I am looking to find items that I can easily automate for you.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.I constantly hire Virtual Assistants to help with various things which sorta sounds like what you are offering.
My question: How are you better than VAs than I can get from the Philippines for $2.50/hr?
What sets you apart?
Why should I hire you instead of them?
I constantly hire Virtual Assistants to help with various things which sorta sounds like what you are offering.
My question: How are you better than VAs than I can get from the Philippines for $2.50/hr?
What sets you apart?
Ability to automate and deploy in parallel quickly,allowing them to serve more customers or reduce hours whilst keeping their income level.
Why should I hire you instead of them?
what tasks or activities do you do again and again, day in and day out, that you wish you didn't have to manually fiddle with?
You gotta figure out what you're good at. Figure out the things that you do best. People with Autism make good programmers. IBM specifically goes out of their way to hire people on the spectrum because they're amazing at working alone and are highly analytical:
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Nope I haven’t tried it, and thank you. I’ll check it out and let you know if I catch some ‘value skews’ that can be made.That is a perfect example, been done through. Have you tried Rescue time Pro? $9 a month, so how many hours does it have to save you a month to be worthwhile?
Thanks.Nope I haven’t tried it, and thank you. I’ll check it out and let you know if I catch some ‘value skews’ that can be made.
Read the Ikgagi thread before, will check the others out. Right now, I just need something I am good at that people will pay me money to do. As long as the money is enough, I can do the rest in my own time for charity.
I applied to IBM and Remploy and some of the other Autism/ND friendly ones. In fact I set up a system to keep bugging them, never heard anything back.
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That is a perfect example, been done through. Have you tried Rescue time Pro? $9 a month, so how many hours does it have to save you a month to be worthwhile?
Figure out what you are good at. Make a list of everything you are good at.
Go through the list and mark out any of those things that you wouldn't want to do, even for money.
Which ones arent unique enough to be worth marketing and/or has to much competition?
Now figure out who would pay you for that.
Then figure out how to add even more value and be unique from your competition. Then figure out where your potiental customers are and craft a compelling message targeting them.
- research zapier
- brainstorm / r&d ways it can save time in the office environment, MSOffice / Windows etc.
- then write up a full zapier training manual in pdf for me with screenshots and some examples of doing zaps for common office things (and not ask 22k questions while doing it)
- dm me a price and way to pay you once done
- brainstorm / r&d ways it can save time in the office environment, MSOffice / Windows etc.
- then write up a full zapier training manual in pdf for me with screenshots and some examples of doing zaps for common office things (and not ask 22k questions while doing it)
Break tasks into the smallest time increments possible. Forget rewards - irrelevant.This is going to sound weird, but I think it's a decent idea.
I'm always manually shutting down distractions like Skype, email, etc. each time I sit down to do some deep work like writing or strategizing. Sometimes when my willpower is low, I cave into the distractions because of all the steps I need to do to actually start working. Super frustrating for me.
I don't know if it's being done before, but sort of an app with a timer that does all this at the click of a button would be great solution to this.
You could market it as a productivity booster, and an "excuse killer" for the forever distracted person (yes, some people label themselves this way).
So far I've used K9 Web Protection (sluggish, unreliable and not-so-simple to set up) and ColdTurkey (the free version) to do this before, but wasn't satisfied.
Break tasks into the smallest time increments possible. Forget rewards - irrelevant.
For more information read Nir Eyall's "Indistractible."
You can develop indistractibility.
I swear I am not, but this is a knowledge area that I've worked in for a very long time and can attest that this approach is absolutely groundbreaking. Changes can be implemented instantly. Behavioral changes can be lasting, even for ADD/ADHD.I swear I’m starting to think you’re the PR chick for that author, how many times have you recommended it now? Lol.. but the book is pretty good so far!
I swear I am not, but this is a knowledge area that I've worked in for a very long time and can attest that this approach is absolutely groundbreaking. Changes can be implemented instantly. Behavioral changes can be lasting, even for ADD/ADHD.
Don't let the VA saturation scare you. There's an ocean of people who won't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Both business owners and middle managers.
I'd wager a middle manager who's concerned with their quarterly review. Increasing their productivity by 3.1% is a better candidate for simple office automation tasks.
Lol, this guy is awesome.Sounds like either cognitive behavioural therapy or gestalt therapy from your description.
Gold, my next keyword search is what do middle managers spend most of their time doing and where would I find middle managers concerned with their quarterly reviews.
Lol, this guy is awesome.
Lol it's not sarcasmI am unsure if this is sarcasm or my newest technique (reverse Jeopardy) is working well.
@LittleWolfie progress??- research zapier
- brainstorm / r&d ways it can save time in the office environment, MSOffice / Windows etc.
- then write up a full zapier training manual in pdf for me with screenshots and some examples of doing zaps for common office things (and not ask 22k questions while doing it)
- dm me a price and way to pay you once done
@LittleWolfie progress??
Still brainstorming;
Create new trello cards from rows on excel spreadsheet
Add new survey monkey results to excel spreadsheet
Parse new emails and add them to an excel spreadsheet
Log customer support tickers on an excel spreadsheet
Automatically back some emails up o an excel spreedsheet
Automatically send emails form excel spreadsheet.
Also re-reading through the help pages and trying to figure out what the way is to make mine better than their pdf with screenshots.
Zapier is a great tool for automating things. It may be helpful if you listed which software you use on a day-to-day basis because the zaps are different based on which software you want them to work with.create the base process first. do one thing and show it. then you can show more stuff.
can you have me something by monday?
Great start
Libre Office is a good alternative to Office. I don't like Google docs b/c of their file and folder organization.
Check this out as well: Hemingway Editor It will help you write faster/clearer.
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