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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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Answer the Public
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Answer The Public helps writers and website owners come up with content ideas. This simple search engine allows you to gain instant and raw insight into what your audience is searching for. If you're wondering exactly what makes this tool so valuable, the founders of Answer The Public themselves share some surprising statistics that help back it up.

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Melissa Forziat Events & Marketing Courses
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Brand and Reaching Your Target Market

This step-by-step guide will show you how to develop a brand that sends the right message and how to identify and locate the audiences who need to know about it. Plus, it will teach you the psychological tricks you can layer in to get your audience to notice you. We live in a world of a lot of distractions. Learn how to cut through that so you can get your message across!

No matter where you are marketing your business or what tools you are using, this information is critical for building your ideal audience and ultimately creating a profitable business.

Create Your Most Profitable Marketing Strategy

This course is all about learning how to get the most from every lead. The most loyalty. The most revenue. The most referrals.

You will learn how to map out the marketing funnel for your business so you have a concrete plan for growing each lead in your pipeline to the maximum potential. You will create the visual for your business that shows you the calls to action you need to make at each step in the process to keep your customers - and your business - moving forward.

If you want to generate more revenue in your business and be more efficient about doing it, this is the course for you!

3 Ways to Generate New Leads on a Budget

This course takes a deeper dive into referral building, partnership marketing, and online marketing to help you create a smart, solid tactical plan for your business that is set-up to maximize your conversions in the long run.

If you are looking for ways to grow your audience that are realistic for where your business is right now, this course is for you.

How to Win at Social Media (even with no budget!)

This course explains how to build strong relationships with your social media marketing so you can drive the most traffic and create engagement that will position you as a trusted expert in your industry. I will guide you through developing your social media marketing plan so you can turn heads and get new clients.

The Lean Startup
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Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs—in companies of all sizes—a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

Google Business Profile
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Stand out on Google with a free Business Profile

Carrd
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Whether it's a personal profile, a landing page to capture emails, or something a bit more elaborate, Carrd has you covered. Simple, responsive, and yup — totally free.

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The 12 Week Year
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Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.

  • Explains how to leverage the power of a 12-week year to drive improved results in any area of your life
  • Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness
  • Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation

Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.

Podcast Guest Collaboration Community
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Are you looking to appear as a guest on a podcast or looking to find guests for a podcast you host?
Are you ready to establish real relationships and collaborations with others in a heart-centered community?
If you answered ‘yes’ to both of these questions, you are in the right place!
We would love for you to join our Podcast Guest Collaboration Community that allows you to genuinely connect with others to find podcast guests for your podcast and/or to find podcasts to be a guest on. Other speaking platforms (Facebook Lives, YouTube videos, etc.) are welcome too.
Writesonic
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Write SEO optimized marketing copy for blogs, essays, Facebook ads, Google Ads, Quora answers, and sales emails to increase clicks, conversions, and sales.

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Work Smarter Digital
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Helping female entrepreneurs make more impact and income by simplifying their digital tools.

With a top-notch streamlined CRM solution backed up with real people and real-time reporting.

The Work Smarter CRM is your ONE solution to manage your leads, funnels, calendars, email & text marketing, and more to get more done with less effort.

The Big Leap
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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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