How to use Asana to scale your business: 6 top tips
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Hello! Today I’m going to talk about how to use Asana to scale your business. I’m going to give you 6 easy ways that you can use Asana that’s going to really make a difference in your business and life.
When you get to the stage that you’re going to grow your business it’s really important that you have all your ducks in a row. Asana is the way to do this. In Asana you are in the best place that you can be to seriously scale your business without becoming overwhelmed.
1. Content library
You can create your very own content library that you can add topic ideas to.
When you’re out and about and you get inspired for a topic you would like to talk about, you can add that to your content library. You can also add bullet points of the different things you want to talk about for that topic.
When it comes to the day that you’re creating your content, you won’t get a mind blank because it’s there. You have a library that you can go to for inspiration about what you want to talk about that week.
And you will also be able to track that content and know what has really hit the ground with your audience. You can see what your audience is liking. This means you can recreate similar content around that topic that your audience is going to love.
2. Task list
When I say task list, I don’t mean that it’s going to be a list full of tasks, so they will never going to be looked at. You need to be strategic when setting up your task list.
In Asana you can assign the tasks to the relevant people, you can set the due dates and you can set the time as well as the frequency.
If you have a task that’s going to be completed every month, you can create it to come up every single month in your task list as that’s what you’re needing to do.
It’s also really easy. If you get to the day where you realise that you are over capacity and you’re not going to get round to a certain task (that isn’t time sensitive) you are able to easily move that to another date. You don’t need to rewrite the task in a piece of paper, which is a waste of time.
Using Asana as a task list is really good and it also means that it doesn’t become overwhelming — on paper you see this massive task list and you just think “how am I going to get through this?”. In Asana, you just concentrate on specific day.
3. Brainstorming
You can brainstorm not only ideas but also what offers you’re going to create, what topics you want to talk about, your pricing, your strategy. Everything can be done in Asana.
You can add exactly what you want to brainstorm into a card and then you can have the different outcomes that you’ve had.
It also means that sometimes when you’re in a brainstorming session, you think something sounds like an amazing idea. But then, in a week or so time you go back and think “What was I thinking? That’s a terrible idea!”.
You can keep everything together. You can also create summaries around the thinking of that brainstorming session. The why you thought that was a really good idea at the time.
4. Delegating.
It’s easy to delegate on Asana.
You are able to see if you had too much on one day and you couldn’t move any of the tasks to another day. You can look at what your team could be doing for you and you could easily assign it to that team member, rather than having to go through everything involved in that task because it’s all there in that card.
Everything that your team member will need, is there.
You can also keep an eye on that task and make sure that is follow through to completion.
5. Systems library
Systems are so important in business.
They really create a solid foundation for growth. If you don’t have systems in place, I strongly advise you to start looking at that today.
Creating systems on a Word document, for example, is not something I recommend. You put so much effort into creating that document and then it gets filed and never seen again.
I like to use Asana as a systems library. You can duplicate that particular task or system in order to assign it and adapt it to a certain procedure.
If, for instance, you had someone that was being onboarded as a team member, you would be able to repeat that system, name it as the person and mark everything off as you go along, making sure that there’s no gaps in the onboarding.
6. Project management
You can use Asana to manage all the spinning plates in your business.
You can have your regular daily tasks for your business and for your life (I use it for my personal life as well). And you can also create a project that’s going to make sure that that project stays on track.
When you create a project, you can go into that specific project and make sure that you really whistle down on what needs to happen to bring that project to life. You can use the subtasks to create a real system around what you’re going to do. This also means that you can assign it to a date and the time that needs to be done by.
You can also see whether or not a certain project is running behind. If it is running behind, you’ll be able to see what needs to change to get that project back on track.
So, there you have it — 6 easy ways that Asana can really help you scale your business.
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Speak soon. Bye
