You're listening to the online marketing made Easy Podcast episode number 72.

Welcome to the online marketing made easy podcast business advice so easy you'll feel like you're cheating and now your host Amy Porterfield.

Hey there Amy Porterfield here and welcome to another episode of the online marketing made easy podcast. I know you have a lot of choices when it comes to choosing your podcast episodes and I really want you to know that I truly appreciate you being here today.

So whether you're in your commute right now you're on the subway in the car maybe you're at the gym I wish through osmosis your gym workout could make its way through my mic and benefit me as well. Oh that would be so amazing or maybe you're just at home running errands whatever it is you're doing. Thank you so much for tuning in.

Now today's episode is an ask Amy episode but it has a theme it's all about building your business and looking into my business to find some tips and tricks and strategies that could benefit yours as well.

And so I've got five questions I'll run through them really quickly and then we'll get into each of them in detail. The first question I'm going to answer is this. Amy what is the first thing you do before you start a brand new project and the answer I think is going to surprise you.

So that's question number one question number two I'm going to answer is what is your biggest struggle in your business right now.

That's when I've been dealing with for a while. Question number three Amy what's your one challenge you've overcome this year.

The answer to that one I'm really proud of and it might actually involve you so stay tuned for that.

Question number four Amy we've noticed you haven't been traveling much lately what's that about why the change so I'll give you the details there.

And question number five one listener wanted to know when you were just starting out did you struggle with filling very alone in your business.

Now if you can relate to that question if you're filling a little bit alone or isolated in your business especially if you've put your nine to five and you're building your own business.

I think you're going to find great value as I answer that question and I'm going to give you some solutions to help you out.

Okay so now we are going to dive into those five business building themed questions let's do it.

Question number one what's the first thing I do before I start a brand new project.

Now if you were in my profit lab in 2014 or any years before that or if you were part of my B-School bonus experience this year then you already know the answer to this one.

So I'm going to give you a second to guess what's that one thing that I'm really a stickler about I'm really obsessed about.

Any guess is drop box.

So the first thing I do before I dive into a brand new project is I set up my drop box folders now some of you might be thinking that's so not interesting that's a little step like you're I've kind of lost you come back here come back to me because this is actually a bigger step than you even know.

So what I did inside some of my paid programs last year and for B-School this year I created a video of how I organized drop box it was literally like a 30 minute video and I'm not joking guys I've heard so many times that I've changed people's lives with my drop box folder sounds dramatic I know but I swear I've heard it and people love love love what I do with drop box because when you have a really well organized drop box you have a clear head.

And you have a totally empty desktop meaning you shouldn't have a million files and folders all over your desktop when you do drop box right.

And that might seem kind of silly or not important but how many times have you wasted time going down a rabbit hole looking for files or folders and how many times if you looked at your desktop and felt completely overwhelmed.

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