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Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:12 – New book is officially launching
  • 01:05 – Zero dollars, zero backing, and ½ the hours a normal startup takes
  • 01:50 – Really covers the 80/20 principle to a T
  • 02:10 – Book releases on October 4th, Audible version around November 11th
  • 02:20 – You don’t need to invests thousands of dollars in technology or people to get a company off the ground—so much is already available for free
  • 02:45 – Unsubscribe à IFTTT à Unsubscribed!
    • 03:18 – Test for free and test to a high level
  • 03:50 – Question everything, challenge everything
  • 04:30 – When the thunderclap goes live, the Kindle version of the book will be $0.99
• 05:00 – Ample Market
  • 05:05 – They have a bot called Fetch
  • 05:20 – Great data enrichment tool for new customers
  • 05:45 – You’ll be better able to tailor your offerings
  • 06:03 – And it will help you facilitate connections
• 06:15 – Duuoo – Better one on ones with your team
  • 06:40 – A great platform for one on ones
  • 06:55 – A nice packaged platform
• 07:05 – Cortana
  • 07:23 – Nick has been testing this with positive results
• 07:45 – Google Photos
  • 07:57 – Automatically catalogs photos, organizes them, etc.
  • 08:24 – Makes searching a dream
  • 08:41 – Phone backup prompts automatic delete from Camera Roll
• 09:23 – Centralized resource for all podcast links

Credits

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Audio Provided by Mottram Media Group

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Key Quote

 “Without being to explicit, I can’t even imagine. Honestly…I think I would kill somebody.”

Key Resources

• Access to all OAO Links

Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:16 – The beginning of October is the Genius Network Annual event, as well as the end of Ari’s year of no travel, no speaking
• 00:40 – September 23rd is Ari’s birthday—34 years young!
• 01:00 – Ari is stepping away from the Haymakers for Hope event
• 01:55 – com—Create fitness challenges within your company!
  • 02:19 – Especially with a remote team this is one more thing you can do to build community!
  • 02:31 – How do you incentivize people?—build a community
  • 03:11 – A great way to measure yourself and form new bonds
• 02:40 – Heart rate monitors
• 03:09 – Orange Theory Fitness
• 05:00 – Nick’s base metabolic rate is 1670 calories per day
• 06:02 – co—outsource corporate retreats
  • 07:29 – Just show up and have your team bonding
  • 07:35 – The first LD Retreat will be November 3rd
• 06:54 – A new machine at MIT can read a book without reading it
  • 09:15 – Great for OLD books that either can’t or shouldn’t be opened
• 08:27 – The biohackers guide to better sex
  • 08:41 – Some of it is good, some of it is stupid
  • 08:53 – Get off more!
  • 09:02 -- Natural male enhancement?
  • 09:40 – The Taoist Equation
    • 10:07 – Age minus 7, divided by 4

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Key Quote

 “You kind of look like Dr. Evil when you do that…”

Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:15 –Nick is in London, has been traveling quite a bit
• 00:35 – September 11th was also national Grandparent’s Day
  • 01:00 – 2.7 million American grandparents provide free childcare
• 01:15 – clark.ai
  • 01:31 – If you want to use us now, email our team and tell us why
  • 01:39 – Invite the bot to any call and the bot will automatically show up and take notes
  • 02:12 – You can even just CC the bot
  • 02:25 – The quality of the notes is uncertain…it could be a person or a bot, who knows?
  • 03:45– Bot can also push the notes wherever you want…Slack, Trello, etc.
  • 04:19 – Conceptually it’s an awesome idea
• 04:30 – iPhone Trick that will INSTANTLY make your phone faster
  • 04:50 – Hold the power button until prompted to turn the phone off
  • 05:00 – But don’t turn it off—then just hold the home button
  • 05:29 – Nick says it’s a known trick, Ari calls BS
• 06:30 – The most powerful passport in the world?
  • 06:56 – Germany
  • 07:20 – The worst passport? Afghanistan
• 07:05 – Nick’s passport has expired
• 07:39 – Nick is doing Escape the Room in London
• 08:45 – Access URL
  • 08:57 – A new way to share access to an account without sharing passwords
  • 09:10 – It’s a chrome extension
• 10:43 – SGNL
  • 10:53 – A Bluetooth device that links your watch to your phone
  • 11:04 – Even when you’re in a loud place, you can hear much more clearly
• 11:30 – attending.io
  • 12:35 – Kind of like Eventbrite but for after-parties
  • 13:15 – It’s like a landing page for an event
• Ari's Haymakers for Hope site.

