🎒 Gear up for 2025: My Every Day Carry + must-know tips
Top productivity gear, growth hacks, and why pausing now accelerates success later
Never go anywhere unprepared again—this week, I’m sharing the items in my Every Day Carry (EDC) list so you can become a self-contained productivity machine in 2025.
Plus, I gathered some helpful SEO startup tips and strategies for “taking a pause” during this last full week before the holidays kick into full gear (and 2025 finally arrives).
Today’s agenda:
🎒 My essential Every Day Carry (EDC)
🔎 How to grow using SEO
😮💨 You’re exhausted—slow down (to go fast)!
💼 Briefly: How to retire a millionaire, email marketing & LinkedIn video tips
⏱️ Up & coming: What marketers need to know in 2025
💪 Become a self-contained productivity machine
Whether you work in-person or remotely, you need a solid Every Day Carry (EDC) kit so you can work from anywhere, anytime without sacrificing productivity.
▶️ Click to watch my new video exploring the gear I carry, from my bag to my laptop, notebooks, pens, and more (with links to all items).
💼 My EDC items include:
And 10 more items
🤔 It’s not too late to add some of these to your holiday wish list…
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🪴 SEO to unlock growth in 2025
Contrary to popular belief, startups have many SEO advantages, says SEO consultant Zoe Ashbridge.
📚 Here’s what you need to know about SEO:
It’s cost-effective—your efforts continue working for you for months or even years later
You’ll get to learn more about what your audience wants/is searching for
AI is actually helping, not hurting
You’re the expert—you already have the information your audience needs
So, what do you have to do to get started?
SEO can be a lot of work, but startups have the benefit of a clean slate. If you do it right from the start, you can achieve the growth you need.
⭐ Ashbridge’s tips for startups:
Set up the free Google Search Console tool
Look up keywords on Ahrefs or Semrush (Google Keyword Planner is a free option)
Check out what your competitors are ranking for
Create great content that incorporates relevant keywords and matches search intent
💡 Don’t forget about your website—make sure it’s clean, organized, and has optimized landing pages.
‘Slow down to go fast’
The final stretch of the year can be the most stressful for many entrepreneurs.
In response, communication specialist Leah Mether is urging professionals to “slow down to go fast.” The trick to this strategy is taking a pause in moments of chaos to self-regulate.
😮💨 Here’s why:
Well-timed pauses keep you from snapping or reacting impulsively
Slowing down prevents miscommunication, which saves time later
Clear expectations keep everyone on track
If you feel your stress levels rising in the year-end chaos, take a moment to pause, breathe, and self-regulate—you’ll thank yourself later!
Briefly
💰 Financial advisors say a $1 million nest egg is within reach for anyone—here’s how to work almost any job and retire a millionaire
📧 Did you explore the possibilities of email marketing in 2024? Look at the biggest developments in this strategy this year, and what it means for 2025
📹 Video on LinkedIn is a powerful marketing strategy—learn how to harness it to attract the right audience
💻 Need a new laptop? Check out this review of Apple’s 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros
🤖 OpenAI is giving ChatGPT the ability to process and respond to video feeds in real time
Up & Coming
Marketing predictions have become “worthless,” says Ryan Phelan, CEO of RPE Origin, but identifying what we need to attend to in 2025 is important, because these are areas that prompt rethinking, reprioritizing, or re-budgeting.
Check out Phelan’s three lessons from 2024 and three areas to pay attention to in 2025, including more AI transformation and continued instability.