Simple Pleasures, Everyday Joie de Vivre.

Photo by  rawpixel  on  Unsplash To measure your productivity, use accounting software. It's not enough to  make it or trade it, or learn the service, you also have to sell it. (And pay taxes). Accounting is not that hard,  you put the sale price minus the cost price and tax. Then try to pay yourself for your time. It's up to you what percentage you sell at. As a business person, you should be able to buy your stock material from wholesalers, to make it cheaper. Make sure you keep all of your receipts in one folder for the financial year you are in. There are marketing strategies you can use yourself such as adwords and facebook advertising, but you might want to get that side of things managed by a marketing expert. In essense productivity means, doing more in less time, usually.  There is more to it though. If you can add value to your product, that it fills a need, or it's a brand new solution to a known problem, and give people mor...