2021 - Another Year of Stellar Growth and New Features!

It’s been another amazing year at MetaPulse and we want to thank you for your support and patronage during 2021.

The biggest visible change was our rebranding from envisage to MetaPulse, the World’s First Growth Management System™ Application. I am really happy with this change of name and direction and it really sets the stage of what we are trying to achieve here at MetaPulse.

We also launched our Chinese translation of MetaPulse, allowing billions of people to use our platform in their native language.

And we launched Knowledge — a powerful feature to train your team and keep all of your knowledge, procedures and training all in one place — and aligned with the Org Chart. 

And with those changes happening in the background, we continued to expand! We now have over 6,800 users on MetaPulse with more than 1,600 joining this last year!

More than 90,000 graphs have been created that track 12 million individual statistical entries. On average, that’s 3 new graphs every hour and 1 new entry every 15 seconds.

We also performed very important background updates to ensure speed, security and functionality.

Our Help Center has grown to 223 articles and we handled almost 1,300 support enquiries with 99.1% either happy or extremely happy with our service.  

What does this all mean?

It means 2022 is going to be even better! We’ve got more exciting features planned for the world's first Growth Management System Application. 

From myself and all the team at MetaPulse, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!

Mikel Lindsaar
CEO & Founder

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Advanced Math Functions are here!

Our popular Calculated Graph feature has had an upgrade!

Now you can use the following functions within graph formulas:

• Max(Graph1, Graph2, etc)

• Min(Graph1, Graph2, etc)

Here’s how they work:

Let’s say you want to track and reward the Highest Sales for the month.

To do that, you compare all sales graphs. Using the Max() function, the graph will automatically calculate the highest sales for that period. Keep in mind, you can include two or more graphs within the formula.

Click on the Data Point to view the details and easily see who achieved the highest sales among your team.

The Min() function works in the same way but will return the lowest value from a list of graphs. You can include two or more graphs within the formula.

Another example of how you could use this feature is tracking a support statistic. You could track the fastest time to reply to support tickets or client queries. Conversely, you could track the slowest time, allowing you to drill into the detail of which support personnel need more training so you can improve company service and profitability.

We’ll be adding more advanced functions soon.  

Go ahead and give it a try today and reach out to support if you need help.

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Knowledge - Version Control

Knowledge goes beyond mere "document storage" — it’s NOT another Dropbox, Google Drive or shared document editing system.

Knowledge monitors engagement on important company policy and procedures to ensure everyone on your team can access the information, understand it and most importantly, use it.

With our built-in version control, you can compare what has changed between versions. So your team only needs to study what has changed!

Import Existing Documents

You can copy and paste your document straight into Knowledge.

If you have documents in Google Drive, you can export them in DOC format via google Takeout.

Reach out and let us know if you need help with this process. We offer full onboarding for your entire team.

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Congratulations to KnowBe4, now listed on the NASDAQ!

After 10 years of stellar growth under the guidance of Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 went public on April 22, 2021.

Despite achieving annual revenues close to $200 million and a market capitalization of over $4 billion, KnowBe4 still has an amazing 36% annual growth rate with 80%+ Gross Profit.

How did they get there? In Stu Sjouwerman’s words...

“... radical transparency, extreme ownership, complete honesty. That’s the bedrock of the KnowBe4 culture. But how do you get there? Well, we get there with OKRs that are visible for everyone”

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate Stu and the entire KnowBe4 Team who have proven that continued hypergrowth is possible.

From all of us at envisage, well done! We’re glad we were along for the ride … here’s to the next decade of hypergrowth for KnowBe4!

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2020 … Another year of stellar growth and New Features!

It’s been another amazing year at envisage and we want to thank you for your support and patronage during 2020.

Despite the turmoil created by COVID-19, we still managed to expand and release several new features.

Over 1,200 users joined envisage this year to take our total to over 5,200. 

More than 81,781 graphs have been created that track over 10.6 million individual statistical entries.

We added vital new features, such as Events, Trends and Reports.

We also performed a massive upgrade in speed to make envisage faster than lightning.

All of this combined into 1,311 different features, bug fixes and upgrades individually created, reviewed, approved and deployed with 3,219 files changed representing 162,090 lines of code added, and 290,362 lines of code deleted. We are particularly happy with the lines of code deleted being higher than those added while adding features, as this indicates that we have been working hard to make envisage simpler to develop on and more stable (a line of code that doesn’t exist cannot be a bug! 😀).

Our Help Center has grown to 167 articles and we handled almost 1,500 support enquiries with 98% either happy or extremely happy with our service.  

