#753: 5 Time Saving Automations Every Entrepreneur Should Have

Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield

Amy Porterfield

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Learn step-by-step strategies for email management, scheduling, social media, and SOPs to save time and scale your online business. In this episode, we discuss: (4:41) Automation saves you time, money, and precious energy. It eliminates human error and allows you, and your team to focus on the big picture. (7:32) Email automation. Only check your email once a day and set up an autoresponder for the other times. (9:06) Create guided responses for common email questions that you get. You can still add a personal touch. You can use Boomerang to mark your email to go away and come back on another day. (11:15) Scheduling automation. Schedulicity is an online calendar that you can integrate with your calendar and create a personalized link with your availability. (12:37) Automating social media and weekly content. A social media automating tool will allow you to plan out your social media all at once. (14:49) Managing emails from your community. ConvertKit is a good solution if you're just getting started. (17:00) Standard operating procedures or SOPs. These documents will save you a lot of headaches down the road when you hire and scale your team. (19:05) Compile tasks that can be passed off to a professional VA, even if it's just for a few hours a week. This will allow you to stay in your zone of genius. (20:05) Action steps: Decide on one automation step that you can set up within the next 7 days. Send me a DM and tell me about it! Resources Mentioned in the Episode Boomerang for Gmail Schedulicity Later Buffer Hootsuite Gain ConvertKit Follow Amy Online Marketing Made Easy podcast instagram.com/amyporterfield amyporterfield.com Rate, Review, & Follow on Apple Podcasts "I love Amy and Online Marketing Made Easy." If that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people -- just like you -- move toward the online life and business that they desire. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode! Also, if you haven’t done so already, follow the podcast. I’m adding a bunch of bonus episodes to the feed, and if you’re not following, there’s a good chance you’ll miss out. Follow now!

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0:00.0	Automation saves you time. You know that, but it also saves you money and precious energy.
0:07.3	It takes out room for human air. Trust me, when you're juggling a lot of things,
0:13.4	eliminating this in a few areas of your business can go a long way. And last but not least,
0:19.4	automation can support and make your customers
0:21.7	and potential customers feel important and know that you care.
0:26.7	I'm Amy Porterfield, ex-corporate girl turned CEO of a multi-seven figure business.
0:32.4	But it wasn't all that long ago that I lacked the confidence, the budget, and the time to focus on growing my small
0:40.4	but mighty business. Fast forward past many failed attempts and lessons learned, and you'll see
0:46.7	the business I have today, one that changes lives and gives me more freedom than I ever thought
0:53.0	possible, one that used to only exist as a daydream.
0:57.8	I created the online marketing made easy podcast to give you simple, actionable, step-by-step
1:03.2	strategies to help you do the same. If you're an ambitious entrepreneur or one in the making
1:09.3	who's looking to create a business that makes an impact
1:12.3	and a life you love. You're in the right place, friend. Let's get started.
1:22.8	How does an email list actually create money for your business? Well, that's a great question.
1:28.7	And as a girl whose email list has earned her over $100 million, I'd love to tell you.
1:34.5	Better yet, I would love to show you.
1:37.3	So I'm hosting a free master class this week to teach you how to not only start and grow an email list,
1:43.0	but how to monetize it from the beginning,
1:45.3	even when you only have a handful of subscribers. So in this master class, I'll have real email
1:51.8	list to revenue data to give you an idea of realistic sales conversions from email lists
1:58.0	of all sizes. Plus, I'll show you exactly how it works in my business and how it would
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