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I’ve been through the process of self-publishing on Kindle and learnt a few things. Now, I can share my tips, so you don’t make the same mistakes! I’m a commercially published author now, but I understand the frustrations of trying to break into conventional publishing, because it took me ten years to get my big break. [ http://graemeshimmin.com/a-kill-in-the-morning-shortlisted-for-terry-prachett-prize/ ] Before I got my publishing deal, I self-published a short story called Veronika, [ http://graemeshimmin.com/veronika-short-story/ ]using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) with modest success – it has been in the Amazon top 50. Self publishing does have the advantage of getting your work out there, which can lead to attracting attention and sales. Why Self Publish on Kindle? Amazon’s two main competitors, Apple and Barnes & Noble, both claim to have gained a 20+% market share of the eBook market, leaving Amazon with something like 60%. But surveys of self-published authors have shown that Amazon’s share of self-published eBook sales is much higher – more like 80-85%. Whether the true figure is 60% or as high as 85%, Amazon is the biggest market by a long way, and KDP makes the process of self publishing on Kindle relatively easy. Self publish on Kindle: Step 1 – Your Book First you’ll need to sign up for KDP. Then you start by clicking Add a Title. The important options to fill in are: 1. Book name 2. Description (up to 4,000 characters – use it to sell your book to the reader) 3. Book contributors (you as the author) 4. Categories (whichever genres you are writing in) 5. Search keywords (up to 7, add the themes of the novel, don’t duplicate the categories) These other items can just be left blank/default: Subtitle, Series, Edition Number, Publisher, Language,Publication Date, ISBN. Verify Your Publishing Rights As you are self-publishing your own work, and so you have copyright, select This is not a public domain work and I hold the necessary publishing rights. Convert your book to Kindle format KDP accepts three main formats: * Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) * Ebook Formats (Html, Mobi, Epub) * signNow PDF It is possible to send Microsoft Word and signNow PDF documents direct to KDP, but the formatting is far from ideal if you do. If you want a really professional looking book then you should convert your book to Kindle’s HTML format yourself before uploading. I found the easiest solution was to convert the formatted manuscript [ http://graemeshimmin.com/manuscript-format-for-novel-submission/ ]into Kindle specific html. How to do this will be the subject of a separate answer. But, as we’re doing things the easy way for now, I suggest you just upload the manuscript and let Amazon reformat it for Kindle. Use Kindle Previewer If you have created an HTML format file then you can use Kindle Previewer, a downloadable Kindle emulator, to check how your book will look on various types of Kindle . What I found was that without careful tweaking, my book looked good on one type of Kindle but not on others. Kindle Previewer allows you to quickly switch between Kindle versions and see how the book will look on each type. Upload Your Book File Once you’re happy with the format, you can upload the file to KDP. The only option is Digital Rights Management. This is your choice. Choose Enable if you want to make it harder for people to copy your book, or Do Not Enable if you prefer to make your book available without restrictions. After you’ve uploaded, there’s an online previewer to check the text still looks right. Self publish on Kindle: Step 2 – Cover Photo There are two options, design your own cover or use the template-based Cover Creator. I recommend designing your own cover. The book cover is critical to attracting readers and a template based design is less likely to stand out from the crowd. The picture at the top shows what the cover I designed for Veronika looks like on the Kindle. Designing your own cover doesn’t have to be difficult. At the simplest, it’s just a question of finding a photo, making it the right size and adding the book’s title and your name to it. Find a Cover Photo There are two options: use an original photo or artwork of your own or download one from an image library. The cheapest and easiest option is to use your own photo. Make the Cover Photo the Right Size and Add the Title You’ll need some image editing software to make the cover the right size and to add the title and your name as the author. The free and easy to use image editing programs I recommend are iPiccy and Pixlr. Use the image editor to crop the photo so it is 1,563 x 2,500 pixels, as in the diagram below: The cover should also be in colour, despite the fact the most common Kindles only display black and white. This is because the Kindle Fire and the Kindle app on iPhone, Windows etc. can display colour. Both iPiccy and Pixlr have a variety of free to use fonts. Experiment with a few different ones until you find one you like. Upload the Cover This is simply a matter of clicking Browse for Image… selecting the cover you’ve designed and then clicking Upload Image. Design a cover using the Cover Creator Alternatively, if you just want a simple cover, use the Cover Creator. Step 3 – Rights and Pricing Verify Your Publishing Territories