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How To Build An App-driven Personal Productivity System

Feb 2, 2011
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Open Forum: How To Build An App-driven Personal Productivity System

Having established the need for a reliable personal productivity system, author John Jansch (Duct Tape Marketing) goes on to outline how he built his system using off-the-shelf, often free online apps.


“Business owners have a lot to do, a lot to keep track of, and a lot to balance. It’s the nature of the beast, and most days it feels like being a juggler at the circus who gets a few things in the air and then asks the audience to start lobbing things at him.

If you’re not careful, someone will hurl a big, heavy, seemingly important thing into the mix and you will start dropping the stuff that you really should focus on.”

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