Notion Failed You.
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I WILL NEVER get another business partner! 🤬 (An unwavering decision that I made 6–7 years ago after 2 failed partnerships) I learned that even with the best intentions from all parties, resentment can (and will) build—it's almost guaranteed. 🫱❌🫲 This happens for a myriad of reasons: ↳ 🥇 If you have an “ideas person” vs “executer”, the executor will quickly feel like workload is falling solely on them (unless there's no sales coming in, then the reverse happens). ↳ 🥈 You can have different visions for the business—do you scale at all costs or keep it a lean lifestyle business? ↳ 🥉 One person becomes obsessed with work—working 24/7—while the other may want more work-life balance, especially if they have a family. This happen with bands all the time, they make amazing music while together, but someone always feels like they are the cog to success, so they break it off (due to resentment), only to learn that maybe it was the group. Heck, it even happened to Ben & Jerry's! The reason is, there's just so many opportunities for disagreements to arise, and rarely does it make sense to truly put in the time and work to flesh out every single disagreement as it goes directly against moving quickly. What might seem fair at the start (a 50/50 partnership), will be the first point of resentment to grow as how does one assign such expectations and value before ever working together. Not to mention, 50/50 implies equal power, and thus results often in having 2 captains steering the ship. It simply won't end well. (In-fact, I hear that's actually what happened with the Titanic). I had two failed business partnerships, talked to everyone imaginable about if it could work (even asking Chris Do back in the day on a live stream—he's actually who gave me the Ben & Jerry's example 😂) and after years of debating, the consensus was in—never again. ✅ Then as the saying goes: when you least expect it—someone enters your life and changes everything you thought you knew. (Andra Vomir 👋😅) BUT there is no romanticizing it: ANY successful business partnership takes hundreds, if not thousands of hours of conversation: negotiation of ideas, working through conflict, expectations, power dynamics, heck, even a contingency plan if all goes to 💩 (e.g. disillusion agreement). Watch the full episode about business partnerships here: efficient.link/ateam/4
Best CRM Software: https://efficient.app/comparisons/crm What Makes a Good CRM? Things like tracking emails being sent/received across team members, deep calendar integration for when your team has external meetings. You should also have robust activity logging functionality, so you can integrate your VoIP software, bulk email sending software, and more to the CRM to add full contextual awareness around the relationships and deals you're working on. All these things allow for your company to scale by leveraging a shared brain—the CRM. Now when looking at a tool like Notion as a CRM or Airtable as a CRM, that's exactly where we start getting frustrated. Neither do the most basic email and calendar tracking that a CRM should have as absolute table-stakes, and yet they will run around claiming they are a CRM. API & Integration The best CRM's on the market will also have a robust API and have many great companies building integrations with them. For example, a Zapier connector is table-stakes with a CRM (it should have many triggers and actions available). In addition, you'll also see some of the best help desks on the market natively integrating with them—although the tough part here is because Salesforce and HubSpot own 80%+ of the CRM market, you do find many tools just integrating with them, even though both those CRMs are mainly meant for large business and enterprise usage. What CRM Should I Use? You can check out our article on Best CRM for Small Businesses to get a full overview of the leading contenders: https://efficient.app/comparisons/crm