408: Have You Over Automated Your Business?
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Automation can be helpful to your business, but only if you learn the right way to do it. One of the biggest problems I see today is over-automation, which is why I wanted to dedicate an episode to this important topic. Tune in as I share why automation is so appealing to business owners, the downsides associated with it, and a completely new perspective on using automation in your business so that it's less transactional and more transformational!
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Listen to Learn
2:14 - A recent post from our community that inspired today's episode and the way that I responded to it
6:09 - How there is no such thing as a fully automated business and a different way I want you to look at and use automation
10:49 - A special ask for you regarding how you can support this podcast and its message
11:32 - The downsides of automation and why it's been so appealing, especially these past few years
16:53 - What we have to recognize about automations and how to start using them the right way
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast where we give network marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that |
| 0:16.2 | you need to build a business and life of your dreams. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey Bobby, you're welcome back to the show episode 408. |
| 0:26.8 | Today we're going to be talking about automation and the question that I want to ask you |
| 0:30.9 | is this. |
| 0:32.4 | Have you over automated your business? |
| 0:36.0 | This is one of the biggest problems that I see today. |
| 0:40.0 | I see so many people, they've gone so far down the rabbit hole of automating using tools |
| 0:47.3 | like project broadcast, just as an example of one, not to single them out, but it's probably one of the most common ones that I see. |
| 0:55.0 | Project Broadcast is a text automation tool and I see people using it to automate customer |
| 1:02.0 | onboarding, you know doing basic customer service and |
| 1:05.6 | following up with customers, delivering training to new consultants and even |
| 1:10.1 | they're selling and prospecting. It's like we've kind of gotten a kick where it's like can we automate it? |
| 1:15.4 | And now listen before I get into the episode I just want to be really clear on one thing. |
| 1:19.7 | I think Project Broadcast is an incredible service. I've had Jake the founder on this |
| 1:25.4 | podcast. We've spent lots of time talking about it. We've collaborated and help |
| 1:30.0 | promote that service within our community and we use text automation |
| 1:34.8 | in our own business. |
| 1:35.5 | It's a really powerful tool if it's used the right way. |
| 1:40.7 | That's the key part of this conversation today. |
| 1:43.0 | Today I want to make the argument most of you are not using it the right way. |
| 1:46.7 | It's actually doing your business more harm than good. |
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