3 Helpful Resources for Entrepreneurs

1. Email Management Software.

Are you up late catching up on emails? Do you want an email to pop back up in your inbox if someone doesn't respond within 4 days?

I use Boomerang, which is free and allows every email sent or received to be scheduled, or 'boomeranged' back having to write physical reminders. Clicking buttons is so much easier.

2. Hire a Virtual Assistant.

Are you finding yourself burdened with repetitive tasks? Is it something you can do online and can it be described on one page? Put your money with the right people and grow your business with virtual workers.

I found Online Jobs, a company out of Salt Lake City who helps you hire VAs from the Philippines. I've had the same assistant for 8 months. She has her work and I have my work. In fact, she's so great that I'm sending her my iPhone5 when I get my 6.

3. Automate Your Content Updates

Do you have Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus pages? Is it too much effort to log in to each one and post to all of them?

Sign up to Hootsuite for free and post to all of your pages simultaneously. Schedule posts for future times and import posts that you are tagged in or tweeted to.

Executing v. Planning

In a startup, when should you execute and when should you plan?

There's no right answer.

But, I'm here to convince you of three reasons you should execute, instead of continue planning.

1. You aren't as vested in an effort you're planning as you are when actually executing an effort. That is the case for any investment (time or money). Therefore, you will allocate more attention to an effort when you're doing it than when you're planning for it. Do you follow the stock that you bought or the stock you had planned to buy?

2. Executing is the very next step; planning is too often just dreaming of what you see as your vision. Planning is important only for large milestones, which a newer startup should only have 1-2 per year (examples: pitching to a VC or making your first sale).

3. Execution is tangible: you can talk about something that was accomplished as a fact. However, with planning, you can only... well, do just that: continue talking about the plan.

Now go execute on something right now. Maybe it's buying your domain name, maybe it's reaching out to an old contact, maybe it's talking to that girl that swiped you right on Tinder. Maybe it's liking Handshakin Holmes' Facebook Page for more tips for entrepreneurs ;)