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CEO Hacks: App, Books, Resources & Habits

Be a more effective & efficient CEO, entrepreneur & business owner

During our I AM CEO Podcast, we ask each guest for a CEO Hack that makes them more effective and efficient. We decided to share some of our best hacks.

What are CEO Hacks? They are books, apps, habits, tools, platforms or things that we believe you should incorporate into your business that will make you more efficient, effective, or successful (and maybe save money) as a CEO, entrepreneur or business owner.

Take a look at some of the CEO Hacks that have been recommended below, check out a different CEO Hack on our daily, laser focused I AM CEO Podcast with Gresh and feel free to look through the CEO Hacks by categories or just browse the list. For CBNation members, you will find more “how-to” and deeper tricks and strategy for many of these hacks.

If you need help implementing these CEO Hacks into your organization contact Blue 16 Tech.

Lastly, don't forget to grab your free download.

– Gresh

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P.S. If you want to contact us or have any CEO Hacks to recommend, please let us know HERE.

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Many small business owners spend a majority of their time working on tedious & repetitive tasks. TaskBullet is a U.S.A-based virtual assistant company that leases online employees to small business. Our customers can scale their workforce up or down on demand for 50% less than a minimum wage employee.

OUR MISSION

We innovate and streamline business processes for maximum efficiency. We do this for all forward thinking business owners who understand that the system is the solution. We accomplish this by educating, teaching and inspiring the TaskBullet team to better assist our clients, and by providing our clients with the resources needed to move their company forward.

WE STICK AROUND

​When you purchase a bucket from TaskBullet we stick around and manage your account and the VA. We don’t leave you to the vast abyss of the internet, to deal with vanishing VA’s who take your money and your work. We have Project Managers who are in constant contact with the VA’s and we the Management are in constant contact with the Project Managers. If there is ever a problem you can contact us directly here in the U.S. and we will do everything we can to fix the issue. The VA’s who work for us are like family, some of them have been with us since the beginning of TaskBullet. We love our VA’s and we know you will love them as well.

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Book more customizable meetings using this powerful scheduling software with calendar integrations.

Most calendar tools are weighed down by complicated features you’ll never need. TidyCal simplifies bookings with custom free and paid booking pages that sync to your calendar in real time.

TL;DR

  • Create free and paid booking options with custom booking pages that sync to your calendar in real time
  • Manage your calendar easily with integrations, custom email reminders, auto-created meeting URLs, and more

Simplify meetings with customizable pages, calendar integrations, and time-saving features

Customize your booking page

  • Create availability schedules and customize your default availability
  • Display or hide specific booking types for control over your calendar
  • Specify advanced settings — like buffer time, booking limits, and lots more
Customize your booking page

Create unlimited booking events

  • Create booking types for one-on-one meetings, group events, and more
  • Use date polls to get votes on the perfect meeting date — making coordination easy
  • Tailor booking types to your specific events to drive more meetings and bookings
Create unlimited booking events

Connect your calendar

  • Connect your Google, Office 365, and iCal calendars for accurate meeting availability
  • Automatically check real-time availability to ensure you're never double-booked
  • Connect multiple calendar accounts — and sub-calendars — to avoid conflicts
Connect your calendar

Charge for your sessions

  • Set up paid bookings and accept payments with your Stripe or PayPal
  • Become part of an exclusive directory, giving you a platform to promote your services
Charge for your sessions
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Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!

While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams.

The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business cliches and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results.

  • Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets
  • Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity
  • Discover the time management myth
  • Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed
  • Know the exact formula to solve problems

Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.

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THE CREDIT PEOPLE: “JUST YOUR ORDINARY EVERYDAY CREDIT SUPER HEROES!”

Founded in 2001, and seen in The Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, and USA Today, The Credit People® help improve your credit reports and raise your credit scores through expert credit repair services.

With 20+ years of experience helping over one hundred thousand people with their credit, we never set out to be the leaders, just the best.

Here's an inside look at our hand-picked teams:

Hiring The Credit People to improve your credit is like having a highly trained swat team on your side. (Except our swat team greets you with a smile and keeps everything simple.)

Credit Repair Team:

Disputes, and Letters, and Creditors, OH MY! Having processed over 310,000 unique credit reports, this team is your front line. Not only certified and trained in the various laws governing credit repair, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and the Fair Debts Collections Practices Act, but your credit repair team has required ongoing training in recent laws, statutes, and credit reporting practices.

Score Analysis Team:

No two credit reports are created equal. What affects your credit score, and how it improves, requires special attention. Just deleting negative information from a credit report without addressing the credit score is like repairing the inside of a crashed car, but neglecting to do anything about the outside appearance. Understanding debt to income ratio, credit type ratio, scoring models, and of course, credit history, is key. The Credit People have yet to see another company follow new trends as closely. This is what our score-driven results® are all about.

Support Team:

Let's face it; your credit report is all about the numbers. That doesn't mean you need to be treated like one.

Sales Team:

These are the folks that you probably signed up with over the phone. They have absolutely no sales skills, and we want to keep it that way! When you're the best choice, there's no need to be “salesy”. Instead, our team is here to walk you through the credit repair process and ensure smooth sailing when you sign-up. They get things started off on the right foot!

Executive Team:

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” Our executive team consists of people who have a heart for helping people improve their credit and a mind for making it happen. Guiding the mission of The Credit People team, our executives steer the ship in the right direction, always.

Tech Team:

Yes, credit repair companies have technology teams. We take security seriously. 2048bit encryption, PCI compliance, data depository, all of this is in place to protect your important personal information.

Marketing Team:

You probably found us somehow, and that somehow was all because of our marketing team. In a way, they are the ones responsible for bringing us together! A match made in heaven.

The Credit Partners:

Our independent sales force, our “affiliates”. We have an entire team devoted to just catering to the needs of our affiliates.

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In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the New York Times bestselling author of Five Wishes, demonstrates how to eliminate the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and The Secret will find useful, effective tips for breaking down the walls to a better life in The Big Leap.

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An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business.

Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.

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The 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling foundational business training manual for ambitious readers, featuring new concepts and mental models: updated, expanded, and revised.


Many people assume they need to attend business school to learn how to build a successful business or advance in their career. That's not true. The vast majority of modern business practice requires little more than common sense, simple arithmetic, and knowledge of a few very important ideas and principles.

The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition provides a clear overview of the essentials of every major business topic: entrepreneurship, product development, marketing, sales, negotiation, accounting, finance, productivity, communication, psychology, leadership, systems design, analysis, and operations management...all in one comprehensive volume.

Inside you'll learn concepts such as:

The 5 Parts of Every Business
: You can understand and improve any business, large or small, by focusing on five fundamental topics.

The 12 Forms of Value
: Products and services are only two of the twelve ways you can create value for your customers.

4 Methods to Increase Revenue
: There are only four ways for a business to bring in more money. Do you know what they are?

Business degrees are often a poor investment, but business skills are always useful, no matter how you acquire them.

The Personal MBA will help you do great work, make good decisions, and take full advantage of your skills, abilities, and available opportunities--no matter what you do (or would like to do) for a living.

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Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app

Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things — or build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world.

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Trusted by over 20 million people, Todoist is the best online task management app and to-do list. For Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, Chrome, Outlook and many more!

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Teachable is a comprehensive technology solution to let you create and sell online courses from your own website.

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