Streamline your small business with expert insights from Traci Birmingham, founder of the Business Alignment Method. Traci, who’s adapted corporate strategies from companies like Charles Schwab and Visa, shares practical methods for refining roles and optimizing workflows to free up time and boost productivity. Her proven system empowers entrepreneurs to create customized structures that promote growth, offering valuable advice for everyone from startups to seasoned business owners.   Learn effective delegation techniques tailored for small businesses. Traci covers how to start with simple tasks and scale to marketing and leadership roles, all while highlighting the impact of Virtual Assistants in handling routine work. Discover Traci’s preference for dynamic, visual guides over traditional SOPs and how tools like Loom can transform communication and task delegation, particularly with remote teams. With a focus on communication and project management tools like Monday.com, Traci provides actionable advice to strengthen team cohesion, drive retention, and streamline operations.  NOTABLE QUOTES "We want it cheaper, faster, and better all at the same time, which you can't typically have all three of those." – Philip "Get yourself a work management tool and you as a solopreneur, can bring some of the corporate management into your day so that you can help to structure the work that you're doing." – Traci "With small businesses, you can be making eight figures in today's world with a very small team." – Traci "If you're hiring a VA, you need to be extremely clear about the task that needs to be performed." – Traci "I think SOPs are dead." – Traci "How-to document rather than an SOP, because everything changes all the time." – Philip  "I don't want things to pile up. It's so easy to make a simple tweak here and there.” – Traci "Building a team that actually kind of wants to do the work that they've got in front of them makes such a huge difference in being able to grow and scale." – Traci "Get yourself a good work management tool where you can track everything." – Traci "Make sure you automate as much as possible." – Traci "Get out ahead of stuff as much as possible." – Traci  RESOURCES Traci Website: https://goaldi.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/goaldiglow  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traci-bermingham-goaldi  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goaldi   Philip Digital Course: https://www.speakingsessions.com/digital-course Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamphilipsessions/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@philipsessions Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-sessions-b2986563/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealphilipsessionsSupport the show

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