How to Know When You’re Ready to Hire an Expert
I’ve come to believe that in both business and life, there’s never a perfect time for anything. Planning to get married? Never a perfect time (I think couples planning weddings last year really feel this). Want to have a baby? Never a perfect time; sometimes it happens when you’ve been fired and just started a…
Read MoreWhen NOT to Hire an Expert
Finding yourself in the situation of needing help is pretty common. And sometimes when we get into that situation, we can figure out what the next steps are ourselves. Sometimes, though, we just start overthinking, or panic, and in most of these cases, experts can help. It becomes a matter of finding the right one.…
Read MoreWhen to Hire an Expert
It seems like it never fails that most of us go looking for help too late. If this is you, you’re not alone. I think this is due to a couple of reasons. One, when something is not in our area of expertise, we grossly underestimate how much time it will take. Check out this…
Read MoreHow to Get the Best Value from Your Software Tools
When you think about implementing new software tools, consider that software is 30% tool and 70% how it’s used in your organization. If you’ve worked in a corporate organization and had the pleasure, aka “misfortune,” of implementing new software tools, you probably understand that the consultants employed to implement those tools usually cost more than…
Read MoreCase Study: How We’ve Helped Businesses Like Yours
I don’t know about you, but when I’m thinking about change, it helps my brain to see how other people have done it. I hold a good case study up as an example of how I might benefit from similar services. For example, we changed project management software at the beginning of the year. This…
Read MoreWhy NOT to Hire an Expert: Experts Can’t Fix this
So far, we’ve discussed reasons why you hire an expert. Specifically, the first blog was about hiring an expert because you don’t know what you don’t know, and the second was about when you know things so well that you’re overlooking all the holes into which everyone else is going fall. But what about why…
Read MoreWhy Hire Experts: Improve Your Game
Have you ever done that annoying exercise where you have to instruct someone else how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using only words? It’s a reliable way to frustrate people. Okay, so that’s not the actual point of the exercise. But you already know the point of the experiment here: no one…
Read MoreWhy Hire Experts: Growth
Marketing is the art and science of attracting people to buy our stuff. Seems pretty straightforward on the surface, but anyone who’s tried will tell you it is not that simple in practice. Hence why hire experts is a question. We all need help from time to time. When you are part of a growing…
Read MoreThe Best Social Media Scheduler Tool: How To Pick (And Our Favorite)
Feeling ready to get ahead on your social media by scheduling some of it out? Awesome, good on you! Or maybe you’re falling out of love with your current social media scheduler tool or process? Either way, you’re probably now feeling overwhelmed by all the options of social media schedulers. That’s understandable. There are MANY…
Read MoreClubhouse is Hot and Facebook Is Not: How to Know If You Care
If you haven’t heard, Clubhouse is the newest social media darling to burst onto the scene. And it’s causing a lot of business owners heartburn. Should they be on it? How do they use it? What should they do with it (because it is different). And at the same time, Facebook, the old standard, seems…
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