No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity

have an exceptionally busy day, so I am only dealing with 9s and 10s on a 1–10 scale. Everything else MUST wait until tomorrow. Are you convinced that what you want to talk to me about is a 9 or 10?

The more I use this technique, the better I like it. The idea is simple: You have 90 file folders: red numbered 1 through 30; blue numbered 1 through 30; and white numbered 1 through 30 representing the current month, next month, and the month after that. This is most commonly used by accountant-type folks, to keep track of bills to be paid. But it

Well, here’s how to get focused, if you’re having trouble in that department: Identify and write down the three most important, most significant, most productive, most valuable things you can do to foster success in your particular enterprise. Just three. Write them down. From there, translate them into three actions you can take each and every day

Fully automated webinars, with online registration, instant, automated confirmations, time-triggered multimedia follow-up, the playing of the webinar, order-taking, credit card processing, direct funds deposit, multistep follow-up to the nonbuyers—this is all now a part of the ecommerce landscape, and

For example, one of the most important things to me is a continuous stream of new requests for my services. As long as this demand for “me” exceeds the available supply of “me,” I can demand and get premium fees, choose clients I like and blow off those I don’t, choose projects that interest me and reject those that don’t, confidently turn away bus

those prospects automatically get 12 email and 4 direct-mail follow-up communications, all customized and personalized, with precise timing (i.e., Follow-Up #1, 3rd Day, Follow-Up #2, 5th Day, etc.).

I’m busy right now. Let’s meet at 4:00 P.M. for 15 minutes, and tackle everything on your list at one time.

As a direct result, “demand” for me has steadily grown, even as the “supply” I am willing to offer has diminished, which has allowed me to very substantially raise my fees, keep raising them every year, fire troublesome clients without remorse, and do business entirely on my terms to suit me. This one single, simple discipline has been worth millio

I once had a dentist call me, after having gone home from my weekend seminar, and tell me: “I’ve made a list of 300 things to change in the practice.” Every week, he did ten of them. After 30 weeks, he had done everything on that list, big and small. And, without a penny increase in advertising, without a dollar’s difference in marketing, in the sa

You can sell your way of doing things. (I didn’t say: negotiate. I said: sell.)