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Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy Podcast talks about how to manage email on an ongoing basis as an entrepreneur. Jason shares email management options he’s explored, tools and tips for triaging email and the benefits of a virtual assistant in this process.     Episode Highlights: Jason talks about the struggle of handling the large volume of emails he receives as an entrepreneur.  Jason has six different email accounts he reviews on a daily basis.     What action did Jason take to handle the tremendous influx of emails he receives?   Entrepreneurs are known to be control freaks, as they feel they should be hands-on with all aspects of the business, including reviewing and replying to email. It’s part of your brand.  How does the email tool Inbox Pause work?  Successful entrepreneurs like John Lee Dumas only respond to emails once a day and on their terms by preplanning it into their schedules.  Jason talks about ways to triage your emails, including hiring a virtual assistant to help increase productivity.    3 Key Points: The average entrepreneur spends between 10-13 hours a week reviewing and responding to emails.  Jason hired a virtual assistant several months ago who transitioned into handling email management.   Inbox Pause is an application that essentially blocks all of your inboxes so you can’t see the emails, preventing you from getting overwhelmed or distracted when you want to send a single, focused response.    Tweetable Quotes: “In the course, we’re giving instructions to send all log-in information, all tech support issues, all certificate requests, basically anything I don’t have to be involved with into those support inboxes to help sort of filter out the massive volume of emails.” – Jason A. Duprat “If I had to guess I would say I probably average 100 to 150 emails a day I have to sift through, sort through and essentially triage.” – Jason A. Duprat “Things that are super urgent that can really impact your business, should be triaged red. It has got to be addressed immediately. Things that can be pushed off are either yellow or green.” – Jason A. Duprat Resources Mentioned: Jason’s Website: JasonDuprat.com Jason’s Socials: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonduprat Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonaduprat Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy Facebook Group: https://www.jasonduprat.com/group Ketamine Academy Website: ketamineacademy.com Ketamine Academy Free Training Presentation: ketamineacademy.com/presentation   #HealthcareEntrepreneurAcademy #HealthcareBoss #healthcare #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #emailmanagement #productivity #virtualassistant

Everyone uses a different productivity process in their daily work, but some maximize it more than others. If you’re ready to move beyond just completing checklists and want to efficiently generate revenue, you need to focus on productivity. So what should that look like? Scott Ingram—Account Director at Relationship One and host of TWO podcasts—is here to chat with Paul about the process of productivity. Scott has a lot on his plate but manages to handle everything efficiently and effectively. How does he do it? Listen to this episode of Sales Reinvented to find out! Outline of This Episode [0:20] Paul introduces Scott Ingram. [1:00] What is productivity? [2:45] Eliminate the “endless scroll” [4:55] The 4P productivity process for producing profit [8:45] A great salesperson must embody a maniacal focus [12:10] Be minimalist with the tools you use [13:55] Top 3 Do’s and Don’ts [15:00] Scott’s favorite productivity story Overcome the distraction of the “endless scroll” Scott defines productivity as “the amount of meaningful work you can get done in a given period of time”. What does meaningful work mean? Anything that pushes you towards generating revenue. How much revenue can you generate in one hour of meaningful work? If you’re questioning the level of meaningful work you’re able to knock out, it might be time to eliminate some distractions. Scott notes that the world of technology seems to be conspiring against us. You get notifications from your email, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn—the list is endless. Everyone knows it’s easy to get sucked into the rabbit-hole. Technology promises efficiency and delivers distraction. Scott recommends becoming more vigilant with your time. Leverage technology, don’t let it leverage you. Keep listening to find out what that looks like.  Scott’s 4P Productivity Process for Producing Profit Scott recently gave a presentation on productivity and was kind enough to summarize it (for the full walk-through of the topic, we’ve linked it in the resources below). If you’re ready to improve day-to-day productivity, consider this process: Purge: Get rid of unnecessary distractions. Turn off app notifications and unsubscribe from emails crowding your inbox. Set a foundation for your day.  