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Welcome to our blog, The Next LVL, where our team shares relevant and useful information you can use to LVL-Up yourself, your business, and your lifestyle so you can #GetItHandled®.

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How Guiding Principles Attract a Values-Driven Team

Adopting company values that resonate with your team can unlock their internal drive and drive your entire business forward.

The Secret to Crushing Your Goals This Year is Creating a Quarterly Plan

As a small business owner, you're likely already juggling a lot of responsibilities. It can be tempting to put off business development until a later date; however, this can hinder your long-term growth and ultimately impact your bottom line.

5 Tips for Screen Recording Work Tasks to Document Processes and Train Others

Screen recording is one of the best ways to document processes. These 5 tips help you choose your tools and create stronger SOPs for your business.

Why Focusing on Your Identity is a Form of Self-Care

LVL-Up CSO Laura Jennings discusses how the work we do builds our identity and helps us practice self-care.

Planning a SMART Event to Get Better Results

Using events to grow your pipeline and network can be a lot of fun, but one common mistake is not setting goals and measuring results for your events.

How good is AI in small business apps? Here's LVL-Up's Review.

LVL-Up Strategies did a deep-dive into the most talked-about AI content creation platforms to learn how they work, and to understand how they can help small businesses create content.

LVL-Up Team Shares Their Favorite Mom Hacks in Honor of Mother’s Day

LVL-Up brings you a wealth of knowledge and professional experience from women who have worked all over the world in different professional settings. But let’s be real here, a lot of our best people management skills have come from being moms and managing our households.

Small Business Marketing Plan Results in Free PR Opportunities

Strong and consistent marketing and business development planning led to unexpected public relations opportunities for a service-based small business owner.

Career Progression and Development as a Business Owner

The beauty of becoming a business owner is the freedom it entails. The freedom to make your dreams come true. You can create something that is uniquely yours and be successful if you are willing to put in the work. As a business owner, your career progression and development are now in your hands.

The Disadvantages of Remote, Asynchronous Work Part 2

As an EFM, remote and asynchronous work has many disadvantages such as fewer benefits, more work to build community, less oversight, larger feedback loops & fewer boundaries, and more distractions.

The Advantages (and Disadvantages) of Remote, Asynchronous Work

As an EFM, remote and asynchronous work has many advantages such as provide flexibility, help reduce gaps in employment and forward career progression.

Choice Value Motivation: Convincing People to Buy

Why do people make the decision to buy? And how can knowing more about what goes into these decisions affect your brand identity and messaging?

What is Process Documentation & Why Is It Important?

Process documentation is the gateway to better efficiencies, effectiveness, and eventually scalable growth in any budding company.

Learning Your Leadership Voice

GiANT Worldwide “Five Voices” method is a personality system meant to help you understand how to work with others. This training is vital to the success of our company as an entirely remote company because we place a lot of emphasis on how we work together as a team spread out across the globe.

Why Delegation Is Key For Entrepreneurs

As an entrepreneur the biggest challenge can be letting go. Here are three BIG ways that delegation can help.

Adaptability, a guiding principle put into action

LVL-Up has built a culture of adaptability for our staff and our clients by embracing change, taking risks, planning for the entire alphabet, and communicating clearly.

Five Reasons Your Business Needs a Well-designed and Cohesive Look

Building a visual representation of your business using fonts, colors, illustrations, and patterns takes organization and strategy. By taking the time to make your look cohesive and recognizable, your brand is elevated.

Thriving with Colleagues you Trust like Family

Our clients rely on us to build strategies that are 1) fearless in their approach, yet adaptable in their execution; 2) solve complex problems with creative solutions; and 3) streamline multi-directional logistics into efficient processes.

Five Ways to Find Meaningful Work as an EFM

Congratulations, you are starting the life of an EFM (Eligible Family Member). You have agreed to move every 2-3 years and will soon learn the weight of all of your clothes. You will become an expert at planning the unplannable.