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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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Cover of the book "Business Model Generation" by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, featuring illustrations, co-creator credits, and notes that it is part of the Strategyzer Series and an international bestseller.
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Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.

Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.

Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

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They founded Saw.com to put their knowledge and expertise at your disposal. Their mission is to create a place where customers know what’s happening when they buy or sell their domains every step of the way and what they are getting for their assets or money.
Through domain brokerage, appraisal, and portfolio management services that meet their high standards, they’ve helped entrepreneurs and businesses of every size get the impact they deserve.


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Accept credit cards, contactless payments, and e-checks in person and on the go.

Authorize.Net is a United States-based payment gateway service provider allowing merchants to accept credit card and electronic check payments through their website and over an Internet Protocol connection.

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TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

We do much more than offer discounts on the tools that you need. Read about all our great initiatives and how we get these resources — and more — into the hands of people working for good all over the world.

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Basecamp is a project management app that you can access in your browser and on your phone. It gives you the tools you need to set up to-dos, a schedule, create and upload documents and files, message and chat with your colleagues, and check in regularly with your group—all in one place!

Whether you are working alone and need to get organized with your work or use it to collaborate on a project, with work or something personal, Basecamp makes it easy. It’s quick to set up and if you are consistent in using it it should make communication with your team a lot easier. Especially teams that are virtual.

An additional feature with an upgrade is the ability to deal with clients within Basecamp. You can add them in and give them limited viewing/editing rights, but make them an integral part of your work.

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Payroll and HR that make business a breeze

We give you everything you need to navigate payroll, HR, and benefits — so you can get down to business.

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The Shine app is your support system for daily stress and anxiety. Prioritizing your mental health starts here. Learn a new self-care strategy every day, get support from a diverse community, and explore an audio library of over 800+ original meditations, bedtime stories, and calming sounds to help you shift your mindset or mood.

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Pipedrive is the easy-to-use, #1 user-rated CRM tool. Get more qualified leads and grow your business.

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Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company, providing content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services

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We are a team of virtual assistants here to help you reach your goals. We help CEOs, entrepreneurs and owners be more efficient and effective.

We help you to leverage technology and provide support with various tasks including from data entry to scheduling and more.

Our team of virtual assistants will help you to complete tasks for your business or organization.

Here are some of the things that we can help with:

  • Social media management
  • Back office Real Estate updates
  • eCommerce listing
  • Email & chat support
  • Internet research
  • Accounting & Bookkeeping
  • Administrative tasks such as booking flights & hotels
  • Creating documents/spreadsheets/PowerPoint presentations
  • Creating a blog
  • Emailing potential new clients
  • Customer service (calls, follow up, getting billing, etc.)
  • Newsletters (Aweber, Constant Contact, InfusionSoft, 1ShoppingCart, MailChimp)
  • Website creation / design / development / maintenance (versed in WordPress, Dreamweaver, Joomla and Weebly)*
  • Light Audio/Video editing*
  • Managing Google/ Outlook calendar on your behalf
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