Based on some good things I was hearing over at Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation Podcast, it got me to thinking a bit more about reaching international audiences. After all, whether you are a mobile business owner from India, the States, Europe, the China, Russia or anywhere else in the world, you have to be thinking about reach, and how to best get your message across. The post below, is extracted from an audio comment I left for Six Pixels, but it has relevance I think for our community. Please have a read through and let me know what you think? Do you have other suggestions for maintaining an effective International reach in the social media space, while still retaining your local “flavor?”

[Editor's note: the following is unedited. Please comment on to the post and let me know what you think.]

Hi Mitch:

This is Corbin Links from Linksbusinessgroup.com and the Identity Management Success Podcast.

First, I wanted to thank you for playing my audio comment in episode 124. The audio comment feature of your

blogs is one of the greatest things about it!

Second, I wanted to comment on your discussion of national and localized references in podcast. I have two comments, and five tips to share.

1)I think that blogging and podcast conversations have to work both ways, and all members of the global listening community have to have the tolerance and flexibility to realize that if we listen to anyone in another country, there will always be a few nuances that we have to pick up on.

2)Personally, and this is just my opinion and preference, I think it’s ok to at times provide national perspective when relevant - or even just for color and perspective. For instance, I listen to podcasts from all over the world and enjoy — AND — listen sometimes solely for that reason. As an example, I enjoy hearing your perspectives on Canada in general, and the great cities up there.

As I always say, I already know what I think, but wallowing in that doesn’t make me a better person. I want to get the perspective of those other than myself and my countrymen, whether it be national or international events, or just other perspectives on my industry.

Tips for addressing the global audience (from my experience):

1)Understand where your audience is. Today, audiences are increasingly global and can come from the most unlikely and surprising places in the globe. For instances, in our podcast and blog marketing, we found one day that we seemed to be getting a really high # of visitors and shoppers from Scandinavia.

2)Understand and use the geographical targeting and mapping features of your web analytics packages and/or

mail/autoresponder software.

3)Last, but not least, have copy proofed outside of your country of origin. For instance, when I released the book “IAM Success Tips: Volume 1”, a key requirement of the project was to have it stripped of national or usa-based linguistic idioms as much as absolutely possible

4)If your work or project allows, include references to other geographic regions and include stories and items of interest to your largest audience bases.

5)Have an assistant, or hire a virtual assistant to compile special international “newspapers” for you on a weekly basis, containing regional business and cultural news from the world’s major regions. I started doing this a few months ago and have found it invaluable in improving my perspective and helping me …at least try… to keep it open to global audiences.

Let’s get some business done!

Best regards,

-Corbin Links

The Mobile Business Owners Podcast Series returns with Episode 5 in the series. In this episode, I discuss the following:

1)How to select the right MP3 player for “Sharpening the Saw” and maintaining your educational edge as a Mobile Business Owner. The discussion includes Zune vs. iPod, and how to evaluate the purchase of just the right mp3 player for you…..(you know why you need one!)

2)In our feature segment, I’ll be discussing our recent poll for remote workplaces. If you haven’t yet voted in our “Where do you work” poll, be sure to visit the Mobile Business Owners - Home Page, scroll to the bottom, and enter your vote. I plan to keep the poll up and running for at least several months, so we can see how the numbers change over time.

What is number one on the current list…..Coffee Shops. In the #1 slot, Coffee Shops are garnering the bulk of votes on our “workplace away from work” list. But is that really the case? Where are the other remote locations you work? Have a favorite? Have a really unusual choice that maybe no one else has tried yet? We want to know! Call our podcast comment line at +1 206 350 0057, and leave your name, number, website (optional) and where you do most of your “away from the office” work — and why. If you have a particularly interesting story to tell, or a mobile work place that is a bit unusual (within the boundaries of good taste of course) then you just might win a little something….(maybe a certain mp3 player?….)

Oh - and the main segment looks at the “Top 5 Tips for Productive Coffee Shopping” (or working in coffee shops and cafes.)

