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What Does Maintenance Mode Look Like? featuring Ryan Lazanis, Anna Wolf, and Tamara Kemper
Beyond Margins: Build a calmer business with comfortable margins
English - March 23, 2021 08:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Management calm business finance bookkeeping accounting consulting agency small business management growth consultants Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I've been spending a lot of time this year thinking about capacity.
A lot of the work I do focuses on helping clients streamline their operations to increase their capacity without increasing their costs or business complexity.
ScaleSpark actually started as an outgrowth of me running businesses and holding a full-time job. We owned a guest ranch and a brick-and-mortar store while I worked full time and ran all the back ends of those operations.
I had to figure out a way to make that backend run seamlessly and efficiently because I only had maybe an hour or two a day before I went to my day job and I needed to be really effective with my time… which led me to software.
I used software tools to make the operations mostly run without me. Understanding how to use technology to boost capacity was something I had to learn for my businesses to survive. And eventually I started ScaleSpark to help other businesses harness those tools and boost their own capacity.
Even though increasing capacity is one of my core competencies, capacity has been a real issue for me over the last year. So the first question I asked was: what can I stop doing?
It actually turned out that there was a lot of stuff that, when I really examined it, wasn't bringing value into my business, but it was sucking up my time. I needed to get my business back to a place where if I needed to, I could set it and forget it. Maintenance mode.
For this episode, I wanted to figure out what maintenance mode means to different people and what it looks like in different kinds of businesses. I started asking podcast guests and people around me what maintenance mode meant to them and I never got the same answer twice.
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Learn more about Ryan, Anna, and Tamara:
Ryan Lazanis – futurefirmaccelerate.comAnna Wolf – superscriptmarketing.comTamara Kemper – trainual.comLearn more about Susan:
Scalespark Dollars + Decisions RoundtableTwitter @ScaleSparkLinkedIn @thesusanboles