Wasting Time With Reptitive Business Tasks?

Do you know how much of your time is being wasted doing repetitive business tasks that you could automate through software?
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And time is money 💸​
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These tasks take your…​
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– Time​
– Mental energy​
– Passion​
– Focus​
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Away from the tasks that will actually grow your business.​
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Some things like…​
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– Improving your product / service (and customer experience)​
– Doing the actual work to its best quality​
– Thinking about the longer term vision​
– Connecting with new people who you may be able to help​
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These are the things that move the “needle” in your business.​
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But I know tech is everyone’s cup of tea, this my background, and I know there’s lots of biz owners in the groups…
Which is why I thought I’d share a bit on the topic.
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✅ Why your business can’t grow without automation​
✅ Examples of things that you could automate​​
✅ Why you should use software to do it (and how seamlessly it works)​
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(might be about a 5-min read).​
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▶️ So why do you need automation in the first place?​
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When growing a business, there’s a common roadblock…​
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You only have so much time ⏰​
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And you’ll quickly find yourself spending that time fulfilling tasks.​
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You are the bottleneck 😨​
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So, logically, you need to start delegating those tasks to someone (or something).​
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I’m a big fan of growing my team, but it does take time to hire, train and costs more money.​
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Software automation doesn’t need any training, it’s cheap and doesn’t make mistakes.​
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It works while you sleep 💤, means your business isn’t reliant on other people.​
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And it can do a lot more than a person could in the same amount of time.​
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▶️ So what can you actually automate?​
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From my experience, some of the most painful tasks to do in a business are…​
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– Managing invoices and payments​
– Maintaining customer records and info​
– Lead generation​
– Organizational admin e.g. organizing files, sharing things with clients, etc​
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▶️ And how can software be used to automate those things?​
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I’m a realist, not everything can be automated using software.​
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I might write another post about what we can do with admin that we can’t automate with software.​
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(hint: the answer is systemising and then delegating)​
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But in many cases, you can give software instructions to do these tasks that you’re already doing…​
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But between each other for you automatically…​
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24/7… ⏰​
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Imagine payments were charged automatically…​
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Invoices sent on their own​
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Customer testimonials asked for and stored automatically​
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Sharing documents, folders, and templates, with your clients when they start working with you.​
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Means…​
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– Less headache​
– Less mistakes​
– More time for you​
– More mental energy​
– More unbroken focus​
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Which can all then be directed back into those tasks I mentioned earlier that’ll actually grow your business.​
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What are some things that pop up in mind that you wish you could automate? ❤️️