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Steve Fanale
AppVillage
Steve is Co-founder and CEO at AppVillage. With some 15 years experience working in Australia’s interactive and digital media industry.
Steve made his way up the corporate ladder before taking the plunge and starting his own interactive agency, MassMedia Studios, in 2000. After opening offices in London and New York in 2006, growing the team to over fifty employees, Steve’s team sold MassMedia to the publicly listed BlueFreeway group.
In 2010, Steve started FeverPitch Entertainment, and as 2012 rolled-in, he decided to step back into the digital product innovation world and started AppVillage.
Better Business Management
Trying to squeeze 40 hours into a 10 hour day? If so, it’s important to put aside time each week to establish processes and systems that will save you time and money.
5 things to work on to give you back more time:
Make yourself redundant.
Get a bookkeeper.
- Less time spent managing accounts means more time spent on growing your business.
- Apps: Xero — great remote access accounting platform
Manage your customer relationships.
- Build a relationship with your customers/clients and develop an ongoing communication strategy. Keeping customers is easier, less costly and less time consuming than targeting new ones.
- Apps: Highrise, Salesforce
Manage your business.
- Ensure tasks are recorded, allocated, followed-up and completed. Running as small business can sometime seem like you are swimming in a sea of tasks. If you don't get them out of your head they will never get done. Completing tasks is also very motivating.
Engage your staff
- A partner will provide much greater value than an employee. Engagement = Quality = Confidence = Increased Delegation.
- Apps: WooBoard, KudosNow.com
- Book: The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack