Automate My Small Business
Summary: Learn about cutting edge tools and web-services that can turn any small business into an automated business. Ask yourself, If I left on vacation for 2 months, would my business grow larger and be more profitable when I got back?. If the answer is no, you've come to the right place. Automate My Small Business has combed the world for the latest technologies, techniques, and services that make owning a small business fun again. Regain the entrepreneurial spirit with small business automation tools and techniques that allow a solopreneur to compete with the big guys, by leveraging the same technologies and services they use, but for a fraction of the cost. If you are just getting started, we'll show you how to test new product ideas or business ideas for less than $200, instead of doing it the old fashion way: spend thousands getting it made and raising millions with investors, just to learn the idea didn't cut it. Our motto is fail small, and fail fast. Entrepreneurship is risky business, but you can change the odds by quickly failing with small capital investments so that you can find the successful ones earlier. Then ride the wave of success. Once you've found that business, we talk about the methods to automate that business to run on its own. The goal here is to reduce the time you spend to near zero, so that you will have more time to spend doing the things you love (speding time with family, traveling, or even starting other businesses). The key is building systems that run themselves, and Automate My Small Business is the place to find the building blocks to do just that.
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- Artist: Brandon Kennington & Matt Dotson
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Podcasts:
Imagine having a sales team of 100 people for your small business that you only had to pay if they brought in more sales for your company. That's exactly what you get with a team of affiliates working to drive sales of your product. In this episode Matt and Brandon teach you how to find affiliates to sell your product, and how to make money as an affiliate selling someone else's product. Affiliate marketing is a great way of achieving higher sales, generating traffic to your site and getting your product to a larger audience. Find out how it can help your small business today. If you're great at marketing and selling a product, but don't have a product of your own it's easy to start making money by becoming an affiliate of someone else's product.
Businesses these days need to be dynamic in order to survive. And without some form of dynamicism, the automated business model just couldn't work. So how do I make my business more dynamic? Cloud computing! Cloud computing is a young technology, so don't be surprised if you haven't heard the terms cloud computing, cloud hosting or cloud storage. Cloud computing at this level is about moving your business to the web, allowing mobility and access to your business assets Globally. This is the way forward, so adopt it while it's young. It will future proof your business and give you a fighting chance for success.
Everything starts out as an idea, and everybody has at least one good idea. What seperates the sheep from the flock is the ability to turn a business idea into an entity. You will never know if your business ideas will be a success until you put them to work. From prototyping to patenting Matt and Brandon share their views and experience to help you finally get that business idea from your head and into reality. They also talk about the best ways to protect your ideas and businesses and how the automated business model works at this level.
If you have a business that caters to a local area, REMEMBER! The world has moved online for finding products or services, even if you own an "offline" business. If you are still cold calling customers, you need tools that get the customers calling YOU! Your competitors won't know what hit 'em, or why your business is growing. Matt and Brandon talk about the tools to help grow your local business. From putting your business on Google Maps, to using Craigslist, and facebook for promoting your local business .
One of the reason's business owners can build wealth faster than employees, is because they get to play by different rules. When you incorporate your business, you can take advantage of a large set of tax breaks, cashflow tricks, and risk avoidance that you would otherwise be missing out on without it. But what business entity is the right one? LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, or Limited Partnership. We cover all the benefits of each, the tax ramifications, and how to save money doing it all. We also show you some potential pitfalls to look out for. Find out why we think you should not get investors, and why you should not have a partner. Surprised? We'll explain it all in this episode of Automate My Small Business.
Lean Manufacturing, and Process Improvement are essential methodologies used by large corporations when eliminating waste from their processes. Learn how to apply the same philosophies to optimize productivity and eliminate time waste from your small business. From task switching to fax machines, Matt & Brandon talk about the best ways to eliminate waste from your business and how these process improvements can help you to create a lean and efficient business that will save you time, effort and money. So take what you learn from this AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast episode, and start eliminating some waste from your business today!
Project Management! What are the best project management tools and methodologies available and what are the most cost effective? In this weeks AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast Matt & Brandon discuss project management assets such as project management software and tools like microsoft project and basecamp. Learn the advantages of agile project management methodologies like scrum over traditional waterfall methodologies, and how these methods are executed in business to maximise the effectiveness of the development process and help get the project off the ground quickly.
Would you like to Increase your productivity? Streamline and optimize your workflow for better time management? Well, this weeks AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast discusses some of the best ways to enhance your productivity using various tools and techniques. Matt & Brandon talk about getting things done (GTD) and how this approach works great at every level of the automated business model, the best way to capture Ideas on the fly and on the go and how to use google to make the most of your mail.
In this weeks AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast, Matt and Brandon discuss the concept of outsourcing and offshoring to places like india and the philipines, and how even the smallest company can utilize this beneficial method of cost cutting that was once, only the privilege of huge corporations. You will learn how to outsource your call centres, bookkeeping, marketing and even managment. but more importantly where to go to find the people to outsource the work to. Why outsourcing is the best option for small and large businesses and also how to know if a candidate is right for the task
A Fulfillment company is the keystone to automating any product based business. What is a Fulfillment house? And how do they work to automate your shipping customer service operations? This week Matt and Brandon answer all of these questions and more in the AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast. From getting the best value for your dollar to shipping packages worldwide without licking a stamp. This episode is one of the most beneficial to date, so prepare yourself to delve into the core of the automated business model.
This weeks AutomateMySmallBusiness.com podcast is all about Search Engine Marketing, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and PPC (Pay Per Click). Matt and Brandon discuss the best way to drive customers to your business, whether its online or not. They discuss the tools they use and explain the best possible approach for targeting potential customers effectively and uncover some hidden gems that Google has to offer which is relatively unknown outside the online business world.
In this week's automatemysmallbusiness.com podcast, Matt and Brandon discuss various web technologies like shopping carts and content management systems and briefly explain SEO (search engine optimization) and how it works. They discuss the difference between various shopping carts and which works best for them and more importantly why it works best, How to set-up your own shopping cart for you to use in your own online e-commerce business venture that suits YOU best.
Matt & Brandon introduce themselves and discuss their automated business philosophy. Get a sense of the automated business system and learn what will be covered in future podcasts. Topics covered include e-commerce shopping carts, fulfillment and distribution, outsourcing, video training, and much more. Learn which books which inspired the automated business system, and learn which ones to avoid. Make sure you get involved by using the website or twitter to contact us!
