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Congratulations to KO, the winner of our Book Launch Giveaway. KO has won her choice of Veronica London fashion laptop bags from CareerBags.com. I want to thank everyone who entered for all the great job-hunting advice you gave with your entires — I’ll try to round up the best of it in a post in the next week or so.

And I especially want to thank Ellen Hart at CareerBags.com for her generosity and support. Ellen founded CareerBags to fill a gap in the laptop bag market that desperately needed filling — bags that complimented women’s styles and wardrobes — and it’s been a pleasure to watch her company succeed at exactly that.

Finally,if you haven’t already, be sure to check out Thursday Bram’s ebook Discover Your New Job Online, which is the occasion of the giveaway in the first place. Thursday’s advice is essential for anyone trying to navigate the job market in these uncertain economic times. Check out the sample excerpt and see if you don’t agree!

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He can be reached though his freelancing site at DustinWax.comDon't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

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The coupon code DREAMJOB for $2 off Thursday Bram’s new ebook Discover Your New Job Online expires tomorrow night (Wednesday, 1/20) at 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time (-8 UTC). If you haven’t bought a copy yet, not is your last chance to do so at a discount from the already low cover price of $8.99 US.

At the exact same moment, our drawing for a Veronica London bag fron CareerBags.com will close. To enter, leave a job-hunting tip on the ORIGINAL giveaway post by 11:59 pm PST tomorrow, January 20.

Good luck!

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He can be reached though his freelancing site at DustinWax.comDon't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

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To celebrate the launch of Thursday Bram’s new ebook, Discover Your New Job Online, we are launching a contest! The grand prize is your choice of Veronica London bag from CareerBags.

About the prize

Veronica London bags come in 3 different styles, each in two colors, all of them classically elegant. With several compartments for all your necessities plus a removable laptop sleeve to hold laptops up to 15”, these are perfect for just about any office environment – or for the worker on the move. Imagine showing up to your next job interview with one of these great bags over your shoulder! (Men, this would make a mighty fine gift for a special woman in your life! Valentine’s Day is coming up, and Mother’s Day is not too far behind…)

One lucky winner will receive their choice of bags from the Veronica London lineup at CareerBags. (Value: $140 US)

About our sponsor, CareerBags

CareerBags was created by working women for working women to fill a pressing need for stylish, fashionable, and woman-friendly business cases. The innovative website allows shoppers to browse by career (education, marketing, engineering) and personal style (Bohemian & Eclectic, Conservative, Chic & Sophisticated) as well as by size, type of bag, and brand, making it easy (and more than a little fun!) to find the perfect bag for yourself or for a gift. Be sure to check out the blog, Laptop Bag Lifeline, written by CareerBags’ president, Ellen Hart, and full of advice about office life, careers, and of course, fashion.

About the book

Thursday Bram’s ebook Discover Your New Job Online is jam-packed with advice for today’s job-hunter. Bram walks you through the process of creating your resume, building up your online presence through social networking, using job boards and employment sites to find openings, and making the best possible impression with your application.

Discover Your new Job Online is available now from our bookstore. Use the coupon code DREAMJOB until January 20 to receive $2 off the cover price of $8.99 US.

How to enter

To enter the contest, simply leave a comment on this post with your best job-hunting tip. All entries must be received by January 20 at 11:59 PM PST. After all entries are received, one winner will be drawn at random using a random number generator. You must leave a valid email address with your comment as the winner will be contacted by email. Prize will be shipped directly from CareerBags, which reserves the right to make substitutions in the event of prize non-availability.

So, let’s hear it: what’s your greatest tip for job-hunters? Tell us now and enter to win a Victoria London bag from CareerBags. And if you’re in the market – and these days, who isn’t? – order your copy of Thursday Bram’s Discover Your New Job Online today.

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He can be reached though his freelancing site at DustinWax.comDon't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.

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Today, we announce the launch of our second ebook, Thursday Bram’s Discover Your New Job Online: Everything You Need to Know to Land a Great Job in the Digital Age.  This all-original book is your map to the increasingly complex resources available to today’s job-hunter.

Former employment agency staffer and ex-Lifehack writer Thursday Bram guides you through the process of building up your personal and professional brand, putting your best face forward on your resume and other application materials, and leveraging hundreds of Internet resources to find the perfect openings to advance your career.

Discover Your New Job Online is available for immediate download from our bookstore for only $8.99 US. A free excerpt is available to preview before you buy.

ONE WEEK ONLY: Use the coupon code DREAMJOB to get $2 off the normal cover price. But hurry – this offer expires on January 20 at midnight PST!

Check out Back to Basics Productivity too!

