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July 29, 2023

Interview with Aytekin Tank, author of Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff recommends some of the best smart thinking books.
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June 28, 2023

Automating busywork in the office

Jotform CEO urges you to automate your work to become faster and more efficient.
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June 16, 2023

Reclaim Your Time with UB Alumni Aytekin Tankâ€™s New Book, Automate Your Busywork

Now over 17 years old and home to more than 500 employees, itâ€™s needless to say that Aytekinâ€™s ingenuity and perseverance have secured Jotformâ€™s success. For Aytekin, the bumps in the road have merely been part of a greater journey. â€œIn many ways, Iâ€™m grateful to have had challenges like this. Itâ€™s what ultimately led to us building a better company.â€
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June 6, 2023

How AI-Powered Virtual Assistants Can Automate Repetitive Tasks and Free up Mental Energy

Virtual assistants are the automation tool you never knew you always needed.
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June 5, 2023

3 Mundane Tasks You Should Automate to Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff

As CEO of Jotform, I take the same approach to my daily work. Rather than toil for more hours at half-capacity, I'd rather shine bright and shut down early. But this wasn't always the case.
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June 5, 2023

How Hyper-Automation Technology Is Democratizing Innovation

When it comes to innovation, our modern-day hustle culture tracks the traditional version of the fable. Great innovators are tireless toilers. More is more. But after 17 years of running my company, Iâ€™m convinced that what distinguishes great innovators is not a matter of quantity, but rather, the quality of the work they do and their commitment to giving their brain a rest.
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June 5, 2023

3 Mundane Tasks You Should Automate to Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff

Automation is one way to cut through the noise: daily check-ins, circle-backs, status updates, etc. â€” and leave mental space for the big stuff.
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June 2, 2023

5 Expert-Backed Strategies for Setting Boundaries at Work

More than 16 years ago, I was that same young entrepreneur, embarking on this massive dream to start my own company, Jotform. I was eager to learn but also very lax when it came to setting limits â€” both personally and professionally.
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June 1, 2023

Episode 301 â€“ Horror Con, Aytekin Tank

Welcome to the first episode of year 7! This week weâ€™ll talk about Kevinâ€™s long-ish weekend, his new work laptop, and how heâ€™s on-call some more this week. Weâ€™ll also catch up with Ursula on her latest progress both with writing and signing things, as well as her latest video games obsession. After that, weâ€™ll have a discussion with Aytekin Tank about how he stays productive!
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May 30, 2023

How to Tame Your Inbox and Free Your Mind for Your Most Creative Work

The average professional spends a whopping four hours a day sifting through and replying to emails.
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May 29, 2023

Want to Break Bad Habits and Supercharge Your Business? Use This Technique.

As a CEO, I've also noticed that entrepreneurs often underestimate how habits influence our businesses. Unless we're talking clichÃ©d green juice and cold plunge routines, we think our changeable workdays give us a free pass in the world of habits. Yet, research shows about 40% of our daily activities are habitual. That includes founders, too.
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May 29, 2023

Automate Your Busywork: Unlocking the Power of Workflows

Your to-do list is surprisingly misleading. Hereâ€™s why.
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May 25, 2023

Why â€˜scary hourâ€™ is the worst productivity hack yetâ€”and what you should do instead

By cutting out busywork from your day, you wonâ€™t have to try to hack your productivity with a self-imposed â€˜scary hour.â€™
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May 24, 2023

It works for me #7â€¦. delegating and automating what you can

This time, around, we hear from Aytekin Tank, founder and CEO of Jotform. He argues the biggest difference to his life has been learning what to delegate and automate. So much so, that heâ€™s written a new book on the subject â€“ Automate your Busywork â€“ which came out last week.
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May 23, 2023

63: Mastering Efficiency Through Automation with Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform

In this episode, Aytekin shares his entrepreneurial journey and the ongoing growth of Jotform, named one of the "Best Privately-Owned Companies in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine. As an automation enthusiast and author of the upcoming book "Automate Your Busywork," Aytekin provides insights into optimizing time and leveraging no-code automation tools. Discover how Jotform's powerful features make people's lives easier and free up valuable time. Don't miss this captivating conversation with Aytekin Tank on "In Systems We Trust."
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May 23, 2023

