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How Productivity is Calculated: Smart Tips to Save You Time

Podcast |: Women Conquer Business
Publisher |: Jen McFarland
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Business,; Entrepreneurship,; Management & Marketing
Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Entrepreneurship,; Management,; Marketing
Publication Date |: Mar 11, 2022
Episode Duration |: 00:56:28

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Productivity is important for any business to be successful. But… how is productivity calculated? We explore that along with time-saving tips on this episode.

How Productivity is Calculated Episode Summary

Productivity is important for any business to be successful, especially if it's a small one that relies on the efforts of a few people. But… how is productivity calculated? More importantly, how can you measure and improve the productivity of your business?

In this video, we’ll provide a few tips that can help measure productivity, including how to break down tasks effectively and how to conduct a time audit to help you prioritize key tasks, reallocate resources, and target areas where you can improve your business the most.

Words of Wisdom

When I work with people who run small businesses, I ask, what is your marketing budget? They say, 'I don't have a marketing budget.' I ask, how many hours a week are you spending on social media? How much do you charge per hour for your services? You have a marketing budget. You just don't acknowledge it because you're not thinking about all that time that you're on social media. — Jen

If I have a thing that I need to do frequently, I will break that down into parts. I'll make a checklist for myself so that every week on a certain day of the week, I check that I did those things. I have it all in front of me. Then I know that whole project is complete. Any project can be broken down first into the larger sections and then you take each section and break that further down into tasks. — Shelley

Can't Miss Resources

Increase your content creation productivity by watching Shelley's Livecast Live series on YouTube.
Find the Right Marketing Tools for Your Small Business. This $75 course created by Jen will save you hundreds if not thousands in finding marketing software for your business.

Show Notes

0:00 Music and Intro

1:07 Livecast Life Book, Windows Woes & Dragon Boat Practice

Livecast Life on YouTube
Images of Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boats
Jen's new course! Find the Right Marketing Tools for Your Small Business

11:00 Twitter Launching Profile Shops

Twitter Launches Live Test of New Profile Shops to Display Products In-App (Our take: if you have products and someone gives you space to do it, take...

Productivity is important for any business to be successful. But… how is productivity calculated? We explore that along with time-saving tips on this episode.

How Productivity is Calculated Episode Summary

Words of Wisdom

When I work with people who run small businesses, I ask, what is your marketing budget? They say, 'I don't have a marketing budget.' I ask, how many hours a week are you spending on social media? How much do you charge per hour for your services? You have a marketing budget. You just don't acknowledge it because you're not thinking about all that time that you're on social media. — Jen

If I have a thing that I need to do frequently, I will break that down into parts. I'll make a checklist for myself so that every week on a certain day of the week, I check that I did those things. I have it all in front of me. Then I know that whole project is complete. Any project can be broken down first into the larger sections and then you take each section and break that further down into tasks. — Shelley

Can't Miss Resources

Increase your content creation productivity by watching Shelley's Livecast Live series on YouTube.
Find the Right Marketing Tools for Your Small Business. This $75 course created by Jen will save you hundreds if not thousands in finding marketing software for your business.

Show Notes

0:00 Music and Intro

1:07 Livecast Life Book, Windows Woes & Dragon Boat Practice

Livecast Life on YouTube
Images of Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boats
Jen's new course! Find the Right Marketing Tools for Your Small Business

11:00 Twitter Launching Profile Shops

Twitter Launches Live Test of New Profile Shops to Display Products In-App (Our take: if you have products and someone gives you space to do it, take advantage of it!)

15:17 How Productivity is Calculated

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. - Warren Buffett

26:19 Business initiatives and Breaking Down Tasks

Checklist Manifesto (book)

32:50 How to Conduct a Time Audit

If you want to use a time tracker app, use TopTracker (free)

40:09 How We Prioritize Key Tasks

47:11 The "D" word: Discipline

50:27 LinkedIn Profile Video and YouTube Preview Trailer

52:48 Jen Guests on Launch With Words Podcast

Jen had a fabulous interview on with-words.castos.com/episodes/don39t-know-what-to-write-take-a-stand-jen-mcfarland?ref=womenconquerbiz.com">Bridget Willard's podcast, Launch with Words. Bridget is the creator of Launch with Words, a WordPress plugin that gives small business owners blog prompts. Jen talked about why it's important to take a stand and write about what matters to you (even if it's controversial)

55:10 What You Do With Your Time Matters