Cue the “I want to burn my business to the ground” thoughts every night at 8 pm.

But the market has changed. Audiences have changed. So why are we still putting ourselves on that hamster wheel just to hop off, out of breath, with meh results to show for it?

No matter how many times you refine the process, the fact is these launches are unsustainable for most small teams in the long term.

So my launch strategy with clients has shifted, too, and I want to walk you through exactly what that looks like now. Because honestly, it’s felt like a breath of fresh air (and yes…it still leads to successful launches!).

Let’s dig in.

What’s Wrong With the Big Launch Model?

To be clear, big launches aren’t totally dead. But they’re no longer the only way people are selling, and they’re definitely not the backbone most businesses are building around anymore.

Back in 2016-2018, it was all about the one or two massive launches a year. If you’ve run one of these launches before, you already know the toll it takes.

A few reasons I’ve watched clients (and honestly, myself) start to move away from them:

• The resource investment is huge: Team hours, ad spend, and emotional bandwidth, all with increasingly unpredictable returns. You can do everything “right” and still miss projections.
• One bad launch can set you back months: When your whole quarter’s revenue is riding on a single event, a flop isn’t just disappointing; it can feel like a business emergency.
• Everything has to be “on” at once: That leaves zero room for error, a sick kid, a team member’s bad week, or, you know…life happening.
• Audience fatigue is real: Buyers are more skeptical and more launch-savvy than they’ve ever been. We’re in a bit of a trust recession, and canned urgency doesn’t land the way it used to.

None of this means launches don’t work anymore. It means the model needed to evolve, and that’s exactly where my launch strategy with clients has gone.

The Small Business Launch Strategy I’m Using With My Clients

Launches aren’t going anywhere, but we’re doing them far less often, and with far less riding on any single one. The big launch has become the complement to a broader, more repeatable launch framework now, not the main event.

Smaller, More Frequent Launches

Instead of two big launches a year, we’re running four smaller ones (essentially quarterly). This lowers the stakes of any individual launch, gives us better data faster, and lets us iterate in real time instead of rebuilding the whole strategy from scratch every six months.

It’s also lighter on the client (and their team). When everything is happening at a slightly smaller scale, you don’t have to show up in that all-consuming, drop-everything-else way a big launch demands. You get momentum without betting the entire business on one event.

Evergreen With Strategic Live Windows

For some clients, the better fit is an evergreen offer that runs continuously, with intentional live urgency moments built in throughout the year. 

This lets the funnel keep working between launches instead of going dormant until the next big push. You’re never fully “off,” but you’re also never fully “on” at 110% either. It’s a steadier middle ground.

Recurring Weekly or Monthly Webinars

This is one of the biggest shifts I’ve made in my launch strategy with clients this year. Instead of only running a workshop or webinar during a live launch window, we’re doing them far more often.

That can mean weekly or monthly, depending on the client.

You can consistently run ads to cold audiences without waiting around for a launch to “warm people up” first. Showing up live lets you talk directly to your audience and build trust in real time, so when you’re doing that consistently, you’re converting people on an ongoing basis instead of pinning all your hopes on one big event to do the heavy lifting.

The result is a much steadier, more repeatable revenue stream. You’re selling weekly, bringing in new leads, building trust live, and generating income in a way that doesn’t leave you white-knuckling one open-cart week a year.

What Stays the Same

Smaller launches don’t mean less structure.

A good launch strategy still requires systems, timelines, clearly assigned team tasks, and consistent metrics tracking, whether you’re running one big launch a year or four small ones a quarter.

The foundation hasn’t changed. What’s changed is the scale and the frequency.

If anything, having a solid launch master doc, task templates, and a metrics tracking system matters more now, because you’re running the machine more often. You need it to be repeatable, not something you’re reinventing from scratch every single time.

Is This Right for Your Business?

This isn’t a one-size-fits-all shift, and I wouldn’t tell you it is. Whether a smaller, more frequent launch model, an evergreen-plus-live-windows approach, or recurring webinars makes the most sense for you depends on things like your offer type, your team’s capacity, and how your audience actually likes to buy.

Before your next launch, it’s worth asking yourself a few questions:

• How did my last big launch feel for my team and for me?
• Do I have the infrastructure to run something smaller and more frequent, or would that create more chaos?
• Is my audience actually launch-fatigued or do they still respond well to a big event?
• Where could a live, recurring touchpoint (like a monthly workshop) fill the gap between launches?

There’s no one right answer here. But if the idea of another 10-day open cart makes you want to burn it all down and head for the hills, it might be time to rethink your launch strategy the way I’ve been rethinking it with my clients.

Need a second set of eyes before you change up your launch strategy?

If you’re ready for help figuring out what a toned-down launch strategy should look like for your business, learn more about working with me. I’d love to help you figure out what’s next.

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When we talk about how an OBM helps you make smarter financial decisions, we’re talking about strategic business decisions that happen to have financial consequences — decisions about your team, your capacity, your launches, and where your money is actually going.

An OBM helps you make those calls with their eyes on your numbers, your team costs, and what your business can realistically handle.

That’s a completely different lane than what your bookkeeper or CPA is doing, and if you’re struggling to make those strategic financial decisions in your business, it’s one of the BEST reasons to bring an OBM onto your team.

Your OBM vs. Bookkeeper’s Role in Your Business’s Finances

What an OBM brings to the table is different from what a bookkeeper or CPA can do. We bring strategic operational context to your financial choices, before you spend the money.

Most bookkeepers (not all, but most) are only there to reconcile your expenses after you’ve already spent them. They’re more than likely not going to advise you on where to spend your money or where to make a smart investment in your business. 

But an OBM helps you figure out where you’re spending too much and where it actually makes sense to invest more. (If you’re still trying to figure out whether you need a VA or an OBM in the first place, that’s a great place to start.)

The Financial Decisions an OBM Can Help With

Like I said above, this isn’t personal finance advice, bookkeeping, or taxes. This is a question of whether or not what you’re spending money on will (or still does) benefit your business — one of the many ways an OBM supports your business beyond day-to-day operations.

Is This Contractor Worth the Cost?

Part of my job is evaluating ROI on your team members. That means helping you assess whether they are saving you more than they cost you. This means looking closely at whether a role still makes sense, whether there’s redundancy across your team, or whether scope creep has quietly turned a $500/month contractor into a $1,500/month contractor without anyone noticing.

