Last week you started thinking smarter by using other people time (OPT) and other people expertise (OPE) by focusing on delegating something new.
This week we’re going to use the powerful Idea Generator tool for the next step in working smarter, not harder.
Each day this week – we’re going to break down this new step into 10-15-minute Idea Generator brainstorms.
To get the maximum out of the Idea Generator..
In one “sitting” you should come up with at least 10 ideas. When 10 ideas popup easily for you – come up with at least 5 more ideas after you thought you can’t come up with more ideas.
This week we’re going to use the same multi-step process we used for delegating, in order to get your business more (and smarter) automated.
Work Smarter, Not Harder – Part 3
A quick reminder: Master Entrepreneurs are those that go from where they are now to where they want to be in the minimum amount of steps. That’s what it means to work smarter.
When you get there – doing business becomes easier, life is more flowing, you get results faster…
The third habit you must “install” to become a Master Entrepreneur is using technology to automate (leverage) what you’re already doing and maybe add an innovative automated process that would make doing your business easier, cheaper, and more valuable.
Automation basics
Automation simplifies your business (and life) by automatically accomplishing tasks that you or your team would otherwise have to do manually.
Look at your email inbox to see automation in action…
The birthday coupon from a restaurant, the reminder from a webshop that you added a product to your shopping cart but never clicked “buy”, the “thank you for subscribing to our newsletter”, the actual weekly newsletter are just a few examples of automation…
CLICK HERE to read 10 ideas of things to automate in your business.
Here are some things you must do for successful automation:
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- Start small and iterate regularly
Don’t make the mistake of trying to automate too much, too soon.
Automation is a process and skill you learn with practice.Start with a simple but super helpful automatic workflow.For example, you could automate your appointment scheduling by using a tool like Calendly or 10to8.
Or setup an opt-in form and email autoresponder by using a tool like MailChimp or ActiveCampaign.Then, once you get comfortable with simple automations, you can start to add more steps and more logic.
- Choose which tasks you’re going to automate (and which you’re not)
Although you can automate a lot of your tasks/processes – you probably shouldn’t.For example… you can automate translation, web design and content writing – but those are not as good (and may never be as good) as what a human could do.Instead, you want to automate tasks that are repetitive, time-consuming and easy for algorithms to handle 100% accurately without your input.
For example, publishing your blog posts to social media at specific times, sending invoices once the job is done (or payment is collected), rewarding website visitors based on their actions (see how we do it each time you comment), automating email responses and funnels…
- Choose your automation tools
Once you know which tasks/processes you’re going to automate, it’s time to choose the tools you’re going to use to make things happen.There are so many automation tools, software and platforms available that it’s difficult to know where to begin.I would suggest you do your research and then get recommendations from colleagues you trust…
The good thing is that most tools would have a free trial (either limited by time or by number of actions) – so you can give them a try before committing to a monthly payment.
Here are the tools I/we use every day and would recommend without hesitations:
- My phone reminders App as my brain’s harddrive
(free) - My phone alarm app to remind me of all the recurring things I do every day
(free) - WhatsApp for business for all our WhatsApp broadcasts
(we use the free version both on the phone and desktop computer) - ActiveCampaign for all our email automation and funnels
(free version is limited to 100 email subscribers) - 10to8 for appointments booking, scheduling and reminding
(free version is limited to 100 appointments a month) - WooCommerce for accepting payments on our website
(a free plugin – if you’re using WordPress to build your website) - Stripe for processing payments (including credit cards, iDeal, SEPA, etc…)
(it’s free to setup, you pay a small fee for every transaction) - Morning Fame for all our YouTube SEO research and automation
(free trial is limited to 30 days) - Integrately for advanced integrations between different platforms/applications
(A cheaper alternative to Zapier. This is advanced automation – not for beginners) - Custom-made WordPress plugins for extra functionalities on our website
(We use Fiverr to find coders – this is advanced stuff – not for beginners)
- Start small and iterate regularly
Let’s start with your MINDSET…
What is automation?
It is setting up systems that run on their own, to clear space and time for you to focus on more important work.
So, what is an automation mindset?
It’s a mindset that keeps automation as an important part of your daily activities. Instead of automation being an afterthought, you proactively think about how automation can streamline your work processes.
For example:
- Someone WITHOUT an automation mindset waits for a problem before considering automation.
- Someone WITH an automation mindset is proactively thinking about how automation can help them get more done in a less stressful environment.
How to develop an automation mindset
Begin by looking at your work processes and evaluating how automation can streamline operations, accelerate growth, increase reliability, reduce mistakes and more.
There are three things to look for in a task or a process that clarify it should be automated:
- Repetitive: mind-numbing work
E.g. copy/paste, data entry, answering FAQs… - Fragile: work that sees a lot of human error
E.g. typos, making changes in all the right places, following checklists, forgetting steps… - Timely: recurring tasks
E.g. reminders, automatic responses, scheduling appointments…
Throughout the program we’re going to use the MG-SPI system for success
- M for MINDSET
To be successful in anything you do – you need to have the “right” mindset; - G for GOAL
If you don’t know where you’re going, you have very little chances to get there; - S for STRATEGY
If the goal is your destination, then the strategy is the vehicle to get you there; - P for PLAN
This is your roadmap – how are you going to “drive” your “vehicle” in order to get to your destination; - I for Implementation
You can have the most supporting mindset, the clearest goal, the best strategy in the world and a perfect plan… But without actually taking action – following the plan – you will NOT achieve your desired success.
Set your GOAL for this week…
Here’s a great goal for you:
I am going to become great at automating.
How’s that for a 5-day challenge?
Choose the STRATEGY you will use…
If you have never automated – then this week will be about taking the first step in automating… If you’re already automating regularly in your business – then this week you will learn to automate strategically.
And again, we’re going to use… the Idea Generator
Remember – your brain is an answering machine… so let’s give it a great question each day of the week:
- Day 1 – WHY automate
Come up with as many purposes for automating in your business (e.g. save time, save money, eliminate mistakes, decrease frustration…)
Remember… when you run out of reasons/purposes – you need to come up with at least 5 more.
Write them ALL down in the comment box below.
Then choose the most important 2-3 reasons. Write them down. - Day 2 – WHAT to automate
Read the 2-3 most important purposes you chose yesterday and come up with a list of all the tasks/processes you could automate to achieve those most important purposes.
Make sure you keep going for 5 more when you run out of ideas.
Write them ALL down in the comment box.
Then choose ONE task/process you’re going to automate and write it down. - Day 3 – WHAT tool will you use
Remind yourself of the task/process you’re going to automate and research (Google, recommendations) a list of tools you could use to automate.
Make sure you include in the list both free and paid options, both low cost and more expensive.
Write them ALL down in the comment box.
Then pick the best tool/software for your current situation and write it down. - Day 4 – HOW to automate
Remind yourself the tool you are going to use, what are you going to automate, and why… and then come up with a list of ideas HOW are you going to make sure that the automation will be a success (goals, expectations, learning curve, getting support, how will you measure results, how will you improve…)
Write them ALL down in the comment box. - Day 5 – putting it all together
For the Friday Celebration post a clear, concise plan – WHY are you going to automate, WHAT task/process, WHAT tool/software, HOW you’re going to make sure it’s a success, and WHEN are you going to start…
PLAN your actions in your agenda…
Your next step is to actually plan this process in your agenda.
Plan to invest 10-15 minutes EVERY DAY in the coming 5 days to follow the process above.
Now it’s time to IMPLEMENT…
Take 10 minutes, right now, and…
- Day 1 – come up with at least 10 ideas WHY to automate and choose the 2-3 most important ones;
- Day 2 – come up with at least 10 ideas WHAT to automate and choose the ONE task/process you’re going to automate;
- Day 3 – research WHAT automation tools could you use and choose the tool/software you’re going to use;
- Day 4 – come up with at least 10 ideas HOW to automate;
- Day 5 – put it all together WHY, WHAT, WHAT, HOW, WHEN…
As soon as you have them… write them down in the comment box.
My commitment to you…
- I’m looking forward to read your process and ideas below;
- I will be there for you on Wednesday to support you with any question, challenge or setback you encounter;
- I’m looking forward to celebrate your progress and results on Friday (I’m curious to hear what you’ll come up with).
Live fully, stay awesome,
Nisandeh
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AUTOMATION 1/5 - WHY AUTOMATE?
Catching up from next week. 15 ideas instead of 10.
- Creates space for more important business tasks
- Creates space to work on good habits
- Creates space to enjoy life more
- Can improve quality of outcome
- Saves procrastination of boring tasks
- Saves frustration and procrastination of those frustrating tasks
- Makes working in my business more fun
- Increases customer happiness
- Makes me feel more confident of the business, as some of the 'keeping the balls in the air' is now done automatically instead of all by me.
- Saves stress = better health
- Automated tasks are done 24/7 ... while my time is limited to 8/4 (that's 168 hours a week vs 32!!!)
- Makes the business processes more conscious
- Saves money (eventually)
- Allows me to service more clients = generate more income
- **You do not rise up to the level of your goals, but fall to the level of your systems**
(a quote from Atomic Habits by James Clear - which I'm currently reading...amazing book)
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MOST IMPORTANT 3:
- Saves stress and increases my happiness
- Allows me to service more clients, better, in the same amount of time = generate more value and income
(or another way to say this: allows me to work less to create the same value and income)
- Automated tasks are done 24/7 ... while my time is limited to 8/4 (that's 168 hours a week vs 32!!!)
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Day 5 – putting it all together (week 3)
I already automated most of my processes. Before I went on vacation, I automated a pop up with a message and a present for my customers. Free shipping during my vacation. It is a great success. Furthermore, when I get back (still on vacation) I am going to make a plan for automating my social media. I already have some ideas, so looking forward to implementing them. But first I am going to enjoy my vacation (and still doing some of my homework...)
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Week 3 - 1 of 5
WHY automate?
1. Save time
2. Convenience
3. Make fewer mistakes
4. Create time to work on my business
5. My ability to respond to leads or prospects is increasing
6. Increase the possibilities to research what my potential customers find important
7. It increases the ability to run my business independently of my presence.
8. Take repetitive work off your hands.
9. It limits stress.
10. It saves money.
My 3 main reasons are:
1. It increases the possibilities to run my business independently of my presence.
2. My ability to respond to leads or prospects is increasing
3. Increase the possibilities to research what my potential customers find important
Week 3 - 2 of 5
WHAT to automate?
1. Put LinkedIn Posts in application LATER.
2. Put mail campaigns in ActiveCampaign
3. Put planning social media posts in excel file
4. Standardize webinars
5. Thank You Emails
6. Customer Birthdays, Personal Mail
7. potential customers make an appointment via online agenda.
8. Lead and contact management
9. Sales funnel for online lessons.
10. Preparation assignments for training courses or workshops
11. Default message for new LinkedIn contacts
12. Standard follow-up mail after a training or workshop
13. Building my mailing list
My head is exploding. So many possibilities that suddenly unfold. Where do I begin?
The task/process I'm going to automate is:
Building my new mailing list.
Week 3 - 3 of 5
WHICH tool are you going to use?
In any case, I'm going to use Active Campaign. I have it, but not fully using it yet.
Week 3 - 4 of 5
HOW to automate?
1. Improve the Active campaign list and application together with the VA.
2. Decide which texts should be included in welcome emails, bi-weekly blogs and instructions for online program
3. Experiment with backgrounds and fonts
4. Use good photos and use them in emails and blogs.
5. Find out what words potential customers hook up on.
Week 3 - 5 of 5
Everything in a row
The questions in this week were really 'brain teasers' for me. On day 2 I was delayed in my process, also due to other things I had to watch out for. Others' answers and Nisandeh's tips really helped me move forward. What I want to celebrate is that I will start with a VA from Monday 11 July.
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Day 5 – putting it all together
WHY: Expand customer experience
WHAT Create new follow up mail sequence for buyers of online courses, using ActiveCampaign
HOW: Do some research about follow up email sequences (eg. Russel Brunson)
Write a trigger based email sequence with at least 5 emails and one offer.
WHEN: Next week
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Day 4 – HOW to automate
The tool: ActiveCampaign, already use it for years.
Do some research about follow up email sequences (eg. Russel Brunson)
Write a trigger based email sequence with at least 5 emails and one offer.
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Day 3 – WHAT tool will you use
I'm currently using:
Wordpress for my website
Woocommerce for my webshop
Mollie for payments
Moneybird for bookkeeping
ActiveCampaings as CRM and ESP
Google Business Page
Facebook Business Page
Whatsapp Business for leads
For my ONE task I'll use Activecampaign to set up the new follow up email sequence.
The best tool ever to collect, remind, plan, review and so much more: Asana
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Day 2 – WHAT to automate
- Opt-in collection and thank you on website: already automated
- Webshop purchase- invoicing - payments - banking system - bookkeeping: already automated
- Online courses: already fully automated sequence after purchase
- Abandoned cart: sequence already automated
- Birthday card for clients: already automated
- Recurring payments: already automated
- Recurring processes (like VAT etc): already automated
- Opt-in form: already automated
- Contactform: already automated
- Whatsapp Business: already automated
- FAQ / Support page: already set to answer 99% of the questions
- Birthdays of family and friends in agenda: already automated
- My personal-, Business and my children's agenda's: already integrated
My ONE task: Create new follow up mail sequence for buyers of online courses
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Day 1 – WHY automate
save money
save time
avoid mistakes
more efficient
automations run 24/7
more time for me to focus
more time for me to be creative
support growth
More controle
Forces to think on strategy level
Forces to streamline processes
Forces to analyse business
Forces to think ahead about the outcome
Less frustration
Less use of headspace and trying to remember that task
Expand customer experience
Most important:
save time
Expand customer service
Less use of headspace
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I haven't posted the Wednesday and Thursday assignment. This is because I already knew what and how I was going to automate. When that's the case idea generator doesn't work for me. This week, I already knew on Tuesday what I was going to do and how. Generating 10 ideas of which I'm not going to use 9 didn't make sense to me and since this has been an extremely busy week, I just couldn't find the time.
I did implement the automation I decided on. I've created a testimonial form on my website that, when filled in, sends me an email. After I approve the testimonial, it is automatically posted on my website, Google business page and Facebook.Adding new social media channels in the future is a simple step. It's a fairly simply automation set up in WordPress with a slightly modified standard plugin. This will help me get more visibility and help to more easily getting testimonials after completing a project.
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Day 5. My automation plan:
I plan to do two things:
1. Today I met with the bookkeeper and we made a list of automations on how to automate a lot of the bookkeeping. I will implement them next week.
2. Schedule a few hours for creating content together with some other people. And then schedule ahead for the rest of the summer.
Tools I will use:
canva pro for scheduling
facebook ads manager for ads
sendinblue for emails
moneybird for the bookkeeping.
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Dag 1 – WAAROM automatiseren: Tijd besparen; Geld besparen; Fouten vermijden; Minder frustratie; Planning is eenvoudiger; Controle en structuur; Minder saai geestdodend werk; Meer ruimte voor creatief denken; Minder uitstelgedrag, want geautomatiseerd; Tijd voor doorontwikkelen nieuwe ideeën; Tijd voor uitwerken nieuwe ideeën; Ruimte om nog meer kansen voor automatisering te bedenken; Geautomatiseerd werk makkelijker overdraagbaar & uit te besteden; Een geautomatiseerd product is beter verkoopbaar (bv. Ontwerp voor onderdelen van een muziekinstrument) Minder gehannes met mensen die anders het werk moeten doen (zegt mijn zoon); Kwaliteit eenduidiger en hoger; Kies dan de belangrijkste 2-3 redenen. * tijd besparen; * geld besparen; * ruimte voor creatief denken.
