As your team grows, it's getting more important to ensure a smooth onboarding for your new team members. In this episode, we share the process we use at Simya.

We talk about

- What to do once the employment or freelance contract is signed

- https://hr.my/ - Free HR management system

GSuite is a great portfolio of apps you can use to make your business more effective. In today's episode we talk about

- Why we started using GSuite

What is it like to be a business owner and parent at the same time? Today, Khwan will talk about her own journey and how her life changed after the arrival of our little daughter Layla.

She talks about

- How she managed her work and recreation before becoming a parent

It's not always easy to manage our time effectively when you're a small business owner. In this episode, Simon talks about how he manages his daily tasks and how his system evolved over time.

Here's what you'll learn:

- How to manage the transition from developer to biz owner

David Allen - Getting Things Done: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0143126563 

Since Covid 19, remote work has become pretty much mainstream across companies of all sizes. At Simya, we've been working remotely for 5 years now.

In this episode, we talk about our experience with remote work, including

- Why did we start going remote in the first place?

In the past year, we started driving traffic to our biggest app Ling by asking affiliates and users to promote our app. This works best if you have an affiliate program in place, so the influencers get rewarded by attracting paying customers.

In this episode, we share

- What's the idea behind affiliate programs, and why we started it

- How to implement an affiliate program in mobile apps and the web

- How to promote your program to drive traffic

- How the signup process works

Resources mentioned: https://www.osiaffiliate.com/

Once your business grows, hiring probably becomes your most important task as a founder.

In this episode, we talk about

- When and how we started hiring

- How we gradually discovered a good hiring process

- Strategies on how to find, interview, and select people

- How to delegate parts of the process

Resources mentioned: Smart, Street - Who (book): https://whothebook.com/

Today's episode is all about organizing your finances.

We cover

- Should you care about accounting right from the start?

- The accounting software we recommend (Zoho Books)

- Features to look for in accounting software

- How to automate your book keeping

- How to effectively outsource your finances

Resources mentioned:

- Zoho Books: https://www.zoho.com/us/books/

- Quickbooks: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/

- Xero: https://www.xero.com/

- Stripe: https://stripe.com/

- Airwallex: https://www.airwallex.com/

- Wise: https://wise.com/

Wordpress is still the market leader when it comes to publishing content. Our site ling-app.com is powered by Wordpress. In this episode we share five of our favorite plugins to improve site speed, SEO & traffic.

Plugins covered:

Other resources mentioned: