I’m a big fan of automating and simplifying processes to make them more efficient. Long term, I want to automate myself out of my business so it can continue running without me. That’s a tough ask when there’s only me and no employees.
My business is writing and publishing books/courses in the photography/photo editing niche. Whilst I sell books through retailers including Amazon, Apple, Google Books, Barnes & Noble etc I also sell directly from my own website (which I built and manage). Equally, I sell courses through popular sites as well as my own website. I have a YouTube Channel where I publish a weekly video and I publish weekly “how to” articles to my website as well as a monthly newsletter.
I’ve built a reasonable business ecosystem that feeds itself to some degree providing I release a new book/course from time to time. I can also work from anywhere providing there is an internet connection and to a degree, I can pick when I want to work.
So far, the automation I’ve created around my newsletter, subscribing and purchasing my product works well and needs little maintenance. Another big time saver is using speech recognition software to write my books, courses and YouTube scripts. After training and tweaking the software, I’ve found it around 98% accurate and I’m around 500% faster.
Now my question is, what automation ideas have you successfully used in your business to save time or improve productivity/quality without employing more people?
My business is writing and publishing books/courses in the photography/photo editing niche. Whilst I sell books through retailers including Amazon, Apple, Google Books, Barnes & Noble etc I also sell directly from my own website (which I built and manage). Equally, I sell courses through popular sites as well as my own website. I have a YouTube Channel where I publish a weekly video and I publish weekly “how to” articles to my website as well as a monthly newsletter.
I’ve built a reasonable business ecosystem that feeds itself to some degree providing I release a new book/course from time to time. I can also work from anywhere providing there is an internet connection and to a degree, I can pick when I want to work.
So far, the automation I’ve created around my newsletter, subscribing and purchasing my product works well and needs little maintenance. Another big time saver is using speech recognition software to write my books, courses and YouTube scripts. After training and tweaking the software, I’ve found it around 98% accurate and I’m around 500% faster.
Now my question is, what automation ideas have you successfully used in your business to save time or improve productivity/quality without employing more people?
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