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Have you ever had anyone tell you to be more "solution-oriented"? It's a phrase I hear all the time and, like many of life's delights, it's great, but also terrible in an equal measure. A lot of the companies we work with here at Pay As You Go COO come to us because they're struggling to find Product-Market Fit and, honestly, it's often precisely because they've spent too long being solution-oriented. Solution-orientation is great when you've got a fully identified and broken down problem statement to be addressing. Until that point, you're going to want to be VERY problem-oriented. Product-Market Fit doesn't come from building a great product. It comes from finding a great problem to solve. If you build something that's great but that no-one cares about, you don't have a product, you have a project. And projects can be fun, but they're not inherently lucrative. If you can find a problem that's robust - i.e. that shows up in the lives of your customers in a way that's significant enough for them to pay you an amount of money to fix it that has potential for a healthy profit margin - you're on the way to finding Product-Market Fit way before you've even started developing your solution. Want to learn more about how problem-orientation leads to Product-Market Fit and shiny piles of cash to spend on all your wildest dreams? Head to the link in the comments to check out our really simple guide - helpfully called "How To Find Product-Market Fit". --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO

You know what my absolute favourite thing in the world is? Secret bus driver waves. You know when you sit on the top deck of the bus and you can see your bus approaching another bus that's on the same number route but going the other way and you see that bus's driver wave to your bus's driver? I don't know why it brings me so much joy, but it really, really does. I feel like I've been let into the secret world that keeps London running whilst we all flap around complaining about tourists walking too slowly. Sadly, I wasn't able to build a functioning business off the back of a love for secret bus driver waves, so I had to build it off the back of a love for my second favourite thing in the world - Strategy. I absolutely love Strategy. I love meeting an organisation, hearing how chaotic and stressed everything is, and then fixing it all - making it all smooth and easy and focussed - just by improving their Strategy. Every conversation I have about a potential client's business problems can be brought back to improvements that need to be made in their Strategy. Whether it's the fact that they're not hitting their goals, or they're struggling to prioritise their work, or their team are disillusioned and quitting - it's all Strategy. Poorly designed Strategy, poorly implemented Strategy, poorly communicated Strategy. Strategy, Strategy, Strategy. I love it so much I made holographic laptop stickers about it. (Honestly, having adult money to buy all the joyful things you couldn't have as a kid is the BEST). If you're struggling to grow your business in the way that you want, I promise you it's worth a look at your Strategy - check out the info in the comments for some tips on how to make it all better. Also, give me a shout if you want some stickers. I accidentally have hundreds of them. --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO

IT'S NOT THERAPY. This is always the first thing I say when people ask me what I cover with my Business Coaching clients. It's definitely not therapy. I'm very much not a therapist. I cannot convey strongly enough how much I don't have a handle on my own emotions, let alone the capacity to get you a handle on yours. What I do know, however, is how to run a business. Even when (possibly especially when) the world is falling apart around us all, I'm very good at staying on track, focussing back in on the metrics that matter, and prioritising the heck out of anything that moves or makes a sound. In the Business Coaching work that we do at Pay As You Go COO, we work with individuals, senior operators, and founders navigating complex decisions - things like starting new ventures, fixing problems at work, or carrying the weight of leadership on their own. If they're too focussed on the day-to-day, we get them clear on what the future looks like. If they're desperate for some headspace to think, we get them feeling calm and organised. If they're in need of an unbiased second opinion, we get them feeling supported and understood. What absolute champs we are. If you want to experience some of that absolute champiness, head to the link in the comments to learn more. --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO

