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Did you know you don’t own any of your Virtual Assistants intellectual property that they create for you? Steve gives you the method for transferring ownership to you when receiving your team members work.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘This specific topic is so simple to fix and so important for you and your business.’
‘That means any work that they create for you, while working for you is theirs. They have the rights to it even though you pay them to create it.’
‘Once you’ve got that document you simply send that over to your new staff and say “hey, can you put your name and sign this.” Put the date they started working for you and you can backdate this as well, by the way.’
‘Even if your logo becomes a home brand and everyone knows it the person who designed that logo is the one that actually owns it and they could actually ask you to stop using it.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Intellectual Property Assignment Document ; http://seedsummit.org/intellectual-property-assignment/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
In this episode Steve details how you can improve or get started on your outsourcing while avoiding common pitfalls, myths and mistakes that can plague your efforts. What should you outsource, why does it need outsourcing and how can you go about doing it? He uses the example of social media to clarify what is required when outsourcing your everyday tasks.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Because I believed I had to get it all done, all outsourced in order to make it effective, I never really got anywhere.’
Rather than me thinking “ok, how can I do more?” I just decided to say “ok, how do I do less myself but keep the same amount going out?”’
‘You create one piece of content, or that maybe a collection of pieces of content all around one subject so you only have to think about it once and plan it once. I’m recording a video but I’m also recording an audio here and I’ve also made some notes and we are going to make some posts in the near future.’
‘In our first year we hit almost 10,000 downloads in 61 different countries and I’m pretty proud of that.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
Steve reveals a quick trick for you to save one working week a year for the rest of your working life! Utilise this simple advice to free yourself up for more fruitful or fun tasks.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘There will be something else tomorrow that will take you ten minutes and something else the next day that will take you ten minutes. A lot of those will be something that repeats over the course of a week, or a month, or a year.’
‘If your on a computer you can use an app like screencast-o-matic and record your screen of yourself actually doing the work.’
‘Your time must be more valuable as a business owner than 3,4,5 dollars per hour.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
A ‘Task Board Review’ is a monthly meeting Steve has with his staff which allows everybody to get on target and make sure they are focusing on the right task at the right time. Listen to how Steve holds his meetings to see how this could benefit your organization.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Doing this is one of the best things I do for the teams productivity, motivation and for getting people to work independently but all heading in the same direction.’
‘So these meetings, we call them ‘Task Board Review Meetings’ are really, really essential part of being able to delegate work out and to let people get on with stuff, to have a bit of autonomy, a bit of independence, but not just letting it continue indefinitely so you end up getting resentful..’
‘So now she’s walked away from that meeting feeling calm, feeling ready to actually crack on and knowing exactly what is the highest priority thing for the company that she should be working on.’
Organizing your files and folders for easy access is essential for time saving and ease of operation. Steve has some advice on how to not disappear into a cloud of data chaos and increase your productivity by rethinking and modernizing the way you store your files.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘This is something that I struggled with for many years. I tried loads of different variations of ideas that I read about. Should it be done by department? Should we be doing it by role? How granular should you go? How many different folders should you have?’
‘How do I delegate stuff easily? Ultimately that’s what your business should be about.’
‘Stop trying to organize things for the finding of it and instead think how can I organize it so its easy for me to share. That’s really the big take home from this’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
🎙 Steve describes a technique where you create a chart of everything you do in your business and find out if your employees want to do it, learn about it, or just simply hate it. This will increase the rapport you have with your team and increase their productivity.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
💡 Create a spreadsheet and list all the activities that go on in your business in one column on the left hand side.
💡 In the next columns place ‘Do You Want It?’ and ‘Do you know it?’ You can detail that further by denoting ‘Do you know it well?’ and ‘Do you want it?’, ’ Are you ok with it?’ or ’Do you hate it?’’
💡 This will make sure you get most out of your existing team by finding out where their skills already are, giving the team an opportunity to express the roles they don’t enjoy fulfilling, showing that you care about them and what makes their role better and increasing your likelihood of retaining well motivated, skilled and happy personnel.
BEST MOMENTS
💬 ‘What you want to do is find the activities in our business that our existing team, or our new team as they are coming in, what they actually already know something about or what the areas are they would like to learn about.’
💬 ‘You may find and may be surprised that the person you hired to maybe be an admin person happens to have an interest in graphic design and has spent the last four years in graphic design college.’
💬 ‘Finding new people, training them up, that is a massive drain on resources for any company, and expense both in time and the cost of actually hiring somebody as well.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day: http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
Automation tools, used correctly, can revolutionize parts of your business, streamline your operation, reduce errors and save costs in terms of time and wages. However, used inappropriately or incorrectly they can be a substantial drain on your time and resources. Steve is here to denote correct application of these tools to help you avoid the pitfalls.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Anything that’s prone to human error or time consuming, like moving files around or creating documents or templates, all that sort of thing. Anything that’s really repetitive and doesn’t require a brain to think of subjective things, just following a very strict process, that’s the sort of stuff that is really good.’
‘I had a client the other day and we were speaking about setting up a Zapier. The idea was simple. Every time somebody booked into accommodation he would pull that data from the website and put it into a spreadsheet so he could than total up revenue for all his properties and split it out by property etc.’