Is This New Idea Worth Pursuing?

Every new offer, program, or feature sounds exciting at the moment. But before you greenlight it, someone needs to ask the practical questions: Do you have the team and time to actually execute this well? What’s the realistic revenue potential compared to what it’ll cost to build? And just as important — what does saying yes to this delay mean in terms of other priorities on your plate?

That’s opportunity cost, and it’s one of the most underrated pieces of financial decision-making in a creative business. It’s also exactly the kind of question an OBM can help you talk through before you commit any budget to it.

Is This Launch Strategy Going to Pay Off?

I look at historical launch data to help make realistic projections instead of hopeful guesses. That means identifying exactly where your spend — ads, contractors, tools — is generating a return, and where it’s quietly draining your budget without moving the needle.

Are You Overpaying for Tools and Processes?

Tech stack audits are one of my favorite (nerdy, I know) parts of this work. I look for overlap, redundancy, and subscriptions nobody’s using anymore. I also look for places where a better process could reduce the number of contractor hours you’re paying for every month — because sometimes the fix isn’t cutting a tool, it’s fixing the workflow around it.

What This Looks Like in Practice

These aren’t theoretical examples. It’s what I do every day for real clients.

• For Tamara, after an org chart review where we combined and eliminated redundant roles to make her team more efficient, we saved her an average of $1,800 a month in contractor costs.
• For Summer, a simple P&L review helped us cut about $450 a month in subscription and software costs — because I was actually integrated into the business and knew firsthand what was being used daily and what wasn’t.

And there are countless others I could show you, but won’t just for the sake of time 😉

These are the kinds of financial decisions an OBM helps you make. And they add up fast. A client considering a new offer mid-launch season, or trying to decide whether to renew a contractor for another quarter — these are the exact moments where having someone in your business, looking at your numbers alongside your operations, changes the outcome.

Your OBM Is There to Help You Protect What You Work So Hard to Earn

An OBM’s job is to protect your time, your team, and your resources — and that includes how your money is spent operationally. It’s not about replacing your bookkeeper or your CPA. It’s about having someone in the room who understands both your numbers and your day-to-day operations well enough to tell you where a dollar is being wasted and where it’s worth spending more.

Because you work too hard for your money to be wasting it, right?

Curious what this could look like in your business? Inquire about working with me to see how an OBM can help you make smarter, more strategic financial decisions — with real-time support along the way.

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For most entrepreneurs, especially creative ones, there’s a constant flurry of ideas worth testing at any given time. It’s part of being a visionary.

But constantly switching from idea to idea without proper testing and implementation is a recipe for less-than-desired results — and it’s costing you more time, money, and momentum than you realize.

The good news? It’s not a momentum problem. It’s a focus and planning problem. That’s why this guide will help you figure out how not to get distracted in your business, while still giving your big ideas the room they need to come to life.

What’s Actually Happening When You Can’t Stay Focused

In plain terms, the pattern is chasing new ideas, offers, or strategies before you’ve given the current one a real chance to work.

Creative, visionary entrepreneurs are especially prone to it. Being an ideas person isn’t a bad thing — it’s your gift and your secret sauce. Wanting to create new things all the time is part of what makes you great at what you do.

But that same trait can work against you when you try to do all of the things, all of the time. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (right now, at least). That’s what makes learning how not to get distracted so tricky for visionary people. Your strength and your biggest distraction come from the exact same place.

There’s also a real difference between a genuine pivot and distracted chasing. A pivot comes from data, clarity, and a considered decision. Chasing comes from boredom, comparison, or a burst of excitement that fades within a week.

At the End of the Day, It’s Costing You in Real Ways

Getting pulled off course rarely feels dangerous in the moment. It feels productive, even exciting. But it’s costing you more than just your time. Chasing the next big thing instead of focusing on what’s in front of you causes:

• Half-finished projects that never generate revenue
• Team confusion when priorities keep shifting under them
• Decision fatigue for you and everyone who works with you
• A compounding cost, where every new thing delays the original thing

If you don’t give an offer or strategy enough time to actually test and iterate, that’s lost revenue. Just because something doesn’t convert the first time doesn’t mean it’s a bad offer that needs to be scrapped entirely.

Why Small, Consistent Testing Works

Small, consistent testing is so much more effective than blowing up the whole thing and starting over.

When you scrap an offer entirely, you lose the data you already collected. You’re back to zero, guessing again instead of building on what you now know. A small tweak, on the other hand, lets you isolate what actually needs to change. 

You can more clearly assess price, positioning, bonus and timing. You can’t answer those questions if you throw the whole thing out and start over from a blank page.

Consistency also builds recognition — for your audience and for you. Every time you show up with the same core offer, you’re giving people more chances to see it, absorb it, and eventually say yes. Most buyers don’t convert the first time they see something. If you pull it before they get a second or third look, you’re not giving the offer a fair shot. You’re just giving yourself a fresh distraction.

There’s a reason the biggest names in this industry have signature offers they’ve sold for years. Whatever you think of them, you think of their offer because they’ve sold the same core thing consistently, just refined over time.

How to Know If It’s a Real Opportunity or Just a Distraction

Not every new idea is a distraction, some genuinely are worth pursuing. The key is learning to tell the difference before you act on it.

Run Your Idea Through These Questions First

Before you add anything new to your plate, ask yourself:

• Does this align with my goals for this quarter or this year?
• Do I (and does my team) have the capacity to execute this right now?
• What would I have to pause or deprioritize to make room for it?
• Is this coming from data, or is this coming from excitement?

If you can’t answer these clearly, that’s usually your answer.

The “Parking Lot” Method

Instead of acting on every idea the second it hits you, try this instead:

1. Capture every idea somewhere — just not in your active action plan
2. Review the parking lot on a set cadence, like quarterly

Sitting on an idea gives you real clarity on whether it’s actually a good one. When you come back to it later, and it’s still exciting, still top of mind, that’s usually a strong signal it’s worth pursuing. But if you come back and think, “oh yeah, I don’t really care about that anymore,” that’s a pretty clear sign it wasn’t the right move to begin with.

It’s like adding an expensive pair of jeans to your cart, waiting three weeks, and coming back to realize you don’t even want them anymore. And ultimately, you delete them from your cart.

That space between the idea and the decision is where the clarity lives.