Don’t forget to check out our previous ebook title, Back to Basics Productivity, also available in our bookstore. Back to Basics Productivity is chock-full of advice and tips about getting more done in less time so you can live your life, with plenty to offer both the beginner and the advanced devotee of GTD, Covey, or any other system. Download your copy today for only $8.99.

Become an affiliate

If you have a website and want to promote Stepcase’s growing selection of ebooks, be sure to join our affiliate program (login or join E-junkie and this link will add you to our affiliate program). You’ll receive a 30% commission for each ebook sold through your affiliate link. Our affiliate program is administered through E-junkie, which independently tracks sales so you can easily keep tabs on the sales you generate.

To earn your commission, simply sign up through E-junkie and use the unique affiliate link they provide you to direct your readers to our products.

Review our books

If you’d like to receive a copy of Discover Your New Job Online for review on your website or in print, please contact us using our contact form. Be sure to select “Press and Media” from the Subject dropdown so your message can be directed to the proper recipients. We will be happy to consider your request!

Write an Ebook for Lifehack

Interested in publishing an original ebook on a topic covered by Lifehack? We’d love you to consider publishing with us! Lifehack offers an extensive, highly targeted audience for your work, and a first-rate editorial staff that can help you fine-tune your work. If you would like to propose an ebook title, contact us using our contact form. Select “Book or Product Testing” from the dropdown to direct your message to the proper person. A full proposal is not necessary at this time, just a few paragraphs detailing your concept and the background you bring to it. If interested, we will contact you for a fuller proposal. Please study our current publications as well as the website to get an idea of what sort of topics and writing we’re looking for.

Order Discover Your New Job Online today!

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He can be reached though his freelancing site at DustinWax.comDon't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

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On behalf of the entire Lifehack crew and everyone at our parent company, Stepcase, I want to wish all our readers who celebrate Christmas a very merry one indeed. And to them and everyone else, here’s looking forward to a new year filled with peace, love, and joy around the world.

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.

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Today is the last day you can get $2 US off the cover price of our first ebook, Back to Basics Productivity.Order from our ebook store and use the coupon code “B2BLAUNCH“  (without the quotes) at checkout.

In case you missed the announcement last week, Back to Basics Productivity offers down-to-earth, nuts-and-bolts advice on how to make your work and your life better organized, less stressful, and more productive. Collecting in one place some of Lifehack’s most popular posts – each one expanded and revised – along with two completely new chapters, Back to Basics Productivity walks you through the basic concepts in personal productivity and shows you how to apply those concepts to your own life. Perfect for both productivity beginners looking for a few simple ways to get a grasp on your life and devoted followers of personal productivity systems like David Allen’s Getting Things Done, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits, or Neil Fiore’s Now Habit.

The coupon code expires tonight, Dec 14, at midnight MST (-7 UTC) so order right away if you want to take advantage of that $2 US discount. After today, Back to Basics Productivity will only be available at it’s normal cover price of $8.99 US (which is still a bargain, if you ask me!)

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.

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This is an important day for me – after months of preparation, I can finally announce the launch of our new ebook store and our first title, Back to Basics Productivity!

Back to Basics Productivity

The easy way to get more done in less time so you can concentrate on living your life

If you’re looking for down-to-earth, nuts-and-bolts advice on how to make your work and your life better organized, less stressful, and more productive, Back to Basics Productivity is for you. Collecting in one place some of Lifehack’s most popular posts – each one expanded and revised – along with two completely new chapters, Back to Basics Productivity walks you through some of the basic concepts in personal productivity and shows you how to apply those concepts to your own life. Whether you’re a productivity beginner looking for a few simple ways to get a grasp on your life or a devoted follower of a personal productivity system (such as David Allen’s Getting Things Done, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits, or Neil Fiore’s Now Habit) looking for a refresher and some practical tips, Back to Basics Productivity will help you get – and stay – on top of things.

To celebrate the launch of our ebook store, for the next 7 days Back to Basics Productivity will be available to Lifehack readers for $2 US off the already affordable $8.99 US cover price. Just use the coupon code “B2BLAUNCH” (without the quotes) at checkout to receive your discount.

Order Back to Basics Productivity now from our bookstore. A free preview chapter is available.

More ebooks coming soon!

Back to Basics Productivity is only the first of an ongoing series of ebooks to be released throughout the coming year. Future titles will cover personal finance, careers, entrepreneurship, technology, and of course personal productivity.

Beginning next year, we will also begin accepting submissions for new titles; if you’re a writer, keep an eye out for our guidelines, early next year.

