OAO and Technology

Automation to Connect to Secure Systems

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Ari Meisel talks about automation as a proxy for delegation. He also explains why automation is a wonderful thing and how you can use it in your business.

Highlights

  • Love to talk about automation – 0:10
  • Automation and reduction of errors – 0:35
  • Using Trello – 1:15
  • Reducing the number of mistakes – 2:43
  • How do we automate? – 2:56
  • An element of automation that Ari uses – 3:36
  • Connecting any account that you want – 5:13
  • Updating information – 7:12

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Protecting Your Attention

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There’s nothing more valuable than your attention! Ari Meisel explains what protecting your attention means, and why optimizing, automation, and outsourcing is important for a business.

Highlights

  • The right of your attention – 0:34
  • The idea of attention – 1:11
  • Designing a process – 1:31
  • A podcast professionally produced by Podkick (https://podkick.com/) – 2:37
  • Designing a good process and the question of attention – 3:13
  • Thinking about the cost of your attention – 4:09
  • Optimizing and outsourcing – 5:28
  • There’s nothing more valuable than your attention – 5:40

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Asynchronous Communication with Voxer

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For having effective communication, you need to separate the essential from the non-essential and learn how to keep team and client requests from controlling your time. The first thing that you need to learn is all about asynchronous communication, and the rest will follow.

Highlights

  • The value of asynchronous communication – 0:15
  • Allowing people to communicate when it is more effective for them – 0:58
  • Why does Ari love Voxer? – 2:30
  • How you can use Voxer – 3:18
  • Staying connected with other people – 4:28
  • Get in touch with Ari and Less Doing – 5:33

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Push the Envelope

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“A lot of people might see this as they’re changing their businesses to run in a way that they’re not used to or they’re not comfortable with or whether it’s different from the way they’ve done it before. But the truth is, your businesses have to run at a level of efficiency that you have probably never contended with your entire professional life in order to deal with the current situation. So why would want to give up when this ‘go back to normal’? If anything, I said this is an opportunity to even push the limit further.”

Summary:

We have an incredible opportunity right now to change how we operate our businesses for the better. When things “go back to normal” we may not be able to go back to the practices we’ve become accustomed to. In fact, it may be a competitive necessity to radically change how we run our businesses remotely or with a reduced staff.

[1:08] You have an opportunity right now to hone your efficiency.

[2:24] When it’s over, it’s really not going to be “over.”

[3:10] You can push the limit of change to better your business.

[4:35] Companies that push the envelope now are going to radically change how they operate in the long-term.

[5:23] Treat this as a productivity experiment.

[5:52] Experiment with new tools and CRM platforms.

[6:49] Don’t ever be irreplaceable.

Resources mentioned:

Zapier – https://zapier.com/home

Trello – https://trello.com/en-US

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On Email

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Outsourcing Myths and Legends

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Today on the 411th episode of the Less Doing Podcast, we’re talking about outsourcing myths and legends. Most founders quickly find themselves trapped in the belief that they need to do everything themselves and that all the work needs to take place in-house. This in turn leads to us overworking ourselves, and also bringing in people to do things they’re not good at, instead of allowing them to focus on tasks that fall under their expertise.

Let me tell you the real truth: You should outsource parts of your business as much as possible so that each individual can be empowered to bring in their best and add more value to the organization.

The question we need to ask ourselves is that, on a scale of 1 to 10, how often do we trust others with tasks that fall outside our personal zone of genius?

Regardless of where we fall on the scale, the benefits of outsourcing cannot be overstated. When we outsource, we essentially transform our business into a bellows, thereby allowing us to expand and contract our business needs as per our convenience.

This is what enables our business to grow and move forward.

Several businesses fail not because of the lack of a good market, but because they tend to overextend themselves and make commitments they can’t fulfill. Therefore, in order to grow our business with as little stress as possible, outsourcing is essential. We can be agile, and move at a pace that’s comfortable to us.

For example, hiring writers or graphic designers for a particular project, but not having to have them around full-time, and just pay them for that particular project. A ‘just-in-time’ approach to your staff resources.

If we don’t outsource, our business is bound to fail at some point or another. We can hire outsourcers on a quick and affordable basis. Instead of going with a dedicated provider for every task, look for an on-demand service. This is what we need to keep up with the insane pace at which businesses run and grow in today’s world.

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