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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Boost Productivity

March 6, 2015

Entrepreneurs juggle dozens of tasks on any given week with constantly fluctuating schedules. With already busy schedules, being as productive as possible When your to-dos pile up, productivity can plummet. , leaving you with less free time to use networking and working on your personal brand. Getting more accomplished during the day will reduce stress and allow for creative time to brainstorm and rejuvenate. se these five tips to ease work stress and boost productivity.

Plan tomorrow, tonight. Get a jumpstart on your day by planning the night before. Knowing what tasks you need to accomplish at the start of every day will help make your mornings more productive and less stressful. Be aware of your deadlines so you can prioritize and be flexible for other tasks that come up.

Break up your responsibilities into milestones. Whether it’s building a product, finishing a report or launching a website, don’t list your end goal as one big task. Break it up into smaller assignments that are you can accomplish within and hour or two. You’ll have more motivation and feel more accomplished at the end of the day.

Schedule time to check your email. Constantly checking your inbox and responding to emails can interfere with productivity and take up hours of your day. Pick a few times throughout the day to check your email so your attention is solely on the assignment at hand.

Stop mutitasking. Like checking your email every five minutes, multitasking can cause distractions and even lower your IQ. Giving yourself 60 to 90 minute intervals on one task will help limit the amount of multitasking and get your tasks done faster.

Take a break. Our brains are only able to focus for 90 minutes, on average, and need a 20 minute break afterwards. Completing a task followed by a short break will boost your productivity. Take a walk, grab a power snack or take a few to meditate or nap.

Tactify Will Be Competing In The Web Summit PITCH Competition!

October 29, 2014

The Web Summit in Dublin We are excited to announce we will be participating at The Web Summit annual PITCH Competition in Dublin! On November 4 – 6, 2014, we’ll be joining 200 other startups for a three round competition. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been up to at Tactify and how we’re bringing the internet of marketing to everyone.

Due to the expansion of the Internet of Things, the mobile advertising marketing is exploding and increasing exponentially year by year. We created Tactify so businesses, small and large, can easily use the newest mobile technologies in their campaigns, such as beacons, NFC, QR codes and geofencing. In two minutes, you can create fully responsive mobile and in-app content for events, info points, price promotions, product information and contact profiles. Update and measure all from our centralized dashboard without a line of coding involved!

We’ve worked some amazing brands in the last year including Spotify, Pandora, Sony and the BBC, and helped advertising agency JWT create an interactive beacon campaign for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival.

If you’ll be at The Summit, be sure to stop by our booth and hear our pitch on stage. We’ll be at booth HIP312 in The Village on November 5th and ETP107 in Simmonscourt on November 6th.

You can also help us get to the semi-finals by tweeting @Tactify with #pitchvote between 9am – 5pm on November 4th and 5th (only tweets from Dublin count). The two startups with the most votes will get a spot in the semi-finals.

Hope to see you there!