Great software and tech costs money. There's no way around it, but folks try anyway. So, in this episode, I am breaking down the FIVE ways that trying to save a hundred dollars in the short term will cost you WAY more in the long run. You'll learn: How penny-pinching on tech costs you bigger opportunities. How not paying for software upgrades creates more headaches for you and your team. How you end up leaving money on the table by trying to save money on tech. How investing in the right tech can improve your client experience. How improving and paying for automation in your business can hel ..read more

What if you aren't bad at making decisions? Maybe you just haven't created a standard decision-making process. In this episode, we talk about feeling safe enough to standardize your decision-making and holding standards in your business. I'm going to lay out the three most common decision-making phases I see entrepreneurs of all sizes go through regularly. You'll learn: The three decision-making phases of entrepreneurship How to speed up the decision-making process. How working on feeling safe and trusting yourself will help you make better decisions. Why it feels scary to make decisions in ..read more

You can transform your business with a well-developed and robust process map. That's why at AR&Co, the first step we take to update your systems is to create a process map. In this episode, I walk you through exactly how we create your business' process map and why it is key to improving your client experience and team experience and reducing stress levels. In this episode you'll learn: What a process map is and why it matters. The questions we ask you to develop your process map. How a process map can help you see the gaps in your current business. How we use the process map on a monthl ..read more

This week I'm sharing with you my experience on the Netflix Documentary Get Smart With Money! I'll share how I got on it, how I was managing my money before, and how automating my financial systems changed the game for me. In this episode, you will hear: 1. How I got chosen for Get Smart With Money.  2. How automating my financial systems was the key to getting a handle on my money.  3. How learning these systems for my personal life helps me understand your business systems.  Watch Get Smart With Money here.  Resources: Start streamlining your business ops here. Connect w ..read more

In this week's Stories of Scaling, you will hear the story of a side-hustling photographer who's completely manual system was causing her way too much stress and preventing her from growing. You'll hear how we took her onboarding from a completely manual start-from-scratch process to a highly supportive automated workflow.   "Your brain is not broken and you do not suck for not following up on emails; your tech is just not supporting you the right way." In this episode, you will be able to:  Understand how streamlining your CRM systems will help save you time and energy  ..read more

This week's Story of Scaling is about a CEO who was ready to go from bringing in contractors to finally onboarding full-time team members. Before she could do that, though, she needed to make sure she had the systems in place to actually communicate and delegate effectively, because if she didn't, she ran the risk of becoming a micromanager and dropping the ball on her client delivery. In this episode, you will learn the following: 1. How to strategically hire a full time team member without becoming a micromanager. 2. What processes should be implemented to ensure that any new hires are set ..read more

This week's Story of Scaling is a real-time recap of how I am strategically bringing in new team members as my own agency is in a season of growth. A big mistake growing agencies make is hiring for the sake of hiring and taking advice on hiring without the right operational context. In this episode, I walk through how to avoid these common trappings with process mapping, gap analysis, and smooth onboarding. You will learn: 1. Why hiring just to hire is not the answer when scaling an agency? 2. How can you strategically hire people to avoid creating more work for yourself? 3. How can process m ..read more

In this week's Stories of Scaling, you'll hear the story of a CEO who's systems were failing her because they were cookie-cutter templates and not tailored to her brain. I walk you through why templates are only bandaids in the long run and you'll hear how we took her from a copy-paste Click-Up to a tech-stack that was custom to how she wanted to work. "Your tech is there to support your process, not to be the center pin of that process. Put down your credit card - that template will only be a band aid. Let's build a custom system that will actually support you and help your brain offload all ..read more

In this week’s Stories of Scaling, you’ll hear about an agency owner running into issues with her clients due to a lack of process and confusing team communication. While her new projects came from her wanting to overdeliver and grow, it was creating chaos and complaints. You’ll hear how I created workflows, platforms, and processes to help her fix it. Resources: Start streamlining your business ops here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/63a62d6f1488000c28b9bb1c Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arianarodriguez.co/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arianarodriguezco LinkedI ..read more

This week's Stories of Scaling is focused on a business and leadership coach who wanted to start a one-to-many offer but was bottlenecked by her manual onboarding process. I walk you through how my tech agnosticism was the key to using the systems that she already felt comfortable with to create a high-touch automated process that still felt true to her. In this episode you will learn: 1. How to easily launch a new one-to-many offer, and how tech agnosticism supports my clients. 2. How to create a high-touch and automated system to streamline the onboarding process and save thousands of dollar ..read more