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Episode 452: How to Keep Track of Irregular Events

This Get-it-Done Guy episode, How to Keep Track of Irregular Events, discusses several tools that can be used to manage events in the future, even if you don’t know when or where those events will take place. Here are the resources mentioned in the episode.

Episode 434: Improving Your Memory with Jonathan Levi

Today’s Get-It-Done Guy episode features Jonathan Levi, creator of Udemy’s best-selling course on speed reading and classes on a wide variety of topics under the umbrella of Becoming Superhuman.

Jonathan Levi

Jonathan’s a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and lifehacker born and raised in Silicon Valley. Since 2014, Jonathan has been one of the top-performing instructors on online learning platform Udemy, and has snowballed this success into the launch of his rapidly growing information products company, SuperHuman Enterprises, which produces such products as the top-rated Becoming SuperHuman Podcast; the bestselling “Become a SuperLearner” print, digital, and audiobooks; and numerous other online courses through it’s own online training portal, SuperLearner Academy. He is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Becoming Superhuman Course Logo
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Jonathan Levi, Supercharge Your Memory

Episode 432: Products!!!

Here are links to the products mentioned in the episode.

I chose all of these products because I use them and love them. Some of these links are affiliate links, and I would greatly appreciate it if you buy through those links.

Product Link
ScottEVest vest

SCOTTeVEST vest

 Link to SCOTTeVEST
Big Skinny CURVE wallet
Big Skinny CURVE wallet		 Link to BigSkinny
Focus website blocker. Click here
Blacklist iOS website blocker
iA Writer Multimarkdown distraction-free writing Mac OS X
iA Writer iOS version
YOINK smart drag-and-drop
Alfred launcher, searcher, remote control
Paste clipboard history
1Password iOS password manager
1Password Mac OS X password manager
Path Finder Link to PathFinder
Better Touch Tool Link to Better Touch Tool
BTT Remote iOS
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Episode 429: Using Redirects and Shortcuts

Creating redirects for hard-to-remember URLs is quite useful. You can use it to create URLs you can easily give to people outside your organization. “Just visit http://mycompany.com/meeting to schedule a meeting” is easier to tell people than giving them a long, complicated link to a meeting scheduling page. You can use public link-shortening services to create short links.

Creating redirects on your own site

There are many ways to create your own redirects, depending on your level of comfort with technology and your specific website configuration.

Redirect using your .htaccess file
This is the best, most transparent and efficient way to add a redirect. It also requires the most technical skill. If you don’t know what a .htaccess file is, you probably should use a different method.

Edit the .htaccess file in your website and add a redirect line. If you want to redirect http://yourwebsite/calendar to http://onlinecalendar.com/34238723 you would use this line:

Redirect 302 /calendar http://onlinecalendar.com/34238723

Once you’ve tested the redirect to make sure it works, change the 302 to a 301 in the redirect line.

Redirect if you are running WordPress and have administrator access

If you’re running a WordPress site, install the URL-Redirect plugin. Once it’s installed, you can go directly to Tools > URL Redirect on the WordPress Dashboard and add redirections to that page.

Redirect without administrator access or on non-Wordpress
If you aren’t on WordPress, or you don’t have administrator access to your site, you can create a page with the name of the redirect you want. Then on that page, simply add a link to the final page. Clicking the original redirect link will take someone to that page, which will then contain the ultimate destination link.

This is a kludgy solution, because the person following the link has to click twice. It still beats trying to remember long, unwieldy URLs. The HTML will look like:

<a href="http://link-destination.com">
Click here to go to the destination.
</a>

You can avoid the double click for visitors with Javascript turned on

Add this code to the web page, as well. Make sure to replace SteverRobbins.com with the destination URL for the redirect. When the page loads to display, as soon as this part of the page loads, it will instantly jump to the destination page instead.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
window.location="http://SteverRobbins.com/";
// -->
</script>

Episode 413: It’s OK to say “NO” with Chris Voss

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Today’s Get-It-Done Guy episode features Chris Voss, author of the new book Never Split the Difference. Chris is the former top hostage negotiator for the FBI. Enough said. He joined me on the Get-it-Done Guy to talk about how to negotiate in unconventional ways that really work…

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You can hear the Get-it-Done Guy episode Why No May be the Answer You Want to Hear, which is based on Chris’s book, by clicking here.

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It's OK to hear "NO" with Chris Voss

Episode 409: Being different, an interview with Gregory Diehl

Today’s Get-It-Done Guy episode features Gregory Diehl, author of the new book Brand Identity Breakthrough. Gregory’s book is #1 bestseller in Public Relations on Amazon, and is available in Kindle, print, and audiobook formats. He joined me on the Get-it-Done Guy podcast to talk about how to create a distinct brand for yourself, and get ahead.

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IT's Better to be Different with Gregory Diehl

Episode 404: A Better Response to Working For Exposure

Responding to an offer of “Exposure”

As I outline in Get-it-Done Guy episode 404, being offered “exposure” as compensation is almost always a crass attempt to exploit you. Here’s the letter I sent back the last time someone offered me the opportunity to be exploited. It makes a simple counter-proposal in which you take the risk associated with you doing a bad job, you get paid fairly, and they take the risk if their exposure turns out to be worthless.

It also includes a little hook at the end to make it very clear that the only legitimate reason for rejecting the counter-proposal is if they realize that their exposure is worthless, in which case they’re just being an exploitative hack.

Click here for the Get-it-Done Guy episode: How to Gently Tell Off the People Asking You to Work for Free.

Dear Person,

I understand that you are offering “exposure” as a form of compensation. We both know that my work is valuable. Insert your credentials here. Your reaching out to me shows my work must be worth something to you, otherwise you wouldn’t spend your own valuable time asking for it.

What we don’t know is whether the exposure you are offering is valuable. You are asking me to take the bet that the exposure is worth something. Simply doing a trade puts all the risk on me.

Let’s do it differently. Let’s each bet on the promise we are making.

I’ll bet on the quality of my work. I’ll submit my article. You’ll pay me $X. If the article is not well-written, you will put me through your editorial process or decide not to pay. This puts the responsibility of producing a quality article squarely on me.

We establish exposure metrics, such as click-through rates or page views, in advance. Once my article has been published, we will measure those rates. If we hit the target, then I will return the $X. Your exposure will, indeed, have proved its worth.

Of course, if your exposure does not meet the goals, then you did not deliver, and I keep the cash instead. You’ll also know that the exposure you can provide is not genuine compensation, and you will, of course, be a good person and offer future people more valuable methods of compensation.

Exposure as a currency makes sense if you can guarantee a million eyeballs of a hot, ready-to-click audience that meets my customer demographic. Exposure makes sense if your outlet is such a big name that simply appearing on your site will boost my credibility. But exposure doesn’t make sense if you’re just using that word to justify not paying people who are providing you a valuable product.

Ryan Reynolds gets great exposure when he stars in “Deadpool.” Yet he still gets paid for his work. It was career-making exposure for Jennifer Lawrence to star in “Hunger Games,” yet she was still paid for her work.

Business is based on the fair exchange of value. You solicit and pay for work, and I deliver. We structure the deal so the price represents the value delivered, and we each take on the risk if we don’t uphold our side of the bargain.

Please let me know if you accept the terms I’m proposing. And by the way, I’m 99.9% sure you won’t. And we both know what that means.

Sincerely,

Stever Robbins