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I just read this on his blog and wanted to share it with you.
I find myself making YouTube videos when I’ve got a few extra minutes.
What do you do when you find yourself with a few extra minutes? Leave a comment with your suggestions.
Here’s Chris’ post:
If You Have an Extra Half Hour
In the course of a day, someone cancels a meeting, someone misses a phone call, a project takes the back burner, you find yourself waiting for someone else. This time is the time most at risk to being wasted.
It’s amazing what we do when the half hour seems free or extra. Instead of just throwing it away, here’s a list of things you could do instead that might improve your business relationships.
If You Have an Extra Half Hour
Perform a few of the following tasks.
- Write two recommendations on LinkedIn for people’s work you can vouch for.
- Read and comment on five blog posts(especially if they’re up-and-coming bloggers vs the pros).
- Go to search.twitter.com, put in a few topics you’re interested in, and comment on a few conversations.
- Go to Alltop.com and discover some new blogs in a category that matters to you.
- Read and Stumble a few good blog posts. Share them on Twitter and Facebook, too.
- Write a list of blog topics to come up with in coming weeks.
- Reply to the five oldest emails in your inbox. See if any of the replies would be better as blog posts to help more people.
- Investigate two new websites or technologies that might or might not impact your work.
- Teach one person you know about something you know about social media.
- What would you add?
You probably have a few more ideas for what to do with a half hour. Let’s list them here.
Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies. For more information on this, please contact Chris directly.
