Welcome to Manual Mode
A newsletter for people running businesses with duct tape, determination, and a spreadsheet they swear they'll clean up one day.
At some point, you decided to run a business.
Nobody warned you that “running a business” would mean also being the accountant, the HR department, the IT helpdesk, the marketing team, and — on particularly special days — the person unclogging the office sink.
Welcome to the club. It’s crowded in here.
Manual Mode is a newsletter for small business owners and operators who are doing a lot of the heavy lifting themselves — not because they want to, necessarily, but because that’s just the reality of building something when you can’t staff every function with a full-time specialist.
It’s about the practical stuff. The unglamorous stuff. The stuff that actually determines whether your business survives — not the stuff that gets you featured in a think-piece about founder mindset.
Every post will tackle one specific part of running your business: how to handle it yourself when you don’t have the budget for a dedicated expert, when to finally bring someone in, and what to watch out for in the meantime.
No frameworks. No buzzwords. Just what actually works, from someone who’s seen what happens when it doesn’t.
The first post drops Tuesday.
We’re kicking off with bookkeeping — specifically, how to run your finances without a full-time bookkeeper. It’s less sexy than a fundraising story and more useful than a productivity hack. You’re welcome.
If you know someone who’s figuring this stuff out as they go, forward this to them. They’ll probably appreciate it more than you realize.
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