The day I adopted my dog I learned a brutal and immediate lesson about myself and my daily habits.
Nothing makes you analyze your life like a 60 pound furbeast jumping on your face at 6 in the morning immediately after she decided to redecorate your living room with your most recent bulk toilet paper purchase from Costco. (The good stuff, might I add).
The first week of having this dog was hell.
When we started building Process Street, we thought we knew all the features our users would need.
We were quick to learn that we’d left an awful lot out…
After a year of continuous development, we’re rolling out Process Street 2.0 — a whole new app with a ton more functionality, including:
Process Street isn’t just a checklist app anymore. It’s a complete platform for workflow automation, business process management and reporting. Continue Reading
In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we talk to Dmitry Dragilev about the systems behind the marketing successes he’s engineered for startups like Polar and JustReachOut.io.
For startups, failure to get traction quickly can mean the difference between a multi-million dollar exit and another Silicon Valley tombstone.
Since it’s so vital to get exposure from the outset, you need to get the press, early adopters, and Google on your side.
This episode is all about how to do that: an interview with the growth hacker and startup PR expert Dmitry Dragilev.
Listen to the episode to find out where to start with an audit of your marketing site, how to write content that will force Google to pay attention, and Dmitry’s best hack for startup SEO.
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Most companies turn to Gmail or Outlook to manage their workplace email. 13% of public companies use Office 365 or G-Suite (formerly Google Apps). The remaining 87% use a combination of the two, or a private email setup.
Some companies choose Google or Microsoft because they prefer one’s cloud office suite—which includes calendars, and collaboration on spreadsheets and documents—over the other. (We compared Office 365 with G-Suite in another post.)
But if you use other productivity tools and are deciding between Gmail or Outlook solely for email, you want to choose one that helps you speed up your workflow. Gmail set its initial bar high, and Microsoft clearly took notice. Given Outlook’s 2016 update, it is now more equipped to compete than ever.
Here are five game-changing differences between Gmail vs. Outlook.
Running a business is complex, especially when it’s unclear who is responsible for what.
To move your business from an informal organization to a well oiled machine, you need processes. There’s no getting around them.
In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we talk to Doyle Albee, host of PR is Dead and president of PR firm Metzger Albee.
Public relations expert Doyle Albee shares his stories, tips, and processes on building a PR strategy for your business.
We chat about everything from building relationships with reporters to knowing the perfect time to strike with your story. And, the myth that ‘all news is good news’ is debunked!
Get inside the world of reporters and their motivations with these unique insights from the president of Metzger Albee PR firm, and host of the Rainmaker.fm podcast PR is Dead.
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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, I explain how to manage your tasks, delegate work, and build systems that help your business keep costs down, and work more productively.
At Process Street, I manage several different teams and assign hundreds of tasks every month.
You’d think that when you have to explain, upload, and send information to so many people so regularly, you’d have no time to do anything else…
You’d be wrong.
Managing a busy startup means you need to take a lot of shortcuts. So, thankfully I’ve found and documented a way to assign tasks to anyone from any device without switching between apps, sending emails, or messing around.
In this episode, I break down the system I use so you can re-create it and start delegating tasks successfully and efficiently.
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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we talk to Zachary Sexton, host of The Productivity Show for Asian Efficiency.
Whether you’re a maker or a manager, you could use a little more efficiency at work. It’s not like you’re choosing to goof off and doing a Homer Simpson, but you might be spending way too much time on email or less important work.
But how do you know? What really is the most important task for today?
We’ve looked at this topic a lot on the Process Street blog, but today it’s a focus on improving efficiency at work from the perspective of building a culture of productivity in your workplace.
Zachary tells us the tools, systems and methods he’s learned while running Asian Efficiency’s Productivity Show and the Buckets consultancy.
Listen to this week’s episode to supercharge your productivity, and find out what to do when you have a few bad days in a row.
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In this episode of Business Systems Explored, Vinay explains the system he uses to hire at Process Street.
Hiring is the single most important thing any company does.
It’s right at the top of the chain, and the effects filter down to impact revenue, reach, signups, customer satisfaction, and more.
So, instead of settling on someone early because you can’t be bothered to manage relationships with hundreds of candidates, you should try the system described in this podcast.
The system involves ways to automatically reach out to great potential candidates, screen with automation, and use AI to schedule meetings. And, it’s nowhere near as complex as it sounds.
Listen to this episode to learn this semi-automated system for yourself and get it set up in a few hours!
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“People are the ultimate system. It’s all about the team. Your company is how you hire” (tweet this)
Let’s say you’ve got a list of leads. You don’t know which, but some will be ready to buy right now. Others, however, won’t have the slightest bit of interest…
The only way to find out is to call them. And that’s where BANT qualification comes into play.
Invented by IBM sales teams, BANT is a series of criteria, which stands for:
Any one of these questions can be used to disqualify a prospect, or at least help you decide how to proceed with that particular contact.
