OS for your business with Basecamp

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Summary

I’m sitting by Chuck the truck about to barbecue, and I want to talk about using an OS for your business. Basecamp is the best tool for this because everything lives in one place, no asking for links. I keep my life in three areas: work, business, and personal. Having one OS keeps your team from clambering around for files.

Raw

So I’m about to have a barbecue and I thought I get my chair out, sit in front of Chuck the truck. I love that name and talk to you about having an OS for your business.

Now we all know project management tools. There’s Asana, there’s ClickUp, there’s basically Base Camp, something I deal with. And they’re great as a project management tool. However, not all of them are great to be able to create an OS for your business.

Now, what I mean by an OS for your business is having everything within one place. So there’s a single source of truth for everything. You know, for instance, documentation, SOPs, any kind of documentation that the company needs, that people in the company need is actually all in one place.

Now in the past, what people used to do is use Google Docs, and I don’t use Google at all, apart from YouTube, you would have a Google Doc, and then you would link it, send it via email, but you don’t know where that doc is unless you ask someone, for instance.

Whereas having an OS for your business, having one of these tools, obviously Basecamp, as an OS for your business means that you would have a base camp, a project in Basecamp is called a Basecamp. Having a base camp called HQ, and everything, company-wide communication is in there, company-wide SOPs are in the document folder, company-wide message board, for instance, is in there. Company-wide everything is in that one HQ, so people don’t have to ask.

So when you’re onboarding a new employee, for instance, you would basically say, go to the HQ, you would point them to where it is, and they don’t have to download anything. They don’t have to ask for a link for anything. It’s all in that one base camp called HQ within your base camp app.

Other tools aren’t as great. Some of them can do it and it’s possible to get around certain limitations that they give you. But with base camp, they’ve thoroughly thought out how having an OS for your business can be done within that one tool.

So your project management is in that one tool, your communication is in one in that one tool all your SOPs documentation chat etc everything is in that one tool and keeping it organised. I posted a picture about with my one one’s called work which is client work one’s called business which is everything to do with my business and one’s called personal if I do bigger projects that are personal and they’re the three areas they’re I think they call them stacks I call them areas in my life and it’s either work that I’m doing for somebody, it’s something to do with my business or it’s personal.

There is literally nothing else. If I’m doing work on Chuck the Truck and it’s a long-term project, like I want to rebuild my gearbox, it’ll probably be in the personal one. You get the picture, so on and so forth.

So having a OS for your business is ideal for everyone within your team and within your company because you’re not clambering over, where’s the link, where’s this file, where’s that, it’s all in one place. Hopefully that helps.

I’m going to go and get ready for barbecue and my cheesecake. I bought some nice cheesecake. I’ll see you in the next one. Have a good one.