How to Protect Your Focus Day-to-Day

Knowing the difference between a real opportunity and a distraction is only half the battle. You also need systems that protect your focus before a new idea ever has the chance to interrupt your plan.

• Set quarterly priorities and revisit them before adding anything new. Keep it simple. Two or three overarching goals should do the trick.
• Use your project management system to make current priorities visible. When your team can see exactly what’s being worked on and why, you’re far less likely to let a new idea quietly derail the plan.
• Build in a “new idea” review cadence. This ensures nothing gets lost, but nothing overrides what’s already in motion either.

And above all, remember…stick to the plan!

Focus Is a Skill, Not a Personality Trait

Being a visionary doesn’t mean you’re doomed to chase every distraction that crosses your path. It means you have more ideas worth protecting than most people ever will. The goal isn’t to stop having ideas. It’s to build the systems that let you act on the right ones, at the right time, without losing the momentum you’ve already built.

Getting clear on priorities and establishing boundaries on how many you’ll implement at a given time is the trick to all this. It’s hard in the beginning, I know. But the more you do it, the easier it will become. 

Need Help Setting Boundaries With Your Big Ideas?

If you find it SUPER hard to stay the course even with all of this in place, you might just need a little help getting it done. That’s where an online business manager comes in! An OBM helps hold you accountable to your own priorities and will be the one to tell you — with love 😉 — when a new idea can wait.

If you’re tired of juggling priorities, second-guessing your own pivots, and wondering where all your energy keeps going, let’s work together and keep your business on track!

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If you’ve been wondering why your business systems that actually work seem to exist everywhere except your business — you’re not alone, and you’re not doing it wrong.

Having a system and having a working system are two very different things. And this post is going to help you figure out which one you have, then what to do if yours isn’t working.

Common Signs Your System Is Working Against You

Before you can fix something, you have to be honest about whether it’s broken. Here are a few signs that your current setup is quietly working against you:

• You’re still the answer to every question. If your team can’t make a move without checking with you first, the system isn’t doing its job — you are.
• Things are still falling through the cracks. If tasks are being created but not completed, or nobody’s sure who owns what, something is off.
• Onboarding a new team member feels like a mountain to climb. Because you have absolutely no idea how you’re going to explain your processes to someone else. 
• You dread opening your PM platform. This is a surefire sign that something is disconnected in your business. You don’t need to LOVE working on your systems, but it should feel supportive. You should feel relief being able to log in and know exactly what to do. If you don’t, it’s probably not set up in a way that works for YOU.

The Real Reason(s) Your Business Systems Aren’t Working

It Only Lives in Your Head (or in Your Team’s Head)

Systems that only live in your head don’t count. There are about sixteen different ways to draft a blog post. So you can’t just tell your VA “draft the blog post” and expect it to come back the way you want it. 

The same goes for anything else that feels simple to you. Your specific way of doing something does not automatically transfer to someone else just because you said the words out loud. If you want it done your way, the process cannot live in your head.

It Doesn’t Support How Your Team Works

If your team is working around the system instead of inside it, that’s usually one of two things: either they don’t want to, or the system isn’t actually set up in a way that supports how they do the work. 

Both of those mean there’s a disconnect, and the process likely needs to be revised. That’s completely normal and okay! The goal isn’t to get it perfect from the start. The goal is to get it 80 or 90 percent of the way there, put it in place, and then stay open to feedback. 

When your team tells you “this part isn’t working,” listen to them. That feedback is what makes the system stick.

Your Tools Are Doing Too Much (Or Too Little)

Slack + Voxer + email + Asana comments + text messages = chaos. When communication is scattered across too many platforms, things get missed. The fix isn’t adding another tool. It’s deciding where things live and sticking to it.

The opposite problem is just as common. Stretching one tool so far beyond its purpose that it becomes useless.You can’t message your VA in Slack asking them to schedule your newsletter by Thursday. You also can’t store your SOP library throughout 16 Google Drive folders. When tools get used for things they weren’t designed for, the whole system starts to unravel.

What a Working System Looks Like

First and foremost, it’s documented AND followed. Documentation that nobody reads is just a folder collecting digital dust. The system has to be accessible, clear, and used consistently by everyone on the team.

Everyone should also know where things live. If your team members can’t find the assets they need within a minute or two or have no idea where to look, your system is not pulling its weight. Even if YOU know where things are, that doesn’t automatically mean your team does. 

That’s why any good system needs an SOP library, with detailed processes. It removes the daily mental load of figuring out how something gets done. Naming conventions, role clarity, communication norms, documented processes and guidelines — these things exist so you don’t have to make the same decision fifty times.

3 Quick Ways to Fix Your Systems

#1: Audit What You Have vs. What’s Actually Being Used

Start with your P&L. Go through every software you’re paying for and ask yourself honestly whether you’re actually using it. Haven’t recorded a Loom in four months? Remove it. Not using Slack with at least half your team? Stop paying for it. Then ask yourself: how many different ways can your team reach you right now? If the answer is more than two, work on eliminating at least one.

#2: Identify the One or Two Places Things Keep Breaking Down

Pay close attention to what you’re doing throughout the month, and where it’s breaking down.

Put a Post-it note on your desk and every time someone asks you something you feel like they should already know the answer to and write it down. At the end of the week, look at what keeps coming up. Those recurring things are what you fix first, because that’s where you’ll see the biggest impact. You don’t have to fix everything at once. Chip away at it slowly and you’ll see improvement over time.

#3: Fix the Process Before Adding Another Tool

Switching PM tools isn’t always the answer, because likely, you’re bringing all the same broken processes with you. In my experience, the platform is rarely the problem — it’s the system that makes the platform run that’s the problem. Don’t buy a new tool to fix a process problem. Fix the process first. Then decide if what you’re using is no longer serving you and your team.

Honestly, Sometimes You Just Need an Outside Set of Eyes

That’s what working together looks like. If you’re ready to stop putting out fires and start running a business that really, truly, supports you…reach out here to inquire about working with me!

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These Asana hacks will help you transform your project management system from a glorified to-do list into the true operational backbone of your business. Because if you’re going to invest in a tool, you may as well use the thing properly, right?

If you want to scale your creative business without losing your mind, mastering these features will save you hours every week (and a hell of a lot of mental energy)!

