Find Faster Ways to Do Things - 34/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

A few months after  started Potato In The Post, I began to realize the short comings of the business. I was physically walking to and fro the post office every day, often I had to go to the super market to get more potatoes when I was low on stock and I had to physically write on the potatoes.All of which was losing me time and a distraction. Time which I could have been spending on expanding the business, marketing things, writing more books, or even doing research.It is time I could have been spending on increasing my income, rather than running the day to day activates of my business.Because I started to realize that you don't want to be messing around running your business and working in it, but you want to work on your business and be building it from afar.You need to automate as much as you can form the beginning, as mentioned earlier, so you can work on bigger things.If you are happy working in your business, as I've known some people to be, then there is nothing wrong with that.I was taught that you need to outsource before you are ready to. When you begin to outsource, you begin to be more efficient with your time.Leverage other people and have them do the day to day running of your business.Here are some key areas you'd need automated:Payment acceptance and transfer to your bank account.Product handling and shipping.Customer service (helpdesk and returns).Either you can have people or systems. This book leverages Amazon's systems to deliver it to you. I created the book, and they do everything else.By automating your business and having others do the work for you, it frees up your time to learn new things which you can then use to grow your business, and thus income.Question of the day: what systems are you leveraging to accomplish more with less?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.