9 Success Tips for Entrepreneurs
If you haven’t had a chance yet, I would highly recommend taking a few minutes to read this TechCrunch article by James Altucher.
James outlines 9 Things to Learn from Woody Allen that can help just about any entrepreneur realize success:
- Wake up early
- Avoid distractions
- Work three to five hours a day and then enjoy the rest of the day
- Be as perfectionist as you can, knowing that imperfection will still rule
- Have the confidence to be magical and stretch the boundaries of your medium.
- Combine the tools of the medium itself with the message you want to convey
- Don’t get stuck in the same rut – move forward, experiment, but with the confidence built up over experience.
If you’re going to work…work hard.
That way, you’ll have something to show for it.
The biggest waste is to do that thing you call work, but to interrupt it, compromise it, cheat it and still call it work.
In the same amount of time you can expend twice the effort and get far more in exchange.
– Seth Godin
Never let others set your rates. You know what you’re worth. You ask for what you’re worth. You defend the value you deliver.
– Chris Brogan, www.chrisbrogan.comEffective Email Management Tips
Are you swimming in emails? Does your email inbox double as your To-Do list? Has checking or responding to your emails taken over your work week?
If you answered ‘YES’ to any of these questions, then you, like most people, need help managing your time through effective email management.
Here are some email management tips that have been tried, tested and proven to maximize your time and work day.
Email Management Tips
- Only check your emails 2-4 times a day at certain, scheduled times and only for 30-45 minutes at a time.
- Deactivate all audio or visual alerts on your computer that notify you of new emails as they come in.
- Only reply to URGENT issues instantly and defer everything else based on priority
- To prevent multiple replies from emails sent to multiple people, place your email in the TO: field and put all other recipients in the BCC: field
- Never use the REPLY-ALL function
- If you don’t want / need a reply, then tell people by putting a “No Reply Necessary” message in the subject line or email header / footer
- Do not sent “Got it” “Thanks” “Ok” or any other confirmation replies unless the sender specifically asks for it
- Use Auto-Replies to set expectations of response times and to prevent interruptions during focused work time
- Do not send, forward or reply to chain emails
Some of these tips circle around how you create and send emails, not just how others create and send emails to you. By setting the standard with your recipients you are helping to prevent unnecessary emails for yourself in the future.
Many businesses get flustered and freak out in down markets and economies. This is usually due to lack of experience, structure and having the right people guiding “the ship”.
Economic downturns do not have to mean the end for your business. This article explains how to actually take advantage of downturns.
Check it out. You might learn something.
