in this video we're going to talk about building your business dashboard in google drive

Okay so my window here is google drive Hopefully you all are familiar with how

to get to google drive You need a google account um to have a google drive This is not a

business account this is just my personal one although technically I have much of them are business related but

they're not I'm not unlike G suite or anything So this is a totally like free

low barrier pretty simple way to kind of start organizing your business assets So what I usually suggest

that even if you're using any of the other tools that we're going to go

over whether it's melanoma or Tremolo or notion for that matter to keep the download or the

upload of files to a minimum And those other tools that you're trying to maybe use at the free level

account um you might want to actually store your assets out here So you would want

to build out you know a folder that is your business and then some folders

out here that have the different um assets that you need that you would want to link to Its for

easy access So I might come out here and actually create another folder here um for socials

Right so social media I'm going to create that and then I'm actually going to go inside that one and

I might create another folder out here for um post images Right Just so maybe we won't

even say post just because it could be stories it could be whatever So we'll just

do images out here So this would be specific images that I've used in social media posts Right So like

I could have a folder out here where if I find something that I like I can

add it to this folder and then I have it as my repository or those

links could be um uploaded into a spreadsheet for tracking social So don't I feel like

you just have to create a business dashboards spreadsheets This is sort of like your your overall dashboard

of all the things in your business but you could certainly create spreadsheets within these folders for managing content

or planning or any of the stuff But our goal today is really just to talk

about a dashboard So basically we would create the folders that we need we loaded

up with the assets that we want out here um to make things pretty easy I would do that

first and then I would go and create your spreadsheet and this is super simple Right So you're basically

coming over to your first row and creating your whatever makes sense So for this challenge we're

actually going to do branding day one your bio bits on day two Well technically this

is day two this is day three Your services is day four so whatever that looks like

for you some may just have one service you might have multiple So this might take

you a little bit right to gather all that information that you would want Um the copy text and all

the maybe even visual assets that you need then we're going to do social So if you're

really big and all the social platforms that might be a bigger challenge for you Um and then on

day six it's key software So any of the Softwares that you use to keep track of

so this can look like whatever you want So it could just be a list of

the key things that you use but you could get a little bit more strategic and

put in the price of those things and when they were new and how often they were new and keep

track of the things I regularly visit in my business at least twice a year the software that

I'm using and how much they're costing me and what that looks like compared to what I'm

making right because we want tools to serve our needs and I am definitely one that loves

tools And I do find a lot of times that at a certain point I go beyond using a tool

at the free level and it does make sense to pay for it So you know obviously stack

your your software stack with free tools until they don't work but don't be afraid

to invest in them if they're really saving you time Um Whereas I've invested in tools

that I thought would save me time and then I don't end up using them and they

get access off the list of paid tools versus free tools So that's kind of where I track

key software and why I would do that And then obviously if you're going to try

and track your logins you probably wanna do that through a password vault type tool and then important

links anything anything anything goes here really whether it's a link to um specific like

if you're a Youtuber or if you have a podcast or any of that kind of things

where you want certain episodes that you're highlighting or if you're um maybe have collaborations with other

people online and in person and you want links to their stuff and your collaboration assets

you would put those links in that area there So the idea basically is that

you are creating this sort of go to board that has all the key things that you would need to

grab really quickly in one place And then if you get to the point where you know you

have someone else that's helping you out this is sort of like a little hub of like

what's going on with your business and they could grab that information and you're not

like let me get that to you you have it and this is supposed to be

a living document So if you change something up with the way that your offers are

the pricing like I didn't get into pricing here but you could totally have the pricing bit in here Um

you could have links to other spreadsheets like I was kind of alluding to for socials

maybe it doesn't make sense to do this uh columned version you could just have the basics here but you

could link to a specific spreadsheet for instagram for you to track how you're posting

an instagram and the hashtags that you have there and all the things right then

cramming it all into this one section But this could be a way for you to branch out in google

drive and have a different dashboard for socials themselves and be able to link to it really quickly and

get to that specific stuff So whether it's all inclusive value your socials or whether or not you have one

for each of the different social platforms whatever makes sense to you and your business but this is

the main start that's to make you kind of have a hub of information Um So yeah this is google

drive that's as hard as it really gets Just basically folders and assets and this

is super simple planning I mean it doesn't have to be complicated you don't have to have fancy design tools

like I showed you before and then I think the next one that I still need to

cover um if you haven't looked at any of the other videos you might want to just peruse them

and see if any of those things are tempting because they all have a free level Um

and I always say try things and see what you end up liking to use

Like just don't necessarily I guess if you live in google definitely use it but you if you

try other tools and you find that it has opened up a window for you and productivity then that's worth

it at the free level If there's no barrier to entry of trying a tool

I said try them and figure out what works best with the way that you like to plan

and organize your business All right off you go to build your dashboard