Scott's Short Stories

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Today, my wife and I have as many as 20 people helping us run our personal lives and business. But the easiest things to delegate are in our personal lives; not business.

I used Upwork to go from idea to done in 3 hours.

I know it hurts to give good compliments, but let's strengthen that muscle.

This episode is a follow to the "You should read 5 Elements of Effective Thinking" where I discuss how writer become better thinkers. Snickers reference included.

Can you explain what you believe with facts? Or do struggle to find the words? Here's the book: http://citgrd.co/5-elements-thinking

Here a little tip on making small habit changes from James Clear

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I use a combination of Shoeboxed, Zapier, and Printopia to automate saving my receipts. If you just want to save receipts to a folder, then use Printopia's print to folder feature

With expensive Moleskine notebooks I never write anything in them, because it needed to be important. Yellow legal pads are cheap and disposable so I'll write anything in them. I take a lot more notes now.

Scott explains how using Excel pivot tables makes it so much easier to get insights about your data. The TCV of our users with a grade of F is higher then people with a C grade. So there's opportunity there!

Meal Mentor has seen about a 3% increase in forum member in about 2-3 weeks of being able to self-invite themselves to the forums.

I talk about the deep amount of user activity data that's available via discourse.

In this episode I explain how we are collecting more customer data and using statistical tools to determine customer success.

I used Strength Finder 2.0 to help me figure out what my skills are. What really stood out for me were the Achiever and Learner skills so I've set myself on a path towards learning Business Statistics. So far it's been crazy fun. Here's the blog post I reference. http://citgrd.co/EntrepreneurIdentityCrisis

I'll be talking about starting a new business and growing current business Meal Mentor. https://www.getmealplans.com/ Follow me on twitter @citadelgrad https://twitter.com/citadelgrad