Select Worldwide rights – all territories. Your book will then appear on all the different Amazon sites around the world. Choose Your Royalty I suggest you set your price so that you receive the 70% Royalty – which means a minimum of $2.99 / £1.49 after that it’s up to you. You can set prices worldwide automatically, based on the US price, or customise your prices for different territories. It might be worth setting prices manually to exploit psychological price points like £1.99. Self publish on Kindle: Final Step – Publish! Now just click Save and Publish. That’s it. In a couple of hours your book will be on all the Amazon stores around the world. See – I told you it was easy! More Details There are more details, including links to all the tools mentioned, on my website at How to Self Publish on Kindle in Three Easy Steps [ http://graemeshimmin.com/self-publish-on-kindle/ ]

I added the first item in my list in a comment above, but I will put it here as well, and add some other things. Buy well-made items the first time around (and do your homework to find the right thing the first time). This goes for appliances, clothing, electronics, etc. These things will cost you more at the outset, but will end up costing you less in the long run, both in terms of money and time. They will also contribute less to the overwhelming amount of stuff in landfills (which are especially clogged these days from castoffs of "fast fashion" clothing). Decide what you really do need to buy. Try not to buy, for example, kitchen appliances and gear that only do one thing, and decide if you really do need yet another thing that plugs in. Heat up leftovers on the stove instead of buying and using a microwave. Chop things by hand instead of buying and using a food processor. Buy clothes that truly fit well, and that are in a classic style (i.e. not things that will look dated in a season). Buy only what you really need for all the occasions for which you need to dress, and only what you need to have in between washing cycles. Get rid of physical media. Keep some of your favorite books (especially ones that really need to be touched and paged through, like art books and children's picture books), but get rid of most of them. Use the library and use ebooks. Get rid of CDs. With all the streaming music sources out there, you can even get rid of your mp3 collection and just stream anything you want to hear. Don't have a TV or a cable box. You don't have to live like a luddite, though, to live simply - have a nice, large monitor and a decent computer with a good, fast internet connection. Stream TV shows and movies you want to watch. If you must own a car, own one used one. Keep it in good running shape. Take care of it physically. But if you have an older "cockroach" car (e.g. most Toyotas and Hondas), you can keep that sucker running forever without thinking about it much and without worrying about every scratch and ding. If you can get away without a car, do so. Get yourself a nice commuter bike that fits you well (by "nice" I mean one that is built well with decent parts so it works well and you enjoy using it, without having to worry about it getting banged up or stolen). Rent an apartment, don't buy a house. Don't have a yard or building maintenance to deal with. Plumbing issue? It's not your problem to solve. The building needs painting? Who cares? Lawn needs mowing? Not by you. Your neighbors get too annoying or your neighborhood starts to go downhill? Move when your lease is up. Purge, relentlessly purge things you just don't need and aren't sure you want anymore. An easy way to do this is to have a "holding area" for things you think you might want to get rid of but aren't sure you can commit to chucking. The holding area can be part of a closet, an unused stairway landing, etc. Make sure it's neat and self-contained. Put things there that you think you probably don't want anymore. If you're fine with them out of your life after a week or so, donate them. Have fewer things sitting out on surfaces in your place of dwelling. And pick up after yourself and put things away when you're done with them. Reducing clutter really helps one feel calmer. And it's a great incentive to get rid of things you're just tired of cleaning or putting away all the time (especially if they just don't give you enough pleasure for the annoyance they cause). Have one credit card. Let's be honest - in this day and age, you do need a credit card. But you don't need five. Pay off and close out the others as soon as possible. This will really help you know exactly what you've spent on what, and where your debt lies. Make sure that you have that one credit card set up with electronic statements only (and have email reminders sent if you need them). That reduces random crap that comes in the mail, and also helps you really to figure out the status of your spending (I find that paper statements are oftentimes difficult to read, and you can't just click around on them to get more information). The same goes for bank accounts and debit cards. Have a savings and a checking/debit account at one bank. Keep track of these accounts electronically.Collect all your mail, put it in a bin, and sort it once a week. There's no need to go through snail mail every day (if something is urgent, it's not going to be sent by snail mail). For a long-term project, go through your