Sometimes, to move forwards you have to go back. Way back. Like back to the problem statement back. We work with a lot of businesses that are really struggling with the classic symptoms of a lack of operational efficiency - lost revenue, poor retention (of both customers and employees), an endless to-do list that never seems to make any difference not matter how much of it you tick off. It's miserable. Utterly, utterly miserable. Often, the founders and operators that we're working with are too far along the path and too lost in the weeds to easily fix the problem and the first thing we recommend is pausing, taking a breath and going right back to the start. We ask "What problem are you actually solving for customers?", then we ask "Who are those customers?", then we ask "How are we solving this for them?". It sounds so simple when you look at it here, but it's so hard to make a start on when you're lost in the chaos. We use really simple frameworks to guide our customers and by the time we're finished, the path to revenue seems a lot more clear, it's easier to see why customers and employees would stick around, and the to-do list has a beginning, a middle, and, most importantly for their sanity, an end. If you're struggling with overwhelm and want to clear out the cobwebs, we've got a free 4 week email course that will take you through the exact frameworks we use with our customers. Sign up, for free, in the link in the comments. --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO

About 75% of the books we sell at Pay As You Go COO are copies of How To Write Your Strategy. It's the first business book I wrote (interestingly, not the first book overall that I wrote, but it'll be a cold day in hell before you find me promoting the excruciating teenage sci-fi fantasy novel I wrote at 21) and it's definitely my favourite child. Every single client we've worked with in the last few years has gone through the 6-stage Strategy framework that's outlined in the book and we've yet to have a single complaint about it. It's simple, it's clear, it's quantitative, and it's incredibly easy to implement in your organisation. If you'd like a little more order to your chaos, you can learn the secret that makes our clients more efficient, more effective, and more attractive (ok, that last one's a lie and you're cute as a button anyway). Get it at the link in the comments. --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO

If I post about how I'm 5 subscribers away from 1,000 subscribers on the LinkedIn version of my newsletter and that makes people subscribe does that mean I'm just chasing pointless metrics and going against all of the great advice that you can get in both the LinkedIn and email versions of my excellent, very subscribable newsletter (pls subscribe)? And, if so, do I care if it means I still get to do a lil happy dance when I hit 1,000 subscribers on the LinkedIn version of my newsletter? SUBSCRIBE TO FIND OUT, I GUESS???! 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Get it here on LinkedIn: https://buff.ly/xLw8eVX Get it here direct to your inbox: https://buff.ly/8E41k1i --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I get sh!t done. Most businesses, regardless of size or industry, struggle at one time or another with operational inefficiencies. This results in wasted resources, missed opportunities, and, ultimately, hinders their ability to achieve their goals. Pay As You Go COO exists to solve this problem by offering flexible, expert support to help businesses strategise, prioritise, and operationalise their way to efficient, sustainable growth and capital injections on the best terms possible. If you're struggling with overwhelm in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me.

There's been a lot of chat on LinkedIn lately about the suppression of women's voices. To counteract this, women are changing their gender to 'male' and seeing their impressions shoot up and the comments sections are UNHINGED. One comment I've seen a few times is that it's okay that men get more impressions than women because there are a lot of men out there who are sharing women's experiences so it doesn't matter that the women themselves are being suppressed. Don't get me wrong, I think it's fantastic that there are male allies supporting women, just like I think it's fantastic that there are female allies supporting men. But men can only observe our experiences through their own lenses, and their interpretations of our experiences aren't our experiences. We need to be able to speak for ourselves. Hopefully, you can read that sentence and think "Yeah, that's legit, everyone should be able to speak for themselves." But if you can't, then a) please get off LinkedIn and go and have a chat with yourself about your opinions and b) take a look at what can happen when the eye of the beholder doesn't quite grasp the beauty of the experience - click through for some absolute car-crash examples of men trying to grasp the female experience... --- #startups #strategy #operations Hi, I'm Milly and I help founders win - regardless of their background, their budget, or the size of their dreams. If you're struggling with overwhelm and you'd like to get more of the right sh!t done in your growing business, head to my profile to book a free, no-strings, zero-stress chat with me. Liked this post and want to see more? ➕ Connect with or follow me 💼 Check out my company's page Pay As You Go COO