In case you haven’t noticed, I’m having a productivity day here at the site. Normally, I’d be talk about search today. But it’s Danny Sullivan‘s birthday, so my gift to him is observing a day of lazine celebration, hereby redirecting any search related inquries to the upcoming search news page at Sphinn, or to other expert search engine resource sites related to him.
My first productivity tip on speed reading, can either cut your research/reading time, or help you get four times as much done in the same amount of time if you get as good as I am at it, which isn’t hard.
If you spend 3 hours a day reading, whether it’s email, books, reference materials, feeds or blogs, imagine getting the same amount of work done in 45 minutes. Or think about how neat it would be to be able to process four times as much information in those three hours what it takes most people 12 hours to read.
My second tip can help you get up to twice as much typing done. It’s easy. Get voice recognition software and/or increase your typing speed.
Average uncorrected speed is 50 words per minute. I started out around there and my current uncorrected speed is 79 words per minute, as checked this morning. (You don’t have to be as accurate when there’s spell check!)
But that’s when I can type – sometimes I have problems with my hands swelling, and I can’t type at all.
When I first started having this problem with my hands (supposedly related to some nerve damage I have in my spine, but I think they’re just saying that because they don’t know), a friend of mine told me about Dragon Naturally Speaking. When I tried it just a couple of years ago, I’ll be blunt and say it sucked.
But in recent years, it’s actually gotten much better. We speak about twice as fast as a fairly good typist, at 130 words per minute. Once you have Dragon trained, it can often produce that fast.
The downside is training it for techie speak, though it works surprisingly well out of the box. Even with manual editing, it can cut down your production type a bit more than increasing your typing speed. To start out on this tip, test your typing speed.
I have one more time saver for you, but it will have to be this evening. By the time you read this, I’ll finally be asleep.
If I’m not, don’t tell my friend Warren or I’ll owe him money.
My next tip is going to be about how to combine these first two tips with one that multiplies the effect of certain marketing acitivities. In this way, you can get a work week’s worth of marketing done in two days.
In the meantime, why don’t you tell me some of your web related productivity tips? No fair linking to stuff you didn’t write! I want YOUR tips, because the very last post is going to be a collection of other people’s tips or sites. I need five and I only have two I really like.
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