You can download a copy of Episode 5 here, subscribe in iTunes (just search the store for “Mobile Business Owners Podcast”, or listen with the inline MP3 player included at the bottom of this post.

Now go mobile, and get some business done!

Best Regards,
-Corbin Links

Due to popular demand (and because I wanted to have a better idea of actual subscription numbers…) I have just added a new “Podcast Only” feed via FeedBurner. Just click the previous link, or click here to add the podcast to your podcatcher software or device.

Stay tuned, much more is coming your way!

Best regards,

Corbin

Today’s episode of the Mobile Business Owners Podcast covers a crucial topic for Mobile Business Owners everywhere: what tool to use to present your information to clients, workers, and prospects.

Here are just a few of things covered in this episode:

• Recent updates in and around Mobile Business Owners
• Description of web presentation and audio conferencing software
• What factors you need to consider before downloading and using conferencing and presentation software
• Very detailed review of two of the best: Yugma and Gotomeeting
• Which situations are best for Yugma, which are best for Gotomeeting
• The pros and cons of each package
• And much more….

–> Download Episode 4 <–

If you ever have to deliver *any* information remotely to one or more people, including audio conferencing, you should not miss this episode.

Comments? Have another recommendation for the Mobile Business Owners Community? Email us at info@linksbusinessgroup.com or call our 24-hour audio comment line at +1 206 350 0057.

Today’s episode is sponsored by Links Business Group LLC and MobileBusinessOwners.com. Thanks for listening!

-Corbin Links

Do you hate “cheesy” information products? Have you ever purchased an eBook, piece of software, membership account, dvd, cd, or related product, only to have it arrive and disappoint you? If you’re anything like me, this situation is not only frustrating, but enough to make you livid. (I’ve actually received a couple of products that were so cheesy, they made me almost ‘pre-postal’, but that’s another story.)

So what is a “cheesy” information product? Essentially, printed or electronically downloadable product that purports to provide information of the how-to variety, on any manner of subject. In my case, I consume a ton of information products on a wide variety of topics, but the cheesy ones tend to be financial and internet marketing related. You know the ones….

“Order now, we only have 2 left, and then we’ll never, ever, ever, print another one at this price…”

-or-

“Don’t leave the order page yet. If you order within the next 20 seconds, we’ll throw in an extra $10,000 worth of downloadable bonus products.”

-or-

“How to just push a button, and have thousands of dollars show up in your bank account, as if by osmosis”

Ok…some are slightly exaggerated. But not by much. This post is about seemingly legitimate “internet marketing related” products from reputable publishers. Folks who should know better, but cannot resist making a Euro (or Dollar) or two from a cheap piece of garbage that took no more than a few minutes to put together.

Before going on, I’ll clear the air a bit. The Internet is chock full of some really great information products that can be worth many times their price. One eBook in particular that I paid about $17 for a while back, netted me 3 traffic generation tricks that we still use in a couple of our businesses. It was definitely worth while. The positive examples are legion, and should not be tainted by the examples I have listed here.

Here are a few reasons that Mobile Business Owners would wish to consider purchasing quality information products:

• They really want to learn more about the topic covered in the materials
• Things to listen to in their laptops/ipods/PMP while jogging, or traveling for business
• They want to use the materials as research/reference materials for other products
• They may want to get ideas from the construction and content of the materials
• Gifts for others
• And so on

The second extra-cheese product came this week. It had a really great title (for legal reasons, I won’t list it here, but will say that the subject was related to reselling product rights and licensing). The product was highly touted and since we had a related projects in the works, we thought “why not.” So this thing arrives in our business mailbox in a plain brown wrapper. Inside, were two cd’s with home made labels on. One of the two CD’s simply contained a “lnk” file, which in case you haven’t run into this before, is essentially just a pointer to another file on someone’s hard drive, not the file itself. So one of the two disks was already useless. Next, we gathered round at lunch and give it a spin in the DVD player. It was so bad, that my emotions fluctuated between laughter at the raw unprofessionalism of the piece, to anger that such a well-known website run by a very famous internationally best-selling author would actively promote such tripe. My favorite features of the disk were:

