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The power of an organizing (org) chart for your business cannot be underestimated.
With it you can see who is in the organization, what their functions are and streamline processes to create an organized productive team.
With envisage, the Org Chart takes on a whole new dimension. Everyone in your organization has a result that you can measure and the stats are right there, accessible from the Org Chart.
Here’s just some of the awesome features of the new Org Chart:
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The popular calculated graphs feature in envisage allows you to apply any mathematical formula to your graphs.
While many users know and use calculated graphs to perform all kinds of functions, what you might not know is that you can also adjust the frequency of a calculated graph.
Let me show you how this works.
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The purpose of statistics is to monitor progress. By measuring something daily, weekly or monthly you can easily see if it’s getting better or worse.
Sometimes, however, it’s helpful to see the average or the total.
Envisage lets you do that with a click.
Let’s use sales as an example.
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At envisage we believe your data belongs to you.
That’s why we’ve always made it easy for you to export all of your data at any time.
And we recently made this feature even better!
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At envisage, we consider app support a keystone of our business.
We monitor both response times and feedback of our support line, these are important statistics we track weekly.
The key to customer support is speed and swiftness. We endeavor to answer your questions and difficulties fast.
We also take the privacy of your data seriously and last year introduced a security measure that required that you (our users) provide our support team with an Access PIN before we could access your account and provide assistance.
However, we found this slowed down our ability to provide fast and swift support.
Back in June we released a powerful new report feature that ensures everyone on your team is playing to win.
We’ve now enhanced this feature so you can easily see missing values or no reports.
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Many businesses track statistics such as sales, income and leads. These are cumulative statistics where weekly values add up to monthly values. For example, 10 sales a week totals 40 per month (and with our new split values feature, you can be certain that envisage is reporting an accurately adjusted monthly value).
But what about a statistic like Bank Balance? This is not the type of statistic you want to “add up” when changing the frequency from days or weeks to months.
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Time is a problem. You think there are 365 days in a year?
Nope, there’s 365.2422. This is a rather inconvenient number so it’s rounded up to 365.25 and we have a leap year every 4 years to account for that annoying extra quarter day each year.
No big deal? But consider this … A vital element of monitoring statistics in your business accuracy and precision.
You want to ensure that if you earned $9,876 in a week, that this is the precise, exact amount, it doesn't get rounded up or down. It's exact and precise.
But what if you wanted an accurate MONTHLY value at the same time as having an accurate WEEKLY value? Well, we've solve it!
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Go Paperless
Save time, money and the environment
If you’re endeavoring to create a “paperless office environment” then this article is for you.
Envisage makes it easy to share your graphs, without having to print.
This is especially useful for those with staff who work remotely, or for managers and owners who travel.
During our weekly meeting at exec.io we have people spread around the global, in Perth, Western Australia; Sydney on the east coast of Australia; and yours truly in Florida, USA.
So printing graphs for our team meeting is pointless.
Instead we use the share link. Here’s how we do it.
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If you use an excel spreadsheet or even an existing stats system, we make it easy for you to start using envisage.
All you need to do is send us your data and we will upload it free of charge.
And for the first 14 days, you get to try envisage for free.
Pretty good deal, don’t you think?
Give envisage a try today.
If you have an existing app you use, we can help you export your data and import it into envisage, just reach out to us.
And for more information on uploading your historical data go here.
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When a group of people get together and pull in the same direction, anything is possible.
How do you know if all of your team members are really onboard?
First step, get them to track and monitor their daily or weekly progress using statistics.
Second step, check to make sure they are actually reporting it!
Envisage now makes it even easier to see if everyone on your team is reporting their stats with this new Report Feature.
Just click on any value on the graph and you’ll instantly see the individuals statistics that make up that value.
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Why the Change?
As of July 1, 2019 we’ll be turning off one of the most popular features in envisage.
You may wonder, “Why would we do such a thing?”
This article will give you some background insight into what it takes to build a powerful online app used by thousands around the world.
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Let me give you some backstory. This event took place in late 1999, in Google’s office, before Google was the tech giant it is today.
And to clarify what I mean by “tech giant” let’s look at actual numbers.
Google has an annual revenue of over $142 billion with a company valuation of $776 billion.
How did Google go from zero, to a $776 billion company in twenty years?
Three letters: OKR and in started in 1999.
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What does Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Uber have in common?
They used OKRs to manage and grow their business.
It’s a framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes.
More simply put, it’s a way to ensure the right things get DONE!.
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Weekly or Monthly?
That is the question!
This week we received this question via our Ask Us Anything
Read moreI have a client who does PPC marketing. He has all his clients pro-rated to the same day for his monthly service fee deducted from their card. It makes it difficult to graph Gross Income weekly other than monthly, without a crazy spike one week a month. Any suggestions?
One of the key stats we monitor for envisage is New Sign Ups.
We measure this each week, you can see the graph below.
Suddenly we had 9 new accounts sign up in one week, but we had no idea why.
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Up is Good
Down is Bad
My version of the KISS principle is Keep It Super Simple.
I’ve written books on many complex subjects such as taxes, money management, investing and marketing. I often get feedback on how easy my books are to read. I go to great lengths to keep things simple.
The opposite of a KISS is a KICK - Keeping It Complicated Knowingly. I much prefer a KISS to a KICK.💋
Results Driven Success is the process of measuring the results of past actions to direct future actions to achieve greater success. It is used by companies around the world to improve their operations, identify areas that need attention, spot areas that are doing well to support them, and remove opinion and guess work from running an organization.
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Over the years I have found many small businesses trying to keep too many statistics and spending hours every week trying to keep them all up to date. One person I knew had more than 30 statistics for his one man show. It took him at least 5 minutes per week to measure and lodge each of those statistics. They were all accurate, but he felt like the business wasn't growing like it should be. Well, sure, he had beautiful admin and could tell me all sorts of things about his company, but with 30 statistics he was spending almost 3 hours a week doing this administration! 3 hours a week is a lot of time to be spending on this, especially if you are the only person in your business.
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