Process and Plan: Develop a system that works for you. Put a checklist in place that covers your calendar, your pipeline, territory or whatever it is that contributes to meaningful work.  Prioritize: What are you actually able to get done? What needs to get done now versus later?  Perform: With the other 3 steps in place, go out and execute. Be consistent with the first three P’s and things will begin to fall into place. Do you have the maniacal focus required to be successful? The Oxford dictionary defines the word ‘Maniacal’ in its non-formal sense as someone “exhibiting or denoting obsessive enthusiasm”. Scott believes this is the #1 attribute of a great sales professional. Do they have the obsessive drive and focus needed to be the top salesperson in your company? Scott runs a podcast in which he only interviews the top-performing sales professional in any given company (or top 1%). These men and women have proven to be the best of the best and have mastered the productivity process.  He gives an amazing example of someone who is 200% more productive than the second-best salesperson in his organization—listen to hear his story! It pays to be a minimalist When asked what tools individuals could use to increase productivity, Scott noted that it is better to be a minimalist. Keep it simple. A few tools that are a given include Gmail and your calendar. Scott also enjoys using: Evernote: A note-taking app that helps you stay effortly organized. Todoist: an App Scott likes that helps you organize tasks and schedule deadlines to keep you on-task. Brain.fm: Music that claims to improve focus and therefore productivity.  Inbox Pause: an extension that stops emails from entering your inbox until you want them to.  Above all, it’s about developing a process that you can execute consistently. To hear Scott’s top three “Do’s and Don’ts” make sure to listen to the whole episode! Resources & People Mentioned The 4P Productivity Process for Producing Profit Sales Success Stories Podcast Inspired Marketing Podcast Evernote Todoist Brain.fm Inbox Pause Connect with Scott Ingram LinkedIn Twitter Email: scott(at)top1.fm Connect With Paul Watts  LinkedIn Twitter Subscribe to SALES REINVENTED Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com

Every person you know is too busy, including you. Feeling super busy can be stressful, and it can keep you from putting your energy toward the things that matter the most. We talk about how we got so busy, what we get out of it, and how we can take things down a notch. Plus, Daphnie explains what’s wrong with a Pinterest diet in “This is Crazy, Right?”Links in this episode: Inbox Pause for handling email interruptions, Our episode on Couples Therapy, Diet we talk about in "This is Crazy, Right?"

In this episode, Jim and Tyson interview Daniel Decker founder and CEO of Spotlight Branding. They will go over Daniel’s business, marketing strategies, and a list of 5 marketing mistakes lawyers you should avoid.   http://spotlightbranding.com/: In a nutshell, Spotlight Branding helps lawyers get more referrals, keep business and position themselves as the highly visible and highly credible expert within their niche.   Not defining objectives. You have to have an idea of what you are trying to accomplish. No analytics. We have to track our progress. Missing out on low hanging fruit. Focus on the right things! No systems. The shiny object syndrome. Thinks! Is this a smart investment?   Hacking’s hack: Get up earlier! Getting up earlier you’ll have some extra time to think and reflect and start your day better.   Daniel’s tip: Boomerang for Gmail. Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Write a message now, send it whenever, even if you're not online. Track messages to make sure you hear back, and schedule reminders right inside Gmail. Know whether your email got read with cross-platform read receipts. Free yourself from constant interruptions using Inbox Pause, while still getting notified about the emails that matter.   Tyson’s tip: A book. You Get What You Pitch For: Control Any Situation, Create Fierce Agreement, and Get What You Want In Life, by Anthony Sullivan  (Author) and Tim Vandehey (Author)   Convincing people to give you what you want is an art form that takes charisma and confidence. But no great pitchman achieves success based on those quali­ties alone. The good ones make themselves great with practice and discipline, mastering a series of skills that Sullivan dubs the ten "Pitch Powers." These are essen­tial techniques he's learned in more than twenty-five years "on the joint" (that's pitchman-speak for the area where you're selling).   Thanks so much for listening to the show! If you want to know more about this and keep on maximizing your firm, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/403473303374386/ or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MaximumLawyerPodcast/ and comment! You can also go to http://www.maximumlawyer.com/ or, if you’d prefer, email us at: info@maximumlawyer.com   Do you want to get on the show? Shoot us an email or message us!   The Maximum Lawyer Podcast. Partner up, and maximize your firm.

