90 Minutes to Stop Avoiding Your Business Systems

Staring at a dashboard you don't understand. Closing the tab. Repeating for a year. Sound familiar?

90 minutes together and we can fix that!

You know that system you signed up for six months ago? The one that's supposed to make your life easier, except you've never actually set it up because you're not quite sure where to start? Or that form on your website that sort of works but definitely isn't doing what you need it to do?

Yeah. Those.

Avoiding them doesn't make them go away. It just means you're working harder than you need to, for longer than you should.

What if 90 minutes could actually sort it? Not with me doing it for you, but with me showing you exactly how it works so you can handle it yourself.

Here's what that looked like for two business owners who were done with the avoidance dance.

The Designer Who Finally Set Up FreeAgent

Sarah runs a small design studio. She'd signed up for FreeAgent a year ago because everyone said it was brilliant for freelancers. Then she stared at the dashboard, felt overwhelmed, and closed the tab.

For a whole year, she'd been sending invoices as PDFs from Word templates, tracking expenses in a spreadsheet on her desktop, and having mild panic attacks every time she needed to deal with finance admin.

We booked a Finance Flow Power Hour. In 90 minutes, we set up FreeAgent from scratch, together.

I walked her through the initial setup. We created her first proper invoice. I showed her how to log expenses in a way that made sense. We connected her bank feed so transactions flowed in automatically. And I explained which bits of the dashboard she actually needed and which bits she could cheerfully ignore.

By the end, Sarah had sent two invoices that took five minutes each. She'd logged three months of backlogged expenses. And FreeAgent had gone from "that intimidating thing I'm paying for but not using" to "the system I actually understand."

The business impact? She stopped sending invoices as Word documents scattered across her desktop. Everything lives in one place now. She can see all her invoices at a glance, track what's been paid and what's outstanding, and actually know her projected income for the next three months instead of guessing based on her bank balance. And when someone asks "how's business going?" she can answer with actual numbers, not just a vague "pretty good, I think."

Here's why that matters beyond just feeling more organised: when your finance system actually works, you can scale. You can take on more clients without your invoicing becoming a bottleneck. You can make informed decisions about pricing and capacity because you can actually see your numbers. That's not admin. That's business intelligence.

The Coach Who Built a Form That Worked Smoothly

David runs a coaching business. His Google Form for client inquiries was, in his words, a bit rubbish. It collected names and email addresses, but that was about it. Leads came in missing half the information he needed. Nothing connected to his CRM, so he was manually copying details across (and sometimes forgetting). And the form itself looked like something from 2009 stuck on his otherwise lovely website.

He'd thought about hiring someone to build a proper system. But his packages changed regularly. If he couldn't tweak things himself, he'd be stuck waiting (and paying) every time.

He booked my Flowing Forms Power Hour.

I walked him through Jotform from the ground up. How to build a form that asked the right questions in the right order. How to make it look professional. How to connect it to his email marketing platform so new leads dropped straight into his welcome sequence. How to set up the auto-reply so inquiries got an immediate response, even at 11pm on a Sunday.

We tested it live. Fixed the weird formatting. Made sure every piece connected properly. Embedded it on his site so it looked seamless.

A month later, David launched a new coaching tier. He built the intake form himself in 25 minutes.

The business impact? Every inquiry now arrives with complete, useful information. It's already in his CRM. Follow-up emails go out automatically. He's not losing leads because he forgot to reply quickly or didn't see the email buried under 87 others. And when he tweaks his packages (which he does, regularly), he just updates the form. Takes ten minutes.

This is bigger than just saving 15 minutes per inquiry. When your client onboarding runs itself, you can handle growth without hiring. You're not the bottleneck anymore. Your forms work while you sleep, which means your business can grow beyond the hours you're personally available to respond to emails.

David's exact words after his second self-built form: "I can't believe I spent a year working around this instead of just learning how to do it properly."

So Here's the Thing About Power Hours

A Power Hour isn't me doing it for you. It's me showing you exactly how your tech works so you can handle it yourself. Think of it as systems sorcery training (wand not included, unfortunately).

Book a Power Hour if:

• You've been avoiding a system because you don't know where to start

• You're using something but not using it properly

• You want control over your own tech, not dependency on someone else

• You're tired of workarounds and ready to actually understand how it works

• You know that learning this now will save you hours (possibly months) of faff later

Don't book a Power Hour if:

• You genuinely want to hand something off completely and never think about it again (that's what my VA services or retainers are for)

• You need ongoing support rather than a one-off knowledge transfer

• You don't have the bandwidth to implement what you learn right now

One thing you can do today:

Pick one system you've been avoiding or half-using. Write down three specific things about it that make you hesitate or stress. If those three things are costing you time, creating friction, or making you work around the system instead of with it, that's your sign to put in a little effort now to make it easier for the future.

Or book one of my Power Hours:

Whether it's an invoicing system sitting there untouched, forms that aren't functioning, or something else entirely (I offer all sorts of Power Hours) that's quietly eating your time, let's get it sorted together. So you can stop avoiding it and start using it like the capable business owner you are.

90 minutes. That's all it takes.