Dag 2 - WAT automatiseren: bedenk ten minste 10 ideeën WAT te automatiseren en kies de ENE taak / het proces dat u gaat automatiseren; Ik begin simpel, in m'n agenda:) Gebruik nu Outlook in mijn reguliere werk. Daar mogen zowel mijn werk- als privé-agenda instaan (omdat we ooit een tablet van het werk hadden die ook voor privé gebruikt mocht worden). Handig is dat je ze naast elkaar hebt staan en over elkaar heen kunt leggen. Maar ik wil het uit elkaar halen en denk dat ik voor persoonlijk alles ga overzetten naar Google. Dan ben ik meteen aan het voorbereiden op losser komen van m'n reguliere werkgever; Ik plaats reminders in de agenda, jaarlijks terugkerend, voor: * betaling en check beroepsvereniging yoga-docenten; * betaling en check beroepsvereniging natuurgeneeskunde; * check houdbaarheid aantekening PsychoSociale Basiskennis; * check houdbaarheid EHBO-diploma en vaardigheden; * betaling en check bedrijfsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering; * check benodigde bijscholingen; * check invoeren benodigde bijscholingen in systeem Vereniging Yogaleerkrachten Nl; Yoga Natuurgeneeskunde PSBK EHBO * check per kwartaal vaktijdschrift en website beroepsverenigingen, op actuele info die ik niet mag missen; * en plannen benodigde bijscholingen in een meerjarenkalender; En ik zoek de functies voor automatisering uit die Google nog meer heeft en die ik nu niet ken. en ik stel de vraag in de groep: welk eenvoudige systeem&app raden jullie aan voor agendabeheer? dan kan ik me nog een keer achter de oren krabben voor ik alles overzet naar Google.Dag 3 – onderzoek WELKE automatiseringstools je zou kunnen gebruiken en kies de tool/software die je gaat gebruiken;
vraag is, of Google of Outlook of ...
Dag 3 Welk systeem
Ik kies toch voor het handhaven van voor nu voor Outlook, omdat mijn werk- en persoonlijke agenda daar al in staan via mijn reguliere werk, en synchroniceren met mijn werkmobiel.
Ik zou teveel overhoop halen als ik nu verander van systeem. Ik voer alle automatische reminders e.d. in in mijn persoonlijke agenda en schoon deze op van privacy-gevoelige informatie. ik ben dan klaar om over te stappen naar het inrichten van een ander systeem zodra ik dat wil en / of het nodig is.
Dag 4 – bedenk minstens 10 ideeën HOE te automatiseren;
* ik ben Outlook al jaren aan het gebruiken voor werk en persoonlijk; uitzoeken of ik alle mogelijkheden die het biedt wel ken;* voorgaande jaren printscreens maken per week zodat ik zo nodig (bijna nooit) van aantal jaren terug nog iets kan checken - omdat we in werkomgeving maar twee jaar mogen bewaren;* reminders die ik er nu al in heb staan checken op bruikbaarheid, ze moeten wel echt functioneel zijn en niet teveel opgesplitst in gedetailleerde mini-taken;* het wat van dag 2 en het hoe van dag 4 liggen dicht bij elkaar:& Ik plaats reminders in de agenda, jaarlijks terugkerend, voor: * betaling en check beroepsvereniging yoga-docenten; * betaling en check beroepsvereniging natuurgeneeskunde; * check houdbaarheid aantekening PsychoSociale Basiskennis; * check houdbaarheid EHBO-diploma en vaardigheden; * betaling en check bedrijfsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering; * check benodigde bijscholingen; * check invoeren benodigde bijscholingen in systeem Vereniging Yogaleerkrachten Nl; Yoga Natuurgeneeskunde PSBK EHBO * check per kwartaal vaktijdschrift en website beroepsverenigingen, op actuele info die ik niet mag missen; * en plannen benodigde bijscholingen in een meerjarenkalender;De eerste keer dat ik al die taken plan,plan ik meteen een blok tijd voor uitzoekwerk, verspreid over de komende maand; naar een aantal zaken heb ik al een paar jaar niet meer gekeken;
Dag 5 – zet het allemaal bij elkaar
WAAROM: * tijd besparen; * geld besparen; * ruimte voor creatief denken
WAT: reminders automatiseren voor houdbaarheid genoten opleidingen, benodigde bijscholingen, beroepsverenigingen, websites, verzekeringen,
HOE: voor elk onderwerp nu een blok tijd in agenda plannen en onderzoeken wat er per onderwerp nodig is. Uit te voeren taken plannen in agenda en reminders voor terugkerende taken doorplannen voor meer jaren.
WANNEER: grove planning in agenda dit weekend, en verdere uitvoering komende maand.
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Day 3 and 4 and 5: I going to use Trello. That is an application that is usefull also when it comes to a teamwork en to other businesses and people. I found out that it is easy to interchange between parties. How I am going it to implement is to use the different methods/theories for prioritising and find out what fits me the best. I celebrate it this weekend even if it is a smal step in automizing, but a great step to change the working proces.
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Day 5
My plan to automate:
I am going to automate, because:
A I don't have to remember certain tasks, it gives brain space
B. It gives certainty that certain tasks are performed in time
C. I can spend my time on something that makes money.
Active Campaign will be my choice for automation in my email marketing.
Welcome mails, instruction mails, thank you emails automatically send to my customers.
Using drag-and-drop controls, I can segment my automated messages and use personalization for a better individual appeal.
This platform also features automated workflows, autoresponders, and other tools to improve my efficiency.
How will I implement this automation tool:
1.Interview collegues who use it, active campaign, I know many.
2. Than decide on tekst for welcome mail, weekly blogpost, payment mails, instructionmails for using programs etc. (my first program will be relax no stress)
3. measure the opening and reading of mails by people
4. Try different text and titles (splittesting)
5. Experiment with words to get the message across to potential customers
6. Ask clients what they want to read.
7. Ask client what wil be their next step, and use that in emails
8. experiment with backgroundcolours and letters, what do people like to see?
9. Have good photo s in stock, easy to find and use in emails
10. Ask customers that I helped well in automated tekst to give me tips about where to find new clients.
When will I start to use it?
In august 2022 (after my summer holiday) I will start to use free active campaign in my pilot webinar in advance of selling my first program relax no stress to parents in my online parent academy in september/october 2022.
In september/october I will work with a school and parents of children in that school. I have an agreement with the school director.
How will I celebrate the results in this automate week tonight?
Going tot the movies with my family and enjoy this fully.
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Day 5: This is my summary of WHY, WHAT, WITH-WHAT, HOW, and the planning for the WHEN.
WHY:
• Automation can be 24/7 instead of humans that are mostly available 8/5.
• Automating will give an competitive advantage in respect to those that do not automate.
• The investment in automation is once (except for some updating and maintenance) but the rewards will be continuously, so has a very high ROI.
WHAT:
• Generate time recording sheets directly from my calendar.
WITH-WHAT:
• Time Sheet Reporter (plug in) or Outlook Time (from Time Watch) (plug in); have to compare them a little more: Time Sheet Reporter look aggressive in advertising and Time Watch (Outlook Time) seems to have also other useful application. For now I think it will be Outlook Time.
WHEN:
• New projects will arrive by half of October 2022, time registration is necessary for bill to be sent in November 2022 the same is necessary for any new projects in 2022. I will start buying and if feasible outsource / delate this in September 2022 and plan to have things automated in October 2022.
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Day 4: These are my 10 ideas on HOW to automate the chosen task using the tool I selected;
1. Make sure the two calendars I used have to be integrated or both directed to the selected tool.
2. Develop output sheets to collect the data from the calendar’s including categories and how to direct (via key words or prefix to the output sheets).
3. Use the output sheets to analyse time spend on activities.
4. Create output sheets for indirect and direct work for activities and per client.
5. Create summary sheets to keep track on direct and indirect time an analyse time spend as the percentage direct / indirect work.
6. Integrate output of direct work for specific clients in such a way the can be either an annex to billing or can be easily be included in invoices.
7. Find an expert on the tool to create the above (actually delegate to automate).
8. Find other tools that can be easily be integrated with the calendar tool to investigate further options to integrated (actually rather buy a more generic tool that is part of a suite than an stand-alone tool.
9. Find other users of the tool or working groups to professionalize usage of the tool and improve automation.
10. Offer others as a by service or new business activity my knowledge including the team that I use to delegate to repay me or profit from my the initial investment.
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Day 3: This is my research result on WHAT automation tools/software I’m going to use;
1. Time Sheet Reporter (plug in)
2. Big Time
3. WebHR
4. Outlook Time (from Time Watch) plug in
5. Windows Power Shell (self-programming)
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Day 5 Friday - Put it all together
WHY: to save time and become more consistent.
WHAT: social media and email scheduling
HOW: Facebook Business Suite, Mailchimp
WHEN: as soon as I manage to create social media posts in advance and write emails in advance.
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Day 4 Thursday - HOW to automate
I will schedule social media posts using Facebook Business Suite and schedule emails to my list using Mailchimp.
This will work as long as I create the posts and emails in advance, and get myself organized to work in batches.
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Day 5 08-07-22
The why has become sharper for me after the third week and for me everything is now coming together. How can I ensure that my core value becomes as attractive as possible to my target group, managers. For this I have to organize the research better. On the one hand I want volunteers to support me in this, but on the other I can also automate this more.
The most attractive offer I have for a manager is a meeting with them. I want to use automation in such a way that in exchange for supplying what the managers needs, they can set a date for a meeting with me. This way I get more research results and I reward this with what I have to offer them in core value. As soon as the manager responds to my call, via the automation of my choice, it always yields something. Research data, awareness and now or later more customers.
Step 1 describe the process:
1. Place a call on my website
2. Share this on social media
3. Automatically reply to comments on my website entering their name and email with their replies.
4. They will receive an email with a date picker for a conversation with a reminder if they haven't chosen a date yet.
5. They receive a link from FaceTime with the agreed date.
Step 2 together with those who help me choose the right tools for this process.
Step 3 Implement the tools on my website.
Step 4 testing
Step 5 Place a call
How am I going to make sure it's a success:
Post a link to the testimonials about me on LinkedIn and Google with the call.
The participants promise to receive the results as a fact sheet.
That the questions are interesting enough to answer:
What is important to you as a manager in leadership?
What is your biggest frustration?
What do you need most as a manager?
Today I send this plan to the person who is going to help me and I schedule an appointment with him to make this happen.
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WOMB WEEK 3, JULY 8, DAY 5/5
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: WHY, WHAT, WHAT TOOL, HOW AND WHEN AUTOMATE?
WHY?
1. To grow the business into a well thought, sustainable self-learning and self-growing system
2. To build a fantastic and very profitable FEBE funnel
3. To become a great automation strategist
WHAT?
Woke up with the realization that I need to make an adjustment to my "What" in order to make it strategic automation. I had chosen to automate my newsletter’s subscription form but that is a one-time, tactical task. Therefore I urged myself to adjust and automate my FEBE FUNNEL instead.
WHAT TOOL?
ConvertKit
HOW?
First, in order to make this automation a success, I need to study the following topics at Business University:
1. Master Entrepreneur
2. All courses on Blogging
3. Expert Masterclass
With the insights, knowledge, and systematic processes of these courses, I need to ninja implement those in order to create:
4. A fantastic FEBE funnel
5. The first remarkable products
6. A strategic blog that builds my expert position in children’s and family sleep quality
My goals using Convertkit as an automation tool are:
7. Obtain 300 subscribers by December 2022
8. Earn at least €500,- per month selling products and memberships on this platform by December 2022
9. Start using the paid referral tool and grow my email database to 3000 subscribers by December 2023
10. Become a Pro in FEBE funnel automation by December 2025
My expectations in this journey are:
11. It is going to be challenging since I do not have an IT background
12. I will need help with the integration of Convertkit to WordPress and other tech platforms
13. It will take me a couple of months to learn how tu use Convertkit
How to make sure that my learning curve is strategic, successful, and effective?
14. Make a list of questions before starting using Convertkit
15. Make a list of features that Convertkit needs to have in order to fulfill my FEBE funnel
16. Ask all my questions to customer service and the “Creator community”
17. Make use of the free trial and experience how Convertkit works
18. Study the tutorials, attend the relevant courses and webinars ConvertKit offers
19. Contact an expert in Convertkit and ask questions/ ask support
20. After studying all the above mentionned courses at Business University, evaluate critically if ConvertKit is still the right strategic tool for building a sustainable business
How to get support at Convertkit?
21. First by contacting the support team via WhatsApp, email, or phone
22. By joining their "Creator community” blog and asking questions
23. By checking if Fiverr has somebody specialized in Convertkit
24. By using the Priority Support (paid version) once I am making sales
25. By Teaming-up with my accountability body since she is also using Convertkit
How will you measure results?
26. By measuring the conversion rate
27. By analyzing the actual customer journey (cj) vs the designed cj
28. By using the analysis tools provided by ConvertKit (need to find out more about them)
29. By asking clients directly about their experience
How will you improve?
30. By start doing A/B testing
31. By creating fluid manuals (constantly updated) of what works so the automation can be improved
32. By focusing on content personalization and strategic timing/sequence of information
33. By sending feedback surveys to clients and employees where they have the opportunity to express their experience with the products, services, processes etc. and also send their improvement ideas
WHEN AM I GOING TO START?
Today I will start studying Business University again. I commit to study at least one topic a day next to the WOMB program.
That would enable me to design the FEBE funnel and further remarkable products.
On July 11 I will start Tactic automation (newsletter subscription form for example and first newsletter).
Concerning more strategic automation I will start at the beginning of September.
Deadline to have a MVFB (Minimal Viable FEBBE Funnel): end of October 2022.
After that the testing phase begins.
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DAY #5
WHY automate. My top 3:
1. work around the obstacles that make me procrastinate
2. smoothen my processes
3. prevent mistakes
WHAT to automate. #1 starts coming Sunday. I'll automate other tasks coming months.
1. Scheduling posts on Instagram/LinkedIn
2. Reminders for important tasks
3. Reusable checklists for processes webshop/production/product development/communication
4. Link Mollie invoices to my bookkeeping program (currently I do it manually)
5. Transfer information from my new webshop clients to other applications
6. Take notes more easily when I have dirty hands
7. Organize folders and files on my computer
8. Automate back ups
WHAT tool:
I'll use 'Later' for scheduling my social media posts
HOW:
I made a strategy/plan (you can read the summary in DAY#4). It includes improving my skills, makes sure my learning curve doesn't go flat, starting a webshop and growing my audience.
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WEEK 3, DAY 5 – putting it all together
My first plan ever for automation 🙂
WHY: I can spend my time on something that makes money
WHAT: the publishing of my articles on LinkedIn
TOOL: Hootsuite
HOW & WHEN
1. discover how Hootsuite works and create an account - YESTERDAY
2. make a plan for the content - YESTERDAY
3. put a reminder in my calendar: writing articles in July - DONE
4. write 5 articles - TODAY
5. find 5 photographs to complement the articles - TODAY
6. plan the articles in Hootsuit - TODAY
7. monitor the reactions on LinkedIn (views etcetera) - Weekly starting MONDAY 1 aug ’22
8. tell my buddies about this - next TUESDAY
9. write 6 additional articles - OKTOBER 2022
10. make a content plan for 2023 and schedule the actions - NOVEMBER 2022
YEAH! On my way to being great at automation.
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Automation is important because it spares me time and energy. And decrease my frustration.
I want to automate a few things like
- sending a welcome notification to my new followers on instagram business profile (I implemented this a few days ago)
- sending a welcome mail to new leads who wants to receive my weekly newsletter (I implemented this yesterday)
- sending a quiz or form to seperate my leads in my funnel (still don't know which tool)
- using a tool where new clients can make appointment with me (I already use calendly, now I am busy finding out how 10to8 works and maybe I will do something with Woocommerce products)
- make more usefull leads with tool Convertkit (I bought a few years ago but did not do anything with it)
So some things I already implemented or am I working with it.
