Learn pretty much 50 secret productivity hacks to the popular small business tools – Trello, Google Apps for Work, Mailchimp, Slack and Zapier. This will help save you time and money, while also helping you look incredibly cool in front of your friends.

1. F I F T Y
F O R P O P U L A R
S M A L L B U S I N E S S T O O L S
Productivity Hacks
pretty much

2. SMALL
BUSINESS
Popular Tools

3. The Free, Flexible, and
Visual way to organise
anything with anyone.
Productivity
Hacks

4. CALENDAR POWER UP
Gives you a monthly and
weekly view of your cards,
with iCalendar feed export.
1.
Find out how here
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5. GET INSPIRED
Don't like starting from
scratch? Use these boards
for inspiration!
2.
Enjoy another's creativity!

6. RECURRING TASK
Use this hack for
automating those tasks
that are never complete.
3.
Yeah automation!
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7. FORMAT YOUR WAY
Need to emphasise text,
or add your personal
formatting to your cards?
4.
Your text needs formatting!

8. DRAG YO BOARD
Have multiple lists and
hate that little scroll bar
on the bottom?
5.
Click background and drag!

9. RESOURCE BOARD
Get to know everything to
do with Trello by Trello
themselves.
6.
Stay up to date!

10. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Want to save 1-2 sec of
each task? Get well
acquainted with these.
7.
alt - shift - YEAH!
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11. EMAILS INTO CARDS
No more copying and
pasting from emails. Now
send and relax.
8.
Becoming more productive!

12. EXPORT TO EXCEL
Take a snapshot of your
project's status without
loosing any data.
9.
Exportatious!
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13. CARD BY URL
This simple drag and drop
hack will bring over all the
needed info with less time.
10.
Drop it like it's hot!

14. CHROME APPS
Check out all the different
Chrome Apps and
Extensions available.
I'm a Chrome Fan-boy!
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15. Get email, cloud storage,
collaboration tools and
other business apps with
Google Apps for Work.
Productivity
Hacks
Apps for Work

16. VOICE TYPING
You speak and Google
transcribes it. Brilliant.
12 .
Only available on Chrome!

17. SAVE CUSTOM STYLES
Create and save your
custom formatting styles
for all your documents.
13 .
You have the power!
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18. RESEARCH TOOL
Easy to find the much
needed information from
within your document.
14 .
No more tabs!

19. BUILD YOUR OWN MAP
Create a detailed map, add
important addresses, and
share with staff or customers.
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For easy directions!
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20. BUILD YOUR OWN SITE
Google Sites gives you the
power to build an intranet,
wiki or a proper website.
16.
All with no line of code!

21. EMAIL COLLABORATORS
Have important information to
send about a specific document.
Email them instantly.
17.
Great little feature!

22. EMAIL A DOCUMENT
For those times you need to send
a Google Doc file to those
laggards without Google.
18 .
You should tell them to upgrade as well!

23. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
It is said that knowing keyboard
shortcuts is not only productive,
but is super cool. Cmd+/
19.
Docs! Sheets! Slides!

24. AUTOMATIC SUBSTITUTION
Have you own shortcut you want
to create? Try automatic
substitution.
20.
Automatic Productivity!
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25. EDIT MICROSOFT DOC
Still collaborating with
those stuck in Microsoft?
21.
Must get!

26. TECHNICAL BONUS
If you are a power user and have some
technical skills... Google App Scripts
will blow you away.
22 .
Technical Productivity!

27. BEST ADD-ONS
Have the power of third-party
add ons to maximise your
Google Doc productivity.
23 .
Add away!
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28. Brings all your
communication together
in one place.
Productivity
Hacks

29. CREATE A TO-DO LIST
Best way to manage your
personal and team tasks is
in the same place.
24 .
/todo it!
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30. SET REMINDERS
Send yourself or your team members a
reminder for anything: important
meetings, to-do items.
25 .
Don't forget again!

31. WORD NOTIFICATION
Get notified for any
specific word being
mentioned.
26.
Never miss out!
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32. AUTOMATIC SLACKBOT
Tired of repeating yourself to
common questions. Set up Slackbot
to do the mundane answers.
27.
Go Slackbot!

33. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Become a slack ninja and stop
wasting time with that mouse.
28
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Say yes to the keyboard!

34. HIDE THE CHANNELS
Have too many channels? Use this
trick to show only those specific
channels with a direct message.
29.
With great power!
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35. CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT
Make work more fun. Get your
favourite character involved in your
discussion.
30.
Alllllllrighty-then!

36. HUBOT
The tech-bot that can help to
dramatically improve and reduce
employee efficiency
31.
Thanks Hubot!
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37. SHRUGGIES
Who doesn't love a ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Can be
used in all forms of situations of
confusion and don't knows.
32 .
Try it - /shrug

38. EMOJI POLLS
Emoji reactions is the newest (and
best) way to collect votes. Use it for
lunch, work or presidential polls.
33 .
Get your emoji on!

39. TEXT FORMATTING
Format your messages to add
emphasis, style and coolness.
34 .
Format away!
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40. EMAIL INTEGRATION
Skip your inbox and receive emails
directly in Slack.
35 .
Email to Slack!

41. BOOT 'EM OUT
Have someone constantly
annoying you or the team.
Take some action.
36 .
/kick @username

42. Online email marketing
solution to manage
subscribers, send emails,
and track results.
Productivity
Hacks

43. FREQUENCY GROUP
Utilise the power of segments to
offer your subscribers different
newsletter frequencies.
37.
I want it at my time!
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44. UNSUBSCRIBE SCRIBE
Personalise your unsubscribe text
and page. Delete the unsubscribe
email - you don't need it.
38 .
Handy tip!

45. HIDDEN GROUP FIELDS
Your secret way to segment your
subscribers without them knowing.
39.
Learn the secrets!
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46. INTEGRATIONS
Easily sync your data, import
content from other sources, and
more.
40.
Work your way!

47. CONNECT TO CRM
Connecting your CRM with
Mailchimp gives you the power of
data with targeted communication.
41.
Connecting!

48. AUTOMATION
The biggest productivity power of
email marketing is automation.
42 .
It's hip to be a square!
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49. LEAD SCORING
Utilise the custom field options and
create your very own lead scoring.
43 .
GOOOOOAAAALLLL!

50. PRE FILL DATA
Give your subscribers this new
productivity hack by automatically
pre filling their data into the form.
44.
It's just like magic!

51. AUTOMATION HACKS
Want to learn some more hacks?
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Hack away!
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52. Makes it easy to
automate tasks between
web apps.
Productivity
Hacks
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53. BIG LIST ZAPIER HACKS
This monster list is all you
need for your Zapier hacks.
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It's huge!
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54. BIG LIST IFTTT HACKS
This monster list is all you
need for your IFTTT hacks.
(If This Then That)
47.
Such a clever name!

55. POPULAR IFTTT RECIPES
Steal other people recipes
to get your productivity
flowing quickly.
48.
These taste good!
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56. CONGRATS YOU'RE
FINISHED!
I am honoured you made it
all the way to the end.
You're awesome!

57. I'M OUT - NEED SLEEP
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