We also launched Tours and our Free Onboarding Sessions to help you all get the most out of envisage.

What does all this mean?

It means 2021 is going to be even better! We’ve got Knowledge and Tasks coming soon, together they complete the vital aspects of our core features that make envisage the world's first Growth Management System™ Application. 

From myself and all the team at envisage, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!

Mikel Lindsaar
CEO & Founder

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How to Create a Rolling Graph

We had a client recently who wanted to add up graph values for the last 12 months. “Can envisage do that?” she asked.

You bet!  Here’s how it’s done:

Let’s say you wanted to know the total income from the last 12 months.

Keep in mind, this is what we call a rolling statistic. Every week or month it will automatically update to include only the last 12 months. 

First step is to create a new calculated graph, we’ll call it “1 year Accumulative Income.”

We then use the offset feature to add up past values, as shown below.

The above example will create a 4-week rolling accumulation graph. To make this a 1-year accumulation rolling graph requires we add 52 weeks to the formula (this can be a little tedious, so reach out if you need help.) 

To make this a quarterly rolling accumulation graph, add 12 weeks to the formula. The sky’s the limit because envisage can perform any type of mathematical calculation you want.

The thing to keep in mind is this — once the data is inside envisage, anything can be accomplished!

If you need help let us know, we offer full onboarding for your entire team.

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Top 20 Stats & Free Upload Template

What statistics should you track? 

You can track 20 stats on the basic envisage account, so we’ve created a list of the top 20 stats you should keep. And we’ll share the spreadsheet so you can upload them in a flash. 

Here’s the list of the top 20 stats:

1. Income - This is how much money collected for the week.

2. Sales $ - Total value of all sales for the week. This is often different to income which can be delayed.

3. Sales # - Number of all sales for the week.

4. Total Cash on Hand - Money in the bank at the end of the week.

5. Total Bills Due - Total bills due and unpaid at the end of the week.

6. Services Delivered $ - Total value of goods or services delivered. 

7. Services Delivered # -  Total number of goods or services delivered. 

8. Staff # - Total number of staff on your team.

9. Client Complaints # - Total number of client complaints. This would be an inverted graph with zero at the top.

10. Refunds $ - total value of refunds.

11. Refund # - Number of refunds for the week.

12. New Clients # - Number of new clients that spent money with you for the first time.

13. New Leads # - Number of new leads or prospects that joined your mailing list. 

14. Total Clients # - Total number of clients on your mailing list.

15. Promotion $ - Total amount spent on promotion, including emails, advertising, direct mail, social media.

16. Promotion # - Total number of promotion items and ads sent out.

17. Success Stories # - Total number of success stories collected.

18. Employee Revenue  - Divide your Income (graph 1) by the number of staff on your team (graph 8).  This provides a measure of business efficiency.

19.  Sales Conversion - Divide New Leads # (graph 13) by Sales # (graph 3) to monitor the effectiveness of your sales team.

20. Net Cash - Total Cash (graph 4) minus Total Bills Due (graph 5). This provides a guide to business solvency. You want the result to be positive!

Keep in mind, many of these stats represent totals. Individuals should track their own stats which added together give you the total. Sales is a typical example, where each salesperson tracks their own performance and the Total Sales is automatically calculated using a calculated graph. 

Free Spreadsheet Template

You can easily create the graphs above using this google spreadsheet. To make your own copy, follow the steps below:

1. Go to File

2. Choose Download

3. Download as CSV to upload.

4. If you want to edit the spreadsheet, download as an excel file. 

Importing into Envisage

To import your CSV file into envisage, follow these steps:

1. Go to settings

2. Chose Manage Graphs

3. Choose Import Graphs, find your CSV file and import!

Once done, you can start tracking your stats and monitoring your business. 

Keep in mind, we can help import all of your historical data too. If you need help let us know, we offer full onboarding for your entire team.

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New Features to Help You Grow

We’re in the process of building two awesome, highly sort-after features for you.

1. Tasks

2. Knowledge

Here’s a brief rundown of how they’ll work.

Tasks

Tasks will be an extension of our Objectives feature, enabling you to plan for the big picture, as well as set and track tasks required to achieve your objectives. 

With Tasks added to Objectives, you’ll have the ultimate planning tool to help you manage growth. No matter how big you grow or how distributed your team, you can track and monitor progress and know what needs to be done. 

Knowledge

Another sought after feature is team knowledge. We’ll provide a place to keep all your company policies and procedures and associate them with the Org Chart allowing new hires to instantly be assigned all the materials they need to learn to be effective on their job.