junk mail and call/email each place to unsubscribe from their mailing lists so you eventually have to deal with less paper crap in your life. Keep your email inbox empty. Answer emails immediately, if possible. When that's not possible, immediately "quarantine" these emails into an "action" folder to be dealt with later. Label and archive everything else that you want to be able to find later. Make filters so certain "bacon" items (i.e. spam that you've signed up for, like mailing lists - things that you might want to look at, but are not top priority) go straight to folders to be gone through once or twice a week. Obviously, use gmail. Don't get stuck staring at a screen more than you have to (she says, while typing up a long answer on Quora). Use social media if it makes you happy. But don't become a slave to it. No electronics after 10PM. **Edit for a couple more things I thought of:One electronic thing that I've found that IS worth owning is a small document scanner. The Fujitsu ScanSnap is amazing. It's tiny and it works fantastically well. We use it to scan all the files that one needs to keep track of and that would otherwise have to exist in paper form in a filing cabinet. The first time around, scanning everything took a long time; then again, we DID get rid of an entire large filing cabinet's worth of papers and stuff (as well as the filing cabinet itself). And now we put important papers and such in a folder to be scanned about once every month or two, and we keep this digital filing cabinet in the cloud (Dropbox works well). Not only does that help you get rid of a lot of papers, but you can also find things so much more easily when you need to (e.g. for insurance purposes, taxes, etc). I've also used this to scan written mementos (e.g. holiday cards, postcards that I want to see again, written notes) that I don't want to get rid of completely, but that I also don't want to have in a big bin in my house. We have one small container (one of those 6-8" deep file bin things) for papers one HAS to keep (e.g. car titles, birth certificates), and a couple of small shoeboxes of physical mementos. And that's it. Get rid of as many annoying errands as you can. If you have a bit of room, stock up on annoying cleaning supplies and paper goods at Costco or the like. Order other annoying household type things from Amazon (yes, I know, there's a trade-off here in that local businesses don't get the revenue from things you've ordered from Amazon. At the same time, spending an hour to get to and from a store to get dish soap can really suck the life out of you). Rather spend that errand time enjoying shopping for good food, patronizing local businesses for high-quality items (e.g. things that are NOT, say, dish soap), spending time doing things you actually WANT to do. Consider observing the sabbath, or a sabbath-like day to some extent. This doesn't have to involve religion. But enforcing some strict rules on yourself regarding what you are and are not allowed to do for 24 hours can really get you out of the constant complexities of modern life. A sabbath-like day should be a day of rest, a day devoid of work of all kinds. Obviously, you can choose to follow the judaic tradition or you can make up some rules yourself. But the general idea that you're not to use electronic devices, that you're not to do any work, that you're not to finish anything, that you're not to write anything, that you're not to clean or scrub anything completely changes the way you travel through your day. All this being said, enjoy yourself. Live simply to allow yourself more time and energy to actually go out and do things, to read things, to learn things, to make things, to spend time with people, to exercise, to travel. I think too many people equate "living simply" with being a complete ascetic. I think that my family and I live quite simply (though we're always trying to get a bit better at it), yet we are not monks. We love having nice clothing that makes us feel spiffy (some of it used/vintage, some of it new), we love eating excellent food, we enjoy having certain electronics that work really well and that add to our lives, we love watching good TV and movies and listening to a variety of music, we love biking most places but taking the car when we have to (and we actually also love our 1988 Toyota Land Cruiser with more than 350000 miles on it), we really enjoy having nice, well-made athletic equipment that makes our athletic endeavors more enjoyable. Could we get on without much of that? Sure. But we are also not in a race to live in a yurt in the middle of nowhere (which is a completely lovely option for those who wish to do just that).

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How do you know that it's time to leave a job? 11 REASONS TO QUIT YOUR JOB IN 2019I did a bad thing.I was in the middle of a meeting. It was my second week at a new job. I had set up the meeting with some people I thought we could do business with.Suddenly I couldn’t bare the thought of spending another second at that job. For all the reasons I list below and maybe some more.I hated it. I couldn’t stand the sound of my voice. I hated the people around me. I was dying.I had my coat hanging on my chair and another coat in my office. My office already had my name on the door. This was my first attempt at a real job in about 15 years.I said...

