You’ve just closed a major deal.

It’s taken months of hard work to convey the value of your product, negotiate a solid agreement, and get the customer ready for launch. The sales team is pumped, but the handoff now matters more than the close.

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If you’re using less than half the buttons in your Microsoft Outlook inbox, you’re doing it wrong. These three vital Microsoft Outlook tips will not make you an expert overnight, but they will change how your inbox behaves.

You probably use Outlook for email because it comes with Microsoft 365. But Outlook is more than just an email service. It’s productivity and organization software built into the tools you use every day: emails, to-do lists, calendars, templates, and repeatable actions.

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Learning how to make a podcast can feel like a huge technical leap, but it is really just a process you can run from start to end each time you want to write, record, and publish a new episode. This step-by-step guide works for first-time podcasters and veterans alike, and it walks beginners through the whole journey: planning and recording, formatting the audio, publishing to the major directories, and earning your first listeners. None of it requires a recording studio or a sound engineering degree, only a clear process you follow every time you hit record.

The approach here pairs a sound engineer and audio editor’s perspective on what actually matters in audio with four battle-tested checklists. The first, the Podcast Publishing Checklist, was built in-house at Process Street, and three more were written by the fantastic James Schramko from SuperFastBusiness, a man who truly knows his stuff about sound. We first saw those three checklists in the blog post The Formula for Creating a 1,000,000 Download Podcast on OkDork.

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A recurring task is any piece of work your team has to do again and again: every day, every week, every month, or whenever a specific trigger happens. The work may be simple, but missed recurring tasks create real operational risk because everyone assumes someone else remembered the deadline.

The goal is not just to remember the task. The goal is to create it, assign it, add the due date, notify the owner, and keep proof that the work happened without rebuilding the same admin routine every time. That is how recurring task methods stop teams missing deadlines.

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Inefficient workflows quietly drain a large share of revenue every year. That is a third of your enterprise’s earning potential wasted on everything from a single missed email to a stock of excess inventory. Imagine what you could do with that money instead. You could hire new employees to scale the business further. Department budgets could be expanded so teams use better equipment. Automation is how you take that money back, and it is no longer optional: in McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI survey, 88% of organizations reported using AI in at least one business function, and Redwood’s 2025 Enterprise Automation Index found 73% of companies increased automation spend in the past year, with nearly 40% reporting cost reductions of 25% or more.

All of this and more can be achieved with business process automation. To demonstrate, let us walk through three core enterprise automation examples for processes that are riddled with the kind of waste automation removes, built in Process Street.

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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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Service level agreements are only useful when both sides can see what was promised, how performance will be measured, and what happens when service quality slips. The examples in this guide give you ready-made SLA workflows for creating agreements, reviewing them, and tracking service management metrics over time.

Use these 17 service level agreement examples to start with the right template for your situation, from IT and cloud services to call centers, HR, managed hosting, and network services. If you need the fundamentals first, read what an SLA is. If you want to build one from scratch, use our service level agreement template guide.

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Communicating with your team can be a pain in the ass. Keeping track of who said what and when can become a rabbit hole of wasted time and energy, especially if you work remotely with a team and need everyone to develop efficient habits around communication.

Email is still the most popular form of communication between teams, but it is not always the best option. The best email alternatives for team communication are chat and video tools, mobile messaging for quick updates, and project or workflow management tools for decisions, tasks, files, approvals, and proof.

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Keeping your billing information current in Process Street ensures uninterrupted access to your workflows, documents, and compliance tools. Whether your credit card has expired, you lost your card, or you need to switch to a different payment method, updating your details takes just a few clicks.

This guide walks you through updating your payment method, billing address, and billing email in Process Street. Only organization administrators can access the billing page, so make sure you have admin permissions before getting started.

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On a foggy morning at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio on October 30, 1935, a flight competition was held for the top airplane manufacturers to win a tender from the U.S. Army Air Corps for the next-generation long-range bomber.

Boeing Corporation’s Model 299, a cutting edge aluminum-alloy plane that could fly faster, farther and carry five times as many bombs as the army had requested, was sure-fire to win. Nicknamed the “flying fortress”, historians stated this competition was held as a mere formality, with Boeing almost guaranteed to secure an order of at least sixty-five aircraft.

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