Only the convertbox I must try it out. .... when...... I plan it in september (because i first want to improve my funnel and I promised to do that in july)
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Great to read your awesome plan and implementation steps Sigrid! 💪
Also cool that you had bought ConvertKit years ago. It is my chosen tool to start automating my newsletters and FEBE funnel. If you still have the paid version, you can also use the referral program and the Priority support feature. They promise to answer your questions in 15 min.
And congratulations with your trip to Curaçao!!! 🥳So inspired by your decision to go! 🔥
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How to automate?
- Buying plugins
- Buying new tools like an autoresponder
- Get help from someone who know how to automate that specific tool
- Search for instructions for that tool
- Looking at you tube videos to do it myself
- Install a tool
- Dive in how it works and do it myself
- Follow a course about that tool for example money bird
- Ask someone I know who can help
- Use new tools like 10to8, convert box
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DAY #4
I'm going to automate my social media and use the 'Later' application for it.
HOW to make it a success:
1. I planned Social Media time in my agenda every Sunday (14:00 - 17:00), which is the perfect day for that task (no phone calls, supplier visits, webshop orders). I'll start coming Sunday, when my new products are on both my websites.
2. Plan for next Sunday: get familiar with the program, plan 3 Insta posts and 2 LinkedIn posts. I might need more time the first day, but I have my concepts ready.
3. On the following Sundays I'll check the analytics in the application, and plan 3/2 posts. Also I'll check the other features 'Later' provides.
4. I'll spend 30 minutes on Insta and LinkedIn every day to check other inspiring people and competitors, search for new possible followers. On the days my content is posted, I might need 45 minutes.
5. I'm following an Instagram expert and downloaded her e-book. I'll check her newsletters and listen to her podcasts to learn more about effective posting.
6. In the week of July 18th I'll check the possibilities of an Instagram webshop and Later's biolinkin feature
7. By the end of July I'll have an Instagram webshop
8. On the 1st of August my Monumentalista account has 1000+ followers and Jizo World 500+ followers.
9. In August I'll add Pinterest, which is perfect for my work. My target group hangs around there too.
10. I'll print out this list and pin it to my whiteboard.
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Day 4 HOW to automate
- appointment made with PA to go online and together look on what to automate
- use hootsuite to plan social media post starting the week after my vision week
- the end of august I have a weekend with my co worker and take her up to automate more and I will use this structure format for her to see what she can automate
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Day 2: Here are 10+ ideas on WHAT I can automate and the ONE task/process that I will automate;
1. Answering my phone (with automated or structured voicemail and response).
2. FAQ list on my web-site that saves time.
3. Selling material and paying for material sold on my website.
4. Redirect to specific content on my website relative to the typology of the request.
5. Note taking during meetings (record voice and convert to written text).
6. Automate the storage of web-searches for reuse.
7. Filling receipts and invoices.
8. Payments on gasoline.
9. Generate mailing lists from contact (on my website).
10. Redirect and back-up e-mails.
11. Generate time recording sheets directly from my calendar.
12. Schedule e-mails in advanced to set out.
13. Schedule podcasts, twitter and other social media content (make once and sent in batches).
14. Website statistics based on website traffic, time at certain pages, downloaded content, etc.
15. Generated tax forms (or at least content) on financial data / reports.
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Day 4 – HOW to automate
How I am going to automate? To be honest, the things I cán automate, I have automated. There is a plug-in I would like to have to automatically take care of discounts in the webshop. But otherwise, I think I am covered.
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HOW
1. One hour each weekend
2. Test
3. Log
4. Find Apple-users for testing
5. Test user friendliness
6. Put testers and new users in an emaillist
7. Promote the tool
8. Find all points where information can be confusing
9. Test internally
10. Remember to clean up
11. Respect portability
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WOMB WEEK 3, JULY 7, DAY 4/5
HOW TO AUTOMATE MY NEWSLETTER/FEBE FUNNEL STRATEGICALLY WITH CONVERTKIT?
First, in order to make this automation a success, I need to study the following topics at Business University:
1. Master Entrepreneur
2. All courses on blogging
3. Expert Masterclass
With the insights, knowledge, and systematic processes of these courses, I will then implement them to create:
4. A fantastic FEBE funnel
5. The first remarkable products
6. A strategic blog that builds my expert position in children’s and family sleep quality
My goals for using Convertkit as an automation tool are:
7. Obtain 300 subscribers at the end of 2022
8. Earn at least €500,- per month selling products and memberships on this platform
9. Start using the paid referral tool and grow my email database to 3000 subscribers by December 2023
10. Become a pro in FEBE funnel automation by December 2025
My expectations in this journey are:
11. It is going to be challenging since I do not have an IT background
12. I will need help with the integration of Convertkit to WordPress and other commerce platforms
13. To learn how to use Convertkit in a couple of months
How to make sure that my learning curve is strategic, successful, and effective?
14. Make a list of questions before starting using Convertkit
15. Make a list of features that Convertkit needs to have in order to fulfill my FEBE funnel
16. Ask all the questions to customer service and the “Creator community”
17. Make use of the free trial and experience how Convertkit works
18. Study the tutorials, attend the relevant courses and webinars ConvertKit offers
19. Contact an expert in Convertkit and ask questions/ ask support
20. After having studied all the desired courses at Business University evaluate if ConvertKit is still the right tool for building a sustainable business
How to get support at Convertkit?
21. First by contacting the support team via WhatsApp, email, or phone
22. By joining their "Creator community” blog and asking questions
23. By checking if Fiverr has somebody specialized in Convertkit
24. By using the Priority Support (paid version) once I am making sales
How will you measure results?
25. By measuring the conversion rate
26. By analyzing the actual customer journey (cj) vs the designed cj
27. By using the analysis tools provided by ConvertKit (need to find out more about them)
28. By asking clients directly about their experience
How will you improve?
29. By start doing A/B testing
30. By creating fluid manuals (constantly updated) of what works so the automation can be improved
31. By focusing on content personalization and strategic timing/sequence of information
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WOW Maru, that's an impressive list! Thank you for being inspiring.
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Thank you so much for reading Manny! And also for your comment, it motivates me! 🙏 I also find a lot of inspiration in your work! Have a lovely weekend!
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WOW you did great thinking Maru and you actually have a plan! Proud of you
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Thank you so much Sigrid! I am so proud of you too! 🤩
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Hi Maru,
I like to read your comments very much. They inspire me to crack these nuts. The questions in these week were really ‘Breinbrekers’ to me. Your answer really helpt my progress. On day 2 I got stock in my process, also due to other things I had to attend to. Today I post the summary of my path this week.
Thank you!
Alexander
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Hi Alexander,
Thank you so much for your message! Am so glad that my comments inspire you 🤗🙏 The assignments have been also tremendous brain challenges for me. I am thrilled to read about your path and insights. Keep us posted! Wish you a wonderful week!
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Hey there,
Interesting week!
Here is what I found out:
Day 1 – WHY automate
1. Free time
2. More focus
3. Room for new ideas
4. Easier for my clients
5. Clients can start immediately
6. It works while I sleep
7. Less administration
8. Be more professional
9. Clients are serviced better and faster
10. I can earn money 24/7
Most important:
Free time
Clients are serviced better and faster
I can earn money 24/7
Day 2 – WHAT to automate
1. Auto responder
2. Automated payment
3. Links to my membership
4. Invoicing
5. Newsletter
6. Drip content
7. Blog release
8. Social media
9. Appointments
10. Reminder
I have all this automations set.
Day 3 – WHAT tool will you use
1. Kajabi
2. Calendly
3. Zappier
4. Woocommerce
5. Stripe
6. Paypal
7. Publer
8. Quaderno
9. WordPress - Divi
10. Outlook rules & calendar
Day 4 – HOW to automate
It is hard to find Ideas on HOW when you already did all of the above.
So I try Gerdys Idea and find what I can standardize. Maybe I find something I have not in place
1. Offers
2. Thank you notes
3. Thank you pages
4. Mails with the invite to give feedback
5. Mail with the questionnaire at the beginning of a 1:1
6. Text for the delivery of invoices
7. Tags
8. Look and feel of posts and postcards
9. Text to ask for help in Marketing in my network
10. Text to offer a topic to journalists
11. Text to offer a speech or a interview
12. Auto-messages on linkedin, FB & IG
Day 5
Since I have all the automations in place, I tried to find out what I can standardize, but this is also ready too.
This exercise showed me that I really need a VA and that I am not bad in automation- yay!
But I will also check other comments for ideas.
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How to automate?
1. Schedule posts ahead
- one every day
- take a day and see how far I can get
- Have a moment every week
2. Choose a tool
3. If it makes my life easier, just get the paid version
4. Tell all my clients and contacts about the meeting scheduler
5. Create a clear condition for success
6. At the start, I should enjoy/celebrate the automation daily or weekly.
7. Keep track of things I do repeatedly. When it comes back on the list several times, automate.
8. Reuse old content, for instance e-mails before and after trainings
9. Get the automatische incasso up and running.
10. Ask my wife what we should automate in the house
One thing to add for tools yesterday. But we use Knab to automatically save money and allocate it for the car/house/pets/baby/gifts/savings. It's like I am giving myself pocket money 🙂 It also means I always know how much is available for something.
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Week 3 Day 4
HOW to automate
The upgrade of our core system to make it possible to customize the blueprint more.
1. Select Operating System (UBuntu or Debian) for the beste Job Scheduler
2. Select Job Scheduler of shortlist
3. Setup and configure security measures (VPN, SSL sertificates, etc.) with new firewalls
4. Install Operating system and configer it with the principle less is more.
5. Install selected Jobscheduler software
6. Configure Jobscheduler software based on the technical design.
7. Create the required interfaces with the coresystems
8. Integrate the core system ofthe BlueScan / BluePrint into with the Job-Scheduler
9. Design a disaster recovery plan. Test the disaster recovery plan.
10. Create a backup plan and configure, test and implement the backup plan
11. Create High Availability System Firewalls and test several scenario's with this part.
12. Test what time it takes to do a bare metal restore.
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Day 4 HOW to automate
1. Make the right choice for the automation tool
2. Take time to discover the tool
3. Make a contentplanning
4. Inventory tips & tricks community training
5. Write different posts
6. Search for pictures
7. Make professional pictures by a photographer
8. Use the tool
9. Measure and monitor reactions and interactions
10. Delegate work to marketing intern
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Day 3 WHAT tool will you use
I want to automate the process of posting on different social media. Tools I found or thought that would work are the following:
1. Hootsuite
2. Active Campaign
3. Mailchimp
4. Whatssapp for business
5. Facebook Business
6. OmniFocus
7. SocialPilot
8. ContentStudio
9. Sprout Social
10. Buffer
I’m not sure which tool I would use to automate our social media post. I will mainly use it to schedule LinkedIn posts and maybe in the future Facebook. Maybe there is some who can give me some advise…..
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For now doubt is over Hootsuite, SocialPilot or Buffer
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Day 4: I want to write a blog every fortnight with a good SEO. The learning curve for the programming is steep, it will be worth while. I will measure the results at the end of each month. I will take all the video lessons and combine this with my practical experience. Just do it!
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Day 4 – HOW to automate
Day 4 07-07-22
1. Collect as much information as possible from the available tools I going to use.
2. Make a choice quit Mailchimp and switch to ActiveCampaign or continue with Mailchimp with either Calendly or 10to8.
3. Integrate these two tools on the website together with Evert-Jan and/or Gerdy and test them carefully.
4. Write a new blog and see what the effects are.
5. If this works, expand with follow up emails where I will integrate either Calendly or 10to8 in my process that I worked out on day 2.
6. Sharing my experiences with the group and being curious about the success experiences of the group.
7. With this information, see what I can improve about this way of automation. Is my mailing list growing enough or are there better ways.
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Day 4 - HOW to automate
Having birtday-cards being sent automatically by Greetz.nl or Kaartje2go.nl
- Make the birthday card registration part of the registration protocol
- Creating multiple birthday cards so each year will be different
- Creating multiple birthday card text so each year will be different
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WHAT tool will you use
1. Woocommerce takes care of all my orders and the webshop
2. WhatsApp give my customers the chance to approach me easily and in the Business version I can also make an automated messages in case I cannot answer immediately.
3. Canva gives me the opportunity to make postings (a lot of templates to choose from) and via calendar I can plan my postings
4. Facebook Messengers gives my customers the chance to approach me easily through Facebook with an easy out of office automated reply if I am not there.
5. Ideal takes care of the majority of my payments automatically. in my case this feature is powered by Buckaroo
6. Klarna: is an organization that makes it possible for my customers to pay later. They automatically check the financial background of the customer
7. Facebook Business makes it possible to plan postings on Facebook ánd Instagram.
8. Facebook Ads makes it possible to plan your adcampagns
9. Google takes care of my online presence and gives me detailed reports on how I am doing on the internet. I can manage my online presence based on data.
10. When I order at a buying platform, automated software makes sure all the pictures and information is uploaded in my webshop. It is some kind of sync link. Do not know more, only that it is very handy
11. MyParcel takes care of all my packages. The only thing I have to do is use the API Key and everything goes automatically to MyParcel.
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WEEK 3 DAY 4 – HOW to automate
WHAT to automate: publishing my articles on LinkedIn - scheduling in advance
WHAT tool: Hootsuit
WHY automate: I can spend my time on something that makes money
HOW do I make sure that this will be a succes?
1. take time to discover how Hootsuit works
2. this will be the next step in becoming great at automating
3. make a plan for the content
4. put a reminder in my calendar: writing articles in July
5. write 5 articles in a row
6. find 5 photographs to complement the articles
7. plan the articles in Hootsuit
8. monitor the reactions on LinkedIn (views etcetera)
9. learn from this proces to make it better for 2023
10. then plan this all over again for 2023
11. tell my buddies about this
12. when I feel I have succeeded *at any point* in this process I will treat myself to a massage 🙂
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Week 3 - Day 4 - How to automate.
For now I am going to skip this automate-part.
I will get back to this step later in the program, or when I feel automating will benefit my business.
At this point I think it doesn't make sence.
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Maybe an out of office reply so you won't get disturbed when you are busy creating beautiful animated video's? But I understand what you mean..
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HOW TO AUTOMATE (how to make sure that the automation will be a success)
This is about the automation of collecting and managing webinar subscriptions
1. Set number of subscribers goal for first webinar
2. Set number of attendee goal for first webinar
3. Set number of eventual buyers goal for first webinar (part of this automation, for possibly following up on non-buyers the day after)
4. Improve show-up rate: work on engagement
5. Improve conversion rate: work on email sequences (and on the webinar, but that is out of scope for this automation)
6. Hire support for the above (delegating required expertise, getting me up to speed)
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Dag 4 – HOE automatiseren
Herinner jezelf eraan welke tool je gaat gebruiken, wat ga je automatiseren en waarom... en bedenk dan een lijst met ideeën HOE ga je ervoor zorgen dat de automatisering een succes wordt ( doelen, verwachtingen, leercurve, ondersteuning krijgen, hoe ga je resultaten meten, hoe ga je verbeteren...)
Ik ben dus bezig om mijn mobiel te orderen, apps verwijderen en in een systeem volgorde te plaatsen. En apps gebruiken die een systeem over de ideeen en taken in ordering brengen. zodat het uit me hoofd kan en er nieuwe dingen komen.
Andere partijen kijken mee vanuit hun kennis met de plannen die ik aan schrijven ben en ben hierin ook een structuur aan het aan brengen door het plan uit te schrijven / mogelijk video beelden. Er zijn investeerders geïnteresseerd in mijn plannen. Ik moet dan een duidelijk structuur hebben om ze niet al mijn ideeën te droppen want dan is het chaos.
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TOOLS
No specific tools, just coding a system in Lazarus, html and php. So everything is connected together perfectly.
