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Getting paid should feel like the finish line. For a lot of people who work for themselves, it rarely does. You finish a great call, close the laptop and then the real work starts — finding their email, building an invoice somewhere else, sending a follow-up you shouldn't have to write. The actual work ends up being the easy part. Getting paid just got easier because Calendly now has invoicing built in. Send a professional invoice directly to a contact, keep track of where it stands and collect payment without leaving the place you already use every day. Swipe through to see how it works and get started today.

The more a business runs on trust, the harder it is to know where AI fits in best. Amirah Raveneau-Bey and Hays Waldrop have spent their careers building that kind of trust, from seemingly opposite ends of the business world. Amirah Raveneau-Bey has spent 25 years scaling revenue at places like Zillow, Trulia and Opendoor, taking companies from early traction to IPO. She now runs GrowScaleDevelop.com, coaching founders and leadership teams, many of them building in tech and #AI, with a goal of developing 1,000 great leaders over the next decade. Hays Waldrop has spent over 20 years building The Institute of Healthcare Executives and Suppliers, (IHES) into a private network connecting more than 6,500 executives across hospital, pharmacy and supply chain leadership. As founder and CEO, his business has always come down to getting the right people into the same room, which isn't something a tool can do for him. 💬 So we’re sitting down with different business owners, but asking the same question: how do you bring AI into the way you work without losing the part of it that only a person can do? Part talk show, part game show (yes, really), part therapy session. We'll try to keep it to 30 minutes, though we do love to yap. Catch it live on LinkedIn and YouTube. Exclusive recap on Calendly’s Substack, Many Hats: https://lnkd.in/gY49-Rgh Always a different story. Always the same question: how do you work?

🎉 Exciting News 🎉 Calendly is powering their customer intelligence with Unwrap! Calendly started as the category-defining scheduling tool, the product that eliminated email back & forth by giving people a booking link. Over the last decade, it's grown to remove that same busywork from more parts of the meeting lifecycle for professionals whose work runs on meetings. As Calendly takes on that bigger role, listening to customers matters more than ever. That's where Unwrap comes in, turning feedback from every corner of the business into a clear signal on what customers actually value most. We couldn't be more excited for this one. 🤝

Some people have handed #AI almost everything and it's working great for them. Others are still deciding what they're comfortable with, and that's absolutely okay. Neither one is necessarily "ahead." At this point, everyone's running their own experiment on what to trust and what to keep for themselves, and not enough people have compared notes to determine where their own sweet spot is. For our next episode of How I Work, we're talking to two people who're working hard to figure this out. Amirah Raveneau-Bey has spent 25 years scaling companies to IPO and now coaches leaders through this exact decision. Hays Waldrop built a 20-year business on trust between people, which puts him face to face with this question constantly. Let us know how you're thinking about delegating to AI below, and be sure to RSVP to tune in live to watch these two chat about what they've learned: https://lnkd.in/gxvg48zD

You didn't start your business to become a database administrator. But that's a big part of the job. Every client has a history, what they need, when you last talked, what you promised to follow up on and most people are keeping it in their head or scattered across five different places. But did you know? Calendly already has a place to manage all of that. Import tools to get started quickly. Notes to track ad hoc insights and takeaways (and get reminded when it’s time to follow-up). Custom fields for whatever actually matters to your business. Now? Login and see what you could be leveraging in Calendly to move your business forward.

Three girls. One croissant. 🥐 Jayde I. Powell, Lia Haberman, and I had a time at Cannes, and well...as the French say: "times flies when you're having fun," but like, in French. Calendly helped us manage the work happening outside of Cannes and they have a lot coming down the pipeline. Be sure to follow Calendly for some big news in the coming weeks! #CalendlyPartner

Saying no is a strategy. Jayde I. Powell has a two-question filter she runs every opportunity through before she says yes. The first one is pretty straightforward. The second one could change how you make decisions. And if you missed Jayde on How I Work, watch it here: https://lnkd.in/gSZ6jktZ

With an event like Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, you want to be present given the investment it takes to attend...in terms of money, time and energy. We are here to help others wearing many hats like Lia protect what matters most (their time) to be present while also taking care of the work that's still happening in the background.