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  1. How a “Braindump” Board in Trello Will Make You More Creative

    Level Up Your Productivity

    If you're a content creator, you'll love the technique I'm sharing with you today. Whether it's writing blog posts, creating videos, hosting webinars and livestreams or creating podcast episodes, content creators all face the same problem: you have to keep coming up with new ideas…

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  2. To Reach Your Goals, You Need to Be Stubborn (About the Right Kind of Thing)

    Level Up Your Productivity

    The story goes that if you work hard, you'll eventually get rewarded. If you just put in the effort and stick with it through the hard times, it will pay off, right? Well... maybe. Unfortunately, for many of us, that "sticking with it" part seems…

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  3. Let Your Customers Do The Marketing For You

    Podcast

    You can run countless ads. You can tell people about how awesome your products are. You can talk about the features and benefits for hours. And yet, a single happy customer's recommendation to their friends is still going to be more powerful. Think back of…

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  4. How to Combine Strategy With Productivity to Reach Your Goals

    Level Up Your Productivity

    Recently, I've published a lot of content about productivity. Productivity is important, but let's make sure we don't put blinders on, here. Productivity alone is not enough. You can be super productive, squeeze many hours of work out of every day... and still make zero…

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  5. Are Success Stories Eroding Your Ability to Get Things Done?

    Level Up Your Productivity

    Everybody loves a good success story. It's inspirational to read about someone achieving the kinds of goals we dream about and seeing how they did it. Unfortunately, the kind of success story we typically see might be eroding our ability to get things done. If…

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  6. How to Turn Productivity Problems & Procrastination Into an Advantage

    Level Up Your Productivity

    You may be suffering from procrastination and a lack of productivity. Feeling stuck, even. But in this, there's also a potential advantage... Doing focused, deep work, being productive and avoiding distractions and procrastination is getting harder for everyone. It's not just you. I would go…

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  7. If You Are Multi-Passionate, Watch This to Fix Your Productivity Problems

    Level Up Your Productivity

    Some people always come up with new ideas, always see new business opportunities and love to start projects that solve some problem or change the world in a better way. This is often referred to as being "multi-passionate" or being a "multipotentialite". If you're one…

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  8. You’re Not Getting Lazier, It’s Getting Harder to Be Productive

    Level Up Your Productivity

    If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be good at getting sh*t done. It's no secret that I believe your personal character and skills determine the success or failure of your business. Reading that might fill you with dread. After all…

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  9. Free Traffic: The Hero Outreach Method

    Podcast

    In our previous ActiveGrowth podcast episode, we had a chat with Tim Soulo from Ahrefs about the importance of SEO and knowing your potential customers to increase your website traffic without spending much on it. You learned that SEO doesn't exclusively happen on your own…

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  10. The Bootstrapper's Guide to SEO

    Podcast

    As much as we advocate the Customer First Approach, once you have a solid product and paying customers, you want to get more of them by increasing your website traffic. But getting just any sort of traffic won't cut it. If I send a thousands…

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  11. Why Getting Up Earlier Doesn’t Make You More Productive

    Level Up Your Productivity

    If you're an entrepreneur, you need to hustle 24/7. You need to be always on. You need to make superhuman efforts and far outperform the average 9-to-5 working chump. And getting a solid 8 hours of sleep just doesn't fit that picture, does it? This…

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  12. How to Get Free Traffic to Your Website – The Big List

    Build Your Audience

    Everybody wants more traffic. And free traffic, especially. We've previously covered why you should forget about traffic when you start out. Instead, focus on getting paying customers, right away. If you follow the advice on this site, you'll soon find yourself with a solid business…

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