How To Delegate Tasks Within Your Team Effectively
Every manager knows that in order to get tasks completed, delegation may be the answer that you seek. Delegation is when you assign work to someone else, asking them to complete the task for you. It also seems to be one of the things that managers, and other employees, really struggle to do. There are …
5 Benefits Of Bootstrapping Your Startup
Not all startups need (or want) to raise venture funding. In fact, there are a number of benefits that come from bootstrapping your startup. Before we dive into the benefits of bootstrapping your startup, however, it’s important to clarify what it actually is: To bootstrap, your startup means to finance your company’s creation and growth …
How Different Management Styles affect Employee Motivation & Productivity
Whether you manage a large team, an entire business or perhaps just one or two other people, it is your job to make sure that the work is done. One of the main influencing factors in this has to be the motivation of your employees. Employees that are lacking in motivation are less likely to …
The Top 4 iPhone Apps To Make You More Productive & Control Your Email Inbox
The top row of my iPhone and iPad is about getting things done and keeping my life in order. I’ve got my email client, todo list, notes, journal, and calendar. The first four are the most important. I’m a full time engineering student during the school year, and I’m transitioning into a summer internship for …
Setting A Short Term Goal For Task Pigeon
Time is the most precious commodity we all have. For Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders, whether you have raised money or not, the one thing we all have in common is that the time we spend on a project, is time we will never get back. Therefore it is important that you get the most out …
Feeling Unproductive? Here Are 5 Tips To Boost Your Productivity At Work
When you are at work, you are there to work. Which means that you really need to find your focus and get on with the tasks at hand. It can sometimes be hard to be productive at work, especially when there are so many different distractions around you. However, with some careful thought it is possible …
Task Pigeon Traffic, Stats & Revenue For April 2017
Six months ago I started a project to create a completely open and transparent startup. I was inspired by other SaaS based startups such as Buffer, Groove HQ and Baremetrics, and the concept of transparency also sat well with my belief in giving back to the startup community and helping others. Along the way I …
The Ultimate List of Task Management Software To Consider For You And Your Team
In our previous blog post we covered some of the best free task management tools that you can use to complete projects and daily tasks. Whilst these task management tools are great for the budget conscious, there are also some paid task management tools that are work considering. They are suited to those that see task …
Five Lessons For The First Time You Pitch Your Startup
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to pitch my startup Task Pigeon at the Startup and Angels event at Haymarket HQ. If you didn’t catch it, the good news is that a 10 minute video of my presentation exists! While people pitching their startup is nothing new, I wanted to put together a …
How A Two Year Old Blog Post Generated $1,000 in Revenue in 7 Days
In 2015 I wrote a blog post on a service I had used called “HeadTalker”. Little did I know that two years after hitting “publish” this post would lead to the first sales for Task Pigeon and over $1,000 in revenue being generated for us in seven days. Here’s how it all unfolded… I have …