As I come off my 3 month business sabbatical, I realized that you can have a little sabbatical every single day of your life. Through practicing what I talked about in Season 1, Mindfulness, Meditation, breathing and I am right now studying “The Science of Happiness” through edX which is an awesome online platform of amazing courses from incredible universities around the world. I am actually going to be revisiting a lot of what I spoke about in Season 1 back before I knew so little and now I’ve learned so much. It has absolutely opened my mind how every single day it’s the little things that you do in 10, 20 or 30 minutes of time that all radically change how you feel and how much more freedom you have. In this episode, I am going to talk about a daily freedom routine because I think it’s really important. Before I jump into that I just want to share with you a snippet from Hilary Rushford of The Elegant Excellence who went on a sabbatical about a year ago for three months as well. This is a one snippet from her video where she was talking about the fact that there was never going to be another time like now when she’d have all this time to read, relax, chill out and learn. And when I first listened to it I was like, “Yeah I think you are right!”, but now having been on a sabbatical when I have all the time to read, relax and learn you still don’t because it is a journey. It is ongoing. It is an everyday commitment to being your best self, to giving yourself the space and time to be. Here is the snippet and her insights are really useful: “I've now built what is now over a million dollar revenue a year business in the first five years. And for me, 3 months into sabbatical I just realized, I am not doing the things that I wanted to do. I am not changing in the ways that I wanted to change. There's still those things on my list where "I am wishing that I have more time to do" things and here I am on sabbatical, one of the most times ever. And so I really just started to dive in and explore why are we not doing these things? And I think one big reason for me is that I have these visions of "It's got to be done perfect. It's got to be this epic change. It's got to be hours of a week. I've got to commit to it now for every single day for eternity". That's wonderful but it so rarely happens. And so challenging myself to just take 10 minutes a day. Commit just 10 days and to not do things in some perfect epic change but just something, just take a step. Make a small step towards what I think is the biggest game changer that not enough people talk about in business which is you as a CEO, your joy, your peace, your rest, your emotional health, your ability to make big decisions, your ability to tune into your gut and what you really want. And I think the reality is that so many of us are exhausted, anxious, overwhelmed, depressed, unhappy. We want this to be just a little bit easier but we are not actually doing the steps to make the change.” And then recently I received an email from Suzi Dafnis who owns herbusiness.com and she said this: Since starting my business 23 years ago, I’ve been given lots of advice. And, one of the best pieces of advice I ever got was to hit the “pause button”. What? Wasn’t I meant to be hustling? Pushing? Striving? Nope. There have been times where what I really needed to do, was pause. Pausing is not stopping. Pausing is simply taking time to reflect, recharge and renew - free from distractions and free from the daily push and pull of commitments and catering to others’ expectations. In his book Thank You for Being Late, the New York Times best-selling author, Thomas Friedman writes: "... opting to pause and reflect, rather than panic or withdraw, is a necessity. It is not a luxury or a distraction — it is a way to increase the odds that you’ll better understand, and engage productively with, the world around you." 'When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start,' argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global businesses on ethics and leadership. You start to reflect, you start to rethink your assumptions, you start to reimagine what is possible and, most importantly, you start to reconnect with your most deeply held beliefs. Once you’ve done that, you can begin to reimagine a better path.” Choosing to pause has been hard. Up front, it's felt expensive and like an investment I couldn't afford. I had so much to do, so many commitments and deadlines. Looking back, I know that had I not made the investment in pausing, I would not be where I am today. I would not have made important pivots and changes that have allowed me to stay in business, to continue to evolve, to keep loving my business — and to stay relevant and producing results. This October I am taking