#1: Create Task Templates for Recurring Processes

Task templates should be created for every simple recurring weekly or monthly process in your business.

Most work isn’t a single step. Publishing a YouTube video, for example, involves recording, editing, writing descriptions, creating thumbnails, scheduling, adding links, and sometimes repurposing into blog content. That’s multiple team members (video editor, copywriter, admin VA), but the process itself is consistent every time.

Templates remove the need to rebuild that structure repeatedly and create clarity around expectations, sequencing, and ownership.

This applies across any business model, and any project. The applications are essentially endless and become an infinite time-saver over time.

#2: Give Every Task a Due Date AND Assignee

This may feel obvious. But it’s a commonly missed fundamental. Many CEOs believe they’re using Asana effectively, but they’re not assigning due dates and assignees to tasks. A task without a due date AND a person responsible isn’t actionable, and likely won’t ever get done. 

Clear deadlines allow both leadership and team members to:

• Plan their days and weeks
• Anticipate workload
• Understand what’s coming next
• Know when to ask questions
• Take ownership

This creates more autonomy for your team and reduces the need for constant follow-ups from you.

#3: Use Project Templates for Live Launches

Live launches are complicated and have what feels like a hundred moving parts. The good news is that the overall structure of most live launches is very similar from one campaign to the next. (Trust me, I’ve seen a lot of them.)

Having a launch framework allows you to pre-build:

• Tasks
• Timelines
• Team assignments
• Recurring deliverables

Each time you launch, you can duplicate the project and simply adjust strategy or messaging rather than recreating the entire workflow from scratch. Which means more time to focus on making it a successful launch (whatever that looks like for your offer/business)!

#4: Use Comments on Tasks for Context and Documentation

Communication should live inside the task whenever possible. If team members ask questions in Slack or email, important context can get lost quickly. 

Commenting directly on the task allows you to store:

• Feedback
• Asset links
• Revision requests
• Decision history

This improves response speed AND creates long-term documentation you can reference, even months later.

#5: Use Forms for Intake

Asana forms can replace simple Google Forms or informal task requests. (Caveat: I still primarily use Google Forms, but Asana forms have their place!)

They help standardize how work enters your system. Use them for:

• Affiliate information collection
• Simple customer ticketing workflows
• Internal task requests

Because they’re native to Asana, they can trigger automations and reduce manual sorting. Even on lower-tier plans, they’re a powerful organizational tool when you want to avoid building out Zapier connections.

#6: Build Out Subtasks for Complex Workflows

Large initiatives should NOT exist as single tasks. Publishing content, launching offers, or optimizing assets often involves multiple stages and contributors. Subtasks let the entire workflow live under one parent task.

Going back to our YouTube example — everyone is working on ONE video, but there are multiple steps with multiple people involved. Building it all under one “video” task with subtasks keeps it clear what everyone is working on.

This makes it easy for everyone to see:

• Where the work currently stands
• Who owns each step (who’s making the thumbnail, the video edits, the blog post from the transcription?)
• What still needs to happen

Visibility is one of the BEST things about Asana.

#7: Use Custom Fields Strategically

Custom fields can significantly improve clarity and efficiency.

One of my favorite use cases? Linking SOP documentation directly in a custom field. This allows work to be reassigned easily without leadership scrambling to gather resources.

For example: Your VA calls out sick. You need someone else to upload and schedule the blog. In 2 clicks, you can reassign that task to your project manager — with the blog copy, SOP, and due date already attached. 

Yeah, it’s seriously THAT easy. 

Custom Fields Can Also Track Status Across Stages

For example, content might move from:

• Needs Recorded
• Ready for Editing
• Ready to Schedule
• Scheduled
• Published

This makes it visually easy for the team to understand progress at a glance.

#8: Set Dependencies to Prevent Bottlenecks

Many workflows rely on sequencing. A video can’t be edited until it’s recorded. A blog can’t be scheduled until copy is written. Dependencies signal when a task is blocked and prevent premature action.

They allow team members to confidently know when they’re waiting on another step rather than constantly asking questions like:

• Is the video ready yet?
• Where can I find the copy?
• Can I move forward with scheduling?
• Did you pull your hair out yet? 😉

Once a dependency is cleared, the next team member knows they have everything they need to proceed. This reduces confusion, protects timelines, and builds smoother collaboration.

#9: Use Rules and Automation to Cut Manual Updates

Rules let you automate repetitive workflow actions. For example, when a content task is moved to a “published” section, Asana can automatically:

• Mark the task complete
• Mark subtasks complete
• Update status fields

This reduces manual clicking and keeps boards clean and accurate. There are tons of automations you can build depending on your workflow, but this is one of the most common AND most impactful I see in client setups.

Ready to Make Asana Work for You?

These Asana hacks are great, but they’re at their most powerful when they’re part of a bigger operational strategy. Templates without clear processes? Automations without intentional workflows? It’s not enough to keep your business moving forward. 

If you’re ready to build the infrastructure behind your Asana setup (so your business can run without you white-knuckling every project), let’s chat.

Click here to learn about working together and let’s get you out of the weeds and back in the visionary seat where you belong. 

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Many CEOs come to me AFTER hiring someone who was labeled an “OBM” but ended up needing heavy direction or only executing tasks. (Not what you signed up for, right?)

Many of them feel burned and unsure that bringing on another OBM is the right call (9/10 it 100% is, they just didn’t have the right OBM for them). 

Titles are inconsistent, and service structures vary widely, which makes it hard (and a little scary!) to invest significantly when you’re not sure you’ll get the support you need.

This is where it pays to be prepared! There are clear steps you can take to make sure that when you hire an OBM, you get one that knows what they’re doing, and passes the vibe check with flying colors. 

Know What You Need Before You Start Looking

OBMs can support your business in many different ways — long-term strategic retainers, systems builds, launches, consulting, and more. But when you don’t know the root source of your operational chaos, hiring the right fit is harder. 

Before you start your search, get clear on a few things:

• Do you need ongoing leadership and team management?
• Do you need a few processes built and implemented so your team can run with them?
• Do you already have implementers but need strategy and direction to increase sales?

Then consider your business model: Membership? Online course? Agency? E-commerce? It can be helpful to hire someone who understands your model and has worked in similar environments.

