Archive for April, 2009

4000+ downloads in the first 24 hours - issue #2 hits it!

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

It’s been crazy 24 hours for the Productive Magazine! Just in the first 24 hours more than 4,000 people have downloaded our magazine and the response has been great so far, looking forward to more blog posts and tweets. Hope you can help us spread the word even more!

When I launched #2 of the magazine, I thought it’d be cool to beat the issue #1 2x times and reach a total of 60K downloads… and although we’re still far from the goal, we’ve beaten the first 24 hours of the first issue 4 times, as the first issue was downloaded “only” 1K times during its first launch day

Please help us spread the word to achieve our goal of 60K downloads! Thanks!

And if you didn’t get your copy of the magazine, download it now it’s only 2.5 MB and it’s free!

Here are the handful of blogs that helped so far:

I invite you to follow me on twitter, blog and tweet about the magazine and help us spread the word! After all we’re doing the magazine for your, for free and we’re hoping you’ll find it useful. Thanks!

Get your Productive Magazine 2 with Guy Kawasaki and 10 great articles

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

It’s been long in the making, but today we’re officially giving you the opportunity to read the second issue of our Productive Magazine and we’ve got great things in this one:

  • Exclusive interview with Guy Kawasaki - bestselling author, serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and ex-Apple fellow

Download your PDF version of Productive Magazine!

In the magazine you’ll also find 10 Great articles from top productivity bloggers about:

  • New Year’s Resolutions
  • The art of s aying No
  • How to optimize your life and claim a couple of hours a week back
  • Setting SMART goals
  • Mind- mapping
  • Working in groups
  • … and more!

We’ve got great authors like Leo Babauta, Dustin Wax, Michael Hyatt, James Mallinson, Kris Rowlands, Andrew Mason, Michael Deutch, Andrew Yang and yours truly…

Here’s the scoop on the Table of Contents:

So what’s your next action?

Download your issue of the Productive! Magazine at no cost (only 2.5 MB)

The magazine is a total of 24 pages, 1 exclusive interview, 10 articles and most of all, it’s completely free! Feel free to share with your friends and family!

What do you think about this issue? Love it? Hate it? Let me know in the comments!

Your Editor,

- Michael Sliwinski
Follow me on Twitter: MichaelNozbe

P.S. The last issue of Productive Magazine hit more than 30K downloads - this time we’re aiming at 60K! Help us spread the word!

Productive Magazine #2 available tomorrow!

Monday, April 27th, 2009

As promised, tomorrow we’re launching the long-awaited second issue of your favorite magazine, and here’s the screenshot of the table of contents:

Get ready for 24 pages packed with great articles that’ll help you boost your productivity and motivate yourself to get going, hope you’ll enjoy this issue as much as we have preparing it!

Please make sure to follow me on twitter or sign up for our newsletter or just subscribe to our blog. Thanks for spreading the word!

P.S. Of course as before, Productive Magazine is a completely free PDF download :-)

Productive Magazine Issue 2 - Cover Preview

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

OK, we’re finally finishing the second issue of the Productive! magazine - the last corrections and we’re good to go, should be out next week, before the end of April. Here’s the cover design to get you excited:

To be notified about the new issue, make sure you sign up for our Announcement List Newsletter.

Highlights of the Second issue of the Productive! Magazine:

I know the #2 issue is long overdue, but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!

As always, the magazine is proudly being sponsored by Nozbe - Simply Get Things Done!

GTDSummit stuff - Interview with David Allen by Lifehacking.nl

Monday, April 6th, 2009

My very good friend Frank Meeuwsen of “What’s the Next Action Blog” fame and now one of the chief editors of Lifehacking.nl blog (the biggest community of “Lifehackers” in the Netherlands, aka Holland) did a great interview with David Allen before the GTD Summit in San Francisco. Enjoy:

The intro by Frank is in Dutch, but the rest is in English, so no worries.

Spring cleaning at the Productive Magazine

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I came back from the GTD Summit in San Francisco and the Productive Magazine #2 is not ready yet due to some technical problems we’ve been experiencing… and I’m really sorry for that.

As I hate being late or overdue with things and we’re long overdue with #2, I decided to do some cleaning and design the Productive Magazine Editorial Processes over again and make sure we can deliver each issue of the magazine on a regular basis.

Shorter but regular (monthly as the ultimate goal)

I’ve heard voices over at the Summit that they’d rather read a shorter magazine but on a regular basis than a longer one every few months. I definitely share this opinion and let me tell you, I think we’ll be on the right track with PM #3. The next issue will be due sometime in May and hopefully #4 and next ones will be as regular as ever and issued every month.

Productive Magazine Team is growing!

One the side note - our Productive Magazine Team is growing - apart from Me and my assistant Delfina, Lori Anderson and Dustin Wax (of Lifehack.org fame) have volunteered to participate and let me prepare each issue for you. If you also would like to volunteer and help me out, make sure to contact me.

How did I design the processes for the Productive Magazine #3 and beyond?

While I can’t reveal all the details yet (I’ll have to test them and really see what works and what doesn’t) I’ll be happy to let you know in the future posts about the process, for now just have a look at the Mind Map I did in the Freemind app on my Mac:

Please let me know in the comments, what you liked, didn’t like and would love to see in the future issues of the Productive Magazine and which format would be the best for you?

P.S. The issue #2 is almost finished and should be out any day now. Again, sorry for the delay!