time out to 'pause' once again. Thank you Suzy for those wonderful wise words! That’s exactly what I’ve found on this business sabbatical where little times business-y things would creep back in where I am tempted to check on email or how things were going. But when I wasn’t and when I was just being, enjoying and learning, I was back in my creative zone. I have had so many wonderful thoughts, ideas and improvements that I want to make. I’ve got my mojo back for my business! And I’ve also got a whole new perspective on it that I just couldn’t see before I took a break because I wasn’t giving myself space to pause, reflect and observe. I also spoke to my friend Colin Wright recently of Exile Lifestyle, who like me for so many years has lived out of the suitcase, travelled the world and every 3 months he lets his community choose where he is going to travel next. I had emailed him about my Suitcase Entrepreneur book and updating his story in it since the third edition is coming out in September. Woohoo!   A post shared by Natalie Sisson (@nataliesisson) on May 12, 2017 at 2:45pm PDT   Anyway, he told me what he’s been up to and I was really really blown away but also super excited for him. Here’s what he said: “I've been meaning to learn to cook for years, and finally got around to doing that; have made every meal for almost a year and am loving it as a craft. I've also wanted to learn to play the piano, and to learn some music production skills to go along with the guitaring and singing I've always done, so that's also been quite rewarding. Beyond that, I wanted to do really, truly boring things, like buy furniture, because I haven't done so since 2009. I haven't owned a car in all the time, and I was curious how I would use such things, and live such a life, now that I've done so many other things and been so many other places. Getting mail is a novelty, as is having reliable and consistent internet access and electricity. So bizarre how much cultural understanding is dependent on having these things. So many things I could understand intellectually, but not really get. I do get them now, though, to some degree. I'm sure you can relate to that — do anything long enough, and it becomes a little bit predictable. And the one thing I kept coming back to that scared me a little was holding still in one place for a bit, buying my own furniture, and owning a car. Weird, but the concept was mildly frightening to me. So, of course, I had to do it :)” So I just love that people around me are doing what they need to do to pause, to reflect, to recharge, to re energize, to take these many sabbaticals from not only their business but their everyday life. So if you are like, “Natalie, I can’t take three months off!” Well, first off, I challenge you, you should be able to. It’s your life. You get to choose. And I appreciate other things get in the way, you might have commitments and family but instead today I am offering you up a few doses of daily freedom routines that you can include to have a more simplistic, beautiful day and those little moments to yourself. I got some of my freedomists and my Freedom Plan community to share some of their routines. The first is from Fiona Hall: “My freedom chores in the morning I journal three questions. This helps me get my mind see it really fresh and ready for the day. The first question I ask is what am I curious about? That’s from Elizabeth Gilbert's book “Big Magic”. I love that question. It gets my mind into problem-solving mind and I always come up with something new and exciting for myself. The next question I ask is how am I feeling? Because if I don’t acknowledge how I am feeling and I am not feeling that good, it really impacts on my productivity, on my fun, on my ability to deal with my children first thing in the morning. And then the last question I ask is a productivity question it is what actions am I going to take today? And because of those first two questions I find the action one as really simple. I’ve worked through what am I curious about, what am I feeling and process anything that I need to process until I am ready for the day and my mind is how I need it today. And the other things I do in  terms of exercise as I try to is 30 minute walk 3-4 times a week.” This next one is from Ricardo Ferreira: “I ride a bike everywhere.I think it’s one of the ultimate expressions of freedom. You can go almost anywhere on a bike. You can be fast or take your time and you're free to stop whenever and wherever you wish. It’s on a bike that you start thinking more about enjoying the journey and concerning less about the destination.” What about this one from Sif, the vet: “Working in my little garden. I love to take a break from the computer and go outside work in the garden, dig in