Emotional Readiness is Just as Important as Literally Anything Else

Hiring an OBM isn’t just an operational decision. It’s an identity shift as a CEO. You’re moving from being involved in everything to leading at a higher level. And that brings up some real, valid fears:

• Fear of losing control
• Fear someone will see how messy things are behind the scenes
• Fear of trusting someone (let alone a stranger on the internet) with major business decisions

A lot of CEOs delay hiring because they want to “clean things up first.” But that defeats the entire purpose of bringing in operational leadership! You’re hiring an OBM to fix these pain points, not just manage their ongoing success.

What Emotional Readiness Looks Like

Do you think you’re ready to hire an OBM? If you can confidently nod your head to these, I would say so!

• Willingness to be honest about what isn’t working (money, team, content, all the things)
• Willingness to be challenged strategically
• Willingness to stop reviewing every tiny detail
• Willingness to focus more on vision, sales, and growth — and less on the day-to-day

Trust with an OBM develops over time. The goal isn’t to step away completely, you just want more space to fully step into that CEO seat. 

Red Flags to Watch For

Not every “OBM” is actually an OBM. Here’s what to look out for:

• They primarily talk about execution tasks like social scheduling, newsletters, or blog drafting
• They wait for you to assign tasks instead of proactively identifying priorities
• They can’t clearly explain their strategic process or how they manage teams
• They focus heavily on certifications as proof of expertise
• They promise fast fixes without wanting to deeply understand your business

Are you seeing these signs? You’re probably looking at a VA with an upgraded job title — not a true OBM. (And I would hate to see you overpay for it too.)

Green Flags That Signal a Great OBM

On the flip side, here are what I consider strong green flags: 

• They naturally lead conversations about goals, capacity, revenue drivers, and team structure
• They think in strategy, systems, and processes — not just tasks
• They’re comfortable giving honest feedback and challenging you, your timelines, and your ideas when needed
• They have documented experience managing launches, teams, or recurring operations
• They ask thoughtful questions that show they’re already thinking about implementation and outcomes

Need to know for sure? Testimonials from similar business models or growth stages are especially helpful for vetting this info. 

Questions to Ask During Discovery Calls

It’s important that you let your OBM candidate introduce themselves, tell you about their work, and show off their personality. But YOU also need to do some of the talking. 

Come prepared with questions like:

• How many clients do you work with at a time?
• Can you tell me about a time something went critically wrong for a client during a major launch, promotion, or project — and how you handled it?
• Have you worked with [your business model] before?

You’ll get a better feel for how they strategize/tackle their work. And don’t be afraid to be honest about your current fears and frustrations. Capable OBMs are not intimidated by messy realities. (Truly — we’ve seen it all.)

Vetting for Cultural Fit

This is a leadership partnership. Trust and communication style matter deeply. You should feel comfortable talking to them, because you’re going to talk to them A LOT. So ya gotta like ’em! 

This doesn’t mean you need to be besties — but it does mean you have to be comfortable having 1:1 conversations regularly and not feel “heavy” when talking to them.

Alignment on pace, decision-making style, and team values is critical. Look at:

• Their content and messaging
• The types of businesses they’ve supported
• How they talk about leadership and team dynamics

Referrals are often one of the best ways to find strong OBMs because experienced operators tend to know and recommend each other.

What to Watch For During the Trial Period

If you’re still nervous to bring on help, I highly recommend a trial period. The first 30–90 days are crucial because it’s there that you build trust and establish structure.

Positive indicators include:

• Improved team clarity and communication
• Reduced need for you to manage day-to-day details
• You focus more on visibility, selling, and vision — while trusting that implementation is being managed
• Translates your ideas into actionable plans and delegates execution
• Serve as your sounding board and protect the business from reactive or capacity-misaligned decisions

By month three, you should feel increased confidence in your OBM’s ability to lead projects and support strategic decisions. They should also be leading the majority of daily team questions instead of you.

If your OBM is unable to do this? That’s a major red flag.

Ready to Find Your OBM Match?

Hiring an OBM is one of the biggest leadership decisions you’ll make as a creative CEO. Take your time. Ask the hard questions. Trust your gut.

And if you’re thinking we might be a fit, I’d love to chat. Click here to learn more about working together and let’s see if I’m the right integrator for your visionary self!

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It’s a completely fair question, but it’s not the one you should be asking if you want to get to the bottom of that overwhelm. It’s too broad to be helpful. When you ask a vague question, you get vague advice — and vague advice never actually puts the fire out.

So…what should you be asking instead?

“Overwhelmed” Is a Symptom, Not the Diagnosis

Feeling overwhelmed is usually a signal that something deeper is misaligned in how your business operates. Some of the most common root causes I see with my clients:

• You’re the bottleneck. Every decision, deliverable, and deadline has to run through you for approval or direction.
• Your business is growing faster than your backend can support. Revenue is climbing, but your systems were built back when you were a solopreneur.
• You’re putting massive effort into marketing, but nothing is converting. You’re working hard, but the numbers aren’t moving.

The overwhelm itself isn’t the core issue. It’s the emotional experience of unresolved operational and sales friction piling up underneath the surface.

The Harmful Thing About Broad Advice

When the question is broad, the advice you receive is broad too. And in a business context, broad advice is dangerous because it usually means adding more to your plate instead of fixing what’s actually broken.

I see overwhelmed creative entrepreneurs do this constantly:

• “I started a podcast, and my business grew 10X!” → Cool. That doesn’t mean it’ll work for yours.
• “I just need to migrate from Thinkific to Kajabi, and everything will be fine.” → Probably not.
• “Maybe I need a new email funnel, a new coach, or a new platform.” → Maybe. But also probably not.

Throwing generic solutions at a specific problem doesn’t reduce overwhelm. It increases your cognitive load. You’re adding new tools, new strategies, and new content streams to a business that’s already on fire — which is the opposite of pouring water on the source of the flames.

Real relief comes from solving the specific issue creating friction for you.

How to Ask Better Questions About Your Overwhelm

Instead of asking, “How do I stop being overwhelmed?”, try diagnostic questions that actually lead to answers:

• Where do the majority of my sales actually come from? Can I create more of THAT type of content instead of spreading myself thin across five platforms?
• Why does my team feel like they need to come to me for every decision? What’s missing in our SOPs, onboarding, or role clarity?
• Am I making strategic decisions based on data — or emotional decisions based on what I saw on Instagram this morning?