To write the answer to this question, I am pasting the article from my blog to save my time. For better UI/UX visit All you need to know about Amazon Affiliate ProgramOr read the article below,Recently, I joined Amazon Affiliate Program. This article is for all my friends who are desiring to live The 4-hour work week life/Passive income life.Affiliate Marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires- Bo BennettSo, before directly hopping into “Amazon affiliate program/marketing”, let’s break down some key terms you need to know:Key Terms in Affiliate Marketing:Affiliate Marketing:According to Wikipedia: “Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts.”In short, Affiliate marketing means ‘Whenever some product/service gets a customer via some promoter. The product owner pays promoter on successful sale’Hence, you get paid just by marketing/promoting other’s product via blogs/websites or other social media, and without worrying about creating products. The more customer you provide to the product, The more money you make.Buy Harsh Agrawal’s (Award winning Blogger’s) Guide on Affiliate Marketing here.The Affiliate Marketing Triangle:Advertiser:In affiliate marketing, Advertiser is a company/individual who advertises their products like books, shoes, T-shirts, etc. or services like bus-traveling tickets, entertainment channels like Amazon Prime(Try Amazon Prime 30-Day Free Trial ), etc. to drive more sales.Promoter:The promoter is individual or a company who promotes the product. The products open to being promoted by the advertiser is promoted by the promoter. Here, promoter earns money with every sale they make for the advertiser/product owner.for eg., You can see in the sidebar(if desktop) of my blog, some products like books are being shown. If you purchase a product from the link I provided, I will get cut from the profit made by Advertiser/ Product Owner. Hence, I am the Promoter here.Customer:In affiliate marketing, the customer is the one who makes a successful purchase via the link provided by the promoter.In short, the person who buys the product/service via the promoted link is the customer.So, Now as we have cleared all the terms related to affiliate marketing, Let’s get Started with Amazon Affiliate program:Amazon Affiliate Program:Amazon, one of the first and best e-commerce platform launched Amazon associate as one of the primary marketing strategies.What is Amazon Affiliate Program?Credits: Amazon AffiliateAmazon launched one of the first online affiliate marketing programs in order to drive more sales. Millions of website owners, bloggers, web developer, and Sellers make money by promoting Amazon products as a part of Amazon affiliate program.Every time a successful sale is made via links provided by website owners and bloggers. Amazon pays the associate a cut from the sale.Hence, You can earn up to 10-15% as referral fee as a part of Amazon Affiliate program.How to get started with Amazon Affiliate Program(Step by Step):If you are also willing to be a part of Amazon affiliate program and write your own The 4-hour work week story. Here’s a step by step guide to get started as Amazon Associate.But Before we start with these steps, Let’s discuss some mandatory things: To get started with Amazon Affiliate program, you need a website or blog or mobile app. If you don’t have one first make your own blog/website(For free blog Get started with WordPress or Blogger).Step-1: HomepageTo get started as a part of Amazon affiliate program, Go here for being an associate with Amazon India or Go here to be a part of Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more. You can select your country from the top right corner as shown in above image. (Remember, you will need to sign up for every individual country).After visiting the site click on Join Now For Free and get started with your first step in Amazon Affiliate program. Hence, you are one step nearer to be a part of Amazon Affiliate community.Step-2: Sign up/LoginAfter you will click Join Now for Free button, you will be directed to a Login page as shown in above image.To get started with Amazon Associates First, you need to have an Amazon Id. if you don’t have one create one. If you have Amazon Id, fill the details on the Login page. After filling correct details click Sign in using our secure server.Step-3: Registration pageYou will get directed to a registration page on clicking Sign in button. Here, you will need to fill out details as required. It will contain 4 steps:Account Information: Account information will contain basic information like an address as given in your Amazon Id.Website and Mobile App List: In here you will need to enter the website/blog or mobile app URL in which you will promote the product from Amazon’s site.Profile: In profile, you will provide details like Associate Store Id name, Topics which defines your Website or Mobile app the best. So, you can get proper recommendations of products like books, mobile phones, etc.Start using Associate Central: Here your Associate Id is ready to start making income.Step-4: Create LinksNow, as you are a part of Amazon Associates it’s time to create links and start making money.As you might know, everyone who is part of Amazon Associates is provided an individual link for the product they are promoting. This will help them track from where the customer came and bought the product. Eventually, it will help them to know who was the promoter and pay them.So, in order to earn as an associate, you will need to create links. To create a link to a particular product, search for the Keyword or ASIN/ISBN number in the search bar shown above. You will get results on searching as shown in below image.Step-5: Copy LinkYou will be provided a page shown above when you will click on Get Link from the results of searched keyword.You will be shown a preview of the product as well as a link to the product on this page. The link can preview in any form as you will require. It can be Text form, Image form, or Text+Image form.You have decided the product and the visual of product to be shown on your Blog/Website. So, Copy the code to build your Individual link and place it wherever you would like on your blogs/websites/mobile apps. For eg., you will see Amazon product on my sidebar.Step-6: Site StripeThere’s an alternate and easy way to build links apart from visiting affiliate-program.amazon site.You can directly build links from Amazon’s shopping website. When you will become a part of Amazon Affiliate program, your Amazon shopping site will have a stripe called Amazon Associate Site Stripe on the top bar of Amazon’s Shopping site as shown in the image above.Hence, you can build link directly from Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more, Online Shopping: Shop Online for Mobiles, Books, Watches, Shoes and More, etc.There’s also a plus point of using Amazon Associate Site stripe, that you can also promote a product on facebook or twitter directly by sharing.Eventually, You can use Instagram Marketing, Twitter Marketing, Youtube Marketing, etc. to increase sales and eventually earn more referral fees on more sales.Step-7: FinallyAbove is the screenshot of my blog, here I have added Link code in the sidebar and in between some places which won’t disturb UX(User Experience) and interested customers can buy the products.Conclusion:In conclusion, I would like to say to build passive income start affiliate marketing. If you are a blogger, Amazon Affiliate program is the best alternative to Google Adsense. The more the traffic, The more the conversions. The more the conversions, the more the money you make.Let me know your points on Affiliate marketing in the comments below. If you have not subscribed to this blog. What are you waiting for?…SUBSCRIBE!And before I end it, let me repeat the Quote written at first:Affiliate Marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.Regards,Juhil Mendpara.

