108 Getting organised as a start-up business, with Caro Syson
Making Money Online with Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson
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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Organisation is so important in the first few years of business, but it's often overlooked as we focus on launching our product or service. However, getting your systems in place, knowing your numbers and managing your clients contributes to success and sustainability.
Today I'm speaking to Caro Syson, creator of Pocket PA. Inspired by her daughter's ambition to be self-employed, Caro created an app that allows entrepreneurs to organise their businesses in one place without a single spreadsheet in sight.
What You'll Learn In This Episode:
- How Caro developed Pocket PA despite having never written a line of code in her life, the highs and lows of building the platform, and the personal mission that spurred her on.
-Why it's so important to have a quick, visual way to know what money is coming into your business and what's going out.
-Caro's vision for the future of Pocket PA and the features that will help more small businesses and why she believes as mothers and women we can do anything!
-No one starts a business to do more admin, so having the right systems in place frees up time so you can focus on the work you do best.
Resources:
- Download my FREE Launch Strategy Guide
- Visit my website www.lisajohnson.com
- Follow me on Instagram @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Follow me on Facebook @lisajohnsonstrategist
- Join the discussion at @thefabulous5percent
- Subscribe to my YouTube channel
- Find out more about Pocket PA at www.pocketpa.com
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| 0:48.2 | Hello, hello, welcome to this week's podcast. Today we're going to talk in getting organized in your |
| 0:54.0 | business. And this is |
| 0:55.1 | particularly going to be a great podcast for those of you in your first couple of years in business, |
| 1:00.5 | which is normally the time when we don't really think about the organization and the finances |
| 1:05.8 | and all of those because we're just getting started and we want to get those clients in. But actually, it's really |
| 1:11.8 | important to have systems in place to help you in your business, to know what's coming in and out, |
| 1:17.8 | to know what meetings you have and all of those kind of things. And so I'm here with somebody |
| 1:22.4 | who invented something to help us to all do that. So I'm here with Carrow Sison. |
| 1:28.8 | Caro helps startup businesses and those a bit further on to get organized with their |
| 1:34.8 | entire business without needing to use a lot of spreadsheets as we usually do. So welcome to the |
| 1:40.6 | podcast, Carrow. Thanks, Lisa. So let me talk a bit to you first. |
| 1:45.4 | Before we get into kind of what you built, why did you build it? |
| 1:51.4 | Like what happened in your life that made you go, because you weren't a tech person. |
| 1:55.8 | So what made you go, I know, I'll build an app. |
| 1:59.5 | So my daughter, Megan, came home one day when she was 19 after |
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