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Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:22 – Speedback
  • 00:24 – Allows you to write anonymous feedback through Slack
• 01:25 – Nick and Ari created their own internal Slackbot
• 02:06 – “We are automating what our managers call policing.” – Nick
  • 02:45 – Nick wants to automate all the things possible to make scaling up easier
• 03:02 – Ari outlines the process of VAs setting up tasks
  • 03:20 – Whatever can be automatically assigned, will be automatically assigned.
  • 03:37 – Errors produced
  • 03:52 – “Our managers have to chase up people who didn’t correctly assign a project to a time entry.” – Nick
  • 04:08 – Internal automation saves the business time and money
• 04:18 – Keatext
  • 04:20 – Takes all customer service information and uses text analysis to break it down and make sense of it
  • 05:20 – Make a separate email address for customer problems
  • 05:35 – Keatext will help you identify where your biggest problems are as a business and attack them
• 05:50 – New book coming out shortly with a Thunderclap campaign
  • 06:00 – Subscribe to the OAO Newsletter
• 06:20 – Nick travelling to London for business

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Time-Stamped Notes

• 01:00 – Ari and Nick are both very busy and are getting ready to launch their new book.
• 01:40 – The Thunderclap campaign for this podcast.
• 02:07 – Nick is enjoying some lamb neck.
• 03:00 – co
  • 03:07 – People can collaborate to make a video tribute for someone.
  • 03:27 – It compiles the video for you.
• 03:40 – Growth Geeks
  • 03:50 – Freelance for “growth geeks”
  • 04:00 – Design Geeks and Word Geeks
  • 04:15 – New branches off of Growth Geeks
  • 04:40 – See the benefits of outsourcing.
• 05:20 – Respondable
  • 05:45 – Find out how likely you are to get a response from your emails in real time.
  • 06:25 – It could help for cold emails.
• 06:40 – They just raised prices.
• 06:55 – They’ve been using Google Docs for editing and reviewing their book.
• 08:00 – Calendly to set up shifts with higher pay on nights and weekends.
• 08:50 – Having developers come in person to work with them.
  • 09:15 – Every once and a while, it’s great to meet someone in person.
  • 09:40 – Building team culture and breaking down barriers.
• 10:35 – Less Doing Coaching Program
  • 10:55 – A yearlong program. Go to com to apply.
• 11:16 – The HeroX Project
  • 11:26 – Submit any automation ideas
• 11:55 – That’s it for today!
• XXXX – Haymakers for Hope

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Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:28 – VA Services price increase on September 1st
  • 00:40 – Clients signed up before Sept. 1st will be at the current price of $129/month and $40/hour
  • 00:47 – Clients joining after the 1st, the pricing will be $149/month and $40/hour
  • 01:03 – Just enough to support current clients and be able to offer the same level of service
• 01:17 – Fancy Hands – assistants for everyone
  • 01:21 – Ari was a huge supporter of Fancy Hands, until the quality of the service tanked
  • 01:45 – New website with Ari’s testimonial from 3 years ago
  • 02:05 – Nick thought he was losing Ari as a partner :)
  • 02:20 – Fancy Hands had huge turnover
• 01:58 – Launching a new website in a few weeks
• 02:35 – Kickstarter Camorama
  • 02:42 – Sharing video experiences
  • 02:50 – Recording and tracking things
  • 03:00 – Camorama: The 4K Action VR & 360 Degree Cam Made For Sharing
  • 03:20 – A deeper level of remote experience for people
  • 05:19 – Use as a tool for touring remote facilities and real estate
• 03:44 – Ari and Nick use Roger to communicate
  • 03:49 – Expands your ability to be more productive
• 05:46 – Nick’s surprise from Kickstarter – FaceCradle
  • 06:07 – The basic type of pillow to strap on the back of a chair
  • 06:55 – “It’s like having a massage table in your chair” – Nick
• 07:28 – Fidgeting leg arteries
  • 07:43 – How fidgeting can keep your legs healthy while sitting
  • 08:08 – Fidgeting is not necessarily a bad thing
• 08:20 – How to be an expert?
  • 08:42 – Get fast negative feedback
  • 09:32 – “The only thing I care about is what they don’t like.” – Ari
  • 09:44 – Constantly looking for the negative feedback to build from
  • 09:52 – Study less, test more
  • 10:15 – “We don’t just run a test and ask for a number.” – Ari
• 11:00 – Basis tracking watch
  • 11:10 – One of the best fitness trackers
  • 11:19 – Uses a green light to read oxygen levels
  • 12:23 – Products were recalled because of overheating and causing burns
  • 12:50 – Go to the website and get it refunded
• 13:00 – Physiclo –compression tights with built-in resistance
  • 13:19 – Compression tights are great on a plane ride
  • 13:25 – With an extra layer of special elastics to engage key leg muscles
  • 13:57 – “It just felt like I was given a hug.” – Ari
  • 14:40 – Training with a weighted vest
• 15:44 – Haymakers for Hope on November 18th
• 16:14 – The 1-Hour Workday
  • 16:18 – An article about peak time
  • 16:40 – One hour to write as much as they can
• 17:31 – New dashboard and new website soon to LDVA
• 17:40 – More details on Trello Powerup next month
  • “The goal is to allow people to use Trello to be able to assign tasks to us.” –Nick

