What Tools Do You Use to Organize Your Team?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Emanuel has a growing team for his business, Italy Made Easy, and he’s having some growing pains. How should he organize his growing team and how many tools do I personally use in my business? Find Emanuel online at https://www.italymadeeasy.com/. Do you have a question about team management? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. In this episode I mention several tools that I and my team use for project management. https://coschedule.com for content creation and management; https://trello.com for larger projects like courses or software development; https://drive.google.com for organization and planning; and for team communication and files we use https://slack.com. Today's sponsor is DesignCrowd: A website that helps businesses crowdsource designs from over 500,000 designers worldwide. AskPat listeners can receive a free download and $100 off their next design by visiting https://designcrowd.com/askpat and entering the promo code "AskPat". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	Talk.com.
0:09.0	Hey, what's up, everybody, Pafflin here, and welcome to episode 967 of Ask Pat. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.1	All right. Now, here's today's question from Emmanuel.
0:23.6	Hi, Pat. It's Emmanuel from Australia. First of all, thank you so much for all the content
0:29.0	to you produce. It's really, really helpful. Here's my question. It's relating to business growth.
0:34.8	I run a platform called Italy-made- Made Easy, where I help English speakers learn
0:39.2	Italian. And after a lot of hard work, I'm in the very fortunate position of having a growing
0:44.7	team of collaborators. What I'm struggling with is the speed of the growth and having to manage
0:50.1	it all. You know, like I have YouTube channel, courses, the blog, the podcast that I want to start,
0:57.0	the lead magnets, social media, and all the things that I'm neglecting for lack of time
1:01.0	and organization. In this specific, my question is about the tools that I use in the business
1:06.0	to coordinate the flow of my team. On the one hand, it's great to have access to all these amazing technology,
1:12.6	but on the other hand, how many tools is too many? We currently use FLOC for team communication,
1:18.6	Google Drive to create and share documents, when I work for payroll, manifestly for checklists,
1:24.6	the autoresponder, the CRM, media outreach, there's so many platforms that we need to use.
1:30.7	I have a project manager, but the work and the opportunity is just so much that it's really
1:36.5	hard to coordinate everything and stay sane.
1:39.6	The project manager is very adamant that each team member is only in charge of one or two clear
1:45.0	tasks, which will soon make my team a team of 50 people. And that's scary. I just feel that
1:52.8	despite the great help that I get from the team, Italy Medi is still a one-man show, and it's
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