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And I will need some javascript too.
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1. Ordering process
2. Follow up
3. Efficient history look up
4. Back order overview
5. Automatic reminders
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4 juli 2022 ev AUTOMATE week 3 programma
Dag 1 Why automate?
1. It saves time
2. It is less prone to error
3. It is cheaper than labor power
4. I don't have to do boring work
5. I can pay more attention to the customer himself
6. I don't have to remember certain tasks, it gives brain space
7. It gives certainty that certain tasks are performed in time
8. I can spend my time on something that makes money
9. It provides scalability.
10. It is more professional
11. It's more efficient, I don't have to keep reinventing
12. It gives me peace
13. It prevents interruptions in creative processes
14. It reduces paper consumption, so it saves trees
Most important:
A I don't have to remember certain tasks, it gives brain space
B. It gives certainty that certain tasks are performed in time
C. I can spend my time on something that makes money
Dag 2 WHAT to Automate?
1. Wekelijkse emails aan klanten
2. Facturen uitsturen
3. Boekhoudprogramma
4. Bedankmails
5. Verjaardagen van klanten, persoonlijke mail
6. Afspraken klanten via online agenda
7. Lead and contact management
8. Email marketing rondom klanten
9. Sales funnel for online lessons.
10. Planning contact with groups of clients in advance.
1. Lead and Contact Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. including sign-up forms, list segmentation, personalized autoresponder email/sequence and more… will save me a lot of time in the future.
2. Email Marketing
Because it has an incredible return on investment (ROI) and it saves time. . MailChimp or ActiveCampaign) make it easier by sending automated welcome emails, abandoned cart emails, birthday and anniversary emails, newsletters and so much more.
3. Sales Funnel
An automated sales funnel (like LeadPages or ClickFunnels) is just a sales funnel with added automation to help keep things moving smoothly. Automated funnels can be time-based (e.g. every xx days send an email) or behavior-based (e.g. when a person clicked a specific link – deliver a specific email). This way it will bwe very easy to sell my online programs.
The one task I will automate is Emailmarketing including lead and contactmanagement.
Dag 3: What tool will I use to automate?
Active Campaign will be my choice. an email marketing automation platform. Using drag-and-drop controls, you can segment your automated messages and use personalization for a better individual appeal.
This platform also features automated workflows, autoresponders, and other tools to improve your efficiency.
20 Best Email Marketing Tools (2022) (emailanalytics.com):
o 1. MailChimp.
o 2. Sender.
o 3. Sendinblue.
o 4. Constant Contact.
o 5. Easysendy.
o 6. Infusionsoft by Keap.
o 7. SendPulse.
o 8. Omnisend.
o 9. ConvertKit.
o 10. Moosend.
o 11. AWeber.
o 12. SendX.
• 13. Campaign Monitor.
• 14. Drip.
• 15. GetResponse.
• 16. MotionMail.
• 17. Albacross.
• 18. ReachMail.
• 19. Mailmodo.
• 20. ActiveCampaign.
Dag 4 How to automate:
_1.Interview collegues who use it, active campaign, I know many.
2. Than decide on tekst for welcome mail, weekly blogpost, payment mails, instructionmails for using programs
3. measure the opening and reading of mails by people
4. Try different text and titles (splittesting)
5. Experiment with words to get the message across to potential customers
6. Ask clients what they want to read.
7. Ask client what wil be their next step, and use that in emails
8. experiment with backgroundcolours and letters, what do people like to see?
9. Have good photo s in stock, easy to find and use in emails
10. Ask customers that I helped well in automated tekst to give me tips about where to find new clients.
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Ik begin simpel, in m'n agenda:)
Gebruik nu Outlook in mijn reguliere werk.
Daar mogen zowel mijn werk- als privé-agenda instaan (omdat we ooit een tablet van het werk hadden die ook voor privé gebruikt mocht worden).
Handig is dat je ze naast elkaar hebt staan en over elkaar heen kunt leggen.
Maar ik wil het uit elkaar halen en denk dat ik voor persoonlijk alles ga overzetten naar Google.
Dan ben ik meteen aan het voorbereiden op losser komen van m'n reguliere werkgever;
Ik plaats reminders in de agenda, jaarlijks terugkerend, voor:
* betaling en check beroepsvereniging yoga-docenten;
* betaling en check beroepsvereniging natuurgeneeskunde;
* check houdbaarheid aantekening PsychoSociale Basiskennis;
* check houdbaarheid EHBO-diploma en vaardigheden;
* betaling en check bedrijfsaansprakelijkheidsverzekering;
* check benodigde bijscholingen;
* check invoeren benodigde bijscholingen in systeem Vereniging Yogaleerkrachten Nl;
Yoga
Natuurgeneeskunde
PSBK
EHBO
* check per kwartaal vaktijdschrift en website beroepsverenigingen, op actuele info die ik niet mag missen;
* en plannen benodigde bijscholingen in een meerjarenkalender;
En ik zoek de functies voor automatisering uit die Google nog meer heeft en die ik nu niet ken.
en ik stel de vraag in de groep: welk eenvoudige systeem&app raden jullie aan voor agendabeheer?
dan kan ik me nog een keer achter de oren krabben voor ik alles overzet naar Google.
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Day three in second week:
What automatation tools?
I wonder if I am already lost in the forest of this programm or what? Do I drop out here in this second week already?
Same time: maybe this is just the big blind spot in my business.
I can take a few beginners babysteps.
First start again is a good functioning website and from there automatic posts on Whatsapp and LinkedIn with built in posibilities for follow through
2 Optimimize Wefact and Basecone
3: Our irrigation system on the fields need to be automatic as much as possible: computertimers, pumps, pipes, drippers etc
5): I need an automatic system here in Spain for timing and paying taxes
6) Some kind of automatic cleaning up my files.
7) same for photo´s
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Since I don’t need any other tools than I already use, I took some time to think which parts of my communication I can standardize.
1. Offer.
2. Offer for 101
3. Create a script with questions to ask for intake for potential new customer
4. Create a standard message to invite people for the book launch
5. Create a standard message for LinkedIn contacts
6. Create standard follow up message for after a training
7. Create script for inviting myself to bring a book to the CEO of the company -by LinkedIn
8. Phone Message - same
9. Recommendation messsage that I can give to others to send to their friends
10. All the preparation eMails
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Oh I love that!
I did all until Day 4 but it is hard to find Ideas when you already did all of the HOW.
I try to find ideas to standardize instead 😀
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We missed all your posts this week, Cornelia…
Please make sure to post them before the weekend…
🙏🏻
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WOMB WEEK 3, JULY 6, DAY 3/5
WHAT TOOL TO USE TO AUTOMATE
THE BUILDING OF MY E-MAIL LIST?
Free Options (until a certain level of emails/subscribers)
1. HubSpot e-mail marketing
2. SendInBlue
3. Sender.net
4. Shipo
5. Mailjet
6. Mailchimp
7. Postcards (modulair systeem used by Nike, Disney)
8. Pabbly
9. Zoho Campaigns (great automation features)
10. AWeber (great integration with WorldPress but lack of powerful automation features)
11. ConvertKit (best for workflows and automations, possibility to sell digital products and memberships, includes referral system on the paid version)
Paid Options
1. Moosend
2. Benchmark
3. Constant Contact
4. MailUp
5. Campaigner (robust automation and workflow features)
6. Drip (for experienced e-mail marketeers, e-commerce)
7. Campaign Monitor (integrates HubSpot, woo commerce)
Source:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/email-newsletter-tools
The tool I will choose is CONVERTKIT because this tool allows to automate the sale of digital products and memberships (already from the free version)! The paid version enables automation of a referral program. 🤩
Hereunder the description of this tool:
ConvertKit
Pricing: Free up to 300 subscribers, then $9+/month
Newsletter Software
Best for: Workflows and automation
ConvertKit offers a whole suite of products for building and growing an email newsletter. With the free version, you'll be able to create unlimited landing pages and forms to build your subscriber list. You'll also be able to draw from a library of templates for email creation.
One interesting thing about ConvertKit is that you can sell digital products and memberships without an integration or added premium, giving you monetization capability out of the gate.
Premium plans include automation, subscriber scoring, and even a referral system through SparkLoop.
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Day 2 – WHAT to automate
There are a lot of things you can automate. Luckily.
1. Automatic emails when someone subscribes to your newsletter
2. Automatic emails when someone downloads your e-book
3. Automatic emails when someone leaves his cart with products
4. A Pop Up that pops up automatically with a message
5. A discount code with which customers automatically get a discount when they fill in the code.
6. I could use an out of office reply when I am away, but I want people to have a real person on the phone. So I hired a phone service
7. I have an automatic reply in Messenger between 20.00 and 10.00 so people that try to reach me through Facebook messenger get an automatic answer outside office hours.
8. The whole ordering process is automated
9. Every payment online is automated
10. I have an automatic reminder on my phone, reminding me I have to go to bed on time (If only I listened to that reminder)
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DAY #3 Research day:
I checked a lot of social media scheduling tools. Here are the most relevant ones:
1. Monday Marketer - free version - works on desktop - looks good, but I had to create an account in order to check the details (I didn't)
2. Loomly - $26 p/mo - nice interface, made for visuals
3. Facelift - paid, not clear what it costs - no nonsense, to the point - social customer care in one inbox - big companies use it, must be expensive
4. Coosto - $249,- per month - looks attractive, good reviews but way too expensive
5. Napoleon Cat - there is a free version, but many features are missing - good reviews
6. Buffer - free, paid version is from $5,- p/mo - very complete but doesn't serve visual content creators that well
7. Later - Free, paid version from $12,50 per month - made for visuals - hashtag recommendations - linkin.bio for more traffic (in upgrade) and easier webshop selling
8. Hootsuite - free version - their 'engage' feature seems to be very good - positive reviews
9. Crowdfire - free, upgrade only $7,48 p/mo - hashtag recommendation - bulk posts in upgrade
I think the best tool for me is #7 Later.
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Hi Ine,
That is quite an impressive list. I found some interesting tools on Tiktok. Have to dive into them. There are so many processes you can automate. I had no idea...
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Thank you! Ah... TikTok. I'm very curious what you'll find out. Yes, agree, so many possibilities! Can save us a lot of precious time 🙂
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What will I use to automate my posts and e-mails?
1. SendInBlue (it's the newsletter software and CRM I am currently using)
2. WordPress scheduling
3. Canva
4. Hootsuite
5. Facebook Business
6. Gmail
Or delegate parts:
7. Get my partner to create a set of posts
8. Get someone on fiverr to create a set of posts
9. Get another coach from my academy to create the posts
10. Get a client to do it for me?
More automations:
11. Buy a proper earphone+mic so I can use voice to text software
12. The voice to text software is already integrated in android
13. Signal or whatsapp with a new group with just me in it: "post texts and pictures"
More delegations:
14. Have a contest where I get people to send me photo's and lines that I can use on SM or in e-mails
15. Get my clients and subscribers to give me topics
More automations:
16. Set up a system for reposting
17. Connect WordPress to Facebook or Instagram and autopost on a new post.
In our buddy group, we have the idea of doing an "automation day" or maybe an evening. Maybe someone else wants to join too?
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Nice, you put delegation and automation in the same toolbox. Where they belong together.
Automation day/evening: great idea. What, how, when? I might join you, if that's okay..
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Hey Ine, that is great. Reach out to me on max@improveyourtomorrow.nl and we will set a time to work together soon 🙂
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what automation will I use?
1. google recommendation
2. whats app for business
3. fiverr maybe
4. lot of the other things I already have implemented.
I take a look at these.
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The following tools I have inventoried and not invented.
1. Hootsuite
2. Gmail responder
3. Various plugins
4. ActiveCampaign
5. Omnifocus
6. time machine
7. TextExpander
8. mailchimp
9. calendly
10. 10to8
11. Zapier
12. Integrately
13. Templates
14 Telephone answering machine
15. Reminders iPhone
I have now started using Omnifocus (once purchased on the advice of Nisandeh) and am updating my knowledge about this in order to be able to use it properly. There are good useful Youtube videos about this. Mailchimp has been using for a while now and cost me a lot of frustration before I understood how it works optimally. I'm now on the cusp of using a paid version of this. I'm also already using the answering machine because I've been harassed by all sorts of utility companies. I had my wife record it and that immediately comes across as a bit more professional. I thought for inspiration for the group. I also regularly use the reminder on my iPhone. Works perfectly by the way and as Nisandeh wrote, it's right out of my head. Timemachine is also something I've been using for decades so I never have to worry about making backups.
What am I going to apply as new:
With the help of Gerdy and a client of mine, I'm starting to take my first steps as soon as possible to automate comments on my website using mailchimp and either Calendly or 10to8. I am still waiting for the response of the expert who is going to help me.
I also want to know more about ActiveCampaign because this seems very solid with what I saw at Open Circles. Also, I'm still looking at Gmail responder. I'll get to work on this tomorrow to look into this further.
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Jep. Iif you switch to AC I can help if needed- not with Mailchimp. Sorry.
I use gravity forms with active campaign also to capture data.
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I watched a youtube instruction video about ActiveCampaign. Why did you choose ActiveCampaign and not Mailchimp? What do you think is the biggest advantage of ActiveCampaign over Mailchimp?
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Because you can automate EVERYTHING you want.
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Thank you, Gerdy.
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Day 3 – WHAT tool will you use
Sending birthday (e-)cards
Options:
Greetz.nl
Hallmark.nl
Jubelkalender.nl
Topgeschenken.nl
Topbloemen.nl
Topfruit.nl
Toptaarten.nl
Kaartje2go.nl
Have to do a bit more research in the coming days on Greetz.nl and Kaartje2go.nl
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Day 3
What tool I use:
1. Braintoss for getting things out of my memory and in to my mail
2. Hootsuite to plan for socialmedia tools
3. Automatic mail respond to react in 7 days
I think I can automate more and will reseach on the examples form others and see if I can use that specific tool to automate something in my business.
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Day 3 Wednesday - WHAT TOOL
Scheduling posts: Facebook Business Suite
Scheduling newsletter: Mailchimp
Scripts: app Boards
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Day 2 Tuesday - WHAT
1. Scheduling posts
2. Scheduling newsletter
3. Scripts (app Boards)
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Hi Lola,
Great to read your post... Are these your TOP 3?...
Curious to read what were the other 10 ideas you came up with.
Remember - the idea is to use the Idea Generator to come up with more than just the obvious ones we already know and by that openning our creativity and mind to more possibilities than we saw at first.
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Day 3
Hootsuite for the posting on LinkedIn. I am looking at Copy.ai or Frase i.o for the automatic blog writing. Dux Soup for generating LinkedIn leads. Webscrape for the webscraping. Calendly for planning appointments, Trello for the planning and communicating of tasks. Active campaign as an email programme.
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What tool will I use?
1. Woocommerce
2. Google
3. Active campingn and mailchip
4. Instagram itself
5. Gmail and outlook responder
6. Moneybird
7. Chatbot
8. Woofunnel
9. Mollie
10. Webinargeek
11. Divers plugins
12. Meta business tool facebook
13. Canva
14. iPhone tool
15. KPN tool
16. Notes
17. Zoom
18. Huddle
19. Tool I still don’t know how to reward visitors and customers
20. MyParcel
21. Convertbox
22. Whatsapp Business
23. Birthday ecards en cars
24. I don’t know the name anymore but there is a tool where you can make just one video and it will automatically send to a customer with the name of that person so it will look like you made it for them personally
25. Evergreen
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The tool I choose to use
- first of alle I want to use again the automatic replay on chats through my business instagram profile when people start to follow me
- than I will deep dive into Convertbox. This is a great tool I bought a few years ago but never did anything with it
- and I also want to search for a tool that show the best customers in woocommerse and a tool that shows the best leads/clients who respond or make comments on my website to reward them
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Can I ask a favor, Sigrid?