Better questions lead to clearer insight. And clearer insight leads to next steps that actually move the needle (instead of just adding noise).

Diagnose Your Specific Bottleneck First

Overwhelm in your creative business almost always points to one or two specific things going wrong. Not 47.

Some of the most common bottlenecks I see:

• Constantly reviewing and editing every piece of team work before it goes out
• Being pulled into operational decisions you shouldn’t be making
• Spreading effort across too many growth channels with no clear data on what’s actually converting

This is exactly why, when I start working with new clients, one of our first conversations is: “What are the raging fires that are making you want to pull your hair out?”

Because solving those specific fires usually creates a significant sense of relief almost immediately. You’re not trying to fix everything at once. You’re identifying the true constraint and prioritizing what actually needs to be addressed.

Match Solutions to Specific Problems (Not Generic Ones)

Once you’ve actually diagnosed what’s broken, solutions become much more practical and effective.

A Few Examples of What This Looks Like

• If you’re reviewing every blog post, graphic, and email before it goes out → You don’t need a new project management tool. You need clearer content guidelines and better SOPs so your team can execute without your eyes on every single thing.
• If your team lacks autonomy → You don’t need to hire more people. You need better onboarding, training, or role clarity for the team you already have.
• If 80% of your sales come from one channel, but you’re publishing on four → You don’t need a new marketing strategy. You need to double down on what’s converting and let the rest go.

Solving problems one at a time — and matching the solution to the actual diagnosis — is how you reduce overwhelm sustainably. True relief comes from building operational infrastructure that supports your growth instead of fighting it.

Get specific. Get diagnostic. Get clear on the actual fire.

If you’re an overwhelmed creative entrepreneur, the most powerful thing you can do is stop asking how to stop being overwhelmed and start asking what’s actually causing the overwhelm in the first place.

The answer is rarely “everything.” It’s usually one or two specific operational fires that, once handled, create immediate breathing room — and a clearer path forward.

You’re not lazy. You’re not bad at business. You’re not failing. You’re just trying to solve a vague problem with vague advice, and it’s not working because it can’t.

Need Help Figuring Out What’s Actually On Fire?

If you’re tired of throwing generic solutions at specific problems and want help diagnosing what’s actually creating the chaos in your business, that’s exactly what I do.

As an OBM, I help creative CEOs identify the real bottlenecks (not the symptoms), build infrastructure that supports their growth, and stop running their businesses in constant reactive mode.

Learn more about working together here and let’s figure out what your actual fires are — and how to put them out for good.

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The vast majority of creative CEOs running online businesses with contractors or employees feel overwhelmed at some point (or, ahem, all the time). They feel stuck, like they’ve hit a cap in what they can do themselves and therefore can’t grow. They’re frustrated with their team, their offers, and sometimes even their entire business model.

But feeling overwhelmed isn’t a sign you should give up on scaling or hiring support (even if you’ve been burned in the past). It’s a signal that you’ve reached the edge of what you can sustainably do on your own.

Let’s break down why it’s happening — and what’s actually causing it – so you can start feeling excited about what you’re building again.

You’re Trained to Create — Not Operate

Most creative entrepreneurs started their businesses to do meaningful work. To write, design, teach, coach, photograph, and build. Not to architect backend systems, create SOPs, or build out an Asana template for every recurring project (unless you’re me, because this is, in fact, what I love to do). 

Expecting yourself to instinctively know how to build efficient infrastructure is unrealistic if that’s not your training. It’s like expecting a graphic designer to prepare your taxes — it’s just not their expertise. You’d never ask them to do it.

So why are you expecting yourself to know how to map out an operations workflow from scratch?

Being great at your craft does not mean you also have to be great at operational leadership. Those are two completely different skill sets.

You’re Wearing Every Single Hat in the Business (Or Just…Too Many)

If you’re acting as the social media strategist, podcast host, operations manager, VA, customer support rep, and graphic designer — of course you feel overwhelmed.

You’re trying to do the job of 26 people at once. I’m tired just thinking about it.

When you’re responsible for both execution AND leadership at the same time, your business literally cannot scale. There’s no time to think strategically about growth when you’re the one resizing the IG graphic at midnight.

This is one of the most common reasons creative entrepreneurs hit a ceiling — they’re holding the whole thing together with their bare hands.

You Are the Bottleneck (Even if You Don’t Want to Admit It)

Do you feel like you need to review and approve everything before it goes out? That alone will make anyone feel overwhelmed.

This usually looks like reviewing:

• Every IG Canva graphic before it gets posted
• Every piece of blog post copy
• Every launch document
• Every sales email going out during a launch

You end up spending your time in constant review mode instead of focusing on growth, vision, and the work only you can do. And be honest…you definitely don’t want to spend what limited time and energy you have combing through every single piece of the puzzle. You just want it done. 

So let your team do it! Building trust with the right experts on your team allows you to step back into your role as visionary instead of “final approver of every comma.”

Your Business Model Rewards Overwork

A lot of creative CEOs feel overwhelmed because they’re trying to do everything the internet says will grow their business. And a lot of the time, they end up being just busy instead of productive. 

For example: You might publish a weekly podcast religiously for six months…only to realize most of your leads are actually coming from Instagram. Overwork usually comes from a lack of prioritization — not a lack of effort.

Start looking at your metrics objectively:

• Where are your sales actually coming from?
• Which activities are directly generating revenue?
• What can you stop doing entirely?

Doing more of what makes you money — and reducing what doesn’t — allows you to work less, reduce overwhelm, and grow more intentionally.

You Have No Real Infrastructure

Infrastructure is one of the most important things you can build to prepare your business to scale. If your team cannot operate independently for at least a week — ideally a month — without you stepping in, your backend is not scalable yet.

What Real Infrastructure Looks Like

• A fully optimized project management system like Asana or ClickUp
• Documented SOPs so work continues even if someone is sick or on PTO
• Clear guidelines for recurring situations like refunds, customer issues, or tech failures
• Templates for anything you do more than once (launch projects, email funnels, client onboarding, etc.)

Without this, you stay involved in every step of execution. With it, your business keeps moving even when you aren’t personally managing every decision. That’s what scaling actually looks like.

You’re Comparing Yourself to Other Creative CEOs

There is no universal formula for success, even though the online business space loves to make it feel that way. People will tell you what worked for them. That doesn’t mean it’ll work for you or your audience.

