A few years into blogging, we were working a crazy number of hours to create content, manage social media, grow an email list, pitch for sponsored work and learn all the newest changes and best practices. We weren't making enough money to hire out any of the tasks, so we each wore dozens of hats.  It was overwhelming. 

That's when we started TRYING to get organized. We tried Google Drive spreadsheets, Asana, Trello, and pretty much anything else that promised to help us wrangle the giant monster of online entrepreneurship. These stop gap measures helped a little and we were both able to grow our businesses to six figures.

But the list of tasks kept growing. Now that we finally had money to invest in our businesses, there were more things to keep track of.  

Ironically, as we earned more, we realized we were wasting more time and money (like the hoard of content we'd purchased and never got around to publishing, the multiple courses we'd signed up for but never finished or even started, or the hours we spent searching for the photos for the post that disappeared for no reason).

We needed a system that would let us manage all aspects of our now flourishing businesses so that we could scale larger and faster and keep things from slipping through the cracks.

Enter Airtable.  It has all of the functionality of a database, a spreadsheet and project management software, all rolled into one.  We had both been playing around with it and realized that we could harness the power of the Airtable system to streamline and simplify our businesses.  

And the most amazing part was, we only needed the FREE plan to create a system that covers EVERY aspect of our blog businesses.   The system incorporates everything we do and track for our own businesses, including all the things we've learned from a collective 18 years of blogging.

That is how the Airtable Business Command (ABC) System came to be. And, because we know not everyone delights in spreadsheets the way we do, we designed it so that anyone can open it up and use it without ever having to mess with formulas or calculations - those are all built-in to the system. 

This system makes managing your business as easy as ABC!