Profit Is A Choice

Building a Community of Support with Michele Williams Lately I have been thinking about the value in building a community of support for your business. We really are not in business alone. In this podcast I am going to share some of my community, how I chose it, how it supports me – and how you can do the same. Topics Mentioned: Community Needs Alignment Key Thoughts: Early on in my career, and probably life, I thought that I had to find the one best friend or the one resource, or the one online tool to solve my problems or meet my need. Instead, what I found was that each community and person I meet can fill a different role or need in my life or business. Michele (4:28) We probably need more than one to meet the current and future needs of our business. Michele (5:26) I aim to create communities that are safe for everyone. Communities that hear a wide range of voices and respond in kindness. Communities that welcome others and when the room gets too full, we get another room and build a bigger table. Michele (7:14) Socials: Email: [email protected] Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL Instagram: @MetriqueSolutions Website: ScarletThreadConsulting.com Website: MetriqueSolutions.com LinkedIn: Michele Williams References and Resources: Work with Me Metrique Solutions

209: Metrique Solutions is Your Financial Partner in Business with Jack Tompkins Joining me again on the podcast today is Jack Tompkins of Pineapple Consulting. Jack and I, along with a whole team of people, work on Metrique Solutions, a financial dashboard developed to support creative entrepreneurs – like you! Today we are talking about how Metrique Solutions is a financial partner in your business. It is not a replacement for your accounting or project management software, but an adjunct. Topics Mentioned: Financial partnership Financial translator Visual financials Metrics Key Thoughts: Metrique Solutions is going to be an addition to your tech stack if you choose to use it, but it is solving a problem that neither the project management tools out there or the financial tools currently out there solve. And that's why it's a great partner to them. Michele (4:49) This is the audiobook to go along with the visual or in this case, it's the visual to go along with the audio. Here's what happened when QuickBooks did your invoicing. Here's another way to interpret it. Jack Tompkins (10:50) What I hear a lot, especially in the design community, is all this information in my project management system and I've got this information in my financial management system. I don't know how to make them work together. Michele (16:52) It's a great comparison and sort of analogy to Metrique as well, much like the football analogy, you get to see where you're ranked over time. Jack Tompkins (20:30) Contact Michele: Email: [email protected] Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL Instagram: @MetriqueSolutions Website: ScarletThreadConsulting.com Website: MetriqueSolutions.com LinkedIn: Michele Williams Contact Jack: Website: pineapplecf.com YouTube: Jack Tompkins YouTube LinkedIn: Jack Tompkins Email: [email protected] References and Resources: MetriqueSolutions.com How to Easily Understand Your Interior Design Business Financials Ep 136 with Jack Tompkins Seeing is Believing in Your Design Firm Ep 206 with Jack Tompkins