Welcome to the 31st monthly transparency report (subject to August 2017). This series of articles shares everything that happens in the company from an organizational and business perspective. Click here to view previous reports. Because I want to cover a lot of content in this report, I will introduce a simple summary step (it doesn’t matter if you are not interested in all the content). 1. transparency. Why the company needs to retreat Home office and its problems Leave value of all team members | 5. How to improve team management and results | 6. Automatic refresh and its effect | 7. Upcoming meeting – meet! The
#Transparency \31 report – for the value of the twitter team building + the method of improving results, click. In general, we have done a lot of experiments as an organization. We will learn from the same niche market and other businesses outside it, and match the new methods with our workflow and tasks. Sometimes this will (unfortunately) reinvent the wheel, but in other cases it will lead to innovation, making daily work easier and more efficient. Below, we will share a few points we have tried to implement and the lessons we have learned. But (please) don’t be harsh. I am a bad administrator and I like random patches to \
1. as for becoming transparent, we have tried many concepts in this field. Although some of them worked well, some of them failed. What worked? Obviously, the reports themselves are. I have to make relevant discoveries, think and learn every month, which brings me a great burden, but it is a good kind of pressure. Creating transparent reports often leads to new ideas and a better view of the entire business. So what doesn’t work? One of the experiments we continue to do is open (internal) payroll. The size of the buffer is much larger. They said they were satisfied with that. But it failed for us. The
Advantages: better connection with current (and future) employees helps to form the integrity of the company. Disadvantages: competition within the team is faster than expected, and personal information is reduced. Last time. Although this is only a family, I think public compensation may work in US based companies, but if you are Romanian (or usually Eastern \/ Central European), this may not be the best idea on the whole. In other words, I have recently begun to value privacy more and more, and now it has become one of my first ranking troubles related to the web. I started because I believed in the idea of the whole compensation system in principle. But after a while, when I asked people, no one wanted the actual people in the grid to keep the data. In the end, if you are a member of the company, I think it is wrong to turn the grid into a necessary element. Everyone should decide the salary and share. The
On the bright side, the grid reveals some existing problems and helps us realize that we must first implement a general feedback machine to check each other’s work based on performance as a whole. That’s when we should start getting paid. Move up 2 The reason why the company needs to retreat is that we have been doing this since two years ago. That started when we chose weekends and held beach parties. This is perfect for 4-5 people, but as the team grows, we come to the conclusion that its form itself may not be as backward for everyone. The
This year, we all decided to take a week off in a quieter environment, enjoy nature, spend quality time together and complete wonderful profile projects. In the end, 12 people participated, and everyone was very happy
Although there is no limit to the number of holiday days, few of us actually use more than 10 days. Most people work all year round Therefore, I decided to offer paid leave to the international group. The only rule is that you can’t work that holiday. Although this is another extra cost for the company, I hope people can become healthier and maintain a high level of productivity throughout the year. Finally, inspired by automation and my health problems, I decided to provide 3 months’ paid Sabbath for all people who have worked with us for more than 5 years. Having that kind of rest can surprise your motivation and motivation! Move up 5. I am not the best listener in the world on ways to improve team management and results. I tend to focus too much on my own point of view. At least professionally, I mistakenly believe that others want the same things as me, hate the same things, and have similar goals in general. For example, I always try to promote some people as entrepreneurs. I suggested the company’s stock to them, but later found that they didn’t even care about it. To be honest, not everyone is like an entrepreneur or wants to do it. Some people do their own things, and Well, I want to be clear and stable in my career. So, in the final analysis, the first thing I have to do is to make it easier and happier for people to do that. At the same time, I have noticed what is moving me. On the contrary, what is moving them. To this end, I tried a more layered approach. We specified \
However (especially in themeisle), we have made a lot of ideas and efforts to make our value proposition accurate and interesting enough that users want to update it. But in fact, we haven’t had a chance to test the update in the field. Not long ago… (in the combination of theme and revival.social) had the first deployment in 2000 subscriptions scheduled for updates. The following are some preliminary results (taking themeisle as an example, only 4 days; taking revival.social as an example, based on data over 30 days): Theme:30 people updated their membership, but 28 didn’t. This means that the update rate is about 50%. I would like to know more about the reasons why people decide whether to update, but in general, I am still satisfied with these results. Although the total revenue is less than that of new users, I think it still has more significance. It provides cruel and honest feedback on how our work, products and time adapt to users. This is more than comments or online comments. People who vote with their wallets are always more insightful. This enables our products to be supported and maintained over the long term and to operate a more sustainable business as a whole. Revive Social aspect: due to the product features we provide, the update rate is expected to be slightly higher than the actual rate. At the time of creation, 31 out of 82 were updated (~38% update rate). This is a bit of a cool shower for us. But I should have seen this coming. In the past year, there were few software updates, and there was not much communication except for the release of new products everywhere. We are basically only responsible for ourselves. But we have begun to take some measures to solve this problem. We have started to work on the new version of live old post, which will be released soon. We will offer several discounts to those who choose to update before the new version appears. Despite the results, I always like the membership model. You have a lot of freedom in determining whether the value provided by 2 or 3 years is still very high. If you continue to add new products and additional offers. For example, themeisle has added 10 new themes and 6 plug-ins in the past few months, making it easier for people to see the value of updates. We have also run a large number of a\/b tests and reintroduced a single theme package to strive to provide customers with more transparent and fair services. We do this for two reasons. (1) The effect of previous analysis data on this license is not clear (2) we hope that users will not feel forced to buy. Membership. In terms of products, we have made a lot of efforts in Hestia in the past few months and launched the early version of orbitfox company. I mentioned this in my previous report. By default, we have experimented with jetpack similar to the jetpack plug-in, which provides useful functions suitable for the topic. Formwork In order to support the new json-ld and make maintenance easier, we re wrote the WP product review plug-in from the beginning. In order to test the user’s response to this, we launched the version of pilot forms (the form market has been very competitive, and we do not intend to focus on this.) By the way, we have launched an update to WP product review, which has greatly increased sales. Therefore, the best strategy to increase sales is to maintain the product well. It’s not surprising to think about it. Move up 7 Upcoming meeting – meet! Turn the corner