I recently came across an article on business travel etiquette, which I felt was so good, that it was well worth sharing. It will be printed here in its entirety, with the author’s full byline and links intact. However, getting to the article, a few thoughts of my own (in no particular order…) :

MobileBusinessOwners.com Airline Etiquette Suggestions

• Monitor your headphones. Yes, headphones can be MUCH louder than you think they are. What seems like a blissful “noise cancelled” experience for you, can be mildly irritating or downright angering to your neighbors. Headphones alone do not make one a considerate listener. On one flight recently from Los Angeles to Seattle, the person behind me had headphones so loud, that it seemed be vibrating the seat. Don’t be that person.
• No one else around you is as interested in your call, your line of work, or who did what with what document as you are. Let’s face it, we all have mobile business to conduct. The trick is to have it conducted, without becoming a “noiseitizen” of the airways. I like to use a good old-fashioned corded headset with a microphone. This allows the microphone to be comfortably near my mouth, while keeping the audio in my ears only. Better call quality for me, and a blissful interruption-free experience for my fellow passengers
• Help your neighbors place their bags in the overhead compartments. I can think of few ways to better represent a budding (or thriving) mobile business than by lending a helping hand. Not only is it a nice thing to do for the person with the bags, but it helps improve the experience of all those around you by getting people seated quickly.
• If you bring your children along, be sure to hold them to the same standards of conduct. There is a common misconception among many family travelers that other travelers sharing the airplane find their children as cute and amusing as they do. They don’t. Bring plenty of noise-free amusements for your children so the business travelers can continue getting business done.
• It’s not impolite to “tune out” or keep to yourself and sleep during airline travel. You are a business owner, traveling here and there, meetings all the time, countless juggled priorities, family life to manage, etc. In other words, you can be exhausted when getting on a plane (many people are these days.) It is very difficult for polite and professional business owners to turn down conversation attempts from adjacent passengers. Keep in mind that this is a personal preference. Some people want to connect and chat on the flight, others may not. Still others may only want to chat briefly, and go back to work/sleeping/listening to music, etc. We’re all different, and that’s ok too. A few years ago, I read a study somewhere that said some extremely tiny percentage of business card exchanges on airplanes ever resulted in a business relationship. Put another way, irrespective of how great the conversation or exchange of business cards may be with your new found airplane friend, the chances of that materializing in to anything are slim and none. The second that plane door opens, you will go your respective ways.  Now, I’m not saying that you cannot or should not make these contacts on the plane, my only point is that you should not feel any obligation to do so. There is no business networking contact penalty for spending your flight time working on your own business. 

Note:  everything between the two horizontally ruled lines below is Copyright 2007 by  Lydia Ramsey. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted from her article on JobBank USA.

Everything to the top and bottom of the horizontal rules is Copyright 2007-2008 Links Business Group LLC and MobileBusinessOwners.com. All Rights Reserved.

Leaving On A Jet Plane? Business Etiquette To Go

By Lydia Ramsey

Business travel is often a necessity whether you work for a Fortune 500 company or own a small home based business. Only so much business can be conducted by telephone, e-mail, computer and fax. There will come a day when you need to travel for business and how you conduct yourself will make all the difference in determining your success in getting that new client or sealing the deal.

Always remember that you are representing your company during your entire journey, starting and ending with your trip to and from the airport. Be considerate to airline personnel, hotel porters, restaurant employees and anyone else you meet on your trip. You never know when someone you meet may be related to the CEO of your client company or when someone you treat badly makes a formal complaint to your employer. Stay on your best behavior when you are traveling and you will build relationships that can impact the bottom line. As a bonus you will enjoy your trip a lot more when you treat others with courtesy and kindness.

After your travel reservations are made do some research. Start by studying the customs and culture of your destination if you are visiting a foreign country or by reading an online newspaper from the US city where you will be staying. Use the internet to select a restaurant for wining and dining your client, and make reservations ahead of time. Refresh your memory on the basics of introductions, table manners and gift giving before you leave home.

