My five favorite business tips of 2012

It's exactly because time flies so quickly--as do valuable Simply Business posts--I thought I'd recap some of my favorite productivity tips from 2012.

Here they are, in no particular order:

1. The single best travel accessory you can buy

I won't keep you in suspense: It's a mouse. But which mouse, and why I'm going to make the case for an inexpensive, corded USB mouse, which saves you the hassles of dealing with wireless connectivity issues and, more importantly, batteries.

2. Five ways to remember people's names