#232 - Automate Your Busywork with Aytekin Tank

In this episode, Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform, shares how he manages his priorities so well that his company is beating Google. 500 Employees and 20 million customers strong, Jotform is thriving when other companies have been crushed by goliath corporations like Google, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, etc.
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May 23, 2023

Why You Canâ€™t Get Anything Done (And What to Do about It)

The planning fallacy explains why even the simplest tasks take longer than you expect â€” and it happens to the best and brightest.
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May 18, 2023

5 Ways to Overcome Your Fear of Asking for Help

These methods create a personal mindset and company culture that regards both asking for and offering assistance as an admirable strength.
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May 16, 2023

Productivity expert Aytekin Tank releases new book

Automation plays a critical role in the overall efficiency of an organization as business leaders look to streamline processes and boost productivity. In the new book, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff â€“ launching today and available now â€“ Jotform founder and CEO Aytekin Tank explains how any professional can use automation to eliminate tedious busywork.
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May 16, 2023

Productivity expert Aytekin Tank releases new book

Automation plays a critical role in the overall efficiency of an organization as business leaders look to streamline processes and boost productivity. In the new book, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff â€“ launching today and available now â€“ Jotform founder and CEO Aytekin Tank explains how any professional can use automation to eliminate tedious busywork.
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May 16, 2023

Productivity expert Aytekin Tank releases new book

Automation plays a critical role in the overall efficiency of an organization as business leaders look to streamline processes and boost productivity. In the new book, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff â€“ launching today and available now â€“ Jotform founder and CEO Aytekin Tank explains how any professional can use automation to eliminate tedious busywork.
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May 16, 2023

Productivity expert Aytekin Tank releases new book

Automation plays a critical role in the overall efficiency of an organization as business leaders look to streamline processes and boost productivity. In the new book, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff â€“ launching today and available now â€“ Jotform founder and CEO Aytekin Tank explains how any professional can use automation to eliminate tedious busywork.
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May 16, 2023

Author Interview with Aytekin Tank

Today Aytekin Tank joins me to chat about his latest novel, Automate Your Busywork. Iâ€™m excited to learn more about his latest release and how he narrowed down the most essential things for you all to know to save time.
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May 15, 2023

How the Automation Flywheel Can Help You Achieve Greater Peace and Productivity at Work

â€œPick up the pace!â€ my trainer barked, turning up the resistance on my spin bike. It was a typical morning at the gym. Sweat glazed my brow as I willed myself to pedal harder. My legs and lungs beganâ€¦
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May 15, 2023

3 Reasons to Celebrate Small Wins in Your Business

I've witnessed this over and over again during my time as CEO of my company, Jotform. We've weathered many ups and downs, especially over these past few years of the pandemic, and even when it didn't feel like there was anything to celebrate, I've made it a point to congratulate teams on smaller victories.
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May 11, 2023

Automation: 3 ways it boosts productivity and reduces burnout

Layoffs are impacting all employeesâ€”even those left behind, who often suffer surging burnout. Hereâ€™s how automation can help.
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May 9, 2023

Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff: Why You Need to Automate Your Busywork â€” Starting Today

Over the last 17 years, Iâ€™ve tried every possible tactic to eliminate the repetitive, manual tasks that come with running a growing business. Only one thing has consistently worked.
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May 8, 2023

How Automation Can Help Solopreneurs Achieve More â€“ Aytekin Tank

Aytekin Tank is the founder of Jotform, an automation enthusiast, and the author of the book, Automate Your Busywork.
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May 4, 2023

354: Automate Your Busywork

Aytekin Tank is the founder and CEO of Jotform and author of the new book, "Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff".
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May 2, 2023

Your to-do list is sabotaging your true productivity. Hereâ€™s what to do instead

Spending time on meaningless tasks only makes us less productive.
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May 2, 2023

Your to-do list is sabotaging your true productivity. Hereâ€™s what to do instead

Spending time on meaningless tasks only makes us less productive.
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May 2, 2023