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Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:20 – Ari and Nick talk about bone broth
• 01:33 – Trivia: bone broth has a lot of collagen and glutathione
  • 01:49 – Marine Collagen Protein 1.5x more collagen
• 03:04 – Bear burger
• 03:15 – Grass-fed versus Grass-finished
• 03:58 – Nick just came back from Iceland and his luggage was lost
  • 04:12 – It was a great task for a virtual assistant
  • 04:23 – The problem was completely solved
  • 04:30 – The virtual assistant advised Nick to get a Trackdot
• 05:00 – Working with people remotely
  • 05:06 – There are additional, perspective benefits
  • 05:25 – Ari talks about a baby monitor called WithBaby
  • 05:55 – VA suggested Sugru
• 06:00 – Sugru
  • 06:06 – Basically a putty, looks like a ketchup pouch
  • 06:16 – You can mold it, and it dries into rubber—perfect for electric cables
• 07:06 – Bunch –the fastest way to video message
  • 07:09 – Similar to Roger, but with 8 people—really cool way to work with remote teams
  • 08:12 – Powerful for people in a visual field
• 08:25 – Company Mood – employee mood tracking made easy
  • 08:33 – Visualizes the work climate
  • 08:47 – Uses micro surveys to monitor people
• 09:28 – Ghost Browser – productivity browser
  • 09:31 – Log into any website with multiple accounts from ONE browser
  • 09:57 – Safari versus Chrome
• 10:45 – Elink – content curation and sharing
  • 10:54 – Let’s users clip content from anywhere and format it into a newsletter/website that can be sent
• 11:30 – Haymakers for Hope
  • 11:45 – Email your receipt to receive a free hour of VA service
• 11:48 – Blinklist book promotion – 20% OFF!
  • 12:20 “It’s like you can read a book in 10 minutes” – Nick

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Time-Stamped Notes

• 00:10 – Introducing the new podcast, Optimize Automate Outsource
• 01:00 – Subscribe right away!
• 01:20 – The first draft of their new book, Idea to Execution in a Day
• 02:20 – Nick and Ari both love Mondays!
  • 03:10 – It’s an exciting day to kick off the week!
  • 03:30 – They just won’t have a bad Monday.
• 04:05 – The HeroX Challenge
  • 04:15 -- A crowdsourced competition for a cool automation hack
  • 05:05 – Become a guest on the podcast
  • 05:10 – Go to the HeroX website to sign up.
• 05:30 – Ari will be boxing for the Haymakers for Hope on Nov. 18
  • 05:50 – Come see Ari and have fun
  • 06:15 – He’s worked on his defense and is ready to go!
  • 06:40 – Buy a ticket at Ticketmaster, and there will also be prizes.
• 07:20 – Nala
  • 07:35 – A personal email assistant
  • 07:50 – Hyper-specialized service
  • 08:45 – Use them for anything email related.
  • 09:10 – All good, but what’s interesting is that their pricing is similar to Ari and Nick’s
  • 09:45 – An expensive service of $50/hour
  • 10:00 – It’s all relative.
• 10:24 – dscout – video user feedback on apps
  • 10:50 – It depends on the users, but it’s cool to use an app, and not just a website.
  • 11:20 – Another resource is a Five Second Test for your website
• 12:05 – Pluck: Cold email generation
  • 12:10 – A Twitter search to find people talking about certain things
  • 12:35 – Very invasive
  • 12:50 – A wide group of people, so it may not be effective
• 13:23 – Send an email to va@lessdoing.com to let us know what you think!

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