#753: 5 Time Saving Automations Every Entrepreneur Should Have
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Feb 25, 2025
Dive into the world of automation and discover how it can transform your business! Learn strategies for managing emails with autoresponders and guided responses. Explore scheduling tools to seamlessly integrate your calendar. Unleash the power of social media automation to plan content in advance. Understand the importance of standard operating procedures to ease team scaling. Plus, find out how to delegate tasks to a virtual assistant and stay focused on your strengths. Get ready to reclaim your time and boost productivity!
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Hustle Mindset Shift
Amy Porterfield used to believe success required constant hustling.
She now advocates for working smarter, not harder, through automation.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Check Email Less
Check email only once or twice a day.
This maximizes the effectiveness of other email management strategies.
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Autoresponder Strategy
Set up an autoresponder for when you're not checking email.
Provide helpful resources like FAQs and scheduling links.
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Learn step-by-step strategies for email management, scheduling, social media, and SOPs to save time and scale your online business.
In this episode, we discuss:
(4:41) Automation saves you time, money, and precious energy. It eliminates human error and allows you, and your team to focus on the big picture.
(7:32) Email automation. Only check your email once a day and set up an autoresponder for the other times.
(9:06) Create guided responses for common email questions that you get. You can still add a personal touch. You can use Boomerang to mark your email to go away and come back on another day.
(11:15) Scheduling automation. Schedulicity is an online calendar that you can integrate with your calendar and create a personalized link with your availability.
(12:37) Automating social media and weekly content. A social media automating tool will allow you to plan out your social media all at once.
(14:49) Managing emails from your community. ConvertKit is a good solution if you're just getting started.
(17:00) Standard operating procedures or SOPs. These documents will save you a lot of headaches down the road when you hire and scale your team.
(19:05) Compile tasks that can be passed off to a professional VA, even if it's just for a few hours a week. This will allow you to stay in your zone of genius.
(20:05) Action steps: Decide on one automation step that you can set up within the next 7 days. Send me a DM and tell me about it!
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