In this video, I'm going to cover five things we see broken
all the time with small business owners who are just starting up
and using Google workspace. So if you're a small business
owner, and you've started using Google workspace, you may have
set it up in a number of different ways. Maybe it was
configured from a hosting provider, like a Wix or a
Squarespace and you clicked one button and just automatically
set things up. Or maybe you had a friend or a colleague, or
maybe your web designer set up an account for you, maybe you
signed up yourself, because you were sick of using hotmail or
Gmail, and you wanted to move over to the business version of
Google that everyone's been talking about. Now, what we see
is for many business owners who are in this stage of business,
is that they're not really that all that TECHO, you don't
necessarily know the difference between an A record and an MX
record when it comes to DNS settings. And that's probably
not the most important thing for you to be worrying about.
Anyway, what we see is business owners wanting to get work done
with technology tools, and trying to do it themselves. And
we're a business that helps small business owners to do less
of the tech yourself and rely on experts so you can focus on your
business. So some of the things that can pop up for a small
business owner, when they're actually working on the
technology in their business is maybe you're migrating between
different email addresses, let's say you've got all of your data
sitting in Outlook, or maybe it's sitting in Mac mail, then
you really want to move that over and across into your new
Google workspace account. Or maybe your old data is still
sitting on your old laptop and the lid shut and it's in a
drawer somewhere. And you're missing out on your old emails
and being able to search through them. Some other issues that we
see happening pretty commonly is if you're interested in setting
up an auto forward, or maybe even an auto reply from your new
email address, then you're trying to work out how to get
that working correctly. Next up being able to be logged in on
your phone, when you've got a mobile phone, making sure that
you're signed in properly, some people still use Apple Mail on
their phone instead of using the Gmail app. And so things can get
a little bit wonky there. And then we see some pretty obvious
ones being missed around collaboration. So if you're an
early stage business owner, and you're starting to hire your
first few staff members, not actually setting up correct
shared drives inside of Google Drive, and not using a task
management system for managing tasks with your team. Now, when
we say business owners getting these things wrong, business can
end up in a little bit of a mess, it can feel like
everything's going wrong, and nothing's really organized. And
you've got new team members starting but you know, maybe you
don't have a correct process for onboarding them. If you're
managing a task management system just on a whiteboard in
your office, or maybe you're just managing it inside your
head. Or maybe you're even using a chat program to do your to
do's with your team, then you probably don't have one place to
know where all of your team's work is happening, what's
complete what's incomplete, and where your team are actually up
to with the tasks that you've delegated to them. Worst of all,
if you're sharing things from your Google Drive, and you
haven't set your sharing permissions properly, sometimes
you can even lose data, where a contractor creating files for
you may actually remove access to those files from your
account. And without you having control, you may actually use
lose data to some of the important files in your
business. So if there's the kind of issues that you're seeing in
your business, maybe you're moving data between different
computers or different systems, or you're wanting to just get
your emails running smoothly, or your workspace set up smoothly.
So you can focus on growing your business and delivering the
support service or delivering the product or delivering the
coaching or whatever it looks like in your business that you
need to do to get your work done and earn money. Well, maybe it's
time to bring in the experts to help with your tech
organization. So if you'd like some help with our team, you can
jump on one of the links below and see if we're a good fit to
work together. It genius is a business consultancy, and we
help business owners with tech help. No matter what stage of
business you're at. We know that there are different technology
strategies needed to make sure that you can build a great
business which is scalable and secure. And you can build a
happy, healthy team so you can deliver more to your customers
and have more impact to your community. Now we help business
owners along the journey whether you're a just getting started
business, or if you're a large organization anywhere in the
world with hundreds or even 1000s of employees, our team are
ready and on hand to help with all your tech needs. So if you'd
like to investigate getting to work with us, you can jump on
one of the links right below this video. Now, if you're
already a customer of Google workspace, you can get access to
our transfer in offer. And that provides businesses using the
Google ecosystem. With free training for you and your team.
You not only get access to a professional course with support
and also certifications for your team to go through. But you get
access to our professional webinars which teach you how to
get the best of everything inside of Google workspace and
some tips on how to grow your business as well. If you're
interested in that, jump at the link below and we'll see you
soon