WheelsRCool
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I am no expert, but from what I have seen and read, making a business fastlane is just a matter of determining whether the processes to the business can be automated (along with the basic stuff like is the busienss profitable, etc...).
For example, take custom teddy bears. One might think to get custom teddy bears, you'd need to make one yourself or have a specific bear-maker person custom build you one.
But then you see like that BUILD-A-BEAR Workshop chain of stores, which has grown into a few hundred stores in only ten years! They have an automated system for building/making custom bears and are all over the country now, global now too I believe. Everything is systemized, so they can replicate the original store concept and just spread it around globally. There are smaller, more regional custom bear-building chains as well I believe.
McDonald's is a famous example, having a system for making burgers. No one person makes a McDonald's hamburger.
Car washes, dry cleaners, again you create systems to automate the whole thing, then replicate through chains, franchising, or both.
I would imagine no business is "more" fastlane than another, it's all in how you create it.
Bookstores, even martial arts schools, you can build a chain of martial arts schools where everything is systemized as well too, or workout gyms, etc...it is amazing how many businesses can be fastlane really!
For example, take custom teddy bears. One might think to get custom teddy bears, you'd need to make one yourself or have a specific bear-maker person custom build you one.
But then you see like that BUILD-A-BEAR Workshop chain of stores, which has grown into a few hundred stores in only ten years! They have an automated system for building/making custom bears and are all over the country now, global now too I believe. Everything is systemized, so they can replicate the original store concept and just spread it around globally. There are smaller, more regional custom bear-building chains as well I believe.
McDonald's is a famous example, having a system for making burgers. No one person makes a McDonald's hamburger.
Car washes, dry cleaners, again you create systems to automate the whole thing, then replicate through chains, franchising, or both.
I would imagine no business is "more" fastlane than another, it's all in how you create it.
Bookstores, even martial arts schools, you can build a chain of martial arts schools where everything is systemized as well too, or workout gyms, etc...it is amazing how many businesses can be fastlane really!