Would you be willing to re-post your very valuable list of tools, and next to each one of them include a line of what is this tool used for?
For example, WooCommerce lets you create a simple (or complex) webshop for your WordPress website.
This way your list becomes an invaluable resource for ALL of us.
Thank you...🙏🏻
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👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
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WEEK 3, DAY 3 – WHAT tool will I use
Okay, I've already implemented the thing I chose, so on to the next pick for this tool question.
I now choose: generate leads. I only know of two tools that are (indirectly) suitable for this. Those are numbers 1 and 2 below. The rest I don't know, so I'm going to google it.
1. Google
2. Hootsuit
3. Octopus CRM
4. AroundDeal
5. IntouchTool
6. Raynet CRM
7. ?
I have no idea which one is the best. So it becomes difficult to choose as far as lead generation is concerned. I will first delve into automating my posts on LinkedIn. That would already help. So I choose Hootsuit now.
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WHICH TOOLS ARE POSSIBLE (regarding my choice: to collect and manage webinar subscriptions)
The key here is that a web form plugin (Bloom, OptinMonster, WPForms, SeedProd, TrustPulse, etc) will feed email addresses into an autoresponder. Plenty of options here:
1. ActiveCampaign (the one of choice)
2. MailChimp
3. ConvertKit
4. Aweber
5. Hubspot
6. Drip
7. GetResponse
8. MailerLite
9. Benchmark
10. Moosend
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By the way: I am well aware that this is a boring list of functional equivalents. I think it would be more interesting for the community to share names of tools that are interesting for various purposes. For instance, most of us will have a website (the largest share of that will be WordPress-based), and maintenance in the form of updating WP/theme/plugins can be tedious if you do that piece by piece. InfiniteWP is a good tool to automate this updating task.
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I totally agree with you, Machiel. This is one part I absolutely hate. I'm always happy when something works and then I don't have to worry about it. If there are people in our group who like this topic and have an understanding of it, then I welcome the ideas of them. For me, this is also a way of working smarter if I can make use of the knowledge of this group. So come up and share this names 🤗
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love to help Marcel, but what tools are you looking for?
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How wonderful, Gerdy, that you want to help!
What I've done so far is asked someone who will help me with this and he has promised to do so. Then tonight I'm going to look after the answers of what everyone has written. I choose a few examples of this and put them in my contribution today.
I'm already working with Mailchimp and I'm now going to figure out how to integrate a calendar with the person helping me. If you can give any good advice on this, I'd love to hear it, Gerdy.
The goal is that I will automate things on my website and I will actually do that. That is why this course is before we actually implement it. Step by step and if this goes well I will expand it more and more.
It's hard for me, but no one said it's going to be easy. I go for it, even if it cracks sometimes.
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So if I understand you correctly, you would like help in how to integrate a calendar with mailchimp?
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Yes, Gerdy,
You understand it correctly.
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are you looking for something that can collect mail addresses for you and put in a mail service provider? I'd love to help but the question is not so clear to me yet. What exactly are you looking for?
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Day two: What to automate
First of all I want to optimize the automatic tools that I already have: WeFact and Basecone
I want a system that sents out whatsapp messages with a connection to my new to built website for more info and a new to create system of blogs.
A system that builds up my mailinglist with follow through.
I am considering to do the same with Linkedin.
For the rest I need to do research. And speak with people. And read in the WOMB . So many ideas I neven heard of. There is a world opening up and I do my first steps in it.
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DAY 2:
1. Scheduling posts on Instagram/Fb
2. Reusable checklists for processes webshop/production/product development/communication
3. Reminders for important tasks
4. Link Mollie invoices to my bookkeeping program (currently I do it manually)
5. Transfer information from my new webshop clients to other applications
6. Take notes more easily when I have dirty hands
7. Celebration reminder
8. Organize folders and files on my computer
9. Automate back ups
10. In time disk space warning
11. Easier use of hashtags without typing them over and over again
Yes, I'll start automating my posts on Instagram (and Fb) this week
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Ine, for the hashtags I also use TextExpander- I just put them in a text field and give it a simple abbreviation. When I type in this abbreviation it will automatically put all the hashtags in the instagram post or youtube description.
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Great! Thank you Gerdy. I'll check out TextExpander for sure
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The backups you can do via your internetprovider. I want to automate my posts. But I have to make them first. And that is always the bottleneck. But Facebook Business is a great tool for that. Or Hootsuite. You can also automate the posts on Canva.
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Ah I didn't know my internet provider provides this kind of services. Thanks for the tips
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Week 3 "I'm going to be great at automating"
Day 2 – WHAT to automate
1. All standard communication to my customers (upon booking, 1 week before arrival, the day upon arrival, the day of departure)
2. LinkedIn posts
3. Blogs
4. My mail responds
5. Distribution and archiving of mails
6. The mails to my bookkeeping software
7. Reoccuring tasks which are very time consuming and drain energy
8. Focus time
9. The archiving and deletion of all What's App messages
10. The feeding of my cat
11. The watering of my garden
The ONE task I am going to automate is
1. All standard communication to my customers (upon booking, 1 week before arrival, the day upon arrival, the day of departure)
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Nice list, Marie-Louise. From my perspective: a good choice you made!
I am also curious about nr 5: Distribution and archiving of mails. If I find something that works, I share it with you.
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ohhh Marie Louise, I didn't think of that one but what a great one! Standard communication... I do copy and paste them and then make them personal, but it would be a lot better if I would create templates for them. Thank you!
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Day 2: WHAT to automate.
This morning I chose "Help me to increase my visibility" and "Help me to generate new leads" as the WHY. This is WHAT I think I can automate to achieve that:
1. Blog posts
2. Reviews
3. Portfolio posts
4. Showcase videos
5. Mailings
6. Asking for referrals
7. Work process with clients
8. Finding new potential clients on fiverr and upwork
9. Advertising
10. Tutorials
I'm going to take two of these to automate:
1. Create a new portfolio/success story post when I finish a project for a client and automatically cross post that on my website, Facebook, Google business page. This is beneficial for the author as well, since their work will get additional attention
2. Create a review form on my website and automate placing these reviews on my website, Google business page and Facebook
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Week 3 "I'm going to be great at automating"
Day 1 – WHY automate
1. It saves me a lot time
2. Actions are carried out in time
3. Customers get their respond immediately
4. To optimize my processes
5. My range of responding is much broader
6. It saves money
7. I don't have to spent time on administrative work which drains me from energy
8. It is like having a couple of extra pairs of hands
9. It makes me flexible
10. To minimize mistakes
11. I'm not dependent on others
12. To improve my customer journey
13. To free up time to concentrate on my busines
14. To stimulate my creativity (if I can automate my business, free up time for my top 20% customers I can do anything :))
15. It come across more professional
My top 3
4. To optimize my process
7. I don't have to spent time on administrative work which drains me from energy
12. To improve my customer journey
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My main purpose would be systemizing and being able to have others do the work for me and save time.
If I think of systemizing then my trainings are where I can definitely save a LOT of time.
I already started with creating log files but I think I would like to have some kind of book where I can find exercises for specific purposes.
What else…
Creating scripts for calling and for sending messages
An optin automation
My sleeping ritual could also be more automated
Lists with what to bring for holiday (I create lists for more and more in my life- I even have two standard shopping lists for week with and week without kids and it is saving me so much time! (Cooking the same thing always when they’re with me is btw also an automation I guess- it’s definitely systemized)
I wish I could automate my kids a bit more:)
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WHAT I want to automise:
1) sending regular newsletters.
2) posting facbookmessages.
3) also Instagramposts
4) inserting video, fotographs and animations in my website.
5)first answers to questions via my website.
6) posting regular blogs on the maillist
7) proces of introducing a new completed trip
8) marketing on social media
9) mailing and respons to clients when the have a question.
10) mailing and respons to clients when the have booked a trip.
11) sending a request for recommendation to clients who finished their trip.
12) listing priorities everyday.
What I want to automise is listing my tasks to priorities day by day.
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Day 2 – WHAT to automate
1. Regular FB/Insta posts
2. Birthday (e-)cards
3. E-learning platform
4. Making basic instruction videos
5. Making historic background videos
6. Automating the webshop more
7. Automating the registration more
8. Automating communication more
9. Linking my classes calendar to a website calendar
10. Programming WhatsApp Business standard responses more.
11. Linking bank to administration program
12. Using more my invoice email which is connected to my administration program
> Birthday (e-)cards
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Dag 2 – WAT te automatiseren
Lees de 2-3 belangrijkste doelen die je gisteren hebt gekozen en maak een lijst van alle taken/processen die je zou kunnen automatiseren om die belangrijkste doelen te bereiken.
Automatiseren en fileren van alles wat binnen komt. (structuur aanbrengen)
- Geen geluidjes op mobiel
- De vele mails van diverse groepen uitzetten
- Belangrijk bericht meteen een actie geven in agenda of to do
- Berichten zo min mogelijk tijd aan besteden door juiste actie er aan te geven
- telefoon eerst door Brenda laten uitfilter
- Agenda eerst door Brenda uit laten filteren
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Zorg ervoor dat je er nog 5 krijgt als je geen ideeën meer hebt.
Schrijf ze ALLEMAAL op in het opmerkingenveld.
Kies dan EEN taak/proces dat je gaat automatiseren en schrijf het op.
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Week 3 day 2
WHAT to automate
Digitalize Avatars so people get an Avatar according their profile with the BlueScan. The Avatar has a 2D and a 3D model variant.
To build a Central Room and 7 Avatar Rooms in VR.
A system for a Roadmap for teams so they can easily interact online with each other and go to a process to improve team performance.
An online training where people can learn get more awareness about themselves and get to know themselves.
Make the BluePrint Reports of the Core System more like small building blocks, so it is easier to customize with the (new) online programs.
An online space so we can create an opportunity for organizations/teams where they can meet each other and get to know each other. This is sustainable, because people don't have to travel.
An integration between Core System of the BlueScan and the VR-space so people can fill out a questionnaire in VR.
An integration between the online Roadmap and the BlueScan where people can easily see for example what their communications style is and that their visualizes hoe the specific communication style can interact with another communication style.
The dataflow system of a customer who comes for the first time in our business, does several steps, and eventually leaves the business. The purpose is to get more analytics to see of process(steps) should be changed, improved or deleted. And what integration is still missing for optimization of the process(step).
An online space where people can go in. Where they can meet like-minded, have event-meetings, just talk, do games.
This is the one I choose to automate first:
Make the BluePrint Reports of the Core System more like small building blocks, so it is easier to customize with the (new) online programs.
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Week 3 - day 2
WHAT to Automate?
1. Writing and planning my social media posts
2. Writing blogs
3. Answering questions coming in on Facebook messenger
4. Ask for referrals from people who followed my courses
5. Translation and subtitles for all my online courses
6. Make transcripts of my videos (for PDF summary)
7. Automatic follow up after people download my free E-book
8. Automatic follow up after participants finish a course (give info for next course)
9. Automatic follow up after people leave the payment process
10. Automatic follow up after doing a webinar
Choose one: That will be 7/8/9/10 😊
I have 5000+ people on my email list and I send every ‘broadcast’ manually (excluding people based on tags). With 5 courses I don’t have overview anymore, so people might get emails twice or not at all. I NEED to automate the follow up email sequences for all the reasons mentioned before. This means I have to create a workflow for all my online courses. I have been procrastinating this because a) I’m the only one who knows all details of all courses b) I don’t know where to start and how to do this….
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Week 3 - day 1
The main reasons WHY to automate:
1. Less chaos in my brain (more peace of mind)
2. More time to work ON my business
3. Serve way more people but still make it personal
4. Make less mistakes
5. Automatic follow ups
6. Will force me to create a workflow of all courses (overview)
7. Less ad hoc problem solving and answering questions
8. Business continues when I’m not available (more trustworthy)
9. Less chaos on my desk (full of checklists and to do notes)
10. More sales through automated follow up
Top 3
1. Less chaos in my brain (more peace of mind)
2. Will force me to create a workflow of all courses (overview)
3. More sales through automated follow up
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1. Marketing emails
2. Social media post on different platforms
3. Payments of products on website
4. Part of the quotations
5. Webinar subscriptions
6. Registrations for training and workshops
7. Feedback porces by email
8. Free give away on website
9. Reminders for appointments and tasks
10. Capture customer data in CRM tooling
11. Progress messages/questions (whatsapp) to clients
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Great list Henny... Curious to know with which ONE would you start the process of STRATEGICALLY automating?
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I choose nr 2 posting social media posts on different platforms as my task to automate
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So... so far, we all came up with about 112 distinct why's. I took some out that were not relevant to me, got exactly 100 left and put them in a manuel 3D mindmap. That gave some interesting patterns to reflect upon.
Then I deleted all of them that are already taken care of with the automation tool I'm building. I was left with 16. Ha! 80/20 indeed.
The thing that stood out, is fixing for once and always the issue of clients not getting and staying in line. And not considering I might not be sitting around waiting for work. Been seen as providor nr 4. To make them pay nice money and play nice if they want to work with me.
So, what I will focus on to automate, is automating **scarcity***. To prevent further scars on my soul mwhahaha!
Ok. Time to think of the most easy and efficient way to implement this. Tips welcome. I'm looking for a way to show blocks available per month. Not time blocks, but case units. Like: units left: 3 -- but linked to a specific week. Haven't seen any of the popular tools do that.
BTW, anybody with good suggestions for 3D visual thinking software?
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Yezz, truely, we should all check out automated AI writing. I did some testing a while ago, it was OMG. But - limited to English. And yes, you still need to do part of the work yourself. But if you are a free writer (versus a structured writer), that might half your working time.
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Day 1 WHY automate
1, it saves me time
2. less frustrations
3. fewer/avoid mistakes
4. helpfull for clienst
5. I can’t forget to do some tasks
6. it saves money
7. more easy to measure output
8. faster delivery
9. less time-bound
10 possible to plan things in advance
11. I don’t have to do unpleasant work
My most important reasons WHY I would automate are:
Saves time
Avoid mistakes
Can’t forget to do some tasks
Possible to plan in advance
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Social media planning can be automated, as can writing of blogs with AI. Planning of appointments, sharing calendars and tasks. Invoice sending, customer service tasks, data integration, datascraping from the web, email marketing, lead generation, workflow planning, business idea generator, (😊) automate standard task and receive automatic reminders.
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the one I want to start with is the blog, social media and workflow planning
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WOMB WEEK 3, JULY 5, DAY 2/5
WHAT TO AUTOMATE?
1. Email marketing
2. Baby data collection App for sleep training
3. FAQ chatbot
4. Upfront paying system
5. Accountancy process (app that declares expenses already from paying)
6. Agenda reminders
7. Webinar subscriptions
8. Client journey: from strangers into Friends, from Friends to Ambassadors
9. Birthday reminder
10. Birthday gift system
11. Newsletter welcome (linked to my new blog 🥰) and building e-mail database
12. Free online gifts
13. Affiliate marketing system
14. Dropshipping process
15. Complaint registration and follow up
16. Return process
17. Client profile with upsales system based on past purchases, needs, preferences and customer behavior
18. Personalized baby sleep log
19. Gamification in client’s engagement level
20. referral system
21. Evaluation system for sleep coaching trainers
22. Quality control (check list) of baby hotel room
23. Client feedback, level of satisfaction
24. Data collection of baby sleep quality (at baby hotels)
25. Employee database and history
The one process I will automate is:
Newsletter welcome (linked to my new blog 🥰 thanks to @Max Hirschel 🙏) and building/growing e-mail list database
My second automation step is the sales
Funnel. But in order to do that I first need to create the products.
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What to automate?
