Everyone is looking to make an extra buck these days. We all want more clients, a better job offer, a promotion. Nothing wrong with that of course, but why is one of the best strategies to give it away? Well, I’ll give you four good reasons. You make connections Let’s say you…
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Celebrate the Season with Stepcase Lifehack’s 12 Days of Giveaways Promotion
It’s the time of year where gifts are given and received, and the Stepcase Lifehack team wants to be one of those doing the giving. Well, starting on Thursday December 8th at 1 pm Eastern Time, we’ll be offering the first giveaway in our holiday promotion, Stepcase Lifehack’s 12 Days of Giveaways! This is our way of…
5 Easy Ways to Earn Mad Money
Even if you’ve trimmed your budget, it’s important to still have “mad money” to spend on things you enjoy. If your fun money account is dwindling, here are a few simple ways to earn some extra money or goods for a little of your time: 1. Bottle caps – Do you drink Coke products?…
6 Ways to Attend Awesome Conferences for Free
Everyday, I see an awesome conference or convention I want to attend. While some, like the various PodCamps are free or fairly inexpensive, big conferences like CTIA can cost well over $1,000 to attend. Paying for every conference you want to attend is a fast way to go broke, even if you manage…
Why Your Free Time is Boring
How do you spend your off hours? Do you watch television? Do you surf the web? Read articles here at Lifehack.org? There are many ways you can spend your leisure time. But is it really possible to get more out of your time off? Not just making this time…
A Simple Way to Publish Your Own eBook
Much is on-line about growing an ebook. Where to seek inspiration, what to share about and how to sell it are the most common topics. Less plentiful are the step by step mechanics of creating and hosting e-book. With the help of guides like Phil Gerbyshack and Rosa Say I am finding a…
20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time
If you’ve got a big block of free time, the best way to put that to use is to relax, have fun, decompress from a stressful day, or spend time with a loved one. But if you’ve just got a little chunk — say 5 or 10 minutes — there’s no time to do any…
23 Things You Didn’t Think Were Free
RealSimple.com have a list of 23 ‘surprising’ items you can get for free. Many are conditional, of course, and have a catch like long-lines etc. However, it does spur the question of what can you get for free now-a-days? Particularly useful, to me, in this list is the free online courses from MIT and Apple Stores…
Turn Junk eMail Into Treasure
Your spam folder is probably filled with tonnes of promotional offers that promise all sorts of free gear. All you have to do in return is click through their promotions, complete a short survey, and/or participate in a free trial. Baloney right? Actually, you can get that free stuff! CleverDude.com shows us how; and it’s no…
Listen to books in the public domain
Loudlit.org offers free audio downloads of books in the public domain. Loudlit is a little different from Librivox because it allows you to download the audio books or listen to a high quality streamed version in your browser. Additionally, Loudlit prints the book in your browser so you can follow along as…
Go to MIT for free
One Man’s Blog points out that MIT has joined the online learning bandwagon and is attempting to offer the complete course material for every class online for free. The program will be called “MIT Open Courseware.” Susan Hockfield, MIT president, describes the program: OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT’s goal of…
How To Get Free Stuff At Trade Shows
Free stuff? I think everyone don’t mind some free stuff. I wasn’t realise trade shows can get more than some backpacks and drinking bottles. John Chow shows you some of his tips on getting free stuff at trade shows. I am drooling over the photo that John took – he got things like 1GB flash…
Free eBook on Motivation
It is called The Laws of Motivation by Richard Denny. He mentions 9 laws of motivations that could give you some hints on what does it take to be motivated or motivate others: We have to be motivated to motivate Motivation requires a goal Motivation, once established, never lasts Motivation requires recognition Participation motivates Seeing ourselves progressing motivates us Challenge only motivates…
Top 20 Magazines with Free Subscriptions
Over at TradePub, Daniel has kindly given me the list of top 20 publications and magazines with free subscriptions. Some of them are professions specific – for instance, there are IT publications like eWeek for Information Technology Professionals, and Call Center for professionals in support and services field. The list is in alphabetical…
