I was on holiday when Covid-19 started to really ramp up in the UK. I came home after 2 weeks in paradise to my office being shut and everybody working from home (WFH). On my first day back at work, the UK Government announced that everybody that could WFH should do so, and our office...
You can have the best plan in the world, all the right tools and systems in place – then when it comes to execute your super productive methodology you’re stopped in your tracks by one thing, a lack of sleep. It doesn’t matter how many coffees you drain – if you don’t sleep properly you’ll...
There’s 3 things can really stress me out on a Monday morning. One is coming in to a tonne of emails which I can’t do much about beyond deploying the email system. The other 2 however, are completely within my control – one is not having caffeine (easy fix) and the other is having a...
Let’s face it, the days of clearly defined roles & responsibilities are over. Very few jobs on the career ladder are single-minded in their approach and even the most varied of job still comes with surprises. The reason? Business is constantly evolving in order to get ahead of often just to remain in place. At...
Whilst we obviously go to work to… work, it’s also very important that we work in an enjoyable environment and look forward to going to work every day. A lot of businesses these days, go above and beyond to make the workplace fun. At SimilarWeb for example, we have a fully stocked beer fridge, quarterly...
I haven’t always been productivity obsessed. I’ve always liked efficiency but to this day my wife still yells at me for letting the place get messy… not something you’d expect from somebody that seems to have mild OCD on certain topics. In a lot of ways, this is by design, let me explain. As a...
A few months ago I started seeing a product called Timeular all the time thanks to some annoying instagram ad targeting! It’s a device that sits on your desk and is used to track the activities you’re working on. I had 2 initial thoughts, first that it looked really cool, but second that I doubted...
Sometimes the biggest changes you can make are tiny. The process of making a series of small and simple changes is often referred to as ‘marginal gains’ after the term was coined by Sir Dave Brailsford who coached the British Cycling team to unbelievable success. Throughout this blogging series I’ve focussed on things you can do...
I joined SimilarWeb as an Enterprise Sales Manager – something I’d never done before. I think this was a blessing, as I wasn’t sold on any standard prospecting technique. After a few weeks of scouring LinkedIn and guessing email addresses, putting 10 hours work into sending 10 emails… enough was enough. I made it my...
I’m pretty confident that if we did a survey of everyone on the planet, that works in an office, about things they despise about their job, ‘internal meetings’ would be pretty high up on the list. There’s just nothing worse than walking into what you expect to be a busy and productive week and realising 2/3rds...
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