I had a client who was constantly told to double down on Instagram because she had a large following. She did this for months and got extremely burned out. When we finally reviewed her numbers together, most of her sales were actually coming from her live workshops — where she could actively teach and sell.

Once she shifted focus back to what was converting:

• She simplified her marketing
• She posted less on Instagram
• She made more sales

Growth becomes way easier when you look at your own metrics, get clear on what you want from your business (not what your IG feed tells you you should want), and double down on what’s already working.

Comparison just leads to unnecessary overwork and misaligned strategy.

So What Do You Actually Do About It?

If you’ve nodded along to even three of the above sections, here’s the takeaway: overwhelm isn’t a personality flaw. It’s an operational problem with operational solutions.

You don’t need to grind harder, post more, or “just be more disciplined.” You need:

• Someone (or something) to take execution off your plate so you can lead
• Real backend infrastructure that doesn’t fall apart when you take a day off
• Clarity on what’s actually generating revenue — and the permission to stop doing the rest
• A team that can operate without you being CC’d on every email

This is exactly the kind of work an online business manager helps you build. Not by adding more to your plate, but by taking the operational weight off it entirely so you can get back to the visionary, creative work you started this business to do in the first place.

Click here to learn more about working with me and find out what your day-to-day could look like with real operational support behind you. Because you didn’t start this business to drown in the backend of it — you started it to do the work you love!

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They allow you to provide ongoing support in ways online courses typically don’t. You show up month after month, creating value, fostering community, and actually being there for your people. It’s incredibly valuable for your community!

The challenge? The work never really “turns off.”

You’re constantly supporting new members while continuing to deliver value to existing ones. Content creation is recurring. Community management is ongoing. Tech issues pop up at the worst times. And if something breaks? Your members notice immediately.
If you’re running a membership and feeling like you’re drowning in the operations of it all, let’s talk about how an online business manager (OBM) can be the difference between sustainable growth and complete burnout.

Launch Management That Helps You Focus on Selling

Even if your membership is evergreen, it’s normal to run live launches several times a year to bring in waves of new members.

And as any creative CEO knows, launches are chaotic. There are a million moving pieces, tight timelines, and zero room for error when you’re opening and closing cart to hundreds (or thousands) of people.

That’s where an OBM steps in. They can help you by: 

• Strategizing your live launch: Will your bonuses speak to your audience’s objections? Is the timeline reasonable for your team to create the assets ahead of time?
• Confirming all the timelines: Open cart, close cart, bonuses, workshop dates, email sequences, etc. 
• Organizing ALL the details: I use one “master doc” on my teams, because this helps reduce questions and time spent searching for materials or documents. 
• Making sure every detail is in place: Delegating tasks to the team, reviewing deliverables, and managing implementation to make sure all the assets are ready before open cart.

This allows you as the CEO to focus on selling and showing up for your audience instead of worrying about logistics like broken links or landing page formats.

Content Operations That Help You Plan Ahead

Friendly reminder that “OMG what the eff am I teaching next month?!” is not a sustainable content strategy.

Memberships require recurring content delivery. And if you’re not planning in advance, that can feel absolutely overwhelming. 
An OBM can help create processes for developing your membership content months ahead of time. This helps you be more intentional about what you’re making for your people so you know it’s what they actually want — and it releases the weight of constant last-minute scrambling.

Once Content Is Created, Your OBM Helps the Team Handle Execution:

This could look like: 

• Creating clear storage systems for member content so it stays organized and the team can access it easily (no more “where’s this month’s video again?” questions)
• Module thumbnail design in Canva
• Uploads to the member portal
• Publishing it on the day it’s promised to members
• Member newsletter writing and scheduling

This helps you avoid last-minute panic before a new month begins and saves you mental energy since you’re just thinking about what you’re teaching. What a relief, right?

Community Management That Keeps Your Members Engaged

You can’t be online 24/7. But your members don’t stop posting questions, sharing wins, or needing support just because you’re offline.

OBMs can help monitor engagement and retention within your community (like in your Facebook group) to ensure:

• Ongoing, meaningful conversations are happening
• Questions or ideas are spotted that speak to members’ needs for future content
• Member wins and testimonials are documented for future use (and of course, celebrated!)

They can also audit new member onboarding experiences to ensure new members:

• Understand how to use the membership
• Get quick wins early on
• Feel validated in their investment (so they stay long-term)

Strong onboarding and engagement support longer retention and happier members. And retention is what makes memberships actually profitable.

Tech Stack Management That Helps Systems Run Smoothly

Nothing kills member trust faster than broken links, missing content, or automations that don’t work. OBMs can audit whether membership content is organized in a way that’s easy for members to navigate.

Something I always help CEOs think about when assessing their memberships: Can members find the content they need quickly and easily? For example, can they find your spring painting tutorials without digging through 47 folders? What about the fall ones? Are your template links still live and easy to access?

These things have to be easy to use and navigate so your members can actually USE the content and get the value they’re paying for.

Platform Migrations and Automations

OBMs can also support migrations between platforms if your current software is no longer serving you. This could look like:

• Hiring a tech VA to lead migration
• Reviewing the content once migrated for accuracy
• Ensuring it’s completed on time

They ensure automations are working properly so:

• New members are tagged and receive community updates
• Canceled members lose access appropriately (to protect your work)
• You have accurate reporting so you actually know how many members you have at any given time

This protects you and improves overall member experience. Because streamlining creative business operations isn’t just about making YOUR life easier — it’s about making your members’ experience better too!

Retention & Metrics: Know What’s Actually Working

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.

OBMs can track key metrics weekly or monthly, and can help you measure:

• Retention rates
• Churn (how many members are leaving)
• Content usage by members
• Monthly recurring revenue (MRR)

They help identify which trainings members engage with most so you can create more of what’s working (and stop wasting time on what isn’t).

They also help develop strategies to improve retention so your membership continues to grow instead of stagnating. Ultimately, most creative entrepreneurs with memberships have a goal of retaining members, not just bringing in new ones. And tracking your numbers can help you figure out how to do that.

Do You Need an OBM for Your Membership?

