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AdminAug 29, 2018 4:49:59 PM3 min read

How Ako Stark Saved The Rainforest With A Little Help From Monday.com

For the last month, entrepreneur, Ako Stark has waged a one-man war on trees.

This is his chilling tale of office-terrorism.

As the new COO at Daytona Beach’s foremost digital marketing agency, Web Daytona, Ako’s in a new position that puts him in high demand. One that calls for a lot of cross-department coordination, careful scheduling, and note-taking.

A lot of note-taking.

Ako Stark
You can’t see it, but just underneath the frame of this picture, he’s writing notes right now!

From his morning meetings to the hourly runs he makes through the office, jumping from devs to copywriters to designers to clients and back again, Ako writes easily a gazillion notes a day. That’s no exaggeration – we ran out of numbers trying to count how many notes he writes and had to make up a new number specifically for measuring it. A gazillion. That’s Web Daytona’s gift to you: you’re welcome, the rest of the world.

When it comes to Ako’s job, there’s always something that needs doing right now. And when you’ve got a backlog of eight ongoing projects all with deadlines screaming down the pipeline at you, you’re going to lean on those notes.

And Ako leans harder than most. From morning to night, Web Daytona’s newly minted COO scribbles notes on pieces of paper. Letter-sized. Post-Its. The backs of menus and scraps of paper. He stacks them up on the floor, behind desks, out by the recycling, in piles so high they look like small, square trees. Which is ironic, considering all the trees he’s murdering by making these notes.

He’ll take notes on everything – what I ate for breakfast this morning. What cologne a high-end client is wearing. Email addresses, industry news, how many bricks are in our conference room walls. I walked in one morning, about a week ago, and found him scribbling Cardi B lyrics over and over on a piece of A3 poster paper.

It was time to reach out for a little help.

How Monday.com Saved The Rainforest (From Ako Stark)

Web Daytona signed up for the project management service, Monday.com later that same day. While we were signing up for it, Ako wrote 175 pages of notes on the color scheme (he liked it), the functionality (he loved it) and the name (he’d have preferred Wednesday.com, but that’s just personal taste).

Then it was time to test drive it. Instantly, his eyes cleared up and it was like he’d awoken from a deep deep trance.

“I can assign tasks and follow up on them from my laptop?”

He seemed giddy.

“There are groups for each client we work with?”

“I can assign priorities to each task?”

And, just like that, Ako Stark forgot he ever had to scribble notes. As he sat there, in front of his computer, his notepad lay untouched next to him. His pen sat, finally at rest, after months of abuse. And the sound of scribbling stopped, like a monster that’s finally gone to sleep.

And somewhere in the distance, as he sat at his desk inboxing everyone their daily tasks, I could almost swear I heard the sounds of thousands of trees, deep in the rainforest, breathing a sigh of relief.

So thanks, Monday.com, for helping Web Daytona help prevent a pretty severe ecological disaster at the hands of Ako Stark. You have no idea the amount of paper you just saved the world.

Web Daytona
To show his dedication to his new eco-friendly approach to staff management, Ako even set up a little money tree, right there on the forgotten notes of his past.

 

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