Trevor Ewen | Source | COO at QBench

"In my Calendly profile, I have about 5-8 schedules depending on the business period. There are two reasons this is critical to my workflow.

"First, it allows me to push the vast majority of meetings into certain blocks during the day, leaving me without random gaps. Second, it's useful for a global workforce and customer base.

"Minimally, I have links for U.S., Europe, and Asia schedules. In addition, I have different schedules depending on priority, urgency, internal, and external meetings. Almost no one receives a link to the "My Calendly" base page. They will always receive a link that is tuned to their time zone and the priority and urgency of the meeting."

Excel and Google Sheets provide an excellent starting point for modeling a data process. When a process proves successful, the number of spreadsheets often grows exponentially. At this moment, it's worth considering the implementation of a database. Having five different copies of a list or 20 people editing a spreadsheet can become intolerable, leading to increased human error and performance issues.

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