Natalie Morris Morris MC

Face Book Demographics

• 2007 - the fastest percentage of growth was with 18-24 year olds at 61.8%
• 2008 - 35-54 year old segment grew 172.9% in 10 months!
• 2009 - already this year the 35-54 year old users have grown at a rate of 276% !!

A few years ago Facebook was a place for kids, young adults soon got interested and the 30 somethings were soon to joining in. However in the past year 35-54 year olds have dominated the growth rate!  

Although Face book is considered more of a "Personal" Social Media venue, over the last few months Facebook has started to dramatically changed its focus to businesses. Although it is still a personal social gathering place for the members, businesses are being encouraged to join and offer their services and products to the group.

This change may cause some issues with individual personal information getting "mixed-up" with their professional information or more importantly their professional image. Where do you post those bear-bong pictures if not on face book?

Pretty much if you sell a product, or a service your customers are probably on Facebook. Can they find you?

If you don't already have an account, join today!

Thanks,
Natalie 

http://www.facebook.com/NMorrisMC

www.morrismc.com

A lot of people ask me how I come up with blog ideas. Here are the most common ways I come up with ideas:

• Sometimes it's something interesting I read, saw, or heard about that I want to share.
• Sometimes it's information people ask me about regularly and I figure if more than one person is asking me about it than more people probably want to know about it.
• Sometimes it's information I want to know about and I figure if I needed to spend the time learning about it than others could benefit from my efforts - that is what the Internet is all about right?
• and the last way I come up with ideas is when it's something I need to do, but just can't get motivated to actually do, so I will write a blog about it to get me in the right mind.

Obviously this blog is the second reason. So often people feel daunted about writing a blog because they don't feel like they have any ideas that are worth reading. That is totally not true! If you feel comfortable having a quiet conversation over coffee with a friend then you can write a blog. In fact some of my blog ideas come from that very thing, having coffee with a friend. The conversation gets interesting and I think "I need to remember this so I can write a quick blog about it".

The other thing people get stuck on; blogs don't need to be long.

Thank you and have a fantastic day!
Natalie

www.morrismc.com

I know everyone out there has had one of those days when you know you just need to get something done. It's not that you don't want to write that blog, call that person, or run those reports, it's just you would rather be doing something else. It's not that those papers are more important than the other things on your desk, it's just that it needs to get done.

What is it that pushes you over that barrier where you say "Fine! I'll do it!" or "I just need to get it done!"? 

Or more importantly what is it that keeps you from doing it in the first place?

There will always be those action items that you put off because you really don't want to do them. There are those action items you put off because you don't think they are that important. But what about those things that you don't really mind doing, you know are important but you just can't seem to find the time to get them done.

Can't find the time… It's not - not having the time. It is - not prioritizing your actions. It's choosing to get lost on the Cuyahoga County Library's Business Section instead of working on your blog. It's reading through e-mails instead of writing that quote, it's doing what's in front of you instead of what you need to do.

So how do you break that habit? Well you have to start with a list. A list of everything that needs done, a list of every action that needs done. Then you break that list down into manageable chunks, maybe customers, projects, sales, personal, business, etc. And then you prioritize that list. What needs to get done today? What needs to get done this week? Mark those items as your top priority.

Now make a daily list. Put your top priorities on the top of the list, but be realistic. If you have 5 big projects that are going to take you 5 hours each, your not going to get them all done on the first day. Pick your most important one and put that down form Monday, the second for Tuesday, etc. Now after your top priority jobs are on your list, look at the rest of your items and figure out what you can fit into your free time. 5 hours for project 1, 1 hour for e-mail, 2 hours to update your filing. That's an 8 hour day but add a few 5 or 10 minute tasks that you can fit in between transitions.

Now keep that list next to you and only do what's on the list, if you run out of things on your daily list, go back to your main list and add more.  By the end of the week, your list of 100 action items will be cut in half, by the end of the next week you will say to yourself "why did I put that off in the first place?"

Thanks,
Natalie
www.morrismc.com