My good friend Michael(@thatroperdude) just began a new startup by the name Musibility, “A Musician’s Mentor”. Now, since he told me he has upped his number of twitter followers, but more importantly the number of twitter “interactors”; not just people who follow him or he follows, but people he is interacting with on a daily basis who are taking what he says and putting it into action.

First let me explain Musibility to you.

Musibility is a consulting type company. A company that mentors/teaches musicians about how to run themselves, or their band as a company. By teaching the band managers how to properly take themselves or their band to the fullest extent. A small time gig for now, he goes engaging musicians and their groups how to go about with finding gigs, how to operate them, and operating a tour schedule with success and most importantly money management.

But here’s what I think he’s doing right:

1. Musibility is not completely up and running yet.
2. He’s gathering the crowd to gain interest before even designing a web page for launch.
3. Once the page IS up, he will have the inflow from twitter, and other blogs to have a customer base, and word of mouth marketing.
4. Interactivity! Like Dan Schwabel says in his 5 P’s of Marketing the last one is Participation. Michael’s participation in his venture and his willingness to always be around for the betterment of his startup is one of the keys to having a successful project.’

Best of Luck Roper!

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SURPRISE!

Yeah, there really is such a thing as productivity. Even in the life of a college kid I can realize that. Whether it’s finally convincing myself to come to the library and work, or sitting in my dorm to do it. I actually get most of my blogs done here where I am in the Library or at 1AM in my dorm room. So for the ultimate productivity you really have to find what works for you, everyone else has their niche as to how the work best.

Now here are some simple points to help increase your productivity and get work done!

• Work Space – Consider this place your sanctuary, almost like your bathroom. Try to make it as cozy and home-like as possible. Don’t make it too cozy though, you don’t want to be falling asleep on your work. Do your best to keep the clutter out of the way, and keep the task at hand in front of you.
• Computer – Keep the Desktop organized, keep Icons that you use up and easily accessible to decrease time looking for them. Also, and this is a purely aesthetic thing, keep a desktop background that makes you feel comfortable, and happy, in other words, Feng-Shui, or Zen.
• When and Where? - Work when it’s best for you, this skips out you 9-5 guys. If you’re like me you can tend to crank out some of the BEST work at night. The reasoning for that is there are less people, less distractions and more quiet. There is simply less around you to let things get in the way.
• Music? – I tend to work better with music playing, why I don’t know, it keeps me focused. If you work better with music, try Rhapsody, or bring music on a thumb drive.
• Kill…The… STRESS! – Some say stress pressures them to get through their objectives on time, and to be more productive. But really, what good does it do for you in the long run… It kills you, literally.  Keep soft deadlines, or even make a deadline before the hard deadline. This will help you get your project done, and then have time to revise and edit it. Listen to relaxing music, and eat properly while working, this helps keep your natural body functions in order so you don’t go out of whack. Keep away from cramming your work in at the last minute, this will essentially create poor work. Space out your timing while working and look where and  how things should be done to reduce stress.

Hope these help!

-Greg de Lima