April 2017
Beginner
208 pages
2h 55m
English
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RESOURCES: WHAT TO STOP DOING
This section has been designed to give you examples of tasks that business owners I have worked with have successfully stopped doing. If they can, then so can you!
Audio & video editing
- basic video editing
- uploading files to YouTube and Vimeo
- editing audio files by removing background noise and improving volume levels
- trimming footage segments and producing rough and final cuts
- recording, editing and setting up podcasts and inserting them onto webpage
- creating and editing rudimentary graphic design tasks on Photoshop and other image editing software
Content writing
- articles
- infographics
- newsletters
- industry-related book reviews
- responding to comments made on the business's blog
- white papers
- ebooks
- designing and creating content for brochures
- how-to guides
- blog posts
- press releases
- interviewing industry sources to write an in-depth report on markets
- case studies
- preparing PowerPoint/Keynote presentations
- turning raw data into a detailed report and slideshow
- creating weekly operations reports
Customer relations
- checking email
- responding to customer inquiries
- online chat support
- creating and sending out greeting cards
- creating and sending invitations
- creating and sending newsletters
- creating and sending thank-you notes
- scheduling appointments
- receptionist duties
- answering calls
- creating forms for customer feedback
- creating online surveys for customer feedback
Financial duties
- generating invoices
- creating weekly sales reports ...
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I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.