Author: matt-mansfield

Siftery Helps You Choose Online Solutions that Work With the Tools You Already Use

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Get Shift Done: Management

Adding a new online solution to the lineup your company already uses can be a challenge. After all, how do you know they’ll all work together? It used to take a time-consuming combination of research and trial and error to answer that question. That is, until Siftery came along.

Siftery is a unique beast. One-third web crawler, one-third data warehouse and one-third a set of useful tools, Siftery is really the only spot where you can easily discover which online solutions play well together. Here’s how:

Signing up with Siftery is free. Once you do so, you’ll be prompted to add the solutions you already use, your “stack,” to your company profile. Once you’ve done so, you can view the list via your profile:

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There’s More to ROI Than Money Alone

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Measuring success in dollars alone ignores the purpose of work

By Triplebotline (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

My father bought a lottery ticket every Thursday. Each week he told my sisters and me the same thing, “If I win, I’m still going to work tomorrow.”

Frankly, I used to think he was nuts, but many years later, I finally understood the message behind that statement: my dad didn’t work for money alone — his job gave him purpose.

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This Hack’s the Reason Google Keyword Planner’s Not Dead Yet

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Get Shift Done: Tips and Tricks

Psssst…I’m gonna’ share a secret with you, but whatever you do, don’t tell Google.

You see, back in August, the company made a big change to their Keyword Planner, the free go-to tool for SEO specialists everywhere — instead of showing an exact number of “Average Monthly Searches,” it now shows a range — a really broad range:


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Managing Remote Workers is Different — Not!

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Get Shift Done: Management

Source: http://www.gratisography.com

Consider this: by 2020, half of all people may be working remotely, a dramatic shift that will affect both NewCos and BigCos alike.

While employees everywhere may cheer, this statistic is likely less appealing to managers who worry that they’ll need to learn a whole new set of skills.

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It’s Not Me, It’s You — Getting the 411 on Website Outages

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Get Shift Done: Tips and Tricks

Source: http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

Given the open architecture and multitude of players involved in connecting you with a website, it’s a major technological achievement that the web works as often, and as well, as it does.

Except for when it doesn’t.

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Freelancers: Want to Help Get Shift Done?

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Do you love tech? We’re talking online tools and solutions (some call it SaaS, but that’s industry speak).

Do you love business? Especially NewCos and BigCos that kick butt, take names, and drive change?

Do you love writing about the tech that helps those businesses get shift done?

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