How to deal with distractions at work

I have to say from the start that I don’t like the word “work” if you used in as a way to define your profession. Work = play seems more appropriate but even if you are playing you need to be with the mind where you are actually playing. Continue reading How to deal with distractions at work

Meet Geoff, Ozana and yours truly in London on 9th of March – Build Your Sales Funnel Masterclass (free event)

Entrepreneurs, small business owners and professional service providers – come and meet Ozana Giusca, Geoff Alexander and your truly on 9th March, in Central London, to learn how to build your sales funnel and generate hot leads on autopilot.
It is a FREE event. Join us & discover how to increase your visibility within your target audience and attract your best clients like bees to honey.

Sales Funnel Masterclass
Sales Funnel Masterclass

During The Event You’ll Discover How to…

– Package your knowledge & make money without the pain of selling
– Build your sales funnel to generate leads while you sleep & pay for your marketing costs at the same time
– Sell more & faster… on autopilot
– Sell & cover your marketing costs – even before you have your product available
– Avoid 3 deadly mistakes most small businesses make when trying to attract clients
– Stay away from the one habit that loses small businesses 70% of their sales

Just as the economy is rapidly changing, so are your clients’ purchasing habits.
What worked before to attract clients & generate business doesn’t work anymore.
Join this talk, packed with strategies to enable you to be visible to your right audience
and attract your best clients like bees to the honey pot …
… so you can stop chasing new clients & enjoy your business!
Because clients will be chasing YOU! Continue reading “Meet Geoff, Ozana and yours truly in London on 9th of March – Build Your Sales Funnel Masterclass (free event)”

10 strategies to grow your online presence, generate leads, clients and develop your business that will work in 2015

Along with the team from Web Future, a web development agency with offices in New York, Bucharest and soon in London – mid January 2015, we created what we consider to be one fo the most useful reads these days.

The first weeks of the New Year mark a new beginning, a new chance for an amazing period of 12 months which can take any business far, far away. We at Web Future assist companiesfrom all over the world in managing their online businesses, the kid of the Twentieth Century as a vehicle for business growth. One of the most common questions we get besides: “I want you to build an Amazon for me, how much is it?” is “how I generate more leads, clients and grow my business using your services, guys?”

Based on that and considering that we already know what works and what doesn’t work we thought of sharing our knowledge with the marketplace in ten strategies as a “thank you” for an amazing year highlighting the 20% to focus on, to generate 80% of the results in 2015.

Web Future Solutions 2015 predictions
Web Future Solutions 2015 predictions

The internet is more than ever the marketing environment used by people and companies to “push the humanity forward” how we like to call it. Day in and day out all of us can create amazing content, offer free information, launch products, issue vouchers, test new ideas and ask ourselves: “what’s next?”. No matter if a company is just at the start-up founded using bootstrapping from the kitchen table level or an established corporation the internet became for all of them the playfield where they can find the next lead and customer or to be approached by them as a result of advertising and content published. You, dear customer and explorer of the beauty called the internet, are the reason why we are doing what we are doing so the 10 strategies are dedicated to YOU. Have a great 2015, everybody! Continue reading “10 strategies to grow your online presence, generate leads, clients and develop your business that will work in 2015”

Money Management Tips from 7 Billionaires

The website 21stcenturynews.com.au published an interesting article about

Money management skills do not come effortlessly and naturally to all. Spending wisely and living frugally prove to be a challenge to a number of people, and this is when money management becomes of utmost importance.

No other bunch of individuals can best offer pieces of advice on how to properly handle money than the world’s billionaires. The fact that they have risen above everyone to amass great wealth should be enough reason to trust what they have to say.

If you’re looking to spend less, save more, and do all the right things with your money, we suggest you take note of these money management tips from seven of the world’s billionaires:

Bill Gates (net worth: $79 billion)

The Microsoft co-founder and former CEO believes in learning from past mistakes. According to him, “It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Never forget the money problems you’ve had in the past and the factors that caused them. Think of what works and what doesn’t whenever you’re making a money-related decision.

Bill Gates
Bill Gates

Oprah Winfrey (net worth: $2.9 billion)

The inspirational woman billionaire, TV personality, media executive, and philanthropist says finding your true passion is the first step to success. Figure out what it is you really love to do, and you’ll see that spending for it will be worth it. Nothing can ever present real value for money than something that brings fulfillment. Continue reading “Money Management Tips from 7 Billionaires”

How To Created an Online Course on Udemy with Free and Open Source Software

Udemy is one of the platforms where I upload content and courses and plan to use it more in the future. Recently I’ve found a blog post about using great free resources for creating Udemy courses – screencasts with audio, lecture notes and an eBook.

Here are totally free resources to use for creating udemy courses.

Recording Screencasts with Kazam

For recording screencasts (recording actions on the desktop), you can use use Kazam. It is available in the Ubuntu software center. You can save the output as H264 (MP4).

kazam

These shorcuts were useful

CTRL + SUPER (Win) + R – Start recording

CTRL + SUPER (Win) + F – Finish recording Continue reading “How To Created an Online Course on Udemy with Free and Open Source Software”

The Virgin Group of companies is in the testing with “every employee can take a vacation anytime and for any amount of time”

The followers of my blog knows that Richard Branson is my favourite entrepreneur and he continue to amaze me with what he is building around the Virgin brand. In fact, two of my goals are: 1. to share the stage with him and second to spend a week with my family on Necker Island. And, currently I have more that 30 goals to accomplish in the next period.

Richard Branson in his Hammock on Necker Island
Richard Branson in his Hammock on Necker Island

In the past few years, Netflix has become the runaway market leader in the streaming video sector.

One clue as to how they intend to remain there this time comes from a very well-advised and downright courageous initiative they adopted that rewrote the book – or to be more precise, threw it away – on something very near and dear to the hearts of most workers around the world: their annual vacation day entitlement. Continue reading “The Virgin Group of companies is in the testing with “every employee can take a vacation anytime and for any amount of time””

How to be an entrepreneur in the business of living

Today it’s 30th of August, officially the end of “summer” as most of us know it, the potential end of the summer holidays season and so on. This is it if you think in a reactive way. But, if you are proactive then today is a new day when you can make a dufference, you can improve something in your life with 1%, you can shift 0,5 mm in the direction of your dreams.

For adrianniculescu.com is a special day because it has a new tagline which was refined in the last 5 years which were my rookie blogger years. And … the tagline or pitch if you want, label or else is … “Entrepreneur in the business of living”. Continue reading “How to be an entrepreneur in the business of living”