4 Steps To Making Your Home Business A True Automated System
Building an automated home business is going to take some time and effort. But it's worth it as soon as you start seeing the benefits.
This blog post will walk you through 4 steps that will help you make your home business a true system of automation, getting rid of the need to ever do manual tasks again. Starting by setting up your own personal office at home, automating your finances in order to reduce the amount of time on them, automating customer follow-ups so you can focus on making more sales and finally generating leads for yourself so that you're not always buying them or chasing them down.
That's a lot to cover. But we're going to stick with the basics in this post and build on them as you start seeing results from the first steps.
Set Up A Personal Office At Home
One of the first things that a lot of internet marketers overlook is to build a personal office at home. Sure, if you're an online entrepreneur this might not seem like an essential step but it is. In fact, it's such an important step that I've broken it down into two parts. The first part being implementing some processes into your business so that you can save time, increase your focus and get more done.
I'll outline my personal office setup below, but I highly recommend you do this yourself and get started from the ground up. It's one of the best investments you can make for your business, as once you have your own personal office setup you'll be able to eliminate many of the tasks that add time to your day.
The Processes
One of the first things that we'll want to create is a script that will check our email inbox once per day and send a generic response. Additionally some of us will want to look into automated social media posting on Facebook and Twitter, which just saves us a lot of time by automating our efforts.
I use an old laptop at home and I update the email script on it each day. Whenever I'm out of the house, I turn the laptop off. This is how I know that my scripts are running smoothly and that they're not being accidentally shut down or disrupted by me or my family members.
When you start building a business from home, you have to have your own space in which to work. When you're just starting out, this may be in your bedroom or perhaps even on a corner of your dining room table (that's what I used for a year!). As you build and grow your business, eventually you won't be able to do it in your bedroom, because of people coming to visit you or perhaps because of family members using the room.
As long as you have a dedicated space at home where you can work without interruption, eventually you'll need additional space. It's not a bad idea to start planning for this now. Even if your current space isn't big enough, start thinking about what room in your house would work best for this purpose.