Hiring new staff can be both exciting and daunting. In an effort to make your life easier hiring new team members, we wanted to highlight one way we use our custom contact workflows: Hiring New People.
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Why do we think Every Company is a Software Company?
We have some great discussions as a team that vary between software, business & life talks. In a recent chat, we discussed how every company is actually a software company. What does that mean? No matter what business type you are, you need to be investing in your technology and software in order to compete. The alternative is you stay the same and get left behind. We discuss some great examples of companies in different business classes and how they have invested in technology and software to make themselves better. As a result, they are standing out in the crowd. See how you can apply this to your business:
Team hacks: This one thing helps with your employee retention
Creating a complicated and vague work environment can mean fostering frustrated and temporary employees. But, this can be avoided. Focusing on clear work processes makes your team more efficient. It’s that simple.
Workplace Hacks: Efficiency For The Win
At a certain point, closing more business can actually do more harm than good. We’ve seen this happen most often when businesses are trying to grow past the $2-$5 Million in revenue mark. You can hustle to $1-$2 Million in revenue, but sustainable growth beyond that point requires new behavior.
Project Templates and Team Templates in Bento Systems Software
How often are you duplicating a task or process you’ve done in your job before? How much easier would it be if you could just click to duplicate a process and have the new project copied? With the templates feature in Bento you can do just that and save time and a ton of work.
Operational Memory: What is it and what are the downfalls?
The days of working the same 9-5 for 40+ years seem to be on the path of extinction. Automation and a moderately consistent push to “try something new” means team members might not always stick to one company for their entire career. What does this mean if a valued team member gains plenty of information on their work responsibilities and/or their client? How will a company replace such a valued asset if that person leaves? No matter what, an experienced team member can easily gain strong operational memory during their time in a work position. Companies and businesses need systems to help pass this memory to other team members.
Custom Project Workflows: Now With Triggers
Triggers are especially helpful when you have a lot of different teams or team members responsible for different parts of the project.
Bento team: Why is there so much Japanese culture in the Bento brand?
Konichiwa! Arigatou! These are two greetings & salutations you may see as you use Bento Systems. What do those words even mean? What is their specific purpose? Konichiwa and arigatou mean “hello” and “thank you” in Japanese. The Bento brand name itself is Japanese. Bento was built on a custom back-end framework called Pagoda. The…
Why we don’t have a mobile app, and why you shouldn’t either.
It’s strange nowadays not to have a downloadable mobile app. Being a startup, you might assume it’s just something we haven’t gotten around to yet. But actually, it’s an active choice on our end. It’s a business and philosophical decision.
Upload files directly into tasks
We know that your documents and files are important to your business! A content management software that allows your team to collaborate seamlessly on important documents is a must-have for any modern organization.