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Ways to Acquire Users for Free (from spencerfry.com) < great post (HT @evbart)

At the end of the day, you have to build a service that people want to use or no amount of marketing or advertising will help. But if you are successful in building something people want — if you have traction and positive feedback — you will still need to make a serious effort to acquire users. Simply relying on the idea of “build it and they will come” won’t fly in the oversaturated world of startups we live in.

Track the Source of Your Traffic

Before knowing where or how to acquire new users for free, you need to

5 Productive Ways to Use Color | Producteevity

Color theory and the idea that certain colors elicit psychological response was popularized by the research of Dr. Max Luscher.

Color choice — both in your surroundings and on your person — can greatly assist with improving your mood.

What colors are you drawn to and how do you use them? You can give your home and office a splash of the right color(s) to heighten productivity. Here are a few suggestions:

Paint a power wall
use loud colors effectively with limited, strategic placement

Decorate your desk with preferred colors
feeling settled and comfortable, particularly in a color-sense, can … Lire la suite

20 Ways to Plan for Student Success with Producteev feat. @cmspearman @meglish

“As an undergraduate student at Penn State, using Producteev on my android phone (Astrid sync) along with the webapp and google calendar sync really keeps me productive. Also, using labels and the new smartsearch feature allows me to categorize my tasks, which kept me on track as I successfully applied and was accepted to medical school” – Chris Spearman, Penn State.

“I use Producteev to manage all of my course assignments, whether as whole project due dates or as individual tasks – whichever I might happen to need. I don’t know what I would do without the multicolored labels… Lire la suite

3 Ways to Boost Brain Power & Enhance Productivity

Fact: your brain is a super computer. As such, proper maintanance is required to ensure success and productivity. Like a computer needs electricity to function, your brain is energy-dependent. It relies on chemicals, primarily oxygen and sugar, to transmit information.

To reach complete potential and greater productivity, be mindful of the following factors:

Exercise
Sleep
Stress

Each stems from Brain Rules by John Medina.

Exercise boosts brain power.
You’ve probably heard that exercise is good for your heart. What you may not have known, is that exercise is good for your brain, too. Although the human brain comprises 2% of … Lire la suite

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15 Ways To Boost Your Creativity, including eating blueberries!

15 Cool Ways To Boost Your Creativity

Written by Diggy – 12 Comments
Categories: creativity, self improvement

Feeling burnt out or lacking creative ideas?

This article is especially for all you writers, artists, business owners or anyone looking for some new ways to get their creativity flowing.

Here are 15 ways to give your creativity a jump start:

Write Your Ideas Down

Get into the habit of writing your ideas down as soon as you get them. This way you train your brain to keep coming up with ideas, and as soon as you get them

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30 Ways to Save 30 Minutes a Day

We’re all way too busy. We live and work in an age with infinite online and offline demands on our time and attention. And the end result is that we’re left little free time for us to just breath and be.

If you’re anything like me, you wish there were few more minutes in every day. Well the good news is there are always minutes to be saved and various ways to save them. Save enough of them every day, and you’ll have a few extra hours at the end of the week. In this article I discuss 30 of my