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7 Tips to Streamline Your Services so You Can Boost Your Team’s Productivity

We see you, frazzled service provider. We see you bustling and overwhelmed, reinventing the wheel every time you perform any admin task in your business. You’re building your proposals and forms from scratch, manually emailing clients repetitive emails in your process, chasing down payments, etc.


The overwhelming majority of service providers are, well, overwhelmed (and quite frankly, underpaid). We understand because we originated as a service-based business. There are 7 tips that massively helped us streamline our services and made a huge difference in our overall productivity, which is what we’ll be sharing in this blog post!

If you want to take this a step further with us to help you create a High-Touch Signature Service on Autopilot™ so you can work less and make more, we invite you to apply for The Incubator.

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How to Create a High-Touch Signature Service

We recently told the complete truth about the elusive “passive income” trend and how it’s a total sham. We also told you what you should do instead, and that’s create a High-Touch Signature Service.™


In a nutshell, a High-Touch Signature Service is what will allow you to go from working with 12 clients per month (and barely breaking even) to 4 clients per month (and making much more than before). It’s what will save your sanity, capacity, time, and pockets in the long run because you’re able to work less while making more!

In this post, we’re going to break down the 4 key phases to creating a High-Touch Signature Service, so you can be well on your way to putting your life first in your business while surpassing your financial goals.

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How to Host a Virtual Team Mixer or Holiday Party

Not being in the physical presence of team members means that there’s a bit more extra work involved to make sure everyone feels connected. You can absolutely still have a closely knit virtual team, and we absolutely love the workspace tone we’ve set with our team!


One of the ways we get in some much-needed face time is by hosting virtual team mixers. Since the holidays are coming up hot, hosting a virtual holiday party is the perfect way to get your team members chatting and connecting with each other outside of the usual workplace communication!

Keep reading to find out exactly how we host our virtual team mixers, plus some team building questions to ask to keep everyone engaged!

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All the New Canva Features that Released in 2021

You don’t need to have been a long time follower of Boss Project to know that we absolutely adore Canva. We use it for so many different purposes in our business, and we have for years! It’s the perfect tool for business owners who want to make quick, beautiful graphics without needing a design background.

This year, Canva has dropped tons of amazing new features that have been absolute game-changers for how you create graphics. We also know that this year has been a time of major comeback for so many business owners, so we wanted to give you a recap of all the new Canva features that were released in 2021!

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The Hard Reality of Pivoting From Services to Courses or Digital Products

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by the idea that the only way to really grow your service-based business the way you want to is by pivoting to courses or digital products. Don’t worry, we’ll wait.

It’s a resounding message in the online business world, and it’s an idea that gets circulated through so many service-providers’ brains a hundred times or more. They fall in love with those sexy phrases associated with pivoting to courses, like “passive income”, “work less while making more”, “make money while you sleep”, etc.

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3 Reasons Why We Use Canva

Canva is hands-down the most popular graphic design tool we see used almost every single day by creative business owners. It’s the perfect tool for beginners, people who just want to make a quick graphic, and anyone who values ease-of-use and a moderate amount of tools without having to use and learn robust software.

Here at Boss Project, we definitely fit in with that crowd! Although we have professional designers on our team that are trained in those robust softwares, nothing beats using Canva to whip up jaw-dropping graphics for all purposes.

In fact, there are 5 main reasons why we use Canva (and why you should, too!), which is what we’re going to cover in this blog post!

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Everything You Need to Know About Dubsado Before You Buy

There’s definitely no shortage of CRMs available out there for service providers, but the difficulty is choosing which one. If you’ve already started your research, chances are you’ve seen Dubsado pop up quite a few times as being one of the top CRMs. We’ll be the first to back up those claims and say they’re absolutely true!

Dubsado is the #1 CRM that we personally recommend to every service provider who’s struggling to maintain an organized system of managing and streamlining their client processes. However, what makes Dubsado different from the rest, and what are some things you need to know about Dubsado before you even buy?

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