Time management for marketers: Don't get whacked out poo brain
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This document provides time management tips and strategies for staying organized and productive. It discusses structuring work into projects, milestones, and tasks. Milestones represent deliverables with due dates, while tasks should each take less than 45 minutes and be planned daily. The document emphasizes measuring time spent on tasks for improvement, and using tools like Toggl to help automate routines and free up brainspace. It also recommends learning skills like Excel scripting to work more efficiently.
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Time management for marketers: Don't get whacked out poo brain
- 1. HOW I NEARLY WENT WHACKED OUT POO BRAIN Ian Lurie @portentint ian@portent.com
- 2. THIS IS THE HASHTAG #PORTENTU
- 3. THESE ARE THE LINKS http://portent.co/poobrain
- 5. My day
- 6. 45 min workout or bike to work
- 11. 2 hours on tools
- 12. 2-3 sales calls
- 13. Presentation or
- 14. Blog post or
- 15. SEOmoz Q&A and
- 16. Quora
- 17. The kids
- 18. The spouse
- 19. The cats
- 20. The guinea pig
- 21. The hamster
- 22. Uh...
- 23. Random shit Work shit Home shit Sleep
- 24. Time management
- 26. Random shit to Random ignore Random shit t shit to Random o ignor Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignor Random ignore shit to shit to Projectsndom Ra ignor Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignore Random ignore shit to Milestone Rand shit to Milestone ignore Random ignore om shit shit to Random to igno Random Task ignore Task Task to ig re Task R shit shit to andom nore Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignore Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignore Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignore Random ignore shit to shit to Random ignore ignore shit to ignore
- 27. From PopHangover.com Projects Milestone Milestone Task Task Task Task
- 28. Task Task Task Task Projects Task Milestone Milestone Task Task Task Task Task Task Task Task Task Task Task
- 30. Time management is a game...
- 31. ...and we’re all gamers.
- 32. Time management lets you get lots of cool toys.
- 33. Time management means you get to learn new stuff.
- 34. Time management makes you better at what you do.
- 35. Time management is about controlling distractions and making the most of your effort.
- 36. Time management is part of your job.
- 37. Time management is part of your life.
- 38. First, understand the structure
- 39. Projects
- 40. Milestones
- 41. Milestones Deliverables that change the status of something, specify a recipient, and have a due date.
- 42. Milestones “Have doctor check weird rash before Friday.”
- 43. Milestones “Have doctor check weird rash before Friday.” Implicit deliverable: Report identifying rash
- 44. Milestones “Have doctor check weird rash before Friday.” Dr. is recipient.
- 45. Milestones “Have doctor check weird rash before Friday.” Status from “unknown” to “known”
- 46. Milestones “Have doctor check weird rash before Friday.” Due date
- 49. BUT NOT ALL
- 50. BUT NOT ALL DAMMIT
- 51. BUT NOT ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD
- 52. BUT NOT ALL DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE
- 53. Tasks are... Everything you do, all day, every day.
- 55. Tasks are... The basic unit of productive time.
- 56. Tasks No task > 45 minutes.
- 57. Tasks Not all tasks have milestones, but all milestones have tasks.
- 58. Tasks Are atomic Are planned daily Come into focus over time
- 60. Atomic The consistent building block of your milestone.
- 61. Atomic Can’t easily be broken down into smaller parts.
- 62. Daily Every day.
- 64. Daily Every single day no matter what.
- 65. Daily Every single day no matter what dammit.
- 66. Focus over time Tasks planned 7 days ahead, maximum.
- 67. My routine
- 68. The sweep
- 70. Can you do it in 2 minutes or less? Do it now. Should someone else handle it? Delegate. Will it take longer? Make a task.
- 71. Sunday or Monday Sweep Projects Milestones/project Tasks/milestone Tasks w/ no project/milestone
- 72. Every morning Sweep Take the next 3-4 major to-dos/milestones and break them up into 45-minute actions. That’s my day’s to-do list.
- 73. During the day 45 minutes on your next to-do. 5-10 minutes doing another sweep, etc.
- 74. Measuring
- 75. Toggl.com
- 76. Pomodoro
- 77. Pomodoro
- 78. Old-fashioned
- 79. Old-fashioned
- 80. This is not time tracking!!!!
- 81. It’s measurement
- 82. Measure as you work, not after
- 84. MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT DAMMIT
- 85. MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD
- 86. MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE
- 87. Nifty tools & tricks
- 88. Mechanize what you can
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- 93. ;jewwatch Our first step is getting links removed from sites that had no intention of helping Jew Watch rank. I've built a list of the 'unintentional boosters'. I need folks to contact these sites. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is: Please do the following: - Find out who to contact to remove the link from the above page(s). - Contact them and ask politely if they'd remove the link. You can use this message, or write your own: ===== Dear , I have a favor to ask. We're trying to make sure that jewwatch.com can no longer rank in the top 10 on Google for the word 'jew'. You wrote an article about the site, which included a link to Jew Watch. I know you didn't intend to help this site, but your link, even if it's nofollowed, is boosting JewWatch.com's authority. If you could remove the link (you don't have to change the article!) it would help us a great deal. Thanks, =====
- 94. IFTTT
- 100. Task tracking
- 101. Todo.txt
- 102. Workflowy
- 103. TeuxDeux
- 104. Dropbox Laptop > Mobile > Tablet > Home
- 105. Free up brainspace
- 106. 1Password
- 107. Evernote
- 108. Learn to use Excel & Word right
- 109. Learn to use Excel & Word right
- 110. Learn to use Excel & Word right DAMMIT
- 111. Learn to use Excel & Word right FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD
- 112. Learn to use Excel & Word right DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE
- 115. vlookup
- 116. pivot tables
- 117. Learn scripting
- 118. Learn scripting
- 119. Learn scripting 1st time: 4 hours
- 120. Learn scripting Now: 30 minutes
- 121. The result
- 123. From Wikipedia.org
- 124. QUESTIONS? @portentint plus.google.com/+IanLurie portent.com/blog