1. Automatic replay to mails
2. Automatic replay to facebook chats
3. Automaat replay to instagram chats
4. Funnel at active campaign
5. Free give away through mail
6. Sending invoices
7. Sending orders digital
8. Planning blogs on the website
9. Planning posts on Facebook
10. Planning posts on instagram
11. Give a answer automatic to a certain question
12. Voicemail
13. Making appointments
14. Rewarding visitors that come on my website
15. Rewarding visitors who are active in facebook group
16. Steps in the online program
17. Reminder that I have an appointment
18. Sending a welcome note to new people who follow me/my business on instagram
19. Idem for facebook page
20. Orders via webshop
21. payments and sending invoices after orders webshop
22. Standard answers for some asks I get in instagram
23. Popping up which prospect I must reach out at a certain date
24. Reminders on time for certain specific dates to celebrate
25. Automatic make a label when someone ordered a fysic product
26. Give a higher score/rate on the clients who bought more on my webshop so I can give them a present or so
27. When a client buys my online programm in my funnel that this person will automatically get access to my programm and a pesonal welcome note or video
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I think I already automate a lot. But now I am wondering if I still am automating sending chats to people who are new and follow my business on instagram
Later I will use facebook bots or so or a tool like convert tool.
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WOW Sigrid! What a fruitful list of ideas! In especially loved points 24 and 26! So clever to reward clients based on their fidelity and level of investment
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Waarom automatiseren?
- tijd besparen = geld besparen
- repeterende taken verminderen en op dezelfde uniforme wijze afhandelen
- zorgen dat mijn collega's en ik op dezelfde wijze werken
- hoogstaande kwaliteit leveren
- saaie taken niet zelf hoeven doen
Wat automatiseren?
Ik realiseer mij dat we in de afgelopen jaren al zoveel geautomatiseerd hebben, het is onderdeel van ons DNA geworden om bij elke repeterende taak na te denken of het eenvoudiger kan of geautomatiseerd. We hebben lijstmanagers voor mails, een CRM, geautomatiseerde systemen, flows, standaardmails, een handleidingen, webshop, iDeal, Mollie etc. En sommige dingen die moeten wel handmatig in eerste instantie, zoals mails en telefoontjes opvangen. Waarna de afhandeling meestal weer volgens vaste processen verloopt. De druk op onze telefoon en mail neemt wel toe dus ik vraag mij af hoe we hiermee nog handiger kunnen omgaan? We werken al samen met een telefoondienst maar zij hebben niet de benodigde inhoudelijke kennis, werken voor vele verschillende bedrijven en zijn met vele collega's. Heeft iemand tips?
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surveys. Ik weet het, klinkt te simpel. Maak eens een lijst van 100 mail vragen/interacties die je ook per survey had kunnen afhandelen. We zijn stilaan gewoon aan apps voor onszelf en voor interne bedrijfsprocessen - maar wat als je ook werk naar je klanten delegeert met automatische processen? Wel van die vriendelijke, met top interface, conversational surveys. Check eens hoe het er by Typeform uitziet.
Andere optie is dedicated delegation van telefoondiensten. 1 freelancer, die 100% op commissie per telefoon werkt en die je volledig inwerkt. Overigens kan je ook een gesproken boodschap hebben op de telefoondienst zodat je naar je survey leidt. De meeste grote bedrijven aanvaarden geen telefoons meer. Vind ik zelf snert als ik echt een mens nodig heb, maar kan me niet echt schelen als ik een oplossing nodig heb en de mens neemt de telefoon niet op.
Heb ook even gekeken naar die Odoo helpdesk, ga ik toch eens verder exploreren! Als je vanaf nul kan met automatiseren, zijn ze imo samen met teamleader de twee om te checken in het nederlandstalig gebied.
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Dank je Sin! We gaan om te beginnen het type telefoontjes in kaart brengen en dan de paden uitzetten. ik ga me ook zeker orienteren op de tools die je hierboven noemt.
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what to automate?
1. webinars
2. online masterclasses
3. funnels
4. birthdaycalendar
5. tasks to do what I can delegate too
6. whatsapp for business
7. finance organizing payments and taxes
8. listbuilding
9. marketing calendar
10. blog calendar
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Great list Chiquita... Curious to know which ONE would you choose to work on as your first step?
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WEEK 3, DAY 2 – WHAT to automate
My top 3 WHY's
1. I can spend my time on something that makes money
2. It provides scalability
3. It empowers customers
MY IDEAS 4 WHAT
1. Appointment calendar (already implemented)
2. Orders via webshop (already implemented)
3. Mollie for payments via website shop (already implemented)
4. MailChimp for relationship maintenance (already implemented)
5. SignRequest for signing contracts etc (already implemented)
6. An automatic signature under my email (implemented before)
7. FAQ on my website (implemented before)
8. Improve my current funnel, because it doesn't work now
9. Hootsuit for LinkedIn
10. Prepare a standard email regarding the start of the process + AVG
11. Unlock the basic assignments of my coaching program via website with password
12. Software for my time registration
13. An app containing my basic program to support coaching it self
14. Lead Generation Software
15. Set up an automatic reply in my email account
16. Put annoying tasks that I must not forget in my phone as a repeated reminder
There must be a lot more possible, but I just don't know what. So I have to go and research, for example MailChimp.
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Forgot to add the ONE THING I choose right now. I start with a small step going forward on this path of automation:
>> Putting annoying tasks that I must not forget in my phone as a repeated reminder. <<
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What to automate:
1. Saves time
- automate more payments wich reguarly retun
- start with an app that alarms me to do certain task
- plan a day and collect all the blogs and put theme online with hootsuite not by me but let the PA do it
- find a programm or alarm thats forces me to put documents sent to me and downloaded to the laptop or computer automaticly in google drive.
and to do that I have to start cleaning up the laptop and computer at the office!
So that taks I will put it in my agenda right now and plan a day at the office to implement.
Because if the laptop and computer are cleaned my head is clean and that will help me with my stratigic thinking and analysing my bussiness.
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Just buy a cheap new one. 300 euro, tax deductable. Not sure about your hourly rate, but this might be a better deal 🙂 Have fun Claudia! - The ROI girl whaaha!
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So this is how you do high level market research and copy gold digging - ask them to name 10 why's. I so love this program Nisandeh Neta!
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And at the same time we all benefit. It's a win-win 🙂
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I'm a great fan of 80/20. Even more of 1/51.
Making the automation reasons list, that has grown since, was way easier then answering the 80/20 question from another course. Mechanic world view, anybody? 😉
I saw i could have 52 reasons for automation, ask 1/51 for each, and then use automation/delegation as preferred goto answer. Why, what, who, how, implement. 15' a day. Done. Next round. That would move the needle. Especially if there were some ranking in the reasons. Or in the impact on the business or personal goal.
Probably there is some 80/20 in these reasons as well. I'll do that thinking first. I've been delegating enough for this week do be honest, i'll check for some smaller thing to delegate for this exercise. Small delegation I find even harder then big delegation...
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Week 3 - Day 2 - WHAT to automate:
1. Cutting out drawings in photoshop to use them as .png in After Effects
2. Sceduling a call
3. Typing certain words faster/easier
My brain doesn't seem to work right now. I will add to this list later today.
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Day 2 05-07-2022
1. Write a blog that is automatically published on the website. Is such a thing possible?
2. People who comment on the blog will receive an email asking them to fill in their details to receive the reward.
3. People who have entered their details will automatically be added to the mailing list.
4. They will then receive an email with a link to schedule an appointment.
5. The appointment they schedule will automatically appear in my calendar.
6. The appointment they schedule will automatically appear in their own agenda through the invitation with a confirmation of my appointment.
7. Before the appointment, they will receive a reminder by e-mail and SMS.
8. The appointment contains a link to the FaceTime appointment.
9. After the Facetime appointment, they receive an email with a link to the website where they can leave a testimonial of the conversation.
10. After their testimonia, they receive a thank you with a valuable document.
11. After a week, they receive another email to ask questions that arose after our conversation.
12. They will then receive an email with a link to schedule an appointment.
13. After a week, they will receive a reminder if they have not responded.
14. After two weeks, they will receive a reminder if they have not responded.
15. The appointment they schedule will automatically appear in my calendar.
16. The appointment they schedule will automatically appear in their own agenda through the invitation with a confirmation of my appointment.
17. Before the appointment, they will receive a reminder by e-mail and SMS.
18. The appointment contains a link to the FaceTime appointment.
19. After the Facetime appointment, they receive an email with the request to schedule an appointment with their boss for an intake interview for a coaching process.
20. After a week, they receive an email with a reminder to schedule an appointment with their boss for an intake interview for a coaching trajectory.
21. After two weeks, they receive an email with a second reminder to schedule an appointment with their boss for an intake interview for a coaching process.
If I could already realize step 2, this would already be fantastic. The challenge will be to make it so appealing that they respond to my blog. I would very much like to copy that from you as you have done in the past with Open Circles.
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Nothing on this list is an issue to automate. Basic stuff, honestly. Go to fiverr, look for wp automation. Think through your budget upfront. Don't say the real budget when asked. You'll be amazed what can get done from your list for 350 euro or way less.
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Thank you Sin,
I'd never heard of it, Fiverr. I just did a quick google and it's a reliable platform. What are your experiences and do you know someone who doesn't have to turn around for this Basic Stuff?
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Thank you Nisandeh for your clarification below, it is important to be clear if automations are a new thing - I indeed referred to the 'linking up' of what is already available as wp plugins, and to get somebody in the wp automation section of fiverr to do the linking and setting up of the plugins for you. None of these requires developing a plugin.
I don't recommend to go to the people having gigs with 'will do wp plugin setup' -- that has been 3x a bad experience for me. Hope that helps.
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.... as wp plugins, or seperate tools like stand alone online software. I do prefer to only use systems that already have plug and play 'linking up' features, because of the zapier ed cost and because of reliable maintenance on the api's. Same goes for WP plugins: choose wisely, choose real companies who offer plugins with support, not some one of plugin that has no support and won't be working when WP updates.
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Most of the functionalities you mention, Marcel, already have existing software tools that do them (individually) very well…
My recommendation would be to automate every single step with the most appropriate tool (for example anything to do with appointment scheduling and reminders can be done with Calendly or 10to8) and when that step is perfectly automated you can use a tool like Zapier or Integrately to connect the different tools so they can “talk” to each other.
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Thank you Nisandeh,
It still seems a bit scary to get into this area. I know someone who would like to take a look over my shoulder. I struggle with these techniques. I'm used to Apple and that system always thinks for me 😁
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Say Marcel, you can just send this exact list to somebody on fiverr, and let them do the guessing. I often contact 10 people, they will give good advice before making an offer, I pick the best one (look for excellent communication skills, it is the nr 1 indicator of a good provider) and tadaa, automation gets done. You do need to make sure you change your passwords afterwards, but that's it.
Not sure what you have in mind with nr 1. That you go to the frontend of your site and start typing away, and that is get's posted after adding in a password? Sure, that is called frontend posting or blogging. https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/ and search for "frontend admin". Sending a mail with a download link to a drive doc after a comment? same page, search for "email after comment". The search is intelligent enough to get you good results, even if you don't know exactly how to describe what you need. Just say it like you would say it in an awkward first attempt to describe the functionality. Eighter you choose, or let them choose based on experience and functionality needs. If you need to link things up, they will check if there is an api, and if it is well documented. No need to worry about this yourself, but knowing what is out there might help to better describe what you want.
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thank you for your detailed explanation, Sin.
I'll see how far I get with Nisandeh's advice first.
As far as my number 1 is concerned, I worded that somewhat stupidly. I write my blog in Pages and then I paste the content into a new post in WordPress. Then I add photos. So I could also do that directly in WordPress.
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1. Ja dat is mogelijk in elk geval in WordPress of/en je kunt het blog sturen in een nieuwsbrief/mail naar degenen op de mailinglijst op een vooraf ingesteld tijdstip.
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Week 3 - Day 1 – WHY automate.
(I must say that at this point I see no need to automate a lot..)
But I'm going to answer this question anyway.
1. To save time (but time is not the problem at this point.)
2. Get rid of boring work.
3. It might prevent mistakes.
4. It frees me a little more of my business
5. My business will work for me more and I will work for my business less
6. Learning to automate more is a skill you can use for life.
7. You get more knowledge if you learn about all the ways to automate
8. It's cool.
9. It's like having a personal robot employer
10. It's free money.
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The WHY is absolutely clear for me, for a long time. Also the what, but that can be a on level higher. We have already a lot of tools for automation. But for most of the tools we use, we can do more.
My next step was yesterday: I made new agreement with my new employe and double the hours she works with us.
We start next week with 1 or 2 funnels in MailBLeu. That is new for us. Till now we used only newsletter and automation mails after downloading an E-book.
We can automate also more in Outlook. I started with more "regels". I have some, but the last year I did not make new ones.
Whats-app for business will be implement tommorrow.
In our bookingsystem we can automate more, but that takes more time. A lot of new good written messages for clients. All the next steps are scheduled already.
Gerdy, Thanks for TextExpander. It looks very cool. This might help us very good:)
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Hi Jellie, sounds as list of automation that makes your business direct better organised en all is in favorite of your clients. Good to hear that there are so much softwareprograms that I have never heart of. There can be done a lot automated, more then everyone could think till now. Succes this week! Gr. Peter
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What to automate?
1. standard e-mails
2. Order process
3. order reminders
4. call scheduling
5. social media posts
6. new website banners
7. updating dates on the website
8. Just get everyone to send me UBL invoices (no more copying invoices)
9. Get new clothes sent to me whenever needed.
10. Have something in place to manage stock of things like workbooks, pencils and business cards.
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Great list Max and I loved that you realised that some of the WHAT that we can automate is relevant also to our private life, not just business.
Curious to know which ONE would you choose to work on this week so you can continue on with STRATEGIC automating and not just randomly
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Ja, thank you! I just realised I missed something yesterday.
I will focus on automating all scheduled posts and e-mails for the next three months. That will give me plenty of mind space to take my "vaderschapsverlof" (paternity leave) in august and september.
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These was too much going on yesterday, so here's my Monday assignment: why automate?
As a former computer scientist I already automate a lot, especially when it comes to time consuming, repetitive tasks. I have created macros and automation jobs for a lot of tedious or error prone tasks in formatting, so I don't make mistakes. I also have a tool set up for people to quickly make an appointment using my website, which is linked to my calendar so I don't get double bookings. For visibility of my work and my business, I haven't automated anything yet, and that's what I'm going to focus on this week.
Why automate:
1. It saves time
2. It saves money
3. It reduces or prevents errors
4. It reduces stress
5. It takes tedious tasks I don't like to do out of my hands
6. I'm still a programmer and like to create stuff that helps me in my daily job
7. It frees my hands for other tasks (which is essentially the same as #1)
8. It can help me to keep in touch with my clients
9. It can help me increase my visibility
10. It can help me generate new leads
I'm going to focus on the last two for this week. Use automation on social media to increase my visibility and generate new leads
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Hi Arjen,
When it comes to macro's for formatting - could you give some exemples? Does it go further then in excel select a bunch of data and make it italic? Would love to learn more about what is possible with macro's, it is hard to find inspiration for those. Seems like a thing of the past to many, but it isn't 😉
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Hi Sin
They're called macros but essentially they're small programs written in the programming language that accompanies a product like Adobe Acrobat or
Microsoft Word.
In the old days I crafted ebooks by hand using a combination of Word (with lots of macros to assist my formatting tasks in Visual Basic) and UltraEdit (with a heap of macros to automatically create the necessary html from the Word document) and finally some Javascript stuff to automatically generate the necessary resource files and compile the ebook.
