All posts by Vinay Patankar

21 Best Business Podcasts: Process Street Team Picks

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Podcasts are like hacks for your everyday life. They allow you to passively improve your knowledge and gain valuable insight into almost any topic you could imagine, whilst doing pretty much anything.

All of that time spent walking to the store, commuting to work, preparing a meal, working out; it’s all time you could be utilizing to improve yourself and your business.

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17 Stellar Ideas to Perfect Your Business Newsletter and 30 Free Templates

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This is a guest post by Hannah Butler, a web developer, designer, and writer.

A strong business newsletter gives readers a reason to keep opening your emails. It can share useful ideas, explain your work, highlight customer stories, and point people toward the next best action without turning every send into a hard sell.

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5 Essential Lessons I Learned From GitLab’s Marketing Playbook

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Writers are inherently nosy curious. Here at Process Street, we are no different. So when I was given the opportunity to check out GitLab’s marketing playbook, I jumped at it.

GitLab itself is an interesting company. Remote-first and open source, GitLab’s evolution comes not only from its own development teams, but also contributions from a large community of contributors and users. Plus it promotes total transparency; all of GitLab’s documentation is freely accessible on its website. Like I said, interesting place.

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3 Fatal Onboarding Mistakes That Make Your Best Employees Quit

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Employee onboarding mistakes are expensive because new hires make stay-or-go judgments fast. Gallup reports that only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job onboarding, and BambooHR found that many new hires decide whether a job is the right fit within the first month.

The good news is that the most fatal onboarding mistakes are operational, not mysterious. If your process gives people time to learn, keeps work out of static paper systems, and makes expectations explicit, your best employees get a clearer path to contribute.

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4 Customer Success Metrics to Inform Your Product-Led (Expansion) Growth Strategy

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Product-led growth changes the customer success job. Instead of waiting for an account manager to create every next step, customers discover value inside the product, adoption data shows where momentum is building, and the customer success team turns those signals into repeatable expansion plays.

The best product-led customer success metrics connect that motion end to end: acquisition, adoption, retention, and expansion. They inform product-led expansion growth strategy, reduce customer acquisition cost, improve customer lifetime value, and build expansion revenue without losing the human workflows behind customer outcomes.

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3 Proven Decision Support Systems for Business Operations Managers

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We make hundreds of food-related decisions a day, and most of them happen with less awareness than we think.

Microsoft once claimed in an ad for its To-Do app that people make 35,000 decisions a day. The exact number is hard to verify, but the larger point holds: your brain filters more information than you can consciously process.

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3 Process Problems Killing Your Marketing Campaigns

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Guest contribution by Maja Kowalska, head of content marketing at Benhauer, where she managed SALESmanago and APPmanago content.

Marketing problems killing campaign performance rarely start in the ad account. They start in the process around marketing campaigns: who owns the customer context, which KPI decides success, and how the handoff gets from marketing to sales.

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17 Unique Daily Rituals from the World’s Best Creatives & CEOs

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You might think I’m about to tell you to get up as the sun rises, sit down at your desk and work until you can’t work any more. That’s probably because you’ve heard advice like this pretty often… That’s why these unique daily rituals from creatives CEOs and other high-output people are useful: each one turns focus into a repeatable constraint.

In fact, Slate writer Mason Currey says that after reviewing 161 daily rituals, the key lesson you can extract is:

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3 Reasons Why Construction Managers Need Workflow Automation (And How to Set it Up)

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Workflow automation gives construction managers a way to run permits, inspections, and handoffs without losing the details to paper, memory, or a buried email thread. Most industries moved this way years ago, because workflow tools save time and money while keeping work accountable. Construction has been slower, and plenty of job sites still rely on paper schedules, faxed work orders, and fill-in-the-blank contracts.

That manual approach leaves constant openings for error. A receipt never reaches the client because the original work order went missing. A contract needs special terms that get handwritten onto the back of a generic template. Every missed step, lost form, and unlogged change is a risk to the budget, the timeline, and the audit trail.

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12 IT Processes to Avoid Server Failures and Client Headaches

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IT processes are the recurring workflows that help teams avoid server failures and client headaches by keeping technical work from becoming guesswork. They cover the things teams cannot afford to improvise: inventory, backups, server setup, incident response, helpdesk escalation, access control, and audits.

When those workflows are documented and run in Process Street, the work is easier to assign, automate, review, and prove. That matters for uptime, client trust, and workflow automation compliance, because every skipped step in IT can turn into a security issue, a support backlog, or a client headache.

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