Every step ??? Okay - Here is every small step in the chronological order Hope it helps - The Sure Steps - 1. Figure out what change you want to make in the world. Nothing else matters and you should not even be beginning a company until you know the change you are passionate about making, personally and professionally. 2. Begin researching the industry and your competitors. 3. Determine how to create your product. 4. Talk to potential customers and users for feedback. 5. Come up with a name for your company and product. 6. Build your pitch deck. This is particularly important if you need to raise funding. 7. Create pro forma financial projections. These should show the next 3-5 years, and include a pro forma income statement and a pro forma cash flow statement and balance sheet. 8. Determine how much capital is necessary to get to cash flow positive by calculating your cash flow breakeven point. 9. Get feedback on the pitch deck from your mentors, advisors, friends, and family. 10. Find a cofounder, if needed, whose skills complement your own and can help you achieve more. 11. Select a quality corporate law firm in your area when you are ready to incorporate and get some legal advice. 12. Incorporate and obtain an Employer Identification Number from the IRS 13. Open your company bank account. 14. Talk to your attorney about whether you should make an 83b election. These are often important in signNowly reducing your taxes in a very legal way by paying your taxes upfront when you start a company. 15. Build a basic product prototype or Minimum Viable Product(MVP), a term coined by Eric Ries which has become very common in startup circles over the past couple of years. 16. Create employee agreements for everyone 17. Create confidentiality agreements for everyone, both employees and contractors, from the beginning. 18. Hold your initial Board of Directors meeting, which could just be with yourself or maybe two board members that you appoint. 19. Create your Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) plan and/or your stock options plan that enable you to provide equity ownership and incentives to your employees to gain ownership in the company over time. Often you want to vest those options over a period of four to five years. 20. Issue your stock certificates to yourself and to your initial founding team. 21. Fund your bank account with the initial capital contribution either coming from yourself, friends or family, or peer-to-peer lending organizations like Fundable or Kickstarter. 22. Determine whether you need outside capital to start. 23. Raise any initial capital you need. 24. Get a company debit card and credit card and apply for a corporate credit line if you need to. 25. Set up your accounting software and begin putting in your chart of accounts. 26. Select your payroll provider so you can actually pay your employees. 27. Consider trademarking the names of your company and product. This is something to discuss with your lawyer. 28. Design your logo. 29. Create some business cards. 30. Find office space to work out of (if you need to.) 31. Furnish your office. 32. Purchase any software or hardware you need. 33. Get Internet access set up, which is obviously critical in a tech company. 34. Obtain a Universal Product Code (UPC) if your product is going to be sold in stores. 35. Design any labeling and packaging if needed. 36. Finish your initial alpha/prototype product and bring it to market regardless of whether it’s a tangible product or an intangible software good. 37. Get initial user and customer feedback. 38. Order your initial inventory, if needed. 39. Register your domain name 40. Design your company website. 41. Install a tracking tool like Google Analytics on your website 42. Add a shopping cart if you choose to pursue e-commerce. 43. Get a merchant account if you want to accept credit cards. 44. Sign up for an email list tool like iContact or MailChimp. 45. Optimize your website for the search engines by adding content or adding a blog and getting other websites to link to you. 46. Install a Customer Relations Management (CRM) system—a tool that can track your customer base and the interactions you have with your customers and users. 47. Hire your initial staff to be able to begin your operations. 48. Create your company values and mission statement 49. Announce your product launch to the local media. 50. Hold your launch event and start selling. Those are the first 50 steps to being ready to sell your product. The next 50 steps are all about once you start selling, how you can build your business to your first million dollars in sales. 51. Hire a team to fulfill your orders and provide customer service. 52. Start an affiliate program or distributor program, which enables you to get other people to sell your product for you for a percentage of the sale. 53. Recruit affiliates and distributors. 54. Set up an ad tracking system so you can track your advertising and the results, conversion rates, and cost per lead. 55. Try different online advertising techniques like cost-per-click advertising with a small test budget. 56. Get some results for that advertising. 57. Optimize and scale it as needed. 58. Determine the cost of acquisition per lead for each channel. 59. Determine the conversion rate for each channel. Then you can combine those to determine the customer acquisition cost by channel. 60. Calculate the lifetime value (LTV) of a customer. Once you know that, you’ll know how much you can spend to acquire a new customer, which is critical to being able to scale your business’s marketing scientifically. If you can combine great storytelling with scientific marketing and trackable channels, you can rapidly grow your sales. 