Are you running your business in the same old fashion that you used to run pre-COVID? Business owners are now adapting business automation solutions to increase efficiency and to run the business smartly. Post-pandemic, business automation is just not a choice, it has become a necessity for every business owner. Though the list is endless, here we will discuss the top 10 things which every business owner should automate to optimize their business processes.

What are the top 10 things that Business owners should Automate?

Let's start with the processes which you need to automate in your business: 

1. Response Automation

How to immediately respond to your customers? The first thing which you need to implement is the response automation. Whenever a customer reaches out to you, you need to have a system where you're able to automatically respond to the customer asap. Now, if you use Google Form on your website, then using the Form Notification add on, you can automatically send the...

Are you a manufacturer or trader? Generally, such business owners are firefighting with daily managerial tasks of business operations and could not focus on the growth of the Business. You need to automate your business to increase efficiency, and to improve productivity.

Let’s see the challenges you must be facing in your business operations:

What are the challenges Manufacturers and Traders are facing in their business?

1. Delayed Orders: Due to the micro-management of orders you lose track of all the orders and get in difficult situations with customers when they ask for the updates. This affects the trust of clients.
2. Poor Team Performance: Your team tends to forget 3 out of 10 tasks assigned by you. There is no proper system of delegating the tasks with deadlines and sending them reminders to complete it.  This lack of task delegation system slows down the work and progress.
3. Low Sales Conversion: The improper management of leads and delayed follow-ups with them, result...

Are you a business owner and struggling with daily firefighting? Well! It’s  the right  time to automate your business to save hours from these small managerial tasks and  invest it in growth oriented tasks. Automation means incorporating systems and tools to your traditional business operations to save the time and effort of your team while enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of the workflow. 

Here, I came up with the 5 steps to automate your business, let’s have a look at them one by one:

What are the 5 steps to automate your business?

1. Data Capturing

How do you capture your data? Generally, companies capture the data in some excel files and word documents, without any format. Sometimes, these excel and doc files may get corrupted or the data captured without any format requires good effort to understand.
To resolve this, you can use Google Forms & Google sheets to capture the data. Create a Google Form with the basic questions you would...

Are you frustrated with the poor performance of your employees and really get irritated when they come up with nothing but excuses? Do operations suck your time and you don’t get time for growing your business? The only problem related to all these issues is the lack of systems and tools.

In today’s busy schedule, business-related tasks must be automated to reduce time and cost applied to it. Automation improves the operational stability and makes it efficient and fast. Running a business without a system is like running a car without an engine, which you can push manually but, however, cannot ride it and scale it.

In this article, we are going to discuss 6 points on how to automate a business, so it works well and generates profit without even the presence of the business owner.

What are the 6 simple steps to automate business?

 Let’s check it out:

1. Create a list of all processes:

In business, we have a lot of processes like lead generation process,...

Every small business owner like solopreneurs or a start-up team of 5 or less have three distinct phases they go through. Here I am going to discuss those 3 stages and how to upgrade from one stage to another.

Are you a Business Owner who is involved in every big & small act of your business? If you are doing every task from following up leads to taking orders, from assigned work to tracking the performance, from marketing to sales, etc. then, you are doing Micro-management, not Macro-management.

With this Micro-management work process, you are just trying to survive and not be able to scale your business.

As per the book E-Myth, written by Michael E Gerber, a Business Man goes through 3-Stages:

What are the 3-Stages of a Business Owner?

For detailed insights you can refer to the Video: 3 Stages of a Business Man by Kewal Kishan – Technology Coach.

1. Stage One: Technician
2. Stage Two: Manager
3. Stage Three: Entrepreneur

In this blog, I will explain to you these 3-Stages...

Have you ever wondered, what would happen if you take leave from your work for one week, two week or for the entire month? Whether your business would be growing with the same trend or it will collapse in your absence?

It’s a bit scary no? That’s why you need to automate your business. How long will you keep micromanaging everything in your business? Systemize your business with automated systems & tools, so it runs with the same growth rate even without you. Leave to scale, without systemization and digitization you cannot even survive in today’s competitive market.

So here I am sharing you 9 reasons to automate and systemize your business using Google Applications to expand it even in your absence.

What are the loopholes with the business owner?

You must be having good technical knowledge about your business and operations to develop high-quality products or services for your clients. Good quality is the best USP for any business, but do you think just by...

Business Automation and Digitization is the need of the hour for any business to achieve high productivity and efficiency. Google has made the digitization possible at a cost-effective price with its online business automation tool, GSuite. Let’s find out how:

Over the years of training 6000+ students including both Business Owners and Professionals on the power of G-Suite and its applications, I always get impressed with the features that G-suite has to offer. Nowadays, everybody is going online with all the business-related tasks right from assigning tasks to employees, managing their work to seeking permissions, etc. which is the high time for all of us to go Paperless.

Today, I am sharing the top 7 tips which will help you go paperless with the help of G-suite and its applications-

• Tip # 1 - Google forms for surveys or questionnaires

Easily create and distribute google forms for event responses, feedback, signups,...

Are you still wondering that Kewal keeps telling us about automating your business, however you are still lacking clarity on what actually is Business Automation?

Will things start happening on their own? Will I have to do nothing?

Is it feasible for me? It might be expensive to do it. What if my team does not follow or understands these tools?

In this article, I will educate you all about What is Business Automation? and clear out all your queries.

How I define Business Automation?

I like to define Business Automation as:

It is the use of technology to execute recurring tasks or processes in a business where manual efforts can be replaced.

Business automation helps in achieving:

• Cost minimization - reduce your operational cost
• Greater efficiency - improved team efficiency
• Streamlined processes - no firefighting on projects or orders
• Easy collaboration - easy data sharing on cloud

Let's take a simple example to understand it. How do most of us take...