How We Created & Launched A New Product In Just Five Weeks

05/28/20 • 37 min

#11 Creating a new product is a hard job. Creating it with a 100% virtual team is even harder.
This week we take you behind the scenes of a new product we created and launched in just five weeks with a team of 13 people across four continents.
We get really practical and share soup to nuts how we organized things, how we communicated, and some of the key actions along the way that aided our success and efficiency.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Loom to make all kinds of videos on the fly

Asana to manage the projects (what we use internally for everything)

Sections to organize tasks into logical groups
Milestones to track the big... milestones 😎
Timeline to see how it all fits together
Custom Fields to track the status of a task
Rules to automatically move things along to the next phase

INTRODUCING: How To Scale Your Agency To $100K per Month (& Beyond)

We're hosting a webinar to show off the product we discuss in this episode. If you're an agency or freelancer who helps people with Facebook ads, then you're invited to this live training where we'll show you how we built & scaled Tier 11!

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Loom to make all kinds of videos on the fly

Asana to manage the projects (what we use internally for everything)

Sections to organize tasks into logical groups
Milestones to track the big... milestones 😎
Timeline to see how it all fits together
Custom Fields to track the status of a task
Rules to automatically move things along to the next phase

INTRODUCING: How To Scale Your Agency To $100K per Month (& Beyond)

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What To Do When Your Team Doesn't Deliver

#10 A big fear of any manager is what to do when a team member doesn't do what you needed. In a virtual environment this fear is magnified so intensely that many business owners don't even try to build a virtual team.

In this episode we talk about the keys that have enabled us to build a worldwide high-performance virtual team. Discover the leading indicators to watch out for so you can address a hot spot before it derails a project or account.

You'll also find out specific tactics and phrases we use with our team to smooth things out and increase performance.
Resources Mentioned In This Episode

The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
#07 Seven Tips For Virtual Managers - Part 1
#08 Seven Tips For Virtual Managers - Part 2
#09 Six Tips To End Slack Overwhelm

1-Click Slack Status Update

You can set five "1-click" status updates in your Slack workspace. Here are the ones we setup in our workspace at Tier 11.
To change the choices, click "Edit suggestions..." at the bottom of the status menu.
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#12 We've all been there - email overload. But take heart, there's a simple three-part system that will get you through hundreds of emails in just minutes per day.
And you'll never drop another "email ball" again.
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