Plus we’ll provide a tracking system so you know who on your team has read and understood the information they need to know to handle their job. This includes notifications on any update to ensure those who need to know are kept up-to-date with any changes. 

Combined with the org chart, the knowledge system provides another layer of coordination across your entire team. It’s another way envisage will help you manage growth.

We’re working hard on both Tasks and our Knowledge system and they are due to be released this year.

Let us know if you need help. We offer full onboarding for your entire team.

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A Notice to business consultants - How to Boom Your Business

Are you a business consultant or coach?

Would you like to be able to offer monthly coaching sessions and create ongoing regular income?

Do you want to help your clients grow a profitable booming business?

Would you like to expand your coaching business internationally?

If you answered yes to any of the above, then you should consider becoming a Certified envisage Growth Management System™ Consultant.

With clients around the world, envisage is the only Growth Management System application on the planet. 

Daily business owners ask for our help to implement envisage’s powerful features which includes statistics, org charts, objectives and more. 

Over the past two years we’ve developed and fine tuned our onboarding process that works. But while we’re superstars at onboarding our clients, many need ongoing help being coached while utilising envisage. 

That’s where you come in.

Our clients need your help. If you’re a business consultant with a proven track record, we’d love to send you clients.

Please reach out to us here if you are interested.

And if you haven’t already, start using envisage today. We can onboard you and your entire team.

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To Delete or Archive? That is the Question

In the ongoing progress of making envisage the foremost Growth Management System™ application ever, we’ve added an important feature on how members are “removed” from the system.

Until now, the only way to remove a member was to delete them. This meant that the graphs and objectives assigned to that member had to be either deleted or archived too. It also meant that the connection between the individual and the result was severed. 

Trying to figure out 2 years from now who achieved result “X” was cumbersome.

That’s why we’ve added the ability to archive a member. This means that the individual can no longer access your envisage organisation, but all information remains accessible, so you can still see who created what result, even when they’ve left the company.

We also prevented a member from being removed if they have assigned graphs, objectives, posts and events. 

Here’s the choices you now see in the Member settings:

And when you choose “Archive Member,” you’ll see this warning.

It’s another useful tool that helps you manage growth.

Of course, the first step is having all of your members using envisage and posted on your org chart. If you need help creating your org chart in envisage, let us know, we offer full onboarding for your entire team.

And check out our help docs for more information on How to Archive or Remove a Member.

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FREE MetaPulse Onboarding - It’s time to grow!

Building an expanding and profitable business takes time and dedication.

While MetaPulse makes it easy to track statistics, implementing all of MetaPulse’s features also takes time and dedication. Often in business the important non-urgent tasks take a back seat to the urgent yet not-so-important ones. 

However, it’s the important tasks that help growth and profitability.

We understand this, which is why we built MetaPulse in the first place, so you can focus on what is important. 

It’s also why we’re introducing MetaPulse Onboarding.

Our team of trained Growth Management MetaPulse experts are ready to help you. We can: 

• import all of your stats

• build your org chart 

• provide custom training for all of your team

• help you implement objectives and key results (like google does)

• help you plan using quotas and targets

• remove bottlenecks and inefficiencies using Reports

• save time with calculated and comparison graphs

• create a log of successful actions with Events

• easily track and monitor graph Trends

The best part is — Onboarding is currently being offered for free to all subscribed clients! 

To make MetaPulse part of your company’s DNA, it requires everyone onboard using the app, posted on the org chart, managing their stats and achieving objectives. 

We’ve seen first hand the truly amazing results that can be achieved when all features are utilised. 

As the world’s first Growth Management System™ Application — MetaPulse does what it was built to do — help you grow, help you expand, help you increase your sales and profits.

Despite the turmoil created by COVID, we’ve seen our clients expand and achieve their objectives when they use and apply the features available in MetaPulse.

To find out more contact us here or get started now and schedule your FREE MetaPulse Onboarding. We know we can help you grow. 

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Org Chart - In Charge Feature

The In Charge feature in envisage makes it easy for managers to coordinate their team’s activities. 

Several weeks ago we made a significant change to the way the org chart works—we now have Hats, Posts and Members.

Each hat on the org chart can be assigned the “In Charge” of that area. This automatically grants the In Charge with edit permissions for all their juniors on the org chart. 

This makes it easy for a manager to view and update graphs, objectives and monitor their team’s performance.

This applies across the entire org chart, permitting every manager from the top to the bottom, to effectively manage.

It’s another vital feature that enables hyper-growth. 

