This article is written by Lisa Aucoin, Owner and CEO of Spring CDT. Spring CDT is a cheer, dance & tumbling, and international instructional cheerleading company that teaches scholastic, collegiate and all-star cheerleading teams in over 42 countries worldwide. For more information about our partnership, click here. 

The lives of all CEOs, business owners, managers and entrepreneurs are getting increasingly busy. On one hand, it’s a good thing - increased revenue and marketplace visibility are always pluses. However, with that kind of growth comes a much longer daily to-do list – one that you must manage proficiently.

Discover my keys to using your time efficiently as a CEO:

Consider the way businesses operated before credit cards. Chances are you can’t—but before the 1950s, many businesses did just that. In fact, it was fairly common practice to allow customers to keep tabs, which they would (hopefully) pay back later. To keep track of these tabs, merchants would use ledgers. Needless to say, the process was tedious at best. Imagine if you had to flip through the pages of a ledger book to access a customer’s records simply to add that $19.99.

At Amilia, we’re about more than building great software—we’re about building a great relationship with you. In fact, we wouldn’t be where we are today without you. It’s for this very reason we decided to take to the proverbial streets to get feedback from our current customers.

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Podcasts have been progressively growing their popularity over the past 10 years, with 44% of Americans (about 124 million people) listening to at least one online show. Podcasts are also a great place to increase your knowledge about the world of business and entrepreneurship. The best part: Most podcasts episodes are free to stream, download and share.

Discover our picks for the 15 podcasts that every business professional should listen to:

Many of the world’s most savvy business professionals have one thing in common: they read. A lot.

Just ask someone like Mark Cuban. Perhaps best known as the colorful owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and one of the familiar faces on the hit TV show “Shark Tank,” the billionaire revealed on his blog that he still reads “more than three hours almost every day.”

Discover my picks for the best business books on the market right now:

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Hiring the right coaches, trainers and/or instructors is a critical part of the success of any recreation organization. You need knowledgeable, hard-working and caring staff members to ensure that all participants realize their long-term fitness goals – and it all starts with asking the right questions.

Discover the big interview questions you should be asking before hiring an instructor:

Anyone who’s ever tried to write blog posts that funnel lots of organic traffic to your site knows how hard it can be. With over 150 million blogs on the internet, how do you make yours stand out and win those valuable clicks? Luckily, consistently standing out in a crowd that dense is easier than it sounds.

Discover how to write blog posts that will boost your web traffic:

Do you have trouble concentrating at work? Do you find it difficult to be consistently productive? When those things happen to me, my remedy is simple: listen to good music. It helps me tune out distractions, focus on my work and, in most cases, start my day off right. With the help of the Amilia team, I've put together a supercharged playlist that will hopefully have the same effect on your workday! 

Listen to our picks for the best music that keeps you productive at work:

Not all cheerleading squads are created equal – that much is certain. However, unless you’re familiar with each tier of what has become a booming sports industry, you may not realize just how many intricacies and nuances make various types of cheerleaders different from one another.

Learn everything you need to know about different types of cheerleading: