Google can now design presentations for you. I’m not even going to bother with an introduction for this blog post, because the new features Google’s rolling out across its productivity apps don’t need one. Take a look at the Google blog post announcing G Suite. That’s what the company is now …
Donkeys, Demos and the Silent Phone Call
Greg and I gave a Yalla demo to some potential clients over the phone recently. They were looking for a new customer relationship management system and had narrowed it down to Yalla and a competitor. I started by walking the women through Yalla’s funnel feature, because they said a simple, …
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Charisma is Overrated, and other Good to Great Lessons
It’s easy to draw up a list of charismatic business leaders. Richard Branson. Coco Chanel. Lee Iacocca. These are the kinds of people we make movies about. They build or reinvent massive companies through the sheer force of their personalities. Everyone has tales of these leaders taking …
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When the Customer Wants a Pizza
It’s early morning after a shoe sales conference in Santa Monica, California. A group of friends - including Tony Hsieh, head of the online clothing giant Zappos - is stuck in a hotel room, hungry and a little inebriated. Room service doesn’t deliver after 11 p.m. Hsieh dares someone to call …
How Freshbooks Made My Life A Whole Lot Easier
Today I'm writing this from two perspectives. As a longtime Freshbooks client, and as a fairly new Freshbooks partner. I started my college life off as an accounting major. I worked for my dad's CPA firm doing some accounting and taxes while going to school. My dad's firm specialized at working …
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GitHub Projects Will Not Kill (Good) Project Management Software
Social coding site GitHub recently announced a trove of new features for its platform, including the ability to create project boards to better track development. I read a lot of comments about how Github projects would “finally kill Trello” and other project management software. Many people figured …
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