Why Lazy People Are More Productive

Adopting a lazy mindset isnâ€™t really about being lazy.
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April 30, 2023

3 Bad Habits Most Entrepreneurs Are Guilty Of â€” And the Simple Solution for Stopping

These habits commonly trip up entrepreneurs, but there's a tool that can help with all three.
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April 26, 2023

How an Automation-First Mindset Can Eliminate Procrastination

Understanding the â€˜whyâ€™ of procrastination is the first step toward beating it.
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April 24, 2023

3 Ways to Automate Your Busy Work and Boost Your Productivity

Research has found that knowledge workers spend an average of 41% on unnecessary tasks. You are not the problem: Busy work is.
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April 24, 2023

3 Ways to Automate Your Busy Work and Boost Your Productivity

Research has found that knowledge workers spend an average of 41% on unnecessary tasks. You are not the problem: Busy work is.
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April 21, 2023

Why workers are experiencing â€˜resenteeismâ€™â€”and how leaders can tackle it

If leaders donâ€™t take action, resenteeism can spread among staff members, sabotaging team morale, culture, and productivity.
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April 18, 2023

To-Do Lists Were the Ultimate Productivity Weapon: What Happened?

Today is a great day to quit your to-do list.
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April 13, 2023

4 Steps New Entrepreneurs Can Take to Simplify Their Work Days

Every newly minted entrepreneur can attest to experiencing the same: In the beginning, things feel especially insurmountable. Here are a few steps you can take to start simplifying.
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April 11, 2023

Why Productivity Is 1% Effort and 99% Battling Your Biology

Hereâ€™s why you canâ€™t get anything done (hint: it has nothing to do with effort)
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April 4, 2023

The Power of Carving Out One Hour for Impactful Work Every Single Day

Not creative? Not a problem! You can train your brain to get the creativity flowing.
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March 23, 2023

Itâ€™s not easy to keep remote teams connected. Here are 5 tricks to help bridge the distance

Leaders need long-term strategies to effectively manage remote and global teams.
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March 8, 2023

Leaders need to take responsibility and stop giving quiet promotions. Hereâ€™s how

When you hire an employee, you accept responsibility for their career growth too.
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March 3, 2023

Digital transformation: 3 guiding principles for 2023

Looking to do more with less in the coming months? Let these key transformation concepts guide your strategy
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March 2, 2023

5 Reasons Why Strategic Planning is Vital for Entrepreneurs

Envisioning a framework for the future helps to ensure that everyone's on the same page, among other success essentials.
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February 28, 2023

How to succeed in the age of automation: 3 rules for modern work

Donâ€™t get stuck doing busywork. Three rules for success in the automation revolution.
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February 23, 2023

How to Master the Art of Public Speaking, Even If Your Anxiety Is Through the Roof

Nerves are fine, but falling apartâ€¦ not so much.
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February 7, 2023

3 Expert-Backed Strategies for Blowing People Away With Your First Impression

Nothing is more important than a good first impression. The first five seconds are everything.
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February 6, 2023

This Wise Advice From Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech Will Teach You How to Tackle Fear as an Entrepreneur

Fear is a tool. Here's how to use it.
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January 26, 2023

4 ways automation can help your team succeedâ€”rather than replace workers

There may be advantages to automation.
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January 24, 2023

No Code Low Code will shine in 2023

Driven by the need for no code low code technology, in 2023, weâ€™ll see significant market expansion and some interesting innovations born from this new market need.
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January 19, 2023

New Entrepreneurs and Seasoned Pros Won't Succeed Unless They Hone This One Skill

Staying in your bubble will only make you more rigid. Improve your reasoning instead.
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January 12, 2023

Make Better, Faster Decisions Using This Simple 3-Step Framework

As a leader, don't get caught up in perfectionism. Adept leaders should know when to take action.
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January 11, 2023

Tracking employees doesnâ€™t work. Hereâ€™s how to move beyond productivity paranoia

Eight of the 10 largest private U.S. employers are using some form of â€œbossware.â€
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January 9, 2023