the dirt, rearrange things and plant seeds and watch the flowers and the vegetables grow. I really love the feeling of growing some of my own food which makes me feel extra free. And this is what I do to be calm everyday because you have to work in the garden everyday.” Here’s Stephanie McGuirt freedom routine for her inbox: “My daily productivity tip or routine would be to use an extension, it’s a Chrome extension by Baydin called Inbox Pause and that actually does like it says it stops messages from coming into your inbox until you unpause your inbox or unless you have them scheduled to come in at certain times. So I know that at 9am and 3pm everyday, I will get all of my messages that have been sent outside those times and I can focus on them for the next 30 minutes or hour and outside of 9am and 3pm, I am focused on other tasks. So it has really increased my productivity and I highly recommend it for anyone that is overwhelmed by their inbox.” So I hope that you learned a lot from these lovely people who offered up simple, little tactics related to business and life that they are doing to create more time, space and freedom. Of course I have a ton more of my own I talk a lot about them in the Freedom Plan. On my business sabbatical, I thought of so many improvements to my signature program and just how much more amazing I can make it for you to really truly learn how to reclaim your time, make more money, work less, earn more and be free. I hope you tune in to the next episode we are still on a digital sabbatical and the business sabbatical theme and how you can incorporate this in your life. I am going to share the results of my business sabbatical essentially as come into first of July when I am officially back on board for business. Tune into the next episode by subscribing in iTunes and Stitcher. Want to sell your own online courses (and have a great launch) Selling online courses is one of my favourite things to do, but as I pointed out in this episode, it can be a real headache. With Teachable, you don't have to worry about the tech. 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Check out Freelance Remote Conf! It will run from Wednesday February 24th thru Friday, February 26th. Early Bird tickets are available until January 24th.   03:10 - Goal Setting and Planning “Where do I want to be in five years?” “Where do I want to be next year?” “Where do I want to be in 90 days?” 11:18 - Managing Execution; Prioritization Getting Things Done by David Allen Calendly 26:52 - Mastermind Groups 30:35 - Email SaneBox Slack Autoresponders TextExpander 48:39 - Bookkeeping 50:32 - S.M.A.R.T. Goals Picks Hot Pot (Reuven) INBOX PAUSE (Jonathan) Calendly (Jonathan) BusyCal (Chuck) Basecamp (Chuck) Star Wars (Chuck) Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)

Check out Freelance Remote Conf! It will run from Wednesday February 24th thru Friday, February 26th. Early Bird tickets are available until January 24th.   03:10 - Goal Setting and Planning “Where do I want to be in five years?” “Where do I want to be next year?” “Where do I want to be in 90 days?” 11:18 - Managing Execution; Prioritization Getting Things Done by David Allen Calendly 26:52 - Mastermind Groups 30:35 - Email SaneBox Slack Autoresponders TextExpander 48:39 - Bookkeeping 50:32 - S.M.A.R.T. Goals Picks Hot Pot (Reuven) INBOX PAUSE (Jonathan) Calendly (Jonathan) BusyCal (Chuck) Basecamp (Chuck) Star Wars (Chuck) Freelance Remote Conf (Chuck)

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01:06 - How do you deal with unexpected requests for your time? INBOX PAUSE 07:57 - How do you find your first few clients? “eBombing” Podcast Appearances Incentivization 19:14 - Having trouble finding clients as a junior developer => going freelance     Open Source Recruiting/Recruiters 28:26 - Is it wise to rely on one big client or many smaller ones? Reinventing your business & creating new offerings Establish savings for job security Picks Zapier/Slack Hack (Eric) IKEA Wireless Chargers (Jonathan) Cell Phone Tripod Adapter (Chuck) NeewerHandheld Video Stabilizer for DV GoPro Mini Cameras (Chuck)  

01:06 - How do you deal with unexpected requests for your time? INBOX PAUSE 07:57 - How do you find your first few clients? “eBombing” Podcast Appearances Incentivization 19:14 - Having trouble finding clients as a junior developer => going freelance     Open Source Recruiting/Recruiters 28:26 - Is it wise to rely on one big client or many smaller ones? Reinventing your business & creating new offerings Establish savings for job security Picks Zapier/Slack Hack (Eric) IKEA Wireless Chargers (Jonathan) Cell Phone Tripod Adapter (Chuck) NeewerHandheld Video Stabilizer for DV GoPro Mini Cameras (Chuck)  