Who needs an online business manager? Honestly, anyone running a membership who:

• Is working 60-hour weeks just to keep the membership running
• Feels like they’re constantly putting out fires instead of creating content
• Knows they need better systems, but has no idea where to start
• Wants to grow their membership without adding more chaos
• Is tired of being the only person who knows how everything works

If that sounds like you, an OBM isn’t a luxury. It’s the infrastructure you need to scale sustainably.

How can an OBM help creative entrepreneurs scale? 

By building the backend systems that allow growth without burnout. By coordinating the team so you’re not the hub of every single question. By making sure the operations of your membership actually support the vision you have for it.

You didn’t build a membership to become a full-time project manager. You built it to serve your community and create recurring revenue.

And an OBM makes sure the operations side actually supports that vision instead of working against it!

Want to see what this looks like in action?

Read the Southern Adoornments case study to see exactly how I helped a membership-based business streamline operations, improve member experience, and scale sustainably.

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Working remotely is amazing. But managing a team from miles away is hard. And trying to do it without micromanaging is even harder. 

Remote leadership requires an entirely different skill set than in-person management. And most creative entrepreneurs? They never signed up to be managers in the first place.

But you can still build a high-performing remote team without micromanaging — you just need the right systems!

Strategy #1: Set Clear Expectations From Day One

Intentional onboarding is the #1 thing you can do to set a remote team member up for success. This applies whether you’re hiring contractors or employees.

And if you don’t onboard properly? You don’t get to be frustrated when someone needs constant hand-holding early on. Nine times out of ten, it’s not a performance issue (assuming you did the hiring work upfront). It’s a clarity issue.

In remote environments, communication is naturally more limited. Team members can’t just pop over to ask a quick question when they get stuck. This makes it CRUCIAL to empower them from day one with:

• Clear expectations around what tasks and responsibilities they own
• Where information lives (Asana, Google Docs, SOPs, client folders, etc.)
• When to communicate or escalate something (Is it actually an emergency? Or can it wait until tomorrow?)
• Why certain processes exist (so they understand why it’s important to follow them)

When team members understand the context behind their work, they can operate more independently, leaving you more breathing room to do what creative CEOs do (whatever that looks like for you!).

Strategy #2: Choose the Right Communication Tools (and Stick to Them)

Remote teams drop balls fast when communication is spread across too many platforms.

I once onboarded with a client who had five communication channels. FIVE. She constantly felt overwhelmed trying to keep up, and the team missed things left and right. 

I recommend no more than 2 communication channels, plus email as a backup.

For this client, we narrowed everything to:

• Asana comments for task-specific communication
• Voxer for deeper conversations and decision-making
• Email for external communication only

This created clear communication lanes and made it much harder to miss things. It also gave us documentation to reference decisions we made months later, which creates accountability.

Over time, the team naturally learned where to communicate about what, which streamlined backend operations significantly.

How to Choose Your Channels

• For task-specific updates: Use your project management tool (Asana, ClickUp, Monday). Keep all context in one place.
• For quick back-and-forth: Slack or Voxer work great. Just set boundaries around response times.
• For anything that needs a paper trail: Email or documented in your PM tool.

Whatever you decide to use, use it consistently. That’s the best way to ensure streamlined communication. 

Strategy #3: Build Trust Through Transparency

CEOs often discuss big-picture strategy with their OBMs, but that context doesn’t always reach the rest of the team. Contractors can end up just getting assigned what feels like random tasks without understanding the why behind them.

Intentionally communicating business goals helps team members take more ownership and share ideas when they understand the bigger picture.

This can look like:

• Simple monthly team newsletters or meetings
• Loom overview explanations from the OBM on larger projects
• Weekly priority updates over Slack
• Quarterly business updates (even if your team is just 2-3 contractors)

When your team understands where the business is going, they can help you get there faster.

Bonus points if you shout out team members who are doing great work or greatly contributed to a project’s success. Recognition goes a long way with remote teams who don’t get the casual “great job!” in the hallway.

Strategy #4: Create Structure Without Micromanaging

Nobody likes micromanagers. Not you. Not your team. Not anyone. So don’t be one. 

A strong project management tool will help you avoid that. Every process should have clear tasks, assignees, and due dates. Because if you have this, you (or your OBM) can see what your team is working on within a few clicks.

How to Implement a Project Management Tool

Here’s a glimpse at what this might look like on your team…

If you’re wondering when your copywriter will have your launch sales emails done, you can peek at their tasks and see that it’s due Thursday. So you know (without bugging them) that you can expect to see them by Friday morning.

Without a PM tool, you’d have to ping them to find out. And that’s annoying for everyone.

Team members can see what’s due now vs. later, which builds accountability AND flexibility so they can plan their week. (Trust me, they love this…and you will too.)

Follow-ups then only become necessary when something is overdue or expectations aren’t met.

What Project Management Tools to Use

Tools like Asana, ClickUp, or Monday make expectations visible without micromanaging. They’re so essential for remote work that I actually have it in my contract that clients have to use one. (I recommend, and use, Asana, but you can use whatever floats your boat!)

Strategy #5: Foster Connection Beyond Work Tasks

Yes, you can build a strong culture even with remote contractors. Simple things like Slack “water cooler” channels help people connect as humans, not just task-doers.

Celebrating wins and sharing life updates (relocations, new babies, pet pics) builds trust and loyalty. Your team will care more about your business when they feel like actual people, not just vendors.

Some teams also benefit from annual in-person retreats for planning and team building. I’ve had several clients do this successfully. (And yes, I can help you plan them if that’s something you want to explore!)

Remote doesn’t mean isolated. It just means you have to be intentional about creating the human moments that happen naturally in an office.

When You Need More Than Just Management Tips

Look, these systems help. But implementing them? That’s a whole different thing.

If you’re reading this thinking, “I know I need this, but I have no idea when I’ll find time to set it all up,” that’s a sign you might need to hire someone to run daily business operations.

An OBM doesn’t just manage your team — they build the infrastructure that makes remote management actually work. They create the onboarding processes. They choose and implement the tools. They train your team. They handle the follow-ups.

You focus on being the CEO. They focus on making sure everything runs smoothly.

Because here’s the truth: You can’t be a visionary AND an operations manager at the same time. If you try, you’ll do both poorly. Just saying.

Your Next Read

Once you’ve got your team structure in place, the next step is documenting your processes, so your team can do their jobs without asking you 47 follow-up questions. Learn how automated SOPs with Tango can save you 15+ hours every time you need to document a process here.

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