Loading...Are you ready to Tungle (in the time jungle)?
October 21st, 2009 in Uncategorized
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Tags: business coaching, Connection, Entrepreneur, Leadership, relationships, Small business owner
I had the pleasure of interviewing Tungle CEO Marc Gingras a few months back. Tungle is a free calendar accelerator… that helps you schedule meetings online and publish your free/ busy calendar (so your clients and colleagues can see when you have free appointment slots, for example, without having to call or email you). This short video on Tungle’s capabilities will impress you:
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While Tungle is a great fit for any business professional, I see a fantastic opportunity for coaches and therapists who run a busy practice and want to make client appointment scheduling much easier by having clients book their own appointments online.
For Marc, Tungle is his way to positively change the world. His goal is to have all business people using Tungle to schedule their meetings. His biggest obstacle is the status quo. Changing people’s entrenched behaviours is challenging so his team works to make Tungle easier and easier to adopt.
The key to running a successful business, according to Marc, comes back to people almost everytime: having the right people in the right positions, creating a “get it done” attitude at Tungle, and aligning all the people (management, employees, the board and investors) toward the same objectives.
Getting the right people is not about technology, marketing or the competition; we need people with the right attitude and we have to put them in the right spot so they can shine.
Sometimes the people who are great at the start up phase are not the people who can build a successful mature company, Marc has learned.
Letting go of one of my initial start up people was the hardest thing. The reward is that the company turned around 100 percent so my decision was the right one and it was confirmed right away.
He’s proud of the team he has built and how he has transformed Tungle from a successful start up to a successful company.
Marc started his web career in 1998. During the time the tech bubble burst, he was managing a team of 30 at another company. While he feels that he let them down as he didn’t see it coming, he knows he won’t get caught like this again. He’s rounded out his finance and R&D expertise with sales and marketing know-how, surrounded himself by amazing people and now pays close attention to financing and budgets. Business lessons are painful AND effective!
And now what would Marc like most? Having more money to enable things to move faster and having more people using Tungle to reach a tipping point toward Tungle’s objective of having all business professionals scheduling their meetings through Tungle.
Be a part of this tipping point. Save yourself time every time you schedule a meeting . Avoid the time jungle. Tungle.
Bonus: Marc’s book recommendation for CEO’s on the move: From Good To Great by Jim Collins
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