Nowadays I use InDesign for formatting books (novels, comics, non-fiction, scientific books etc), both for print and ebooks. InDesign allows you to create scripts in Javascript to automate tons of stuff since the entire document structure is available and modifiable in code. Some examples:
- Automatically create a table of contents based on certain paragraph styles
- Automatically apply the right page masters (usually the contains header and footer definitions) based on the used paragraph styles on pages
- Convert local formatting (like bold, italic, underline, etc) into character styles
- Look up urls and mail addresses in the text and convert them to hyperlinks
- Create an index from a word list
- Auto apply certain attributes to images in order for them to export well to an ebook
- etc.
In Adobe Acrobat, I use the same language to create automations, like:
- creating a watermarked copy of a document to send out
- split a landscape document (two pages side by side) into single pages
- remove sensitive information from a document
- password protect documents
- remove all comments and annotations
- etc.
Of course, this is all very specific to book formatting, but with Office 365 (Word, Excel, etc) you also have a pretty powerful programming language (Visual Basic for Applications) that allows you to automate a ton of stuff. In Word (and other Office applications), you don't even need to know how to code. You can simply record your actions and play them back. You can create very complex programs with it, but recording stuff you're doing a lot saves time the next time you need to do it. For example:
- set the paper size and margins for your document
- add your company logo and address information or even your complete company letterhead
- set your printer settings (black&white or color, paper size, print quality) and print
- etc.
The nice thing about these macros is that they can be attached a key combination, so pressing that combination executes the macro. When you find you are doing something that takes more than a few actions more than once, recording a simple macro might a good idea. In addition to saving time, using macros also ensures the next time you run it, it will give the same result as the previous time.
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One addition: there are more nerds like me out there. If you're looking to automate something, chances are that someone already came up with a solution for it and posted it online for free. Google is your friend there.
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Why to automate
1. easy
2. making emails once
3. i don't have to reinvent the wheel
4. make live and work more simple
5. have a strategy that I can delegate
6. decrease frustration
7. saving money
8. feels like teamwork
9. strategize
10. freedom to create
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WHAT TO AUTOMATE (#1 is the one of choice for this assignment)
1. Collect and manage webinar subscriptions
2. Scheduled emails to develop engagement and purchase interest
3. Send email alternatives based on opening behavior
4. Presenting website visitors an offer based on web-visit behavior
5. Selling things online (the purchase process)
6. Accept and process payments (up till received in bank account)
7. Presenting buyers an after-purchase message (with e.g. a “thank you”, and/or a new offer)
8. Send buyers login credentials for the online products
9. Send buyers details to control their own account and password management
10. Add buyers and lead magnet subscribers to the autoresponder and the right lists
11. Send lead magnet subscribers the giveaway of choice
12. Process payments into/within the administration system
13. Process invoices and receipts
14. Prepare VAT and other tax declarations
15. Prepare Income and balance sheets
16. Distribute social media posts
17. Prepare adaptations of posts to tailor them towards different social media
18. Schedule social media postings
19. Standardized webinars
20. Limit the availability / access rights to online products, e.g. a time constraint
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AMAZING list Machiel... Well done for putting the effort and coming with 20 ideas!!!
Curious to know which ONE would you start with in this week to continue on with STRATEGIC automation and not doing it randomly?
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Haha, this resembles our dialogue of last week Vered. If the one that I indicated as the one of choice doesn't count as strategic (but rather as a random), then either I'm not clear about what I mean by automating collecting and managing webinar subscriptions, or we have different ideas about what "strategic" means. By the action itself, I mean having a post (or series of posts), issued regularly on social media, offering a webinar for free, where people are presented a link to subscribe, at which their mail address goes into the autoresponder, after which people receive follow-up mails to increase the show-up rate. This will become my most important marketing / lead generation tool for at least the rest of the year. Marketing and sales approaches are strategic to me.
(Small nuance: there is strategic, tactical and operational marketing, in which strategic is about choosing / finding / tweaking your products, as well as your clients groups / market segments, as to get to a solid product-market fit; tactical marketing is about finding the right messages, channels, and a couple of other things, and operational is about creating and managing campaigns. My choice has both strategic and tactical aspects: "discovery" and nailing down who the better client segments are, possibly tweaking my products, and fine-tuning messages that "land").
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How is an app like Morningfame automating?
Im automating quite a bit already. And that’s why it’s possible to easily outsource. I think for me systemizing is even more important than automation.
1. Leverage
2. Repeatable
3. Someone who doesn’t know everything can take over
4. Business can run without me
5. I can deliver more value by putting leads in the right boxes
6. I can act iso react
7. Saves soo much time
8. Make less mistakes
9. Make my life easier
10. I don’t have to work every day
for those who are interested. These 2 apps I can recommend to anyone:
* Lastpass for passwords
* TextExpander for texts that I use more often (I have standard answers for mails, all links, mailadresses etc in it so I only need to type in a certain letter combination and it will automatically put it in for me (if I type in “ Nisandeh Neta ” it will change it in “Nisandeh”) or LFSA becomes Live fully, stay awesome. Etc.
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Morningfame takes stuff that used to take me days and does it in seconds (or less).
For example, if you want to find out what are your chances to score high in YouTube search results for a certain keyword/key phrase based on your channel subscribers/views/likes/comments and relevance to your channel’s topic. It will research thousands of videos and give you a score plus strategic suggestions for similar/related keywords that will perform better.
It does a lot more than that, but in short - I can’t imagine myself creating any YouTube video without using this tool.
And as soon as I have the video - I will use the tool to create the best title, description and other meta information…
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I understand how it makes your life easier, but I was wondering how that was automating. I would say it’s automating when I put a title in and it creates for me the corresponding best keywords.
It’s like Google- I can’t think of a life without Google, but it’s not doing a repetitive task for me based on a trigger that’s not me.
Does that make sense?
Im just looking for what type of automations I should look.
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Google is definitely an automation…
If you’d need to do any research without a search engine, you’d have to go to a library, and do a manual research for the right book, then a “manual” reading of all the text in order to find the specific paragraph or page you need.
Automation is simply something that replace a task that otherwise you’d have to do manually.
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Here is a little part of the automation I added to this website…
Gerdy actually typed (if I type in “N N” it will change it in “Nisandeh”)
But because she put the two times “N” next to each other - our own automation changed it to “Nisandeh Neta”.
Another automation will take certain words you type into the comments and link them to a relevant area in our website… so, for example, if you type “Business University” it will automatically link it to… well… click on it and see for yourself…
Or, for example, we added a small automation that recognizes that I typed the comment - so now it has a colored background… to make sure you don’t miss any of my comments… 😅
Or whenever you enter a comment but your email address is not connected to your picture, then automatically you will get a message explaining you how to get your picture next to your comment using Gravatar.
We have so many of these types of automations… each one solves a little problem or improves something…
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This would be fantastic if it could color also my own comments btw… maybe in a different color.
So in a way everything that’s a plug-in is an automation?
Gravatar. Forms. Connections between website and mail service provider. Automated mail messages.
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Yes… I think every plugin or software is an automation.
That’s what they’re there for.
If it’s a word processor (it’s in the name) or a spreadsheet (like Excel) or your oven timer.
Not all are good or doing their job well, but they are automation.
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Everytime someone is amazed and says WOW there is this out of context link 😉 For the rest it works great and really brings your content to the forefront.
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It’s true, Max…
But I really like it… 😜
Some things are just my little fun… (please excuse the occasional private joke)
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Well, Max... I was re-thinking... my private jokes are probably not for everyone.
So... I removed the linking of the word WOW ...😢
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Thanks for these apps Gerdy!
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Day 1 – WHY automate
1. It is just me, myself and I. How I wish it would be three persons. Automation is important because it saves me a lot of time
2. Time is precious. You can never get it back. So automating processes, especially repetitive tasks will save you money. Time = money
3. It is much more efficient. There are only 24 hours in a day. I want to use my time wisely and efficiently.
4. It is impossible to do some things manually. It would take up all day or even all week
5. It is a comforting idea that some processes will keep on going, even then you are asleep or in a meeting
6. If you have to type everything yourself, or have to make all those phonecalls yourself your head will explode. It is so important for your piece of mind to automate processes so you do not have to think about them yourself.
7. Do the things you are good at and leave the rest to your automated processes.
8. Some things are better left to your computersoftware
9. Software makes less mistakes than you do
10. It will make you happy, knowing everything will go smoothly because of all the processes you automated.
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Why to automate:
1. So it is easier to leave for a while
2. So it is easier to sell the company
3. So I can allow myself to have a bad day
4. So I can increase the quality of my products and services
5. So I can be more reliable
6. So I can express my vision
7. So I can have more spare time
8. So I can focus on what is important
9. So I can focus on the parts that I like
10. So I can achieve more
11. It will create clarity on structures
12. So I can delegate it more easily
13. So I can offer the automation as part of a service
14. It will make it easier to scale
15. The business will depend less on me
16. It will make it easier to delegate.
I had a big Aha moment just now. Last week I had a customer ask me if I can do automatische incasso. It is a bit of a hassle to set up, but it is actually a way to help my clients automate AND for me to have automated money. This is getting priority this week.
Top 3:
1. Easier to scale
2. The business will depend less on me
3. It will be of great value to my clients.
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WHY
1. Clarity
2. Centralisation
3. Saving time
4. Short reaction time
5. Overview
6. Looks like the big ones
7. Creating systems out of daily chaos
8. Structure
9. Becoming less tied to the company
10. Making customers' life easier
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Dag 1 Waarom automatiseren
1. Fouten voorkomen
2. Geld besparen
3. Niet vergeten
4. Mijn processen soepeler maken
5. Beleefd zijn (bijv. snelle antwoorden naar klanten)
6. Mijn kostbare tijd besparen
7. Mijn hoofd leegmaken
8. Maakt verkopen gemakkelijker (online)
93 Meer omzet in minder tijd
10. Doe mijn klanten een plezier --> tevreden klanten
11. Werk om de obstakels die me uitstellen
12. Het is professional
13. Kan ik meer doen in minder tijd
14. Ik zeg wat ik doe en ik die wat ik zeg
15. Wanneer er iets in me op komt meteen opschrijven in mijn notitie lijst (zo gaan meest goeie ideeën weg, later kan ik er niet meer opkomen
16. Meteen reageren als ik iets gelezen heb of orderen/inplannen, anders moet ik het meerdere keren lezen en kost extra energie
17. De systemen maak ik 1 keer en levert daarna altijd geld op (tijd)
18. Door de juiste opdrachten helder te maken, die meest gebeuren hoef ik het niet vaker te bedenken of uit te rekenen
19. Denken in kleine stapjes en geen gehaaste stappen
20. De waarom ik wat wil doen wordt helderder en scherper.
mijn top 3 belangrijk voor mij:
1. mijn processen soepeler maken
2. fouten voorkomen
3. de obstakels die me uitstelgedrag omzeilen
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WOMB WEEK 3, JULY 4, DAY 1/7
WHY AUTOMATE?
1. To speed up the business process
2. To send bulk information in a personalized way
3. To use the latest technologies to work on my business
4. To improve the quality of the business’ process
5. To reduce the amount of mistakes
6. To prevent forgetting important dates, deadlines
7. To delight the client through some smart, well thought and proactive interface
8. To delight stakeholders through some well- thought, effective and efficient business interaction
9. To increase client’s engagement and recurrent purchases
10. To build a sustainable and smooth business funnel
11. To grow the business into a well thought, sustainable self learning and self growing system
12. To think ahead, discover potential problems and solve them before they happen
13. To become a great automation strategist
14. To create a unique process that does not exist yet
15. To further train and develop strategic thinking
16. To challenge myself in something I have never done
17. To have more time to work on my business
18. To build a very profitable business funnel
19. To perform a better and automized data analysis
20. To be more accurate in the business process
21. To validate ideas faster
22. To improve user interface by making it smoother and friendly
23. To save money on salaries
24. To support the design and implementation of a strategic customer journey
My too three reasons:
1. To grow the business into a well thought, sustainable self learning and self growing system
2. To build a very profitable business funnel
3. To become a great automation strategist
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Day 1 – WHY automate:
Tijd besparen;
Geld besparen;
Fouten vermijden;
Minder frustratie;
Planning is eenvoudiger;
Controle en structuur;
Minder saai geestdodend werk;
Meer ruimte voor creatief denken;
Minder uitstelgedrag, want geautomatiseerd;
Tijd voor doorontwikkelen nieuwe ideeën;
Tijd voor uitwerken nieuwe ideeën;
Ruimte om nog meer kansen voor automatisering te bedenken;
Geautomatiseerd werk makkelijker overdraagbaar & uit te besteden;
Een geautomatiseerd product is beter verkoopbaar (bv. Ontwerp voor onderdelen van een muziekinstrument)
Minder gehannes met mensen die anders het werk moeten doen (zegt mijn zoon);
Kwaliteit eenduidiger en hoger;
Then choose the most important 2-3 reasons.
* tijd besparen;
* geld besparen;
* ruimte voor creatief denken.
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Why I automate things that I now do manually.
1) less errors in my work.
2) less things that I forget.
3) more balance in work and private life.
4) a regular schedule of doing thing every week or month or so.
5) get more time to WOMB .
6) have more fun to discover the possibilities of automation.
7) learning form different views on my business.
8) get out of the normal way, get out of the box thinking
9) cooperate with other companies
10) get new ideas for my business to do and to get automated.
Most important:
1) doing regular things that a repeatedly needed.
2) have more fun in my business
3) get new ideas for my business to do automated.
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9 was highly interesting to me. Had it already on my list, but not described this well focussed. Thank you for sharing.
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Dag 1: Why automate?
Automation saves me time and money. I can spend more time on important strategy issues.
and customers.
1. Lead and Contact Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. including sign-up forms, list segmentation, personalized autoresponder email/sequence and more… will save me a lot of time in the future.
2. Email Marketing
Because it has an incredible return on investment (ROI) and it saves time. . MailChimp or ActiveCampaign) make it easier by sending automated welcome emails, abandoned cart emails, birthday and anniversary emails, newsletters and so much more.
3. Sales Funnel
An automated sales funnel (like LeadPages or ClickFunnels) is just a sales funnel with added automation to help keep things moving smoothly. Automated funnels can be time-based (e.g. every xx days send an email) or behavior-based (e.g. when a person clicked a specific link – deliver a specific email). This way it will bwe very easy to sell my online programs.
4. Collecting Clients Feedback
The customer isn’t happy? Find out (automatically) what went wrong or what you could have done differently. Does the client love your product or service? Ask them for a testimonial (automatically).
5. Social Media Scheduling and Management
Scheduling tools (like SocialPilot, Hootsuit or Buffer) allow you to manage your social media presence across different platforms, maintain a personal connection with your audience, and stay organized. Share a product update across your social networks and update your clients about special events automatically.
6. Contact Requests
Save time. Ensure every inquiry gets addressed right away, automate the initial email. This automated email can be as simple as a “Thank you for reaching out. We will be in touch soon.” Simple touches like this go a long way in building initial trust with the contact.
7.Appointment Scheduling and Reminders
Timesaver for me and clients.
With automation software (like Calendly or 10to8), prospects and clients can schedule an appointment at the time that works for them, and that’s free on your calendar. They can then receive a series of emails/text messages: an appointment confirmation, followed by reminders in the days or hours prior to the appointment. If they cancel, the software will automatically notify you so you can follow up and reschedule.
Most important ones for me now:
1. Lead and Contact Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. including sign-up forms, list segmentation, personalized autoresponder email/sequence and more… will save me a lot of time in the future.
2. Email Marketing
Because it has an incredible return on investment (ROI) and it saves time. MailChimp or ActiveCampaign) make it easier by sending automated welcome emails, abandoned cart emails, birthday and anniversary emails, newsletters and so much more.
3. Sales Funnel
An automated sales funnel (like LeadPages or ClickFunnels) is just a sales funnel with added automation to help keep things moving smoothly. Automated funnels can be time-based (e.g. every xx days send an email) or behavior-based (e.g. when a person clicked a specific link – deliver a specific email). This way it will be very easy to sell my online programs.