Check out Ruby Remote Conf! 02:36 - Estimates Offering a Range Educated Guess Confidence Score When Clients Balk Trail Map Adding Buffers 12:09 - Roadmapping Eric’s Sample Trail Map Identifying and Reducing Risks 18:12 - How to Sell It 23:06 - Roadmaps vs Estimates (Defined & Differences) Wireframes 30:21 - Dealing with Conflict (Estimate Pain Points) Communication: Feedback & Check-in Points 33:10 - Budget and Value Hourly Billing / Fixed Bid / Weekly Billing 39:43 - Mismatched Expectations (Communication Cont’d) Red Flags Episode 44:47 - Productized Services and Consulting Kurt Elster Website Rescues The Freelancers’ Show Episode #131: Tiny Sites and Productized Consulting with Kurt Elster Picks Eric's Sample Trail Map (Eric)   Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Eric) The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett (Reuven) INBOX PAUSE (Jonathan) CouldApp (Jonathan) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck) 99Designs (Chuck) Fiverr (Chuck)

Check out Ruby Remote Conf! 02:36 - Estimates Offering a Range Educated Guess Confidence Score When Clients Balk Trail Map Adding Buffers 12:09 - Roadmapping Eric’s Sample Trail Map Identifying and Reducing Risks 18:12 - How to Sell It 23:06 - Roadmaps vs Estimates (Defined & Differences) Wireframes 30:21 - Dealing with Conflict (Estimate Pain Points) Communication: Feedback & Check-in Points 33:10 - Budget and Value Hourly Billing / Fixed Bid / Weekly Billing 39:43 - Mismatched Expectations (Communication Cont’d) Red Flags Episode 44:47 - Productized Services and Consulting Kurt Elster Website Rescues The Freelancers’ Show Episode #131: Tiny Sites and Productized Consulting with Kurt Elster Picks Eric's Sample Trail Map (Eric)   Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Eric) The Terrible Two by Mac Barnett (Reuven) INBOX PAUSE (Jonathan) CouldApp (Jonathan) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman (Chuck) 99Designs (Chuck) Fiverr (Chuck)

In this episode we're joined in the lab by Zach Goldstein, the founder/CEO of a Bay-area startup called Thanx, a customer loyalty and rewards program and app. Can you tell us a bit about your journey? I was a consultant at Bain & Company working with large retailers and tech companies, and a lot of what I was on customer retention and customer satisfaction. The concept of Net Promoter Score was founded at Bain and a lot of research around customer retention being far more cost effective than acquisition. I spent a lot of my time working with businesses to help them understand that and act on it. But most of these businesses struggled and what became clear is that this is something they weren't doing well. So when I was at business school at Stanford I started investigating what are ways we can help merchants identify and engage with their best customers. This was a time when Groupon and daily deals was a big deal and there was a lot of attention on how to acquire new customers, but very little around how do you figure out who current customers are and build deeper relationships with them. I founded Thanx with the goal entirely of helping these merchants build those deeper one-to-one relationships but without the hassle of point-of-sale integration or new hardware. How did you get it off the ground? I founded the company myself and then hired a team starting with an exceptional lead engineer, then our head of product and then ultimately growing the team from there. We're now 15 people. We're growing. What I needed to do first though was build a product that could attract the attention of our merchants we were looking to target. I designed and built a product with our first engineer, which was a basic prototype. Really we kind bootstrapped the company. That prototype was enough to close our first merchant relationships. Then we raised a larger seed round which allowed us to iterate on the product several times. That was important for us. Most recently we announced a series A round of funding from Sequoia Capital, which will be focused entirely on growth. At what point did you start adding to the team? As soon as we started. It was clear that we were biting off a very big problem. The vision was technically challenging to implement, but also building an experience that's easy for consumers and really works, is challenging. So we needed to focus on design early on. We needed to grow the engineering team. So the challenge wasn't when do we decide to bring on new people, but when could we. We maintained a really lean environment but added resources as soon as we could. How did you build a solid team? It's constantly taught in business school, “hire slow, fire fast.” The last part feels unappetizing to me so I hire particularly slow. For us, building a strong team with exceptional people who want to be here because they