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One minute is all it might take to make your day a lot more productive. Here are some ways:

1. Take a minute to set the stage for success. Before you start doing something – before you start doing anything – answer this question: “What can I do to make this awesome?” That might sound cheesy, but it’s the perfect question to ask dozens of times each day.

With mobile devices, e-mail, Facebook, LinkedIn and countless other ways to communicate with clients, there is a temptation for sales pros to get sloppy and thoughtless – even reckless – about how they respond to and communicate with clients and prospects.

It’s like any other day at the offi ce until you get an e-mail from a client saying he received several strange e-mails from you, and suggests that you may have been hacked. You check and, sure enough, you’ve been compromised. So what do you do now? How many other clients have gotten the same message? Should you e-mail the rest of your clients with the news? And what else have the hackers gained access to? What do you do NOW?

Don’t dismiss it or ignore it.

A few months ago the hosts of the popular daytime TV show The View were flamed by viewers over a discussion about the benefits of microchipping our babies to keep track of them. However, a surprising number of viewers actually agreed with the hosts, stating that it was a good idea to help find lost children or victims of kidnapping and natural disasters.

Before I tell you how to do it, you need to know why you need do it. As a general rule, prospects have more confi dence in bigger companies. At a subconscious level, a larger company automatically indicates a successful company. After all, anyone can start a business by themselves at a snap of their fi ngers.

Quick: Do a search on your NAME and see what comes up. Chances are your LinkedIn profile comes up in the top one to five SERPs (search engine results pages). Because of this, it’s critical you have a professional profile; prospects WILL search on your name before meeting with you or doing business with your company.

BYOD, or “bring your own device,” is one of the fastest-growing trends for all businesses. With almost all applications moving to the cloud, it’s no longer necessary to have a traditional network with laptops and PC connected. But is it a GOOD idea to give employees that freedom? Here are some pros and cons about employees using their own laptops, tablets, and smartphones for work.