If you are traveling with someone else, ask that you be seated next to your business associates on the airplane. Sitting together will ensure you keep your conversations confidential and other passengers will appreciate not having to listen to you talk across an aisle or over the seat. Avoid alcohol on the airplane and during your entire trip. Traveling is not an excuse to indulge in alcoholic beverages and your boss will not appreciate being billed for your overindulgence or hearing about your wild antics on the plane.

Prior to traveling familiarize yourself with the gift giving etiquette of the company you are visiting. Be aware that many corporations and government offices have strict rules about accepting gifts. Call the company receptionist or the secretary of the person you will meet with on your trip to inquire about the company guidelines and ask for suggestions if a gift is appropriate.

Use technology sparingly in order to show respect for those around you. Make use of earphones with your laptop or hand held gadgets. Turn your cell phone off while flying and when attending a meeting. If you do have to take a call, let others know ahead of time and leave the meeting when the call comes in.

Be punctual for all of your meetings and dress professionally. Leave your casual clothes for evenings and weekends when you won’t be spending time with your client. Plan on keeping yourself occupied on off hours and do not expect your client to entertain you. If you are invited to a casual meal or other activity on off hours, feel free to accept but pay attention to your attire. Even if your host suggests that you dress casually, keep in mind that you are still doing business and make sure you keep the “business” in “business casual.”

Refrain from discussing inappropriate issues while traveling such as religion, politics and your latest surgery. Respond respectfully when asked your opinion on sticky subjects then move on quickly to another topic. If anyone, including a client, begins to bash Americans, do not take offense. Tell them you understand how they might feel that way and change the subject. Client meetings are no place to advance your personal causes or opinions.

When you return to your office, send a handwritten thank you note immediately. Let your client know how much you appreciate their hospitality and how much you enjoyed your trip. A handwritten note is much more personal than a hastily sent e-mail.

Paying careful attention to your business etiquette while traveling may help you achieve that promotion you have wanted, seal that deal you have been working on for months or enhance the otherwise lukewarm client relationship. You may not have control over your travel schedule, where your luggage ends up or the clients you need to meet, but you do have total control of your own behavior and your personal attitude By minding your business manners your trip will be pleasant, productive and profitable.

Copyright 2007 Lydia Ramsey. All Rights Reserved.

Reprint rights granted so long as article and by-line are published intact and with all links made live.

Lydia Ramsey is a business etiquette expert, professional speaker, corporate trainer and author. Learn from Lydia by using her four LIVE business etiquette broadcasts on DVD or by reading her newest book “Lydia Ramsey’s Little Book of Table Manners”. You can purchase these business etiquette tools at  http://www.mannersthatsell.com/tms/index.html. 

Thanks for reading!

All the best,

Corbin Links, and MobileBusinessOwners.com 

You all have websites, right? Perhaps you have your own webmasters and/or a department within your company that manages all of those details for you. How about blogs? Checked them lately? Link checked your html/php/asp-based sites lately? Do you know where your links are going? Do you know whose businesses you are unknowingly supporting?

In today’s post I’m going slightly (very slightly) away from the traditional mobile topics to talk about website link verification. Not the most glamorous of subjects for many, but one of crucial and vital importance to a mobile business owner with a web or blog presence of any kind. 

Here is the scenario:

You have a website, and it’s doing great. Really well. People are visiting, linking in, you’re creating content, keywords, doing the whole social media promotion thing, and life seems good. One night, as part of routine maintenance performed in conjunction with some scheduled updates — you run a link check. Suddenly, instead of having hundreds of outbound links you find thousands…or tens of thousands…. of outbound links on your site. Where did these come from? Who is this mystery company stealing all of your traffic and website Page Rank?