61. Test your marketing and advertising with a bigger budget now that you know your LTV. 62. Test social advertising and display ads, and calculate the return on investment. 63. Scale your advertising up until the marginal cost of customer acquisition is equal to the marginal return from that customer acquired. 64. Optimize your advertising to bring down your customer acquisition cost. 65. Collect testimonials and use cases from those customers and perhaps even build a few PDF case studies. 66. Create social word of mouth for your product, using a tool like HootSuite to manage what’s being said in the media about you, your product, and your brand. 67. Create a YouTube video promoting your product. 68. Attend an industry trade show or conference. 69. Consider selling your product in bulk at wholesale to get more sales and initial brand awareness. 70. Bring on a bookkeeper to automate your accounting system so you can stop doing it yourself now that you may have started to have some real revenues. 71. Create an employee directory, once you get beyond a handful of employees. 72. Begin reviewing your profit and loss (or your income statement) and your balance sheet monthly. 73. Compare your initial forecast with actual results. Take the budget that you created before you began and compare that initial pro forma forecast with your actual profit and loss results. Compare the deltas and talk about them as you create your next iteration of your budget. Eventually you’ll begin creating budgets annually and locking in those budgets and calling those the plan, and then comparing actual results on a monthly basis against your annual board-approved plan. 74. Hire your first salesperson. 75. Create a sales compensation plan that enables you to pay someone either on a percentage of sales basis or based on the units they deliver by converting customers or up-selling customers. 76. Set up a company healthcare program and other benefits for your employees. 77. Establish your vacation policy. 78. Test offline advertising carefully. You’ll want to put some toes in the water around offline advertising like direct mail or maybe local radio, and begin to test and get results and determine if it works for you. It takes a lot of testing to make your offline advertising scale. 79. Create an online wiki or intranet for your company where you can keep track of your processes. 80. Create a digital company handbook that can be edited and improved by your employees, like a Wikipedia article. 81. Open up a credit line with your bank. The best time to go after funding is when you don’t need it. If things are going well, go ahead and open that credit line. 82. Create an offsite work policy. Some of your employees may want to work remotely. Generally, as long as they’re getting their work done and are able to show up to the meetings you do have, which should be pretty minimal initially, you should be able to enable them to work offsite a couple days a week. 83. Once you can show that $1 in means $4 in revenue, raise capital.Until then, bootstrap as much as you can. Only raise your initial round of capital once you have a mathematical model for scalability, then go out and raise a true series A round of funding if you choose. 84. Create a list of firms from which to raise initial growth funding. 85. Update your pitch deck with the new data, new mentors, and new team members. 86. Build relationships with industry bloggers and different people in the media. 87. Seek product reviews. 88. Hire an Executive Assistant (EA) or an office manager to manage your schedule and the business’s day-to-day tasks. 89. Hold your first company retreat. 90. Take customer feedback and improve your product. You will want to create a product management process to incorporate customer feedback on an ongoing basis. Use this process to take your initial alpha, turn it into a beta, and then turn it into a general release, incrementally improving as you go. 91. Get connected to investors through people you know. 92. Have initial get-to-know-you meetings for investor feedbackabout six to nine months before you’re ready to raise capital. 93. Under-promise and over-deliver on your financial and milestone results for the next 90 days. 94. Determine how much capital to raise. A good rule of thumb is to raise at least twice as much as you’re going to need for the next one year of operations. 95. Return to the firms you like for partner presentations. 96. Do 20 partner presentations in 1-2 weeks. You need to have a disciplined, tight process for this. 97. Get at least two term sheets. 98. Negotiate and sign a term sheet. 99. Complete all the diligence requests that come to you 100. Close on your investment capital. Make sure the wire hits your bank account. Now it’s time to grow and scale a real company. The hard work now begins

