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LVL-Up was recently featured in the Hive Blog
(a project management software)

Founded in 2020, LVL-Up Strategies is a minority and woman-owned small business based out of Arlington, Virginia, with a remote workforce across the globe. The LVL-Up team, which is composed of partners of foreign service and military personnel, specializes in helping small businesses grow to their potential.

LVL-Up supports business leaders in a variety of industries through their three signature services: 1) strategic advisory, 2) operational planning, and 3) targeted implementation. They provide support in the key areas of finance, customer relationship management, social media, business development, evaluation, and communications.

LVL-Up’s internal structure intentionally provides space for the talented community of EFMs (an Eligible Family Member is any partner, child, or dependent of US Military or Foreign Service personnel), also known in the team as "implementers," to thrive professionally, use their extensive experience to support small businesses, and continue to develop their skills as executives, entrepreneurs, and project managers.

This symbiotic connection of a driven workforce and driven clients is critical to the company’s strategic approach. It is why LVL-Up Strategies can #GetItHandled.

The Challenge: Managing projects on a fully remote team

Because the LVL-Up team is entirely remote, they knew from the beginning of their journey that they’d need a project management tool to power their business. Their implementers worked in different time zones all over the world, and implementers frequently have to hand-off different parts of a project from one person to another. Because of the fluid and ever-changing nature of their business, having one home base for all of their projects, communications and action items where everyone could collaborate was imperative.

A few must-haves that the LVL-Up team identified at the beginning of their project management search included the ability to quick-time chat, a "home" area for each project where they could view all files uploaded, and an intuitive, user-friendly interface. Many of LVL-Up’s implementers hadn’t used a project management tool before, so they needed something that was easy to understand and teach to their implementers. Being able to scale up quickly and collaborate immediately was also important to the LVL-Up executive team.

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