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at The Systems Clinic™ with Auntee Rik

Organize Before You Systemize: The Step That Saves Time, Money, and Sanity

Ever tried to streamline your business and somehow felt even more overwhelmed after? Yeah. You’re not alone. Because trying to systemize your business before organizing it is like trying to alphabetize a junk drawer. You don’t need more color-coded SOPs or another...

Your Naming Convention System

When I stick to the system, I can find anything on my computer, on my sites and within my cloud storage accounts whether I put it in its right place or not. This naming convention system is the foundation of all of my Operations tasks.

Plan. Prep. Produce.

Plan. Prep. Produce. the method to unmadness

Organize vs. Systemize

You probably know this already, but in case you don’t, allow me to be the one to tell you: Organizing your business is not the same as systemizing it. One makes things look tidy. The other makes things run smoothly. Organizing is when you clean up the digital clutter,...

Get Branded Email Online for ~$25/year

Here’s how to get your branded email that you control for ~$25.

What’s a Creative Production Brand

A clear definition of what makes a business a Creative Production brand, and why strong systems are essential to support its growth.

Operations, Systems, and Processes… oh my!

Words mean things and there’s a lot of confusion in the air about Operations, Systems and Processes. Here’s a quick refresher.

Create Your Private Podcast with MemberVault and Hello Audio

Private podcasts have become a hot thing over the last year or so, and here’s my superdee duper quick notes for setting up yours.

Stop creating SOPs, you’re wasting your time

Documenting your business is a resource-heavy task, and if your revenue isn’t consistent, you should spend that time improving that over creating SOPs.