1) As a beginner, don't clog your brain with declensions. Focus on what you need in order to get your point across, i. e. other grammar rules, conjugations and lots of vocabulary. Lower class native speakers don't get declensions right either, so Germans will understand you just fine. 2) Before you learn anything else, learn the forms of "möchte". It's technically conditional mood (the exact translation is "would like"), which means that some textbooks teach it really late, but it's so versatile that it's hard to imagine a conversation without it. Learn it early and use it often. Ich möchte ein Bier. Ich möchte gehen. Möchten Sie mit mir tanzen? Ich möchte morgen das Brandenburger Tor sehen. Etc.3) The key rule for word order is that the main verb comes always in second position, no matter if the first position in a sentence is taken up by the subject (!), place, time, manner or even an entire sub-clause. When there is more than one verb, or in a sub-clause, the verbs pile up at the very end, after every unimportant detail.4) Compared to Romance languages where you have to learn different endings for different types of verbs, German verbs are nice in that the endings always stay the same, barring some common-sense adjustments like not wanting to wind up with unpronounceable consonant clusters. Also, German has less tenses than Spanish or French. There are two difficulties: 'strong' verbs and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel - but the way they change is usually predictable. Read some tables and you will notice the patterns, just like in English there is "ring - rang - rung", "sing - sang - sung", "sink - sank - sunk", etc.  Actually German verbs often have the same vowel changes as English ones if they're related, for example in German the equivalents of the previously-mentioned verbs are "singen - sang - gesungen" and "sinken - sank - gesunken".5) When it comes to the past tense, German is much simpler than English, Spanish or French in that conversations about the past are always in the perfect tense and written texts are always in the preterite tense. The only exception is for auxiliary verbs and modal verbs, which are so common that people don't want to say e. g. "ist gewesen" (perfect) and use "war" (preterite) instead in order to save time. So if you remember war, hatte, konnte, durfte, musste, wollte, you can use the perfect tense for everything else (until such time as you have to write essays in German, and by then you will hopefully have memorized most irregular preterite forms from having read a lot).6) The conditional form of verbs is usually the same as the preterite except with an extra Umlaut:  war (was) -> wäre (would be)hatte (had) -> hätte (would have)konnte (was able) -> könnte (would be able)durfte (was allowed) -> dürfte (would be allowed)musste (had to) -> müsste (would have to)mochte (liked) -> möchte (would like)wurde (became) -> würde (would become)etc.Actually, you shouldn't need any apart from the ones I listed. Ignore the Konjunktiv 1 completely (Germans forget it as soon as they leave high school) and always replace the Konjunktiv 2 with "würde" + infinitive. Unless you're going for a career in journalism, that's all you'll ever need. 7) When you learn declensions, familiarize yourself with the forms of der, die, das. Pay particular attention to how the "das" forms are almost the same as the "der" forms except in the Accusative (it goes back to old Indo-European that the Nominative of a neuter is formed like the Accusative, and German continues that tradition), and how the plural forms are almost the same as the feminine forms except for Dative. Also note how all words ending in -ein get the same endings, no matter if it's ein, kein, mein or whatever.8) When having to decide between Dative and Accusative, there are two fast rules: 1. If there's no preposition and the noun is a thing, it will be Accusative. Dative is only used for people/animals and after some prepositions. Unfortunately people can be either Dative or Accusative. When there is more than one object in a sentence (e. g. I give something to someone), they cannot both be the same case.2. Most prepositions can only be used with one particular case (if you read that some are used with Genitive, ignore that as pedantry and use Dative instead). For those that can be used with either Accusative or Dative, remember that Accusative is for directions and Dative is for static locations, same as in Latin.9) Adjective endings are determined based on not just the case but also the preceding article or lack thereof, with the basic idea being that one of the words has to show the case ending. If the article doesn't allow you to say what case a word is, then the adjective has to tell you. Now it may look very daunting to learn the adjective endings if you stare at huge tables such as the one Greg found, but in fact there's a very simple set of questions you could memorize instead. If you ever respond YES, do what it says and stop, otherwise continue with the next question:Does the adjective stand on its own, without an article? If so, the adjective gets the same ending as the article would have, e. g.  die Frau -> deutschE Frau,  dem Mann -> deutschEM Mann, etc. Is the article different from its dictionary form? I. e. is it possible to tell the case from it? If so, the adjective doesn't need to indicate the case, it will get the "bland" -en ending.Is the noun plural? If so, the adjective also gets the "bland" -en ending.Finally, is this article different for masculine and neuter? If so, the adjective will end in -e. If not, the adjective will have to show the word gender, so it gets -er for masculine or -es for neuter words.Obviously I never had to memorize these since I'm a native speaker, but my boyfriend did and found that the process of finding the right endings this way became automatic within a few days.Hope you find this helpful!There's a Quora topic "Learning Languages" that doesn't have nearly as many followers as it should have. Consider following it. Also, I have a Quora blog about languages and language-learning: Selected Language Posts.

