It's embarrassing, but I broke my own rules

See if you can spot where I went wrong:

I'm slowly working on a new podcast. I want a unique background for the video portion, but I'm using a rented studio space upstairs from my office, so I need something I can set up and take down quickly.

I thought, “How hard could it be to make a few panels that I could put up and take down quickly, and then store them easily for the next episode?”

This “quick and simple” project soon expanded into two weekends of work. Designing it, selecting and assembling parts, incorporating a dozen little ideas to make my project just a little better.

Things were going along fine, I thought, until shockingly, everything warped badly when I put on the final coat of paint.

After hours and hours of work, and spending far more than I expected on materials, I had a set of warped panels that were completely useless to me.

Back again at square one, I looked further to see how others were solving this problem.

It turns out, you can buy a nice foldable cloth backdrop on Amazon for 60 bucks. It'll be on my doorstep next Wednesday.

Did you spot the mistakes? There's more than one.

They're the same kind of mistakes you should be watching for in any new CRM project you might consider.

Custom features, staff training, new programs, new system integrations — all of them can have you putting in far more resources than you expected, and getting far less than your desired outcome, if you make the same mistakes that I did.

So what were those mistakes? Shoot me a quick reply, and let me know if you can spot them.

All the best,
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