Dear small business owner,

We did it! The Toronto Raptors, our home-town basketball team, won the NBA Championship in 2019! The whole city had a gigantic celebration of our first sports championship since 1993! And as some expected, two of our star players chose to sign with different teams promptly after the season. What followed was a distinct sense of disappointment, and the Raptors begin to rebuild a championship team.

NewPath and our customers are on an innovation path that requires a rebuild as well. We are choosing more modern systems and new partners to work with. But sometimes we miss looking at our complex business rules adopted organically. We then try to cram our complex and sometimes byzantine rules full of "ifs", "ands" and "buts" into modern systems.

Managing against exceptions is difficult and dangerous. For example, any rule that also includes an "unless" or a "however" is complex, and should be made simpler or even eliminated. Try making your rules simpler -- it will help your implementation of new technologies and make it easier for your customers.

Here is the Summer 2019 edition (#68) of the monthly NewPath newsletter.

A few highlights from last month:

▪ PAIU and FDPI Institute are the lastest 2 customers who have launched on Wild Apricot. We worked with PAIU over the past several months to configure a very complex membership model and transfer many spreadsheets into a new modern system. FDPI was our fastest ever implementation -- from vision to launch in just 1 month!
PAIU and FDPI Institute are the lastest 2 customers who have launched on Wild Apricot. We worked with PAIU over the past several months to configure a very complex membership model and transfer many spreadsheets into a new modern system. FDPI was our fastest ever implementation -- from vision to launch in just 1 month!

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▪ We continue to build our reporting tools for Wild Apricot this summer. This system will give full analytic capability for Wild Apricot customers for contacts and members, invoices and events. Our plans are to release a new version of the Google Data Studio connector and a standard report for Wild Apricot Customers by October, 2019.
We continue to build our reporting tools for Wild Apricot this summer. This system will give full analytic capability for Wild Apricot customers for contacts and members, invoices and events. Our plans are to release a new version of the Google Data Studio connector and a standard report for Wild Apricot Customers by October, 2019.

I look forward to hearing your plans. If you have association, clubs or small business customers to send our way please send me a quick email. And of course I welcome your questions or comments.

Yours in the clouds,

Alex Sirota
Director, NewPath Consulting
(888) 781-2539

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WordPress Toronto North Meetup

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Let's Fix Your Website Meetup in Toronto

The usual monthly meetup "Let's Fix Your Website" meetup is on August 19, 2019 at 6:30pm at Lokaal Coworking.

Weglot is sponsoring the meetups for the next 12 months so your food and drinks are taken care of and we will waive the usual $5 fee. Weglot is an automatic translation system featuring a WordPress plugin that features a five minute install, activation and initial configuration. Then Weglot translates your copy automatically, on the fly, and creates a best-effort translation using commercial cloud-based translation services.Thanks Weglot!

NewPath Consulting is a proud supporter of WordPress Toronto -- your Toronto-based community with a link to the international WordPress community. We are proponents of the open source and collaborative nature of this robust yet free web platform. At our Meetups we have fun, share knowledge and continue life-long learning.

To see all WPToronto meetups visit Meetup.com.

Cool Tool of the Month

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NewPath SMBStack(tm)

Every month we feature a product from the SMBStack (tm). This month we feature a new digital signature feature for WebMerge. InsureSign is a top-rated eSignature platform with security in mind. This blog post will walk you through how to use InsureSign with Formstack and WebMerge to collect signatures on important documents.

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New Podcast! - Planet Leadership with Eric Thurston

At Personify, Eric Thurston led the company through a founder transition, a major product rewrite. He has transformed the organization into the market leader of association, constituent management and engagement solutions. On this brand new podcast (only 3 episodes so far!), Eric meets with leaders, influencers, movers, and shakers in the association and nonprofit market. He explores the issues and topics keeping up executives up at night such as how to drive efficiencies within an organization, leverage technology to be more effective, and stay on top of trends in a rapidly evolving market.

 
     
 
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