Hey Claudine, where do I begin?
“I don’t even know where to start.” Fair. Nobody showed you the order.
If you’re in GoHighLevel, here it is: your business and contact info first. Everything else waits its turn. You’ll do one thing at a time. You’ll watch each one work before you move on.
Most of what’s on your GoHighLevel screen can wait
Someone tells you to “just set up a workflow,” as if you already know what that means. You open GoHighLevel and see 47 things on the screen. You don’t know which three matter.
So you click around. Now there are six tabs open, ChatGPT is in a seventh, and you’re wondering whether you broke something.
You’re not bad at this. You’re up against too much at once, words nobody explained, steps everyone assumes you know, and too many choices. None of that is about how smart you are.
So here’s your permission to skip. You don’t have to learn all of it. You don’t have to set up everything before you can use anything. If someone says you need all of it on day one, that’s usually an upsell talking.
Hi, I’m Claudine Land. I have 20+ years of technical operations and project management experience. I’ll always tell you why a step matters, not only where to click. More about me
Every answer follows the same six parts, so you know what’s coming
Each answer is one question and one win. It tells you up front: by the end of this, you’ll have one specific thing working.
- Your question, the way you’d ask it. “Hey Claudine, how do I…?”
- What we’re doing, and why this way. You know what we’re trying to get done before you touch a single setting.
- The steps, one action at a time. Where that setting is hiding, and what to choose when you get there.
- Proof that it worked. You submit the form, trigger the automation, or send the test. Then you watch it happen. There it is.
- What to do if it didn’t. What happens if you picked the wrong thing, and how to set it right.
- Your next question. The one that comes after this win, so you’re never stuck wondering what’s next.
A lot of tutorials end on “and that’s how you set it up.” Here you end on “there it is,” with the proof right in front of you.
Set up your business and contact info first
Pipelines and automations come later, once they start to serve you.
“What is a pipeline and do I need one yet?” Good question. The word that matters is “yet.” You don’t need everything working on day one.
One win, then the next one. You start at “I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.” You end at “Ohhh. I can actually do this.”
The first answers aren’t up yet
Stuck on AI, content, or whether a tool is worth it?
This path starts in GoHighLevel. If your first problem lives somewhere else, find your topic and start there.
Still stuck? Ask me in your own words.
Say it the way you’d say it out loud. Questions like yours shape what I answer next.
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