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Episode 66: Alex and Lester, Advisor Websites

Published: March 6, 2017, 8 a.m.

Episode 66: Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites

alex, lester, drew

Intro & Meetups Around Town

Drew, Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites speak about onboarding new people, and strategies for evaluting during the 3-month probationary period. Advisor Websites has been growing by about 5-8 people a year for the past several years.

One strategy tried was a "team retrospective" applied to a new member of the team, where each other member writes the good and the bad on Post-It™ notes, then review the notes as a team.

Both Drew's company and Advisor Websites have recently introduced QA teams. Drew notes that he initially felt some growing pains, seeming to have to slow down during the QA processes, but that in the end that tends to speed up the overall process, by greatly reducing the number of bugs leaked into production code. Amazon Web Services recently had some issues that may have been prevented with better QA.

Alex reviews his week, with an ongoing theme of communication. They are currently getting ready to release a new version of their product, and Alex has been focusing on getting everyone from different teams on the same page without inundating them with too much information. By including a subset of people from each department, while creating new processes, slowly introducing the rest of their teams is a big help in not impeding progress.

A highlight of Lester's week was working on Advisor Website's new internal podcast. They interview Advisor Website's digital marketer, Kirsten who has blogged about women in the financial industry.

Drew's Meetup Picks of the Week are the Vancouver Erlang & Elixir Meetup on Monday and The HTML500 on Saturday. Lester is planning on attending the Gary Vaynerchuk ManTalks on Saturday, March 18th.

Special Guest Alex, and Lester Tiro, Advisor Websites

Alex Wingert, VP Product and Culture and Lester Tiro, Partnership Manager at Advisor Websites join us today. Advisor Websites are websites designed specifically for financial services professionals, financial planners, and advisors helping to automate online presence compliance among other things.

They tell us about some of their products, such as Advisor funnels. A product that helps financial advisors market themselves online through digital advertising on platforms such as Google, Facebook and LinkedIn, which delivers local leads for financial advisories.

Advisor Websites is hiring, so make sure to check out their careers page, which also has a link to register for one of their monthly tours of the office!

Meetups Around Town, Mar 6 to Mar 12

Monday, March 6th

Tuesday, March 7th

Wednesday, March 8th

Thursday, March 9th

Friday, March 9th

Saturday, March 11

Sunday, March 12

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

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