Someone told me once you should always have a choice.
Chocolate or Vanilla.
Leave a steady job to go solo or stay and earn a fixed salary for the foreseeable future.
Stay to maintain ownership of a flooded building or run to save your life but lose all your belongings.
Adult life has taught me one thing.
Not all choices are desirable. Some decisions are for pleasure others are the best of a bad lot.
Like time or money.
Time is the one thing we cannot make more. The balance between gaining money for the time we surrender and the time we need to have an enjoyable meaningful life is a fine one.
Relax.
You no longer have to choose.
One simple approach will help you free up your time and increase your profit.
If there is a task you do in your business more than once there are two reasons for you to choose to read this article.
After reading the information listed below, you will be able to automate a part of your business to make it go better or faster.
There are three great reason why using a protocol works. Sticking to a system simplifies everything so it is easier to do tasks, it can be measured and so it can be improved.
Systems let you accomplish things with the least amount of resources, which means you can use best practice so you get the best results for your company leaving you free to offer the best service for your customers.
BOTTOM LINE: If something can be measured it can be improved.
All sorts of processes spring to mind that could benefit, look at things you do as a routine like –
- Structuring your blog >
- Writing your blog posts >
- Filing your customer feedback with tags to process later >
- Retargeting your leads >
GOLDEN: To design your processes for this, think about a system as being an organised method
What you need to capture for the task is a set of procedures by which something is done.
The steps you decide to follow enables you to put best practice into use so that things work faster and better and in a style that has proven to accomplish the highest outcome with the least resources.
Now you know these tips you may approach your blogging routine to ensure you get the best result. Every time.
To create your system –
Ask how is the best way to do this task?
Now make a checklist out of your answers so you do not forget the order of the process.
Use a checklist for your system as it stops anyone forgetting things.
Watch someone do it following your instructions after training to test this.
The guide could be a video or screenshots.
GOLDEN TIP A system lets all this be documented and saves you time.
Just think of those occasions where you can’t remember each time where the button to link to an earlier posts and time is lost.
This system could be for a task you do once in a blue moon or it could be for using software that covers a great function but is not intuitive to use.
The time this frees up for you will help you your company to the next level. Another advantage of having a system means you can pass the task on to someone else so they can do it without explanation.
TAKE AWAY: The second time you do something document it.
Now you have read this article about making systems you may approach repeating activities in a different way. If you know you are going to do something more than once flag the task for needing a system built for it and get out your notepad or screen shot camera and record it. The next time you repeat an activity for your business you can save yourself time in the long term with just a few moves.
Enjoy designing your next system and the benefits it brings to you, your loved ones and your business.
