How To Systemize Your Business Like A Franchise with Pieter K De Villiers

Description

This episode is all about the motto ‘work smarter, