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"One leg of my desk is shorter than the others and every day for the past fifteen years I've meant to wedge something under it, but every day my work is too urgentβI'm perpetually at a crucial turning point; everything is forever about to be revealed." I spent the entirety of my recent 7+ hour flight from Portland to NYC reading Miranda July's latest book "All Fours." (If you are into weird-girl-lit and haven't read any Miranda July - sprint to your nearest library!) β The quote above is a moment in her book "All Fours", in which Miranda July inhabits all of my creative clients. She knows fixing her wobbly desk would not take that much time! And! probably benefit her focus!!! But the daily urgency of her The Work (also capital "W") meant that she could never really wrap her mind around something like that - The Work always takes priority. New here? I'm Devin LeeI optimize your offers by removing you as the bottleneck so you can serve more clients without sacrificing quality.Get a taste of what I do: π₯ Inbox Zero Hero πΊοΈ Work with me π¬ Say hi on LinkedIn Agency owners live at a perpetual turning point.No rest for the wicked! Thereβs always a client deadline, or a launch, or a new team member you need to onboard ASAP. β βΏ the project management tool you never really got up and running, βΏ the intake form that isn't qualifying your leads, βΏ the SOPs you never finished writing. You were working on this wobbly desk for years, and now your team is leaning on it too.Do you have time to fix the wobbly desk before it topples under the weight of your team? Enjoying this email? Forward it to a friend! They can hop on my email list by π clicking here π Creative agency owners hire me because their work is always urgent, their team is always busy, and the thing holding it all together is wobbling a little more every month. You can't pause client work to fix your systems - so I build in the background while your team keeps serving clients.For 6 months, I get deep inside your agency. I map how your work gets delivered, build the hub that holds it all, and train your team on it until they can run it without you. Without wobbly systems behind the scenes, your team does their best work and your clients are happier than ever. You get to keep being the weirdo with brilliant ideas. β
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