Is Dubsado right for *your* business?

Dubsado’s great. I know that, you (hopefully) know that, we all know that.

We know it’s got features that help businesses run more effectively, save time and make more money.

Side note: if you don’t know all that yet, where have you been?! Here’s some convincing material for you to sink your teeth into:

The Beginner’s Guide To Dubsado (And How It Can Take You From Overwhelmed To Killin’ It, Fast)

3 Ways Dubsado Helps To Grow Your Creative Business

But, one piece of the jigsaw is missing to tip you over into my DMs, screaming “HARRIET PLEASE GIVE ME DUBSADO RIGHT NOW PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE”.

And that’s whether it’s right for your business.

Now clearly, I don’t actually know exactly what your business is. Because I’m staring at a screen typing this while you’re in a future-time staring at another screen reading this.

But I’ve worked with enough frazzled, overwhelmed, creative people to know a thing or two about what keeps you up at night, what gets your goat, and what drives you absolutely bonkers about being a ‘proper business owner’.

So, let’s take a look at some of the signs that Dubsado might be the lifesaver you’ve always dreamed of, shall we?

Dubsado is perfect for you if…

… you’re running a creative business. Because being creative probably means you adore what you do, but you definitely didn’t sign up for all the ‘business-y’ stuff that goes along with it!

… you lose multiple hours a week to admin tasks. From replying to emails to scheduling calls to sending (and chasing) invoices, it sometimes feels like your full-time job is to be your business’ admin assistant.

… you constantly feel like you’re chasing your tail. Every single day, your to do list gets longer, not shorter. You’re always stressed about hitting deadlines because you can’t find the time to focus properly on your client work.

… you’ve actually missed out on clients because you’ve taken too long to respond to enquiries. Or you’ve just been juggling so many things that leads slip through the cracks. You’re literally bleeding money because your business is too admin-heavy.

… your onboarding ‘process’ changes every time - and definitely doesn’t WOW anyone. It’s haphazard at best, confusing and overwhelming at worst. It doesn’t make any client excited about the prospect of working with you, and it takes you too much time to cobble it together for every new client.

… you can’t even remember the last time you sent a feedback form to a client. Because once your work has finished, you’re already moving instantly onto the next hundred things on your to-do list.

… your clients (and you) have turned up to calls at the wrong time, because of time zone confusions. It turns out that 1pm doesn’t actually mean 1pm across the world… so after hundreds of emails back and forth trying to decide on a time, you still don’t actually manage to meet each other.

… you’ve completely forgotten to send invoices to clients. You’ve sent them late, in a panic or with incorrect details, because they’re not going out automatically and your brain is like a sieve.

… you’re tracking leads and enquiries in a spreadsheet. It’s inefficient, annoying to use and, quite frankly, an absolute mess.

… you’ve sent a new client the wrong contract before. Again, because you just can’t remember every single detail of every single enquiry, lead and onboarding process you’re going through at any one time. And no human could!

If you’ve done even one of those things before, you’ve probably left money on the table that Dubsado could’ve rescued for you. Imagine having everything done for you, without lifting a single finger?! Imagine having the time and brain space to focus on creating amazing work for your clients, instead of spending every second worrying about what you’ve forgotten to do?! Imagine having a business that actually feels like you run it, not the other way around?!

That’s what Dubsado gives you.

But, I get it. That dreamy business lifestyle might not be for everyone… So, in the interests of balance and fairness, here are a few signs that you probably don’t need Dubsado and can actually carry on living your life the way it is right now.

You can survive without Dubsado if…

… you actually enjoy editing contracts in Word Documents for every new client. It’s the best part of your week. Your favourite task. You’d cry if you didn’t get to do that anymore.

… you’ve got too much money and you’d prefer to earn a little bit less. So what if a client enquiry slips through the cracks? You don’t like money and would rather earn much less anyway.

… you’d rather spend your day chained to your desk than out at the beach in the sunshine. Ew, who likes sun anyway?! Freedom sucks.

… you quit your corporate job because you want to work more unpaid hours - and now you’re living the dream! Work-life balance? Who needs that. You love working 16-hour days.

… you love answering the same questions over and over again. In fact, you’ve got the art of repeating yourself down now. You’re a pro.

… you really like playing hide-and-seek with your copy-and-paste reply to enquiries. It hides from you, and you love that. You can happily spend 20-minutes searching for exactly the right email just so you can paste the same bland, personality-less message to another enquiry.

… you love your job so much that you actually don’t even want to get paid for it. Those invoices you keep meaning to send? Pfft, who needs money? Those bills will pay themselves - you’re doing this for the lurrrve.

If these things are you, then fair. You don’t need Dubsado. You can continue building your creative business without my good friend Dubsado by your side. You might end up tired and broke and burnt out, but in the meantime, you’re having the time of your life.

Dubsado the Dream-Maker 💫

Okay okay, I’ll put sarcasm to the side for now. Because hopefully you got the sarcasm in those last few points…

Let’s face it: no one would rather be at their desk than at the beach or at yoga or watching TV or, dare I say it, daytime napping?! And as much as we all love our businesses, we’re doing them to earn money, not just to do people free favours all the time.

To grow a creative business that doesn’t end up controlling you, disrespecting your boundaries and generally being a whole heap worse than even the worst of your exes (good riddance), you need Dubsado.

It means no more chains, no more repetition, no more missed invoices - it means things just flow, without needing you to action everything. 

It makes things better for you AND YOUR CLIENTS - because that bluuurgh onboarding process you’re cobbling together right now is not doing the trick.

It helps you put the joy back into your work again, because you actually have the time to do what you love.

It’s nothing short of transformative. (No word of a lie. GAME. CHANGER.)

You’re convinced, right? You want the life Dubsado can give you, right?

Good. Step this way and I’ll get Dubsado set up, running smoothly AF and giving you the business of your dreams, at long last 🙏