Hi r/Entrepreneur! I used to post on this sub a few years ago but then I got busy and couldn't recover my old reddit account. Now that I have some free time I really wanted to talk about Automation again and decided to try this post! This post was inspired by https://ift.tt/3m5cqII years back i made my first post on automation ( If you're not using automation you're wasting your time and money) and got a fantastic response (And, full disclosure, a few customers too). Today I'd like to talk about my favorite automation story.Disclosure: Together with my father I run three small businesses and also work as a freelance automation developer . Both of my businesses are highly automated and I've helped over 30 clients save more than a combined 100+ hours every day.Disclosure #2: I am not affiliated with AirTable/Smartsheet etc in any way however i do work as an automation consultant and part of my work involves AirTable/Smartsheet/Spreadsheet automationIf you'd like to read some of my previous posts, please check them out here:If you're not using automation you're wasting your time and moneyAutomation: Three short examplesAutomation #5: How one client made themselves unemployedWhy Automation Matters #3: How i achieved a temporary monopoly overnightHave you ever heard the term "spreadsheet hell"? If you own a business, chances are you've felt like you were in spreadsheet hell at some point or another. Now you could pay a small fortune to a software developer to develop a complete ERP suite for you, but it's just not affordable or worth it for most small businesses.Enter: AirTable (Or smartsheet/other competitors). A middle ground that's better than managing a dozen spreadsheets. I can talk a lot about how powerful tools like these are, or i can show you.Check out this database i made: https://ift.tt/2RKtFQ4 was curious about who the most successful posters in r/Entrepreneur were so i put this together for my own curiosity. I believe comments to be a better marker for success than upvotes. In the first table, you'll easily find the most successful posts. In the second, you'll find the most successful posters. And the magic? They're connected! Click through from one table to another! Now imagine data handling like this for your own business.Plus, this link above is made using AirTable's free plan, i didn't pay a penny to do this (By uploading data through a spreadsheet you can bypass AirTable's row restrictions on the free account)I'll give you three short examples to give you an inspiration of just how revolutionary such tools can be. If you have any questions, comment!Booking automation: I had a client who had 6 different spreadsheets to manage bookings, invoices, leads and more. For them i built an AirTable solution that put everything in one place, synced all bookings directly to their Google Calendar and a custom bot that notified them and the client of any change in the booking details made in AirTable! Time saved: 1.5 hours per dayLegal discovery: This sounds like an odd job. A client of mine had received thousands of printed pages containing transaction details. Their job? Sift through them. Instead of painfully sifting through these pages, i asked them to simply scan them. One OCR and an upload to AirTable later and you could suddenly parse these documents any way you wanted. Time saved: Thousands of hoursE-Commerce sales: Okay, this isn't exactly an E-Commerce solution as much as it is a data management solution. A client sold products on eBay, Amazon, Shopify & more. By integrating their APIs, they could suddenly see every single order in one base. And they could interact with it, assign people to it and more without leaving AirTable! Time saved: 30 mins per dayHopefully that gave you a small inspiration for how helpful AirTable/Smartsheet/etc can be.You probably have questions. And i have answers! Feel free to comment and I'll answer as many as i can (You can also message me on reddit with questions and I'll get back to you) see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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