Why “link stealing” is such a bad thing

Whatever the technical term, I’ll call this “link stealing.” This nefarious activity impacts a website on several levels:

• Redirects traffic away from your partners and suppliers
• Can cause search engine penalties for “link farming” and “link spamming.” Among other search-engine related side effects, excessive non-related links can cause your page ranking to drop, or push you further back in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP)
• Increases the load time of your pages (read:  unhappy visitors clicking away from you, and on to your competitors)
• Clogs up your web pages with junk, and increases the maintenance overhead
• Uses valuable bandwidth
• Deters valuable link partners. This is something little-known by many mobile business owners, but many companies check the back and forward links of their competitors. Potential partners do the same. Imagine a potential link partner checking your back links and finding 10,000+ back links to … shall we say… “unsavory” websites?
• There are probably many more, but the preceding come immediately to mind

What can you do to clean stolen links from your site?

Use the “search and replace” feature of your blog software or website management / editor tools. Most all modern web and blog management tools have either native search and replace, or the ability to add in “modules” or “plug-ins” to provide this feature.  Use the results of your link checker report to find the culprit links and clean them out using “wildcards” such as “*” Check with your webmaster if unsure how to perform any of the steps mentioned in this article.

NOTE:  Be sure to make backup copies of your website and/or blog before running major search and replace functions. 

Continue the search and replace operations until all offending traces of the link thieves have been removed. Then, run your URL checker again to find out of there are any stolen links still present. Continue the search/replace + rechecking process, until all of your links are the ones you expect to see.

How can you prevent stolen links in the future?

• Run a link checker at least once a week. Many link checkers will run as background processes (for the nontechnical, this means that they can be set up to run without human intervention). Those that don’t can still be run quickly from a graphical user interface, or command line. The point is not *what* tool you use, but just to use one at least once a week for your entire site. That said, here are some tools that we either use currently, or have used over at MobileBusinessOwners.com:
  • Xenu for the Windows Platform
  • BLT for the Macintosh Platform
  • Dead-links.com Web-based service
• Maintain security controls on your blog and/or website
• Keep up with patches and security updates
• Be careful about security levels set for “commenters” and contributors within your blog management software. In some cases, users can gain elevated privileges once they have been granted an account
• Use a tool such as “ShieldsUp!” to periodically check your site

I hope this can save you time and aggravation in the future. After all, as mobile business owners, we want to spend our time running 

and managing our business, not giving business away to unsavory websites that look to capitalize on our good names and hard-earned effort.

End note:  There are other great reasons to run link link checkers, namely to keep the search spiders, and your users happy as well. 

Link checking is just all around good business on all levels!

Thanks for reading.

Best regards,

Corbin Links, and the MobileBusinessOwners.com team

C’mon, you can admit it. Amid all the electronic trappings of today’s “modern age,” you secretly long for a happier, simpler time. A time when “backup” meant having an extra sheet of paper and pen. “Redundant systems” were paper copies of your documents. You know the tiime…

I wanted to take a moment and follow up on a topic we started in “Mobile Business Owners Podcast - Episode 3.” In the last episode (in case there is any way you possibly missed it,) I discussed the topic of “Do you really need a PDA?” During a major business reorganization just a few months ago, I had the same question - over and over - every day. People get to that question in different ways, for different reasons. For some, it is the endlessly increasing complexity of things like “smart phones” and multi-multi-function devices. For others, it is the endless “cost hole” of special plans, connectivity fees, dropped connections, endless ringing, and screens that fry when you need them most. 

For me, the moment came when I forgot an adapter for one of the three PDA-type devices I was carrying. Yes, I was (and still am, to a large extent,) a gadget junky. Everywhere I go, a big bag of cables and custom adapters go with me.  But, I was finding that my “trusted systems” could no longer be trusted, and I could no longer remember which device, in which program, in which system were supposed to have my details. Contacts…calendar….email/messaging….to-do…notes….etc.  “Damn it!!” I said. “Where is that bleeping…..adapter?????”

As I sat there bemoaning my lack of gadgetry, something hearkened me back to the dusty memory (the human kind…) of an old boss. A boss from a different industry and another time. He had a system - several in fact - which just seemed to work. What I remember most though was his endless pile of small yellow legal pads. He would write up a day on them, track his tasks and “to do’s”, and just top flip to the next page when the previous page was done. When it was filled up, he would just relegate it to a pile of “done and file.” Essentially “backing up” what he was doing. Dan - he was the man, I thought. That man was together! He didn’t struggle daily with PDA’s, cables, broken screens, software upgrades, lost license files, and the like. His tools were lots of pens and pads. Probably spent less on those in 5 years, then I would spend on a single moderately-priced device. Using his home-baked, analog system, he managed staggering numbers of employees, countless clients, and endless details.

With the memories spilling forward, I did the decent digital thing, and went to to the web for some research. Finding others on the net having long since reached the same conclusions, and inspired further by books such as “Getting Things Done” (Insert my amazon.com link) and “Upgrade Your Life”, I could see that there was hope and a possibility of a productive, analog life. Putting everything together, I came up with a system that has served me well now for three months. Yes — working very very well, thank you very much. Curious? 

Before going on, let me just say a couple of things. First and foremost — no — I’m not bashing gadgets. We use a lot of them, and cover them in our website and podcasts. Where they’re necessary and useful, we share our thoughts on same. But — and here is my main point — many gadgets have the following properties:

• Very short lifespans
• Damage easily
• Very costly, especially those such as sms-based text services, ‘pay per use’ Internet, and asundry smart phone services
• Short battery life 
• Various incompatibilities with their own software, much less integrating cleanly with other external software packages
• Proprietary adapters (even those that don’t, or devices with USB “trickle chargers” trickle too much, and too long for my taste)
• Have a habit of not being available when you need them (screen issues, lockups, hard resets, power issues, etc.)

Ok - with that said, here is a general description of my current analog system. It is a work in progress, but works very well for me. I encourage you to find a variation that works for you and give it a try. 

Corbin’s analog task management system - the nuts and bolts

Equipment you’ll need:

1)Comfortable pens — any that you like writing with. The brand, type of tip (fine, medium, felt, etc. matters not)

2)A packet of cheap thin-spiral notebooks. The kind with that cheap-looking coily metal spiraled through the sides

–>Hint:  You can pick up whole packages of these for under $5.00USD at most office supply stores

3)A life, and some tasks to manage.

How it works:

0)On the outside of your binder (cover page) put your first name, and the starting date + year. Make a dash next to the date and year, so that you an track a complete range of dates. I find that my binders hold between 20 & 40 days, depending on the quantity of notes required for any given day.

1)At the top of each page, write out the full day and date (starting from the current date)

2)Start listing your tasks, one per line (use multiple lines if needed)

3)Maintain one full line space between tasks

4)To the left of each task, place a square which will act as your check box

NOTE:  At this stage, it is not about prioritization, listing things between “1 and 3 in order of priority” and other such complex mechanisms. The point is to just get the tasks down on paper

Next, sort. Tasks that are very, very important (you should have no more than 5 of these on a daily basis), get two stars or asterisks to the left of their respective task boxes. Tasks that are “great to get done, but won’t kill me if they miss a day or two” can have a circle or triangle instead of a check box. During sorting, don’t rewrite, or reorder. Just follow the asterisk. Simplicity is beauty and analog is sanity….

Ok. Write your date, write your tasks, then leave two full pages between the day and tasks you just wrote down, and and the next date. The full blank pages are used to store notes during the day. The notes you write and collect throughout the day will be used as inputs for future daily tasks. 

Ok Corbin - now what do I do with my computer and digital-based devices?

Great question. Notice three major limitations in the system above:

1)It doesn’t help you track things that are way in the future, or more than a few days away

2)It doesn’t manage recurring tasks. You could (and in many cases will,) write similar tasks over several days

3)It says nothing about phone numbers and contact-based information

So we’ll address these limitations. I (personally) use the following tools to manage the limitations noted above. (Your mileage will vary.) My Mac mail tracks things that need to “remind” me. My Google calendar manages things such as client appointments, birthdays, and the like. My Mac address book, Linkedin.com and other various services I use keep track of my contacts. People that I really need to call and talk with, are all in my cell phone. People that I meet that I’ll need to talk with later, also go into my cell phone contacts list, promptly at the time I meet them and/or receive their business card.

