Sometimes it costs us more not to do something than it does if we do it.

For example, I would much rather have someone else clean my house.  It costs me X$ to have someone else clean it, while I can be creating new products that I can sell for X$.

If you would rather clean your own house because it’s your way of relaxing and thinking, that’s a different story.  For me, it isn’t.  I earn more per hour than I pay to get this chore done.  Besides I prefer creating new information products.

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Having trouble writing your blogs?  Feel you would like to keep your blog more up to date?  Getting that guilty feeling because you’re not updating your blog on a regular basis, or submitting articles regularly.  (I am so I came up with these ideas that I can follow)

Following are seven easy ways to write blog entries and/or articles. Read more

I’m going to reveal a secret used by transcriptionists which aids in typing faster and more accurately, and can save all of us that important element called Time. 

At first glance, this may seem to be contrary to my previous advice about creating products by recording your material.  Not true.  It’s still better to create information products by recording and getting transcribed.  Nevertheless, all of us do have other instances when we have to type something – an email, a note, a blog entry, taking notes at a meeting.

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From my own experience, here are two scenarios for you. Which one do you think can create information products faster and easier? Which one can create more information products? Which one is spending their time more efficiently and making more money?

At one time in my distant past, I was a legal secretary. I worked for two attorneys in a small, one secretary office in the San Fernando Valley in California.

One of the attorneys had to have me in his office so he could dictate his correspondence and legal documents, which I then transcribed from my shorthand.

Requiring me to be in his office while he dictated was both painful and time consuming. Read more

In a recent interview, grammarian expert Laura Jarnat revealed five easy steps to get your audience to read what you write.  Laura has been a speaker and trainer for 15 years and has a passion for grammar.  In fact, she will tell you she reads the Great Reference Manual for fun.  Follow Laura’s advice in these five easy steps and your audience will be more likely to read what you write.

1.  Consider your reader’s time and focus on what they want. Write at a level that is optimum for your reader to undersand. The current standard, and has been for a few years, is to write at the 8th grade level. You  may think that’s ridiculous and a reflection of the educaition system in our country today. Really, it has to do with a commodity called “time” that we have in short supply. Very simply, it takes time to read anything that’s written at greater than the 8th grade level. Read more

My blog entry for this date will be general observations of some interesting things that have come across my desk in the last few days that I’d like to pass on to you. I hope you’ll read to the end and read “The Principle Of The Garbage Truck.”

Partly because it is so closely related to transcription (or it could be), I’ve been interested in scrapbooking, but also partly because I like that sort of thing, although I’ve never had very much time to devote to it.

If you put together a scrapbook of family interest, one of the best things you can include is either an audio describing the pictures and events, or an audio and a transcription with a description. The latter really works well because it includes all of one’s modalities, hearing, seeing and reading. Read more

Yesterday, I decided to do a current search on digital recorders and I learned some good news:  We’re getting more and paying less.  I did a search on Olympus and found that for the same amount we were paying a year ago, we are actually getting longer recording times.