When “make it difficult” isn’t appealing for your projects anymore 🍳
I was just working with a client who was putting together an event and wanted to provide transportation for the attendees. However, she was having a bit of a tough time figuring out how many people would actually need a ride.
She had hired me to design a custom system for her events, and this was a big sticking point for her during our kickoff call.
(PSSTT - you can hire me to design a custom system for your service as well!)
She came to me STRESSED, preemptively spending so much time researching charter buses, school buses, you name it.
I wanted to yell “STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING!”
but instead, calmly asked her to pause what she was doing and send out an Airtable form I created for her 😉😜😘
The form had a series of conditional questions, asking folks what kind of transportation they would need, when, if they could carpool, if they could Uber, if they already had their own car, etc, etc, etc.
Once we got the responses from the form back, we realized:
😫 She didn’t need to contact 5 different companies.
😫 She didn’t need to make a spreadsheet of all of the various price points
😫 She didn’t need to put down an iffy deposit based on an uneducated guess of how many people may or may not show up
😍 She just needed to hire one charter bus for two different times during the event.
BOOM. EASY!
The form was intricate and complicated - BUT I created it in an hour with no sweat.
Compare this to the hours my client was spending calling all over town, trying to get multiple price points from all kinds of companies, and dreading over what deposit to put down.
✨ The truth? Humans tend to make things difficult for no reason. ✨
👉 My special talent? Finding the easiest way to do something. 👈
Sometimes, it seems counterintuitive to spend hours automating a task that would otherwise take 3 seconds to do manually.
But the brain space and energy your team saves by not having to do that manual little task (not to mention how often it pulls their focus away) makes it all worth it.
As a growing business, you don’t just want to get work done better than before - you need to to sustain your growth path.
You don’t have to know what it is you need before we work together.
But if you’re overwhelmed by possibilities or even *think* there are areas where you could be doing things just that much better -
Enjoy the day!
✨ Devin
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