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As an entrepreneur you either have time or have money, but usually not both. Later on as your business grows you’ll trade time for money by allowing others to do things they are better at than you are to free you up to do what you do best. But in the beginning if you don’t have the money then you have to do things yourself. But how can you save yourself time and money? Let’s take a look.
Buy Templates. You can take a look at Brad Gosse’s magazine templates and purchase them and make the adjustments you need and then create the documents. He has some great ideas and flair for this thing called marketing. Getting his templates will save you time, especially as low the price is for them.
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Here’s a good solution for those that want to send good looking emails to their business clients, check out Equinux Business Templates. As the web site promotes its product, “Add over 200 new templates to Mail with Stationery Pack Business Edition. With 12 new templates and 17 different ways of using each design, you can tailor emails to your audience. Drop in your photos, company logo and signature for professional looking emails.”
If you don’t want to purchase it, at least it’ll give you some great ideas for your iWork Pages documents and brochures.
As an entrepreneur and startup there is one thing that you work on: if you can’t do it yourself, hire someone to do it for you. Creating new documents can take time, but designing templates, or finding someone else’s designed templates, can save you time in the many tasks that
Inkd is just one such company the designs iWork templates, including a number of sections of free templates, both free to download and upload your own designs.
StockLayouts is another iWork Pages template web site with nicely designed templates for business use.
Check out both sites and see if you can reduce the amount of time it takes you to get your marketing up and out the door.
If anything, you can get some great ideas from them to try out yourself. It may take longer, but you’ll increase your Mac and iWork skill set and get things done yourself.
When you become an entrepreneur and startup you are always looking for ways of saving your money for more important things, like food and a place to live and most important, marketing. So to save money and time, I look for things that are either completely done for me or that with some minor modifications I can accomplish what I need.
One of the more common places is companies such as Avery labels that provides a number of predesigned templates for Word that fit their blank labels. But here’s the key: If Avery has created templates for MS Word, it does not take much to make them fit what you’re doing using iWork Pages or Numbers. If they have done 90 percent of the work, that saves you time and money.
Who do you visit to find templates that work for you?
Here’s some that I have found besides Avery:
Agreeably not all templates will work as the more complex templates may have more issues when they are converted, but it may beat starting from scratch.
So, go forth and find MS Office templates and see if they have not done most of the work for you.
Happy saving money, entrepreneurs and startups!!
