15 Chrome extensions worth installing for entrepreneurs

Noah Kagan July 28, 2021

• Pocket batches distracting links so you read on your schedule
• Rakuten and Capital One Shopping save money with zero extra effort
• Idle extensions harvest your browsing data — audit and cut them

15 business apps AppSumo uses to run an $85M/year company

Noah Kagan June 23, 2021

• AppSumo's affiliate program pulled $608K in revenue in one week.
• Giveaways alone account for eight figures of AppSumo's total revenue.
• Start free and scrappy — add software only when the problem is clear.

Scaling Up coaches on COVID, remote work, and business adaptation

Bill Gallagher April 21, 2021

• Same-street restaurants had opposite outcomes based solely on willingness to adapt
• Zoom is faster but delivers only 20% of the energy of in-person work
• Solving hiring now requires a customer-avatar approach applied to employees

Winning on Amazon: Brand Protection, Channel Control, and E-Commerce Strategy

Bill Gallagher January 13, 2021

• Brand protection before optimisation: evict unauthorised sellers first.
• Amazon's digital shelf rewards catalogue consistency and social proof.
• Late-adopter surge and on-demand delivery will permanently shrink brick-and-mortar.

How to speed up a WordPress website in three steps

Ahrefs October 7, 2020

• Three changes took a mobile PageSpeed score from 45 to 95.
• Defer JS loading fixes most render-blocking issues without touching code.
• Image compression and WebP conversion cut page size by nearly half.

Five business apps running an eight-figure company (and three to avoid)

Noah Kagan September 14, 2020

• Metabase gives non-technical founders database visibility — free.
• Notion gets a rare honest pan: Google Docs does the job cheaper.
• Own your community; Facebook and Slack can pull the rug anytime.

How to make your business more valuable by doing less

Bill Gallagher May 27, 2020

• Outsourcing first — before optimising — sets everyone up for failure
• Indecision has a measurable 23x multiplier effect on team slowdown
• A business tied to its founder can't be sold, funded, or scaled

Three Google Sheets formulas every startup should know

Noah Kagan July 5, 2017

• IF, VLOOKUP, and QUERY replace most manual data wrangling instantly
• VLOOKUP lets you pull any field from a row by lookup value
• QUERY aggregates spreadsheet data like a lightweight database

Slack productivity tips: 17 shortcuts and settings to save time

Noah Kagan February 27, 2017

• Send direct messages from any channel with a single shortcut
• Turn off all notifications and check Slack on your own terms
• Use Slackbot as a persistent scratchpad and built-in reminder tool

004: Using Align Enables Your Team to Run Efficiently

Bill Gallagher December 30, 2016

How to use 1Password for digital security and organisation

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life February 29, 2016

• Storing passwords in browsers or Evernote leaves you exposed
• Diceware random word phrases make strong master passwords you can actually type
• Security audit reveals duplicate and compromised passwords across all your logins