believe in what we're doing is number one. So when we're interviewing, the first thing we do is evaluate for passion. The first call starts off by letting them know about the Thanx vision and the role and letting them ask questions. Before we ever interview someone we tell them to really give it a long, hard thought on whether they can get passionate about what we're doing. Because those are the people who are great early stage startup employees. We evaluate on that dimensions before we ever go into their credentials. Looking back is there anything you would've done differently? There are lots of ups and downs in the growth of an early-stage startup. At the end of the day I'm not sure there is much we would do differently. I think we've made strong decisions along the way. Most of the we gotten luck and have paid out. And the ones that haven't…I think you have to view them as a valuable learning experience. What has been one of the most valuable things you have done for the business? Without going back to hiring, which I think is the number one thing. Having a top-notch team pays off in a lot of ways that people don't really think about. 1) You have a wonderful culture and you can be more productive. But it also means it's easier to recruit more good talent. It's the people that really matter at these companies, because what we're doing is a tough map ahead. From the product standpoint, we made a very challenging decision as an early stage company to forgo the traditional advice to build a minimum viable product, get it out there on the market, see what happens and iterate. In some ways we did that in that we tested heavily and iterated. But we didn't go live with a product that was really on the minimum side. That seems to have paid off, though it was risky because we had slower growth initially. Do you have a mentor? I have several. And that's been key to my growth as CEO. I have a mentor who means everything to me and to Thanx who I met at Stanford Business School. He gave the advice to stay the course several times throughout the course of Thanx. Do you have a tip or tool you can share? Something you're loving right now? The number one thing that I have had to come exceptional at is email management. The volume of email is mind blowing. So I've cobbled together a set of really useful email tricks to help it become manageable. I use Boomerang for Gmail, Sane Inbox, and HubSpot's Sidekick plugin. I also use a feature called Inbox Pause made by the people behind Boomerang. The other email hack is to turn off my email when I'm not engaging with it and I block out time on my calendar to plow through email. How can people connect with you? Twitter: @zgoldstein and @thanxinc In lieu of this week's Biz Hack, I wanted to have a moment of gratitude. This past year in SuccessLab has been an incredibly fun, motivating, inspiring, and uplifting one. I'm so grateful for the connection that have been formed as a result of our mastermind groups. It's also been amazing to watch the growth and transformation many of the SuccessLabrs (myself included) have experienced. This journey has been a bit unexpected…it started last year with one mastermind group and has grown into multiple groups, a podcast and has piqued the interest of entrepreneurs from across the world simply looking for support. To my fellow SuccessLabrs: thank you for all of the support, input, motivation and guidance. You've become my trusted advisory board and for that I'm tremendously grateful.   To the amazing people who've let me interview them for the podcast: thank you for being so willing to share your time, knowledge and story. It's helped other entrepreneurs around the globe.  Those who've supported SuccessLab and the podcast: Thank you for helping to spread the word about the podcast, and for providing invaluable feedback and suggestions. It continues to make the podcast better and better…well hopefully. Action Items: This week's action item is a simple one…find one thing, along your entrepreneurial journey, you are grateful for. Write it down either just for your eyes to see, or better yet, write a blog post about it or share it via Twitter. Refer back to this often.  Quote of the week: “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” ~ Marv Levy Next week we're in The Lab with the founder and executive editor of Design Milk, Jaime Derringer. She has grown Design Milk (and Dog Milk) from a blog to a globally recognized authority site on all things design. We talk about how she grew the traffic and how she manages it all. Don't miss that one. If you need ideas for DIY Christmas trees, there's a really cool post on the Design Milk site right now.  Have a happy, delicious and safe Thanksgiving! Give gratitude and take some time off! Cheers everyone! 

