Joshua Garity

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Productivity: Time Management is a Fraud

How often do you wish you had more time in a day? Do you tell yourself you could be so much better at your job, your relationships, or even your health with better time management? Good. This is for you; a new perspective on achieving success with less effort than everyone else. Let’s begin by [...]

Google Plus: Color Theory of a Global Takeover

With all of the commotion surrounding Google’s latest social media attempt most of us have been left on the outside of the beta wall. However, each of us is able to use the revised Google toolbar that can be seen throughout the Google family of products like Search, Maps and Gmail. Google has pulled the [...]

Empower Employee Loyalty with Passion Projects

The strength of that bridge will grow over time and everyone will benefit. Employee moral has taken a devastating blow in recent years due to drastic changes in our economic outlook. Even when employed, hot button topics such as hourly rates and benefit packages are forced into top of mind and can heavily affect productivity. [...]

Overpriced: Are you worth what you charge?

To some, success lies within making a difference; making a product easier to use; streamlining a business process that cuts expenses or touching the lives of others and helping those in need. But where does respect for the quality of our own work factor in? How often do we question the value of what we [...]

3 Steps to Future Proof Your Business

At the start of each year I take a few days to review the state of my business. How did my core services perform compared to previous years? Can I determine a trend in the industry, or client requests, that I should adjust to? With as little as 15 minutes you can start your new [...]

Make it easy for customers to pay early. Incentives not extra work.

When running a business your main goal is to collect payment from your customers. Everything you do is motivated by revenue in some way. Your mission for payment should always be “If a customer is trying to pay me, let me make it quick and easy.” That seems pretty straight forward right? This morning I [...]

Social Media Strategy: Roles, Copywriting and A Campfire

Determine your goals and communicate your passions to those of likemind. I’m a large advocate of discussing ROI (risk of investment / return on investment) and its relation to time and money. Due to the nature of today’s business world we tend to define investment as a financial act. It’s important to remember that the [...]

Social Media Golden Rules learned from #MMchat

Every Monday The Social CMO holds “Marketer Monday”, or #MMchat for short, on Twitter at 8:00pm Eastern Time. They feature a  Twitter based Social Media conversation about marketing hosted by @TheSocialCMO. Tonight, a retweet by Matthew Kammerait caught my attention. It included these thought provoking Social Media keywords. Social Media Golden Rules @tomob: helpful human [...]

Listen to Everyone. Success & Growth Come from an Open Mind.

It doesn’t matter where a good idea comes from. Just that it exists. Ever since I was a kid, maybe 8 years old, I knew what I wanted to do. Pretended to run my own company. Branded my future with a catchy name and shiny logo. Dreamed of all I would conquer and achieve. Even [...]

Best of the first 6 months. Articles, comments and a newborn.

Many of you have noticed that I have been absent from all Social Media, email and even this blog since last Saturday. Why you ask? My son was born Saturday, August 21st at 8:19 P.M. All waking moments in the past week have been focused and fully devoted to my family. I appreciate your patience as we settle in. I will return next week and publish new content frequently.

Until then, please take the time to read, comment and share my most popular articles from the past 6 months.