by Glenn Matthews on February 28, 2012
For me, simple ideas that solve a necessity are the most exciting of ideas.
If you are on the run and need to sign a document. Or, even if you are like me and don’t like wasting paper (or don’t have access to a printer and scanner), SignNow allows you to sign a document on the go.
E-signatures is by no means a new concept. But most of the other services like RighSignature, Docusign and Echosign are all great e-signature services. But they are focused on enterprise users and often too complicated for a consumer and small business owner’s needs.
by Glenn Matthews on February 24, 2012
The past few years have presented me with many challenges. Moving to another country has been at the top of the list and I whole heartedly admit that I haven’t been my positive self for some time. What has slowed me down hasn’t been the physical challenge of moving to another country. No, what has slowed me down is my attitude. I’ve made many excuses not to succeed. My whole outlook on life has been negative and two weeks ago I decided I need to change. I’d like to share with you the steps I’m taking to enforce change.
by Glenn Matthews on February 15, 2012
This blog post by Seth Godin is worth re-printing in full.
The pain of a lousy boss, of careless mistakes, of insufficient credit. The pain of instability, of bullying, of inadequate tools. The pain of poor cash flow, corrosive feedback and work that isn’t worthy of you.
Pain is part of work. And it leads to two mistakes.
The notion that you can trade your way out of pain.
“If I just get a little bigger, a little more famous, a little richer–then the pain will go away.”
by Glenn Matthews on February 14, 2012
Today I found a great article on board leadership: “Boards: The Right Person To Lead One”.
Within the article, the author states “If you’re constructing an advisory board for your business, you need to be clear about its role and judicious in the choice and range of directors. But there’s no decision more important than who leads your meetings.
“This can’t be you. Why not? Because to get the best out of your board, the directors or advisors need to feel able to challenge and question you. That’s a lot less likely to happen when you run the meeting. What you want is someone you trust, preferably someone you admire and who has the success of the business as his or her only goal. This is a mentoring role, not a career steppingstone.”
by Glenn Matthews on February 13, 2012
If you’re like me, you’re receiving dozens of emails on a daily basis, among those are subscription based emails. Most of the time I take the effort to unsubscribe to those annoying emails, but many are set up to discourage you from unsubscribing. What’s more, I’m constantly sifting through emails trying to rank them from important to ‘read another day’.
OtherInbox is a great solution for sorting your important emails and unsubscribing from those you don’t want to recieve anymore.
by Glenn Matthews on February 8, 2012
We’ve all faced the frustration of a slow loading website. For me, I’d prefer that web designers just get rid of the fancy images and flash intro’s and just give me the content. I visit a website for a purpose, be it to read an article, purchase a product, transfer some money or socially interact. I think a website should be easy to navigate, and images are helpful in doing so. But they shouldn’t be at the expense of the user experience.
A 2006 study by Akamai revealed:
- 75% of people would not return to websites that took longer than 4 seconds to load.
by Glenn Matthews on February 7, 2012
Most days, traffic in Los Angeles is obnoxious. Today was no exception. To pass the time I downloaded an audio book Do The Work by Steven Pressfield.
First off, I’m almost always excited to hear the author reading his own book. I say ‘almost’ because there are those rare occasions where the author makes listening very difficult (Start Something That Matters is one example where author Blake Mycoskie totally ruined it for me – good thing Blake is a brilliant entrepreneur).