Productivity is largely about changing your mindset and habits. I don’t want to give you a bunch of tricks, tips and hacks because if you don’t fix the underlying foundation, nothing will change. Sure, you’ll be more productive for a day or two, but you’ll soon go back to the way things were.Productivity isn’t about time management (that’s a misnomer) – it’s about self-management. Here are some of my best tips for managing your self and becoming more productive.Build your day around your toughest tasks, then do those things first.Identify your top one or two most pressing tasks, then tackle those first. You have the most willpower and motivation in the morning, which means your likelihood of completing those things is the highest. The other benefit to this is it creates a domino effect – once you get your most important things done, you can use that momentum to complete your other tasks.Create a “stop doing” list.We’ve all been taught to create a to-do list. But just as important as the things you are doing, you must stop doing certain things. Learning to say “no” frees up a lot of your time. Steve Jobs said that what made Apple Apple was not so much what they chose to build but all the projects they chose to ignore. Stop checking your email first thing in the morning – protect the peak energy hours for your best work.Decide “Hell yes!” or “no.”One of the best pieces of advice along the same lines comes from Derek Sivers – when deciding on things, it should be a “hell yes!” or “no.” There is no in-between. This really helps you decide on what’s important and what’s not. Note: this can and should also be applied in other areas of your life too, like buying clothes for example. How many T-shirt have you bought and only worn once?Delegate the tasks you dread and the tasks that.I love the concept of “activation energy” – the effort that it takes to get something started. Once you start a task, it’s easy to keep going, but the hard part is starting! If you delegate those tasks with a high activation energy, you’ll be able to start gettings things done, then use that momentum to keep going and stay productive the entire day.Stop waiting for perfect conditions.There will never be a “perfect” time to do anything. Don’t wait to launch a project or start a task. Done is better than perfect Immediate action fuels a positive feedback loop that drives even more action.Eliminate the mess to eliminate the stress.Mess creates stress. Tennis icon Andre Agassi said he wouldn’t let anyone touch his tennis bag because if it got disorganized, he’d get distracted. Clean out the clutter in your office to get more done. Set up the conditions for productivity.Throw out your TV and unsubscribe from Netflix.It’s too easy to get caught up binging on Game of Thrones. The best way to make sure you don’t get caught waiting entire nights on junky TV is to not have a TV. Set up the conditions for productivity.Establish positive routines.Some of the most productive people (Tim Ferriss, Stephen King, Thomas Edison, etc.), follow strict daily routines. Every day, they know exactly when to get up, they know exactly when to start work, exercise, work, etc.. Peak productivity is not about luck. It’s about routine and devotion.Stop multi-tasking!New research confirms that all the distractions invading our lives are rewiring the way our brains work (and drop our IQ by 5 points!). Be one of the rare-air few who develops the mental and physical discipline to have a mono-maniacal focus on one thing for many hours. (It’s all about practice).Slow down to speed up.Get things right the first time because not doing your best work, causing you to re-do it will take 2x longer than it would have originally. People are wildly distracted, leading to mistakes. To unleash your productivity, become one of the special performers who have the mindset of doing what it takes to get it right first. This saves you days of having to fix problems.Ask for help.There’s no shame in asking for help. It actually shows maturity. And studies show they’re actually viewed by their colleagues as being smarter. Learning to ask for help and leveraging other people’s strengths could save you tons of time in the long run.Stop and reflect.Take a step back and see what’s working and what’s not. See what needs to be prioritized and what needs to be changed. Building in time to review isn’t wasting time, but optimizes your work moving forward. For more on post-project reflection, check out this post.Take a break!Sometimes, your brain just needs a break. If you’re feeling stuck on a particular problem or are feeling like you aren’t getting anything done, don’t fight or resist that feeling. Recognize that your body or mind is trying to tell you it’s overwhelmed, and go take a walk. Downtime makes you more productive by giving you more emotional resilience to the inevitable ups and downs at work, while also helping you to get some perspective on the problems you are trying to solve. So unless it’s an emergency, when you leave the office, leave it. Everything will be there when you get back.