The Business Puzzle That Took Me 10 Years to Solve

Why more staging business tools didn't solve my biggest challenge.

One Saturday morning, doing my New York Times Spelling Bee (don't judge me, it's a whole ritual), I decided to write down every piece of software my staging business runs on. I even had to dig through my bank statements to remember everything I was paying for.

Nine or ten tools. Every one of them doing exactly what it was supposed to do. But as I stared at that list, I realized I hadn't built a system. I'd built a collection of staging business tools that didn't know the others existed.

That's the moment fragmentation clicked for me. None of those tools were wrong. They just weren't built for a staging business or designed to work together. Today, I'm sharing the story behind that realization, the decade of trial and error that led up to it, the conversations that nearly stopped me from pursuing the idea, and why I ultimately chose to build something from the ground up instead of settling for another workaround.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE:

• What I mean by “fragmentation” and how to recognize it
• The question I started asking about every tool in my business
• Why I chose not to build on someone else's platform
• How years of solving small problems led to one much bigger solution

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