Sidebar:  Cell phones (as in the regular cell phone) are one digital device that can be fairly reliable. Additionally, contacts transfer nicely between phone upgrades, so there isn’t much to lose when switching phones. Building your basic contact list in the phone can survive upgrades and phone breakages, since your information is stored in your cell service provider’s servers.

What do I do with digital calendars? I print up my daily calendar and paperclip it to the inside of my binder. When the day is done, so is my calendar entry. If it is a business-deal critical “don’t close the deal, don’t eat” kind of meeting, it’s going to be stored in at least 2 places anyway, so I don’t worry too much about it.

As you’ll note from above, there is a mix of analog and digital in the system. However, the part of the system that keeps me on top of things, and maintains the core of productivity is completely analog. Digital is crucial, but also supplementary. Between my cell phone (contacts,) Google Calendar (appointments and recurring-type dates) and my analog task management system, I’m covered. 

When the spiral is done, I put the end/closing date on the front cover and file it. Spirals stay on file in my office for six months, then go into deep storage.

What does this have to do with the Mobile Business Owner?

Portability! No batteries! No cords! No cables! Travel in comfort and style with your pen and paper. Amaze your friends and business colleagues with your new low-tech analog technology.

Will a conversion to analog do away with my computer?

A great question, but of course the answer is — absolutely not! The point here is to externalize productivity and personal task management, while improviing efficiency and reducing gadget-based risk.

Have a great analog story?

Share it with us! Sign in to comment below, or better yet call us at +1 206 350 0057. Or, maybe you have an opposite store of converting from an analog system or Day Timer to a digital system? Share that with us well. We look forward to talking with you soon.

Where to get more information

–Right here on MobileBusinessOwners.com

–”Getting S*** Done (GSD)” ->Great article from Bill Westerman which helped tune my process substantially

–“Getting Things Done” by David Allen. 

–”Upgrade Your Life” by Gina Trapani.

Best regards,

Corbin Links and the MobileBusinessOwners.com Team

Welcome back to the show. Today we’re bringing you Episode #3, in our ongoing series of podcasts.  We cover tips, tools, strategies, and tactics for getting business done, regardless of wherever you might be. If you conduct business in cars, buses, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, airports, or anywhere else, we can help you stay in touch, close more business, and become more productive.

Exciting show today! In today’s episode I cover the following:

• Switching between computer platforms (Mac to Vista, Vista to Mac, etc.) 
• Examination of the question “Do you really need a PDA?”
• And much, much more….

Welcome back to the show. Today we’re bringing you Episode #2, in our ongoing series of podcasts. Our podcast is *the* place for business owners who are highly mobile, and generally spend 50% or more of their business time away from the office. We cover tips, tools, strategies, and tactics for getting business done, regardless of wherever you might be. If you conduct business in cars, buses, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, airports, or anywhere else, we can help you stay in touch, close more business, and become more productive.

In our second episode, we cover the following:

• A thorough discussion of hotel loyalty programs. I walk you through the primary things to consider when joining a program, what you can (and should) expect from a program, and how to turn those hotel stays into free vacations and other bgenefits.
• In our Grab Bag segment, I deliver a review of an important book: “Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better.” In the short time that I have owned this book, it has had a solid and measurable impact on my productivity and travel quality.
• In Carmen’s Travel Tip Segment, she talks about booking travel (but I can’t give away any more than that. You’ll just have to listen…. )
• Miscellaneous announcements, and much, much more….

Today’s episode is sponsored by Links Business Group LLC. Visit them on the web at www.linksbusinessgroup.com. The Mobile Business Owners Podcast is copyright 2008, by Links Business Group LLC and the MobileBusinessOwners.com team. All rights reserved.

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-Corbin Links