Episode Show Notes jeffsanders.com/010 Learn More About the Show The 5 AM Miracle Podcast Free Productivity Resources Join The 5 AM Club! Connect on Social Media Facebook Group • Instagram • Twitter • LinkedIn Episode Summary Do you consider yourself a nerd? I think we all do in one way or another. This week's episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast features an interview with Matt Gartland, a professional writer, editor, and self-described nerd of many fascinating topics. I first met Matt at a launch event for Jeff Goins' new book, The In-Between. Matt immediately struck me as a guy I had to talk to one-on-one and get the inside scoop into what he does and how he stays so productive. Today's interview is certainly one you don't want to miss. Resources Mentioned in the Show @MattGartland [twitter] Winning Edits [Matt’s publishing agency] The Snippet App [iPhone and iPad app] Insight Timer [meditation app] Inbox Pause [Gmail plugin] Seth Godin [author] Dan Pink [author] Malcolm Gladwell [author]

How do you convince your audience to take time out of their busy day to set the goals they need to succeed with your software? You make a crazy ask and intro yourself with a little inbox mediation – complete with visualization GIF! Because when you're talking to an audience using visuals to grow, what better way to help them see their success than having them paint their own imaginary self portrait for the future?Timestamps(4:27) How I landed on the big idea for this email flow – and the 3 reasons it worked so well(6:52) The type of email that I find hardest to write – and why(8:58) What it was like to write an email flow together with another copywriter(9:53) How this email changed from its original iteration(10:16) The reactions this email garneredLinks from this episodeTake a look at the email we're talking about todaySupercharge your Pinterest and Instagram marketing with TailwindFollow Nikki on LinkedInGrow your business when you join the Creative CEO Academy (I'll earn a commission)Get your free consult with Nikki when you sign up to ConvertKit using this affiliate link (I'll earn a commission)Get Nikki's email musings at ⁠nikkielbaz.com/subscribe ⁠Subscribe to Email Swipes and never miss another episodeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOr find on your favorite podcast player

Let's dive into the strategies and methods used in the Tailwind onboarding email, featured in Episode 12.Timestamps(3:23) Takeaway 1: Convert users by helping them to get to the aha moment(5:13) Takeaway 2: Use fun to increase engagement, but temper it with relevance(6:34) Takeaway 3: Use future pacing to help readers get over barriers and into their dreams(7:19) Takeaway 4: Challenge your defaults to keep yourself fresh(7:57) Takeaway 5: Get readers hooked with a micro-commitment(8:45) Listen in on Dawn's experience collaborating on this project – and her insightful thoughts on the email and flowLinks from this episodeTake a look at the email we're talking about todayPlan more effective onboarding sequences with my SaaS Onboarding Success PackBe more persuasive with the 7 persuasion principles presented in Influence by Robert Cialdini (Pre-fluence is his latest, but I haven't read it, so I can't recommend it.)Grow your business when you join the Creative CEO Academy (I'll earn a commission.) Follow Nikki on LinkedInGet Nikki's email musings at ⁠nikkielbaz.com/subscribe ⁠Let me know what you thought about the episode by emailing podcast@nikkielbaz.comSubscribe to Email Swipes and never miss another episodeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOr find on your favorite podcast player

Carlyn Hudson returns this week to help Matt and Oren answer the latest listener questions. She also discusses what is was like writing/directing for the new TV series "Boss Cheer" (a narrative show about the world of competitive cheerleading), and she goes into how and why this year was a turning point for her professionally. Check it out! Unpaid Endorsements: Carlyn - Book called "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. About completely unplugging and learning how to refocus in this era of distractions. Emails can derail you in a real big way. Carlyn - "Inbox Pause" program pauses your inbox Matt - Book called "What I talk about When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami Oren - Morning pages from The Artist's Way. This is writing three pages when you first wake up. Oren - 750words.com. Forcing yourself to write and the site keeps a tally of how many words you've written. Oren - The podcast, Caliphate. NYT journalist covers the Taliban and Isis. Contribute to the Just Shoot It Patreon and help support the show: www.patreon.com/JustShootItPod As always, follow @MrMattEnlow (www.twitter.com/MrMattEnlow) and Oren @SmiteyPieLeg(www.twitter.com/SmiteyPieLeg) on twitter. For more episodes visit www.JustShootitPodcast.comShow your support: rate and review us on iTunes. apple.co/2fl9ojySee who are guests are a week early on our instagram @JustshootItPod(www.instagram.com/justshootitpod/) Send feedback to @justshootitpod or justshootitpod@gmail.com or 
Call us at (262) 6-SHOOT-1, and we’ll air your voicemail on the show! Music was provided by the free music archive and by Jahzzar. Just Shoot It is a podcast about directing, filmmaking and storytelling. Each week we interview your directors, screenwriters, editors, cinematographers, and actors, and learn how they became successful, working content creators. We’re all about getting off your butt and making your own videos. We’ll share tips and stories of how people in the entertainment industry forced their ways into sustainable careers. Matt Enlow is a director working in comedy. His website is mrmattenlow.com Oren Kaplan is a director and VFX artist who has directed the theatrical feature, The Hammer, a Lifetime movie, and countless branded content videos. His website is directedbyoren.com  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/just-shoot-it-a-podcast-about-filmmaking-screenwriting-and9776/donations