The first step is having an org chart! If you need help creating your org chart in envisage, let us know, we can help create it for you! See our help docs for more information on Creating Hats and Adding Posts to the Org Chart.

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Easily compare this year to last year

Although you should track your stats on a weekly basis, it’s often good to know if you are beating last year’s performance.

You can do this using the Offset feature, now available with Comparison Graphs and Calculated Graphs. 

We’ve made an upgrade so you can easily compare different periods in any frequency, be it weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly. Prior to this recent upgrade, the offset feature was limited to the graph's default frequency.

Let’s create a comparison graph to compare the current month’s Sales to the Sales of the same month last year. 

Creating an Offset Comparison Graph

First we create a new Comparison graph called Sales This Year / Last year. Then we added the current values and 12-month-offset values as shown below.

End Result

Now you can easily compare your current results to the same period last year, whether weekly, monthly or quarterly. Simple hover to see the values and dates.

For more information on how to create a “This Year / Last Year” comparison graph see Period Offset in Calculated Graphs and How to Create a Comparison Graph. 

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Exploring the New Trend Feature

The new Trend feature provides a quick summary of all your statistics. 

You can see at a glance how your business is performing. 

The Trend summary appears on your Dashboard and can be viewed on any graph. 

Here’s how it works:

Trend Summary on the Dashboard 

Show & Hide Trends in Graph View

You can see all trends using the Show Trend button in Graph View. Once done, click Hide Trends.

And remember, our Trend feature includes a machine learning algorithm, so if you see a trend that’s not quite right, be sure to Flag it as shown here.

Give Trends a try today. For more information see Introduction to Trends.

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Envisage Now Available in Russian (Теперь доступно на русском языке)

We’re pleased to announce that envisage has been translated for all of our Russian friends (and we know there’s 150 million of you 😉).

The entire interface, menu options and features will automatically default to Russian if your browser default language is Russian.

You can also use Russian characters for your statistics, org chart and all other envisage features.

If your browser defaults to english and you only want to change Envisage to Russian, change your default language via envisage settings as shown in this help doc.

Here’s an example of envisage displayed in Russian:

If you have any questions, reach out to support. 

Наслаждаться (Enjoy!) 

And remember, envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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Expanding to Multiple Locations? An Org Chart to Rule them All.

When your business starts expanding globally or even country-wide, you need an org chart system to help maintain overall coordination from the top, while simultaneously allowing a local office to monitor their own team. 

Ideally the local team can operate independently, but still within the framework of the business, where top management can drill down into the details if needed. 

Is it possible to have an org chart and business intelligence system that enables both micro and macro views, without burning the satellite office with extraneous data?

Previously it was not possible. Until recently no app combined org charts and business intelligence interconnected on a global scale. 

Well, the coding geniuses behind envisage have solved that problem! 😀

Welcome to a brand new feature called Junior Org Charts. You can create unlimited linking org charts that come together in a Senior Org Chart. Everyone throughout the organisation has a place on the Senior Org Chart, but they also have their own junior organization, where they coordinate and manage their own activities. 

They are still part of the whole. They are still on one Org Chart. Their stats and objectives can still be monitored. 

But they also act independently, under their own management.

It’s the ultimate expansion tool.

It enables hypergrowth on a global scale and with it you can build an Org Chart that rules them all.

And remember, throughout May, we’re offering free Org Chart creation. This service is valued at $199, but will be free until the end of May 2020!

For more information register here.

Envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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VIDEO: Find anyone in your organisation in seconds

Knowing who does what in your organisation is important. 

It’s a tremendous time saver for all involved, especially new recruits.

Envisage’s org chart and powerful search feature allows you to find people in seconds. 

Low on time? Send us your org chart and we’ll build it in envisage for you. 

This service is valued at $199, but we’re offering it free until the end of May 2020. 

For more information register here.

And remember, envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try it for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto envisage. Enable your hyper-growth!

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Easily Import Your Entire Team into Envisage

With envisage you get unlimited users! That’s right, for only $20 per month your entire team can use envisage.

And now, with our new Member Import feature, we’ve made adding your entire team even easier!

This feature can also be used to mass update any field, including contact phone numbers, status, Employ IDs, and more. 

See our help docs for more information here.

And remember, throughout May, we’re offering free Org Chart creation. This service is valued at $199, but will be free until the end of May 2020!

For more information register here.

And remember envisage includes Statistics, Org Chart and OKRs and you can try for free on a no-risk 14-day trial. We’ll even help you set up all your existing statistics to make sure you succeed in getting your business onto Envisage. 

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