Become an affiliate

If you have a website and want to promote Stepcase’s growing selection of ebooks, be sure to join our affiliate program (login or join E-junkie and this link will add you to our affilaite program). You’ll receive a 30% commission for each ebook sold through your affiliate link. Our affiliate program is administered through E-junkie, which independently tracks sales so you can easily keep tabs on the sales you generate.

To join the affiliate program, simply sign up through E-junkie and use the unique affiliate link they provide you to direct your readers to our products.

Review our books

If you’d like to receive a copy of Back to Basics Productivity for review on your website or in print, please contact us using our contact form. Be sure to select “Press and Media” from the Subject dropdown so your message can be directed to the proper recipients. We will be happy to consider your request!

Into the future…

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this. Lifehack has long provided some of the best tips and advice about productivity, technology, finances, small business management and entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and much more. Publishing our own ebooks will allow us to dive further into these topics than we ever could in the space of a blog post.

We look forward to sharing the adventure with you!

Order Back to Basics Productivity now from our bookstore.

Dustin M. Wax is a freelance writer and project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.

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Darkroom Premium, the camera app that snaps a picture automatically when your hand is steady is now back in the iTunes App Store. After a prolonged approval process by Apple, Darkroom is now available for you to download and update.

Darkroom Premium will require your iPhone to be on the latest OS, 3.1 in order for it to work. OS 3.0 users will continue to experience the app crashing, so it’s best to update to the latest OS if you want to use Darkroom. Darkroom Standard version users will need to continue waiting as Apple is still working to approve the app.

If you have an iPhone (2G/3G/3GS) and is in search of an app that has a steady mode as described above and additional features like timer mode, fullscreen shutter, finer accelerometer control, you should consider Darkroom Premium for your iPhone.

This is a product message from Stepcase Apps, the development division of Stepcase.

Angus Lau is currently consulting at Stepcase. He is a blogger and founded 852signal.com, a blog tracking startups and social media in Hong Kong. He is also a co-founding member of the Open Web Asia workgroup, a workgroup focused on Asia's internet industry. You can follow him on Twitter: @anguslau

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Twitter, Facebook and social media in general have been talked about on the web for some time now and is a much talked about topic in the mainstream media recently. Although we have yet to add those wonderful icons that represent Facebook and Twitter on Stepcase Lifehack, we do have a presence in both Twitter and Facebook platforms and we want to let our readers know and invite you to join us on there.

Here’s quick run down of our channels:

@lifehackorg on Twitter
We are currently using the Stepcase Lifehack account on Twitter to notify our followers of new articles that are being published on Lifehack. If you haven’t yet subscribed to our RSS feed, follow us on Twitter to get the latest lifehack articles. We hope to use this channel to converse with our readers as well.

@stepcase on Twitter
Stepcase account provides company blog updates, news, upcoming products and support for our current line of Stepcase Apps. So if you want to learn more about Stepcase, stop by for a visit to our Hong Kong office or want to offer us feedback, follow this account and converse with the team in Hong Kong.

Stepcase Facebook fan page
Much like our @lifehackorg Twitter account, the Facebook fan page is currently aggregating articles from both the Stepcase company blog and Stepcase Lifehack blog. We are looking for ways to improve this to benefit our readers. If you have any suggestions, join us on Facebook and share your ideas with us.

See you guys there!

Angus Lau is currently consulting at Stepcase. He is a blogger and founded 852signal.com, a blog tracking startups and social media in Hong Kong. He is also a co-founding member of the Open Web Asia workgroup, a workgroup focused on Asia's internet industry. You can follow him on Twitter: @anguslau

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The new issue of Productive Magazine is out, featuring an interview with Canadian Coach of the Year Michael Bungay-Steiner, author of Find Your Great Work. The other stories in this issue include:

• Alex Fayle, “The Number One Spot Is for Losers”
• Art Carden, Review of Making It All Work
• Laura Stack, “I Spend Waaaay Too Much Time On…”
• James Mallinson, “The 5 Big Reasons Why You Fall Off the Productivity Wagon”
• Alex Shalman, “11 Practical Ways to Jump Out of a Lazy Rut”
• Mike Vardy, “The Vacationary”
• Thomas Groel, “10 Signs You Are in the GTD Trap”

As always, Productive Magazine is available for download absolutely free, though you can also order printed paper versions at the website. If you have any topics you’d like to see covered, please contact me and I’ll see what I can do!

Note: Productive Magazine is not affiliated with Lifehack in any way, besides through me. I am an editor of Productive Magazine and sometimes a contributor.

Dustin M. Wax is the project manager at Stepcase Lifehack. He is also the creator of The Writer's Technology Companion, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and gender studies in Las Vegas, NV. He is the author of Don't Be Stupid: A Guide to Learning, Studying, and Succeeding at College.

Follow him on Twitter: @dwax.

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