Linkswitch #96, Productivity, Multitasking, Go Viral

Every other week we roundup some of the highest quality articles and resources that benefit freelancers from across the web. We present these articles here on various helpful topics. This week we have articles on finding the best productivity app, multitasking effectively, and getting your posts to go viral.

20 Best Online To Do List Apps for Freelancers

To do list task managers and full productivity software is essential to a freelancers business. The style of design your looking for in a to do list app will differ based on the size of your small business, the nature of the services you offer, and your personal preferences. How a to do list task manager implements these features has a big impact on it’s user base. Here are some of the most prevalent and useful features to consider in reviewing task based productivity software:

7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post

Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there are no real long-term benefits. In this post I am going to show you the seven crucial tactics for writing a radically successful guest post.

Layering: Multitasking That Actually Works

In a few short years, multitasking has gone from star child to black sheep in productivity pop culture. This is because the most common forms of multitasking require rapidly switching between similar tasks, which creates a sort of “flickering” effect in your brain. (Think of a connection gone bad… annoying at best, useless at worst.)

4 Ways to Get Back Up After Miserable Business Failure Knocks You Out Cold

Have you ever felt like you would never, ever, ever succeed? Sure, you get the occasional pat on the back from your boss, or a colleague congratulates you for a job well done, but have you ever tried failing so bad that you thought no one could do worse?

Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! It was exciting. It was exhilarating. My site, viral! Wow! And then I took a moment to see what they were seeing. Oh my.

Who is your customer?

Rule one: You can build a business on the foundation of great customer service. Rule two: The only way to do great customer service is to treat different customers differently. The question: Who is your customer? It’s not obvious.

David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”: Is It Relevant to Freelancers?

Because freelancers’ productivity has a direct correlation with their income, it’s essential for us to constantly find tools and systems that can help us get more quality work done, in less time, and with less stress. There’s plenty we can learn from “Getting Things Done” to help us achieve all that.

Sure, Times are Still Tough, But It’s Not All Bad

Today, over 13 million Americans remain out of work and global unemployment is hovering around 6 percent, so the job landscape is still rather bleak. The good news is, opportunities in our industry, both full-time employment and freelance, are on the rise. Here’s the outlook.

Why You Should Throw Away Your To-Do List

Instead of a to-do list, I keep a done list. Every day, when I’m winding down my day, I do a quick mental scan of my day and write down what I got done. It may seem counterintuitive, but it helps me plan out my day, and gets me amped to kick butt and get stuff done.

Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App

Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have through the right set of functionality at the right time.