3 Ways You Can Be Successful Without Falling into the 'Hustle Culture' Trap

Don't buy into the hype. Here's why you need to push back on the temptation to overwork
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January 2, 2023

The 3 Questions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Be Able to Answer

What's your competitive edge? Leaders should continually ask what goals they want to achieve.
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October 4, 2022

Jotform extends leading form digitisation with eSignature solution

Jotform, a leading online forms SaaS vendor, has added Jotform Sign to its platform. Jotform Sign is a complete eSignature solution that automates the final part of completing a legally binding document, the signatures. In developing the solution, Jotform ensures a seamless workflow throughout the completion and signature process.
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September 21, 2022

Aytekin Tank Interview

Thereâ€™s so much media buzz about founders who get millions of dollars from venture capital firms, but once they get funding, the pressure intensifies to grow and be profitable.
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March 16, 2022

Making Something From Nothing: Aytekin Tank Of Jotform On How To Go From Idea To Launch

Start slow. No one told me to start my company slowly. In fact, the popular opinion in tech is to go fast. I decided against this path and to take the slow route, which allowed me to play the long game and be successful over time without giving up control of my company.
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April 27, 2021

JotForm Announces Approvals, a No-Code Approval Flow Automation Solution

JotForm, a leading online form software provider, announced Approvals, a no-code tool designed to empower teams to automate approval processes and streamline workflows with ease.
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August 21, 2020

Lessons From Leading Remote Teams

I recently spoke to Aytekin Tank, the founder and CEO of JotForm, a full-featured online form builder used by more than seven million people worldwide.
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October 25, 2019

JotForm: A Form Building Platform for Everyone

While working as a developer in New York back in 2006, Aytekin kept stumbling across a pain point at work â€“ coding online forms. Even though he had the necessary technical skills, it took considerable time and effort to make a good online form.
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August 27, 2018

The to-do list method for people with busy lives and short attention spans

Productivity science is generally unkind to standard to-do lists. Weâ€™re told that they feed the impulses of our faulty brains in all the wrong ways.
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July 30, 2018

How one CEO increased his company's success through "the power of doing nothing at all"

Our culture treats busyness as a badge of honor. One CEO says he found success by doing less.
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April 6, 2018

How to bootstrap a company while fully employed

Iâ€™m excited to have todayâ€™s guest because heâ€™s the kind of person whoâ€™s been on all those forums that Iâ€™ve been on forever, building his company quietly and making it into something really big. He did it without ever having that big TechCrunch moment where they say, â€œLook at me, I raised so much money.â€
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September 20, 2017

Why This CEO Trained His Employees To Do His Job

Aytekin Tank wanted to take a three-month paternity leave, but he didnâ€™t expect that the time away would make him a better leader.
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February 13, 2017

5 Reasons Why This CEO Leverages Cross Functional Teams For Better Business Performance

Teamsâ€”and specifically, cross functional teams, enable faster communication, which brings faster decision making. By working through teams as opposed to large departmental silos, you not only cross-pollinate perspectives and experiences (which help shape creativity and innovation) but also align daily behaviors with business strategies.
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November 4, 2016

This Engineer-Turned-Entrepreneur Spends Half His Workday Hiring the Right People

JotForm's founder and CEO created the easiest online form builder, has grown his company to millions of users and powers forms around the world.
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January 12, 2016

How Aytekin Tank Built a Software Company with Over 2 Million Users

Is achieving and maintaining a healthy work-life balance a priority for you? In this interview, Aytekin Tank CEO and Founder of JotForm reveals how he got to the point where he could work on his business instead of in it, and how that has restored his work-life balance.
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October 5, 2015

Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform

Aytekin is a Turkish entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his company with a paycheck. He has used a freemium business model, and a virtual team strategy to scale.
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April 15, 2015

Three Keys To Success When Bootstrapping A Startup

To bootstrap a start up successfully you must: Provide a valuable benefit; Communicate that benefit to those that need it; and Manage your cash flow. If you do those three things well, your chances of success soar. If you miss any one of the three you have no chance of success. None. Give up. Quit now and get a real job. While these are true with any start up, whatâ€™s different about bootstrapping is that you must do them with extremely limited resources.
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