‘That is the problem with setting up automation, it’s set and forget, out of sight out of mind, you’ve got to keep that forefront of your mind.‘
‘Sometimes automation is just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should. Sense check before you start to automate.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
In this episode Steve is going to teach you how to avoid the annoying back and forth chaos that is scheduling a meeting with a busy client or employee. By using calendar scheduling apps you can eliminate the often time consuming e-mail cat-and-mouse game of allotting time and automate and simplify your appointment calendar.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘I’ll also explain how to pick the right apps for your business because there are a few options out there, and I’ll hopefully guide you on some principles you can use when deciding which one to go for.’
‘It’s like having a personal secretary who is doing all your scheduling for you on your calendar without you having to worry about it or without paying a secretary to do it.’
‘If they cancel, you can even set it up so it will automatically send them an email saying ‘hey, you canceled your appointment, would you like to rebook? Here’s the link to rebook.’ Or just to follow up the way your business wants to follow up people who cancel.’
‘I always feel a bit dubious when I book in with a coach or want to speak to a sales guy about a product or service, and literally they’ve got every single appointment available for the next three weeks.’
‘For our podcast guests, we book people into our podcast by simply sending them a link. On that link there’s a form and it captures things like their bio, their social images, any links to things they want to promote on the podcast, and also asks them a bunch of questions about what they want to talk about. It takes all the work away from me.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
Steve interviews Kevin Brittain, successful entrepreneur, marathon runner and philanthropist, who is running barefoot around the world! While doing this he fits in being a husband and father and holds two Guinness World Records for ‘Fastest Marathon Runner Dressed As a Ninja’. Currently vlogging his round-the-world virtual journey of 40,075 km he is also raising money for needy children as he goes. Steve gets to the bottom of how Kevin believes running is the ultimate stress busting tool for the modern businessman and entrepreneur and how none of it would be possible if he hadn’t systemized his success.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘I was a bigger landlord back then, I had 96 houses at the time and around 250 tenants and I built this up from scratch. I had a team of people in place but for all of the glamour that the property industry had, it was anything but glamorous. It was getting involved with maintenance, getting involved with tenant management. I was doing 60 to 80 hour weeks’ – Kevin
‘It was such an incredible life changing experience for you as you said but for me it was one of the reasons, you are one of the reasons why I decided to go all in on this and make this my mission in life.’ – Steve
‘I thought ‘how would I fundraise?’ and I used running because it was something most people fundraise for and its quite an easy way to fundraise because it’s putting yourselves through some incredibly hard challenges.’ – Kevin
‘I’m going to set a crazy challenge. I’m going to try and run, on consecutive days, whilst vlogging a distance of one lap round the world. I thought that would be the ultimate ultra marathon.’ – Kevin
‘Ive been running since my mid twenties and I think that the times that I don’t, massively affects me. Whatever reason it kicks in, work, stress, whatever, you can slip out of that habit whether your habit is running or walking or cycling or just going outdoors and being with your kids, having that mental release is so important.’ - Steve
GUEST RESOURCES
To donate and find out about Kevins round the world challenge ;
► https://challenge.runpreneur.co/
The Runpreneur YouTube channel ;
► http://tiny.cc/yt-kevinbrittain/
► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKvcFYC2y4FAeTDS20_JXFw
Keep up with the story through Kevins Instagram ;
► https://www.instagram.com/runpreneur/
ABOUT THE GUEST
Kevin is a proud husband and father, owner of multiple businesses, and a 2 x Guinness World Record holder for the ‘Fastest Marathon Runner Dressed As a Ninja’ and a part of ‘Most users to run a remote marathon in 24 hours.
Kevin is run-vlogging (run whilst vlogging) barefoot style, a minimum of 5 kilometers per day on consecutive days until he reaches the distance of one lap around the world - a whopping total of 40,075 km.
Kevin's passion for helping children started when he was 11 years old. He has taken part in various running events to fundraise for children. Raising around £17,000 so far. His true passion is to help vulnerable children on an even bigger scale, using his entrepreneurial platforms to raise awareness and funds for these amazing causes. The target is to raise a huge total of ONE MILLION POUNDS for the six children’s charities.
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
This episode is all about the Comms Assistant (CA) position. What is a CA? Why do you need one in your life? When should you be considering hiring one? Steve advises a CA to be sourced early on and he details exactly why a CA is an essential member of your team.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
BEST MOMENTS
‘Have somebody, a gatekeeper, between you and all of that noise.’
‘The main role that I see the person having, especially in the early days, is that they literally get rid of all the rubbish that comes in.’
‘Every problem that comes in to your inbox that you look at will take your attention away from the thing that you should be doing that day.’
‘We do this by bringing those messages into our task management app. We have a systemized method for doing this. We know how they are assigned priorities, who they’re assigned to, if there’s any actions that need to be done before we pass things over and then making sure those are chased up, and then the person is replied to in an appropriate time frame.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/
Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday
The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day http://bit.ly/sys-10
ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don't know how to create systems or get the right help.
Our systems and outsourcing Courses and coaching programme will help you automate your business and work effectively with affordable virtual assistants. That way, you will stop feeling overwhelmed and start making more money.
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