide-ranging compilation that partly reflects broader shifts the firm has been tracking over the past few years. The list presents interesting trends, from the evolution of the mobile phone into an “everything hub” to the development of counter-trends, for example to balance out the growing immersion in the digital world, people will increasingly embrace face-to-face gatherings and digital downtime.

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Maintaining and growing a steady stream of clients and job leads is without a doubt the most important aspect of an online worker’s career. Andrew Neitlich, co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career, shares his tips on growing your stream of clients and jobs.

“One of the most important ways to succeed as a freelancer is to understand and get into the opportunity flow…”