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Modern Tips For Small Business Start-Ups

Understand why you are starting a small business. Starting your own small business is an incredibly rewarding enterprise. You must bear in mind, however, that it can be a very hard road to walk down. You must always remember why you decided to start in business yourself. Whatever your motivation, you must find a way to remember the reason why when things get tough.

What is your point of difference? One of the motivating why factors for starting your own small business or startup may be that you know that you can do it better than other businesses you have worked for. What are you going to do that is different to your competition? What is your main point of difference going to be? (more…)

Few Basic Productivity Skills

Few Basic Productivity Skills:

Now that we’re clear on what productivity isn’t, let’s lay the foundation for what it really is. When you learn the basics of cooking, you discover a whole new world beyond microwave meals and restaurant take-out. I hope the same can be true with productivity: your freelance workflow is about to expand exponentially. (more…)

BASIC PRODUCTIVITY MYTHS

Before we start talking about what productivity looks like, let’s spend a moment discussing what it isn’t. There are a lot of misconceptions out there, and they muddy the waters for people like us who are honestly trying to get some work done.

Myth #1 – “The same productivity system will work for everyone.”
This is the one-size-fits-all mindset that some experts push on us. For some, David Allen’s Getting Things Done method (known as GTD) is the epitome of all things productive. For others it is the Action Method. Some sing the praises of the Pomodoro Technique while others swear by the Don’t Break the Chain method (also known as the Seinfeld Method). Everyone thinks their system is the best, and they are quick to tell us why we need to dump our own methods in favor of theirs. (more…)