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Maybe you've seen my other progress thread, maybe not. But that was a 6 month endeavour with a lot of life lessons I would never have learned if I never tried anything with the idea.
My biggest lesson learned: build something people need.
So that's what I plan to do now.
I already work as an automations lead for the company I'm at, so I'm going to be doing just that for local businesses for different niches.
I don't exactly know what to automate, but I'm pretty confident that given a system that gets a job done in a number of steps, I can significantly reduce time and resources it takes through code or whatever tools available.
The first thing I tested was this very assumption. Can I actually automate anything? Is this skill important enough for businesses? Do they need it enough? And if so how much would they be willing to spend?
Here's what I did since Dec 2023:
Regardless of the type of business one has, they need to automate processes because it helps them cut down time taken, money spent, efforts taken and resources used.
At the moment I have 3 clients:
I'll talk about how I'm sending targeted cold emails in my next post.
Maybe you've seen my other progress thread, maybe not. But that was a 6 month endeavour with a lot of life lessons I would never have learned if I never tried anything with the idea.
My biggest lesson learned: build something people need.
So that's what I plan to do now.
I already work as an automations lead for the company I'm at, so I'm going to be doing just that for local businesses for different niches.
I don't exactly know what to automate, but I'm pretty confident that given a system that gets a job done in a number of steps, I can significantly reduce time and resources it takes through code or whatever tools available.
The first thing I tested was this very assumption. Can I actually automate anything? Is this skill important enough for businesses? Do they need it enough? And if so how much would they be willing to spend?
Here's what I did since Dec 2023:
- Reach out to anyone I know, warm or cold, that does have a business and ask how I could help them
- Create an Upwork to get a general idea how much people are willing to spend
- Send out cold email campaigns targeting different niches
- Very few businesses don't need automation because they don't have a system yet, or they're figuring it out. Here I just help them out by showing ways they could build systems for their business.
- Fewer businesses systemize every single aspect so they don't really need me because they're already aware of existing tools.
- Alot of businesses think they need to automate one aspect but don't actually fix the root cause of issue.
- A few businesses don't know they need it because they're used to the work flow that's already set up. It's not a priority for them but it's my job to show what they're missing and how I can help them run their business more efficiently.
- The other types are really aware of the problem but can't find the solution for it.
Regardless of the type of business one has, they need to automate processes because it helps them cut down time taken, money spent, efforts taken and resources used.
At the moment I have 3 clients:
- A meditech company
- Someone I came to know from Upwork who's building his own automation agency
- @Andy Black for creating report automations for his clients
- (Someone else I helped out for free but she ghosted me lol)
I'll talk about how I'm sending targeted cold emails in my next post.
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