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Why automatization:
1. take repeatedly work out of my hands
2. helping clients in a fast way.
3. helping people in their time
4. having a place to sent people to in my soc media posts
5. work smart
6. save time for me
7. I don't forget
8. people arrange their own 'ticket'
9. it looks professional
10. avoid mistakes
11. makes it scalable
12. people plan their own appointment
top 3
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top 3
1. take repeatedly work out of my hand
5. work smarter not harder
6. saving time for me
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Day 1 – WHY automate
1. Speed
2. Comfort for client, no pressure
3. Good impression
4. More time and energy in personal approach when it matters more
5. Smart, making business more valuable, more professional
6. Save time
7. Save money, energy, frustration, resources, electricity
8. More consistency
9. Better design/system of output, not depending on mood
10. better learning opportunity/iterative improvement
11. Less mistakes
12. Promises met, no false/unmet promises
13. Easy to learn to somebody else
1. Speed
2. Consistency
3. Save energy
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1. prevent mistakes
2. save money
3. don't forget
4. smoothen my processes
5. be polite (e.g. quick replies to customers)
6. save my precious time
7. clear my mind
8. makes selling easier (online)
9. more sales in less time
10. do my clients a favor --> satisfied clients
11. work around the obstacles that make me procrastinate
Difficult to choose my top 3, they're all very important to me:
1. smoothen my processes
2. prevent mistakes
3. work around the obstacles that make me procrastinate
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Week 3 day 1
WHY to automate?
In our line of work automation is very important. It helps our customers and us to smoothly run the processes, to limit the errors, save us time, and also to give our customer control about their data. We have done several automations in the last years. Three main items are:
Frontend systems,
Backend systems
Core Systems (custom-maded).
We have integrated Learndash with Woocommerce and integrated Mollie as a Payment gateway. Mollie integrated with our accounting system Jortt. People can subscribe for a course and pay and get an invoice automatically.
We use Odoo for CRM, HRM, Project management, IT support and integrated this system also with Outlook.This system helps us with the processes in the backend and also Sales.
We have created a custom-made system where people can fill in a questionnaire and automatically receive a personalized report about themself. This is our core of the company and where our unique IP is.
What we want to do is create an online space. So, people can easily connect with other peoples. For example, like minded, (virtual) teams. Also create new online programs with new techniques to support them in their work.
And why we want to do that, is:
We can independently operate despite of the circumstances that can change by external interference (government), like Covid lock downs
To scale up easily.
When people are not able to see each other physically, they still can meet each other in the online space.
To save time for customer and us.
To give the people a place in a community where they don't have to feel alone.
Better customer experience.
That the people get added value with the online program or space that we have created for/with them.
That people can learn about themselves online when it suits them.
To be more efficient and effective in our communication.
To be able to customize.
Top three
To give the people a place in a community where they don't have to feel alone.
That the people get added value with the online program or space that we have created for/with them.
To be able to customize.
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Hi Nanda, very inspiring what you wrote here! Check out Clinked. And you got me at 'Odoo for IT support'. If you get a chance, I would love to know what you mean by IT support.
We're building our main survey based tool right now -- let's say is it some steps up from just an automated report from most options out there.
ReporteR from https://pointerpro.com/tag/survey-report/ might be a really interesting way to automate for those of you looking for a top notch personal reports solution that is still easy to learn and handle. It comes with way more options then just 'fill in the blanks' most software allows. I highly recommend it, would have used it if there was not that one tiny little big thing we could not do with it -- I'm sure most people will never need that kind of feature: being able to fetch dynamic images (GIS derived images to be more specific). To us, it was vital. And they could have done the dev for us, but it would have costed 10K+ and it would still be a workaround, not a true solution.
To me, that as to much a gamble for software I do not own.
So now we are building something from scratch on WP, as lean as you get it, with a budget of 2 to 3K, hoping they won't change the gutenberg system for the next 3 years. That would give us time to go from MVP to truly from scratch and serving a way wider public if the market is still hot by then.
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Week 3 monday
Why automate?
1 Because Nisandeh says it is beneficial
2 Because my Buddies say it is beneficial
3 I read comments in the WOMB that say it is beneficial
4 Colleages say the same
5 Let's listen carefully to all of them
6 It might be the step off my plattform
7 It could save time
8 it could generatie much more business
9 I can work much more for my business then in my business.
I0 Make use of so many more possibilities.
The three important ones:
Manny that I trust say that it is beneficial.
I can step off my platform
I work more for my business then in my business
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Automation, great tool. Easy to scale, less chances of mistakes, better quality and with an online tool you will need no extra human hands. You will be more consistent.
Quick response, immediate action, quick results and more accurate. Because it is automated you have no worries if you dont look at your screen or phone.
My two reasons will be more consistency, less mistakes and better quality.
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Why automate?
1. Save time
2. Not doing same thing every time
3. Eliminate mistakes
4. Decrease frustration
5. Can create a quick answer for customers so it can be a customer service in that way
6. Can give me more money
7. Can safe me energy
8. In this way I can not forget things
9. I don’t have to do it manually
10. It is easier
11. It will be logically
12. It is professional
13. Gives more options and possibilities
14. Less things in ‘to do list’
15. Dont’ have to to it on a certain time
The most important reasons for me are
- Saving time
- Saving energy
- Decrease frustration
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This one is tough for me. Not because I do not automate but just the opposite... Automating comes natural to me, due to my IT background.
I have Woocommerce already integrated with payment gateways and Mailchimp, the invoice is sent at once, I use Calendy for appointments, there is not much more I could automate.
At first glance.
But I will do the exercise to dig deeper.
MONDAY DAY 1 Reasons to Automate FURTHER
1. To save time (for example scheduling posts)
2. To do it consistently, same day/time (for example scheduling posts)
3. To do it easier, faster, with less typos (for example interaction via Whatsapp and IG DM with scripts, no bot but app where scripts are pre-written)
4. To follow up on leads (CRM, big opportunity here, my Excel attempts have been too tedious)
5. To increase engament and interaction (scripts)
6. To improve sales and marketings (e-mail funnels Mailchimp)
7. To try ideas that I can later teach others (apps, tools...)
8. To generate new content (I tried to automate X and this is what happened...)
9. To get peace of mind knowing that things are done (for example scheduling posts)
10. To support the creators of apps and tools.
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And my 3 Top are:
* To do it consistently, same day/time
* To follow up on leads
* To increase engament and interaction
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In this case, Lola, you might have a hidden opportunity...
Why don't you take the time to think about what you would like to have, that doesn't exist...
And then figure out if you can get someone to create that for you.
For example...
I designed the Business University as the first membership program in the world (as much as I know) without a login (and still have the same protection for the data).
As soon as a programmer created it to me (based on my instructions) dozens of possibilities for extra (cool) functionalities opened up - that could never be created/offered with an off-the-shelf program.
Or... I designed the whole interaction of our website when people commenting.
I know it's not everyone's 'cup of tea', but it increases engagement like crazy, and because I can call the programmer (in Bangladesh) at any time - I can simply add, remove, modify functionality.
I have created a decision making tool - which is very powerful - but it's quite tedious to do on paper.
So, now we're completing the plugin development - and as soon as it's ready we're gonna make it available to you (and all our clients) as a gift.
Same with the Entrepreneur Profile - which you're going to get in October (I think)...
Totally automated "personality test" - that delivers tons of value for you, without any work on our side...
I can go on and on...
I love designing automations in my mind and then getting programmers to make them happen.
With your background - it might be something to consider.
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WOW Nisandeh! This is so inspiring and definitely it is the highest level of automation strategic thinking. I loved the concept of designing a platform that does not exists and let it be built. I am curious how much does it cost to hire a professional programmer in Bangladesh and what are the points to consider in doing so.
But off course the strategic automation mindset comes first. Thank you for opening my mind to a new world of possibilities! In my case, since I have never done automation, I need to start small but I am thrilled to arrive at that level of strategic thinking. Pure awesomeness!
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As I mentioned before, Maru…
Designing automation from scratch is an advanced strategy.
I do NOT recommend it to anyone who doesn’t have a strong background in programming (I do) or a lot of money to burn (I burned a lot of money and time in the past trying to automate everything in our company).
Today I just enjoy coming up with “problems” then come up with algorithms to solve those problems, and then I hire programmers to create those small solutions as WordPress plugins.
I do it to solve problems for me or for our community, but I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t fun and challenging for me (keeping my brain young and active).
I normally pay $100-$250 for a plugin I develop…
Which is crazy because most WordPress plugins are free, and even the premium ones cost a lot less.
And when you get a plugin that is installed on tens of thousands of websites, you know it has continuous support and updates/upgrades… While I have to pay each time I want to update or upgrade a plugin that was developed for me.
BUT… the joy of having something that does exactly what I want it to do… not something “like it” but EXACTLY… oh… the joy… (enter nerd territory… when nerd was still a degrading term…)
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I totally hear you Nisandeh! 🙂
I stumbled upon your developer, mine was to complex to handle right now. Fingers crossed for our new man in Algery, who is a great match to our man in Oman who does our scripting 🙂 Life is so much better since I FINALLY dared to delegate on Fiverr november 2020 for something so silly as a logo for 22 euro. That's how scared I was: I knew very well having a team could mean delegate to fiverr. But it litteraly took me from Business Bootcamp in spring 2012 till november 2020 to actually dare to do it. Delegating scares the hell out of me because it is never EXACTLY the way you want it. To my amazement, in some cases, it is however way better then what I came up with. And sometimes way less good. You win some, you loose some, on fiverr.
So, imo, there is no need for degrading terms when it comes to do exactly as you want it to -- there is a very good reason for what you want and how you want it. I for one have stopped apologizing for that exact quality. Building working stuff isn't about democracy.
If there were a way to white label your wp system, without support - I would be very interested. Just so you know. If some of the plugins were mede available, that would be valuable as such - but the matter is still that they need to be compatible.
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Thank you for sharing this Nisandeh! 🙏 I definitely do not have a strong background in Programming… But I love to think about smooth and friendly user interface in order to create the best client experience ever.
In your experience, are there enough plugins already created to solve the main automation needs of a business?
Lol about the “oh… the joy” moment 😂 when having something working EXACTLY as you envision it. I totally relate to it!
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It’s best if you post this question, Maru - in the Q&A page - so it will be easier to find for everyone…
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Thanks Nisandeh, I am definitely open to ideas, I will keep on thinking.
Just wanted to tell you that in 2018 my business idea required customizing standard plugins, so I hired programmers by the hour, I am comfortable with that because in my corporate job part of my responsibility is to write technical specs for programmers. The plugins conflicts that followed were not fun though.
By the way, I currently already have an automated personality test that is one of my lead magnets.
I will keep on thinking! I am committed with working on my business as a process, with the ideas generator I trust that my creativity will be stimulated.
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Day 1 – WHY automate
1. More free time
2. Not to forget
3. Not doing the same work over and over again
4. Fewer mistakes
5. Less frustration
6. More consistency
7. Look more professional
8. Fewer interruptions
9. Freeing up mind-space
10. Better customer journey
11. Quicker response
Top 3:
Not doing the same work over and over again
Freeing up mind-space
Better customer journey
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Day one 04-04-2022
1. Making it easier for customers to pay.
2. That visitors to the website get the idea that they have made contact.
3. By making contact and immediately getting a response multiple times, you build a relationship with potential customers.
4. By automating responses, you respond faster.
5. You are more accessible to potential customers.
6. As a company, you make a more serious impression on strangers.
7. You automatically build a mailing list.
8. Even if you are not present, you give the impression that people can reach you.
9. You can make it more attractive to comment on a blog.
10. It will take you less time to be present on social media.
11. You can immediately convert comments on a blog to your mailing list.
12. You can immediately convert comments on a blog into scheduling a conversation yourself.
13. Your mailing list grows faster.
14. You create a system of responding, rewarding, agreeing and becoming a customer.
15. The biggest challenge is to create an automation that matches my target group. What value do I give away that makes them gasp to respond in the first place and how does it remain attractive for them to stay in touch. The only option I see in this is that the automation will allow them to speak to me as soon as possible.
The main reason is an automation where potential customers can choose themselves when they want to speak to me.
Make it more attractive to comment on my blog where they get a response right away.
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At 15: could the exact process we are doing here, name your 10 why's, but asked at your clients, provide you the answer? Could you make checklists, reason lists, even respond to specific of the why's with a members only area or a special 2' video you make for them? What else could you do with answers like this?
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WEEK 3, DAY 1 – WHY automate
My ideas
1. It saves time
2. It is less prone to error
3. It is cheaper than labor power
4. I don't have to do boring work
5. I can pay more attention to the customer himself
6. It comes across as professional
7. It empowers customers
8. It's more efficient, I don't have to keep reinventing the wheel
9. It gives me peace
10. I can organize my day according to my biorhythm
11. It prevents interruptions in creative processes
12. It reduces paper consumption, so saves trees
13. I don't have to remember certain tasks, it gives brain space
14. It gives certainty that certain tasks are performed in time
15. I can spend my time on something that makes money
16. It provides scalability
My top 3
1. I can spend my time on something that makes money
2. It provides scalability
3. It empowers customers
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Thank you Manny, I got a pounding heart reading 'no more interruptions'. That... seems to be a big one for me as well.
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WHY AUTOMATE (first 3 are Top 3 at this moment) – Day 1
1. To get a bigger market reach and (so) make more income
2. To serve the customer better
3. To save more of my own time
4. To have things done faster
5. To have things done at exactly the right time (trigger based)
6. To have things done better
7. To get rid of tedious / boring / repetitive work
8. To engage my audience more/better
9. To have more things done in a day
10. To make my life easier
11. To create more consistency
12. To professionalize further
13. To learn from it
14. To decrease costs
15. To substitute delegated work (insofar suitable for automation)
16. To be able to scale up in more advanced ways (don’t know the options yet, but I’m sure that they’re there)
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Machiel, I do like the way you are thinking man. Not only is this a brilliant list, I've been 'borrowing' from other of your posts as well. I highly value your shares!
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Full disclosure Sin: I also tend to read your contributions (which isn't the case for most of the others, simply because it is too much -- so I don't mean to discredit them, but I'm following a handful of people more closely, among which you).
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1. Cost reduction
2. Iteration reduction
3. Less human interaction
4. Less workhours
5. Fast delivery
6. Give clients controle
7. Less irritation
8. Remove myself from the process
9. Avoid mistakes
10. Reclaim my agenda
11. High ticket offer for vips
12. Streamline process
13. All info in 1 place
14. New business model
15. Make things delegatable
16. New revenue streams
17. More me in the company
18. Serve way more people
19. Scaleable business
20. Rebuild trust through trusting the system vs the people
21. Better and more efficient written communication
22. Easy feedback tools
23. Professional company
24. Sellable company
25. Reclaim my agenda
26. 80% zone of genius
27. Higher profitability by skipping subcontractors
28. Retire in 2024
29. Experts should do expert work, not stupid work
30. Make new business missions possible.
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I can't pick three. They all are just as important. That is why I did not give up at the first 100 attempts 😀
If there is 1 top reason, it is that I need to chose between quitting or automating myself.
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Ha thanks, I will pin this one to my wall 'Experts should do expert work, not stupid work'
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Day 1 – come up with at least 10 ideas WHY to delegate and choose the 2-3 most important ones;
1. Saves money
2. Saves time
3. Less mistakes
4. More controle
5. Forces to think on strategy level
6. Forces to analyse business
7. Forces to think ahead about the outcome
8. Messuares input and output
9. Saves frustration
10. Less use of brainspace and trying to remember that task
The 3 important ones are:
1. Saves time
2. Forces to think on strategy level
3. Forces to analyse business
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Nice. Will copy those!
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Like I take some of yours with me to my vision week!