Powerful New Report Feature Ensures Everyone On Your Team Is Playing to Win

June 21, 2019 MetaPulse Team

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.

Why Do Apps Change and Why Are We Turning Off Our Most Popular Feature?

June 14, 2019 MetaPulse Team

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.

How to start an online business

June 6, 2019 MetaPulse Team

We’ve had a few questions relating to starting a business.

How to start an online business?
What type of online app should I build?
I’m not sure what type of business I want to build?

And, recently this question:

If I pay developers, who owns the code?

How to Grow A Billion Dollar Business

May 31, 2019 MetaPulse Team

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.

What is OKR?

May 25, 2019 MetaPulse Team

What does Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Uber have in common?

They used OKRs to manage and grow their business.

OKR stands for
Objectives and Key Results.

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!.

Client Question - How to Graph Monthly Income Weekly

May 23, 2019 MetaPulse Team

Weekly or Monthly?

That is the question!

This week we received this question via our Ask Us Anything

I 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?

Connecting Mailchimp to Envisage Using Zapier

May 17, 2019 MetaPulse Team

If you want to easily track how many emails you’re sending, you can connect Mailchimp to envisage using Zapier.

In this article, we’ll show you how.

Boom Your Sales - Part 1

May 8, 2019 MetaPulse Team

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.

envisage loves zapier - A match made in the cloud

April 30, 2019 MetaPulse Team

If automation makes you weak at the knees.

If the idea of saving time has you dreamily staring off into the distance.

If you bat your eyelids and drool when someone mentions improving efficiency…

And above all, if your heart starts racing when you think about results driven success by keeping statistics…

then you’ll understand why this is a story of true love.

KISS: Up = Good, Down = Bad

April 16, 2019 MetaPulse Team

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.💋

Introducing Results Driven Success

April 6, 2019 Mikel Lindsaar

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.

Let’s build an online community to help business owners for FREE

April 6, 2019 MetaPulse Team

Although we’ve spent over 8 years developing what we believe is the best online app for stats, envisage is only part of our overall plan. Using stats to manage your business is vital, but it requires more than just collecting numbers and creating graphs.

It requires know-how and sometimes it requires a little outside help.

The purpose of this blog is to share that know-how and help. Not just our know-how, but yours too. We want this blog to become a valuable resource and community. A go-to place for reliable information and advice that helps you in your business.

If you are not keeping these 5 statistics, you are throwing money away

March 8, 2017 Mikel Lindsaar

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.

When is a graph "down" ?

May 6, 2014 Mikel Lindsaar

Having different colours for up and down statistics is common, and nothing new.

It makes it simple to see if a chart is "going in the right direction" and is why all Envisage graphs are two toned. Black if the statistic is heading "up" in a better direction, and red if the statistic is heading "down". We chose black and red for many reasons, one of which is that red/green colour blind people can see the difference between black and red.

Welcome to the Envisage Blog

June 2, 2011 Mikel Lindsaar

Envisage is now up and running with hundreds of users signed up. It's great to see our creation get started with lots of users and I thought for our first blog post I'd share some of our plans for the blog and what we want to build into the future.

How to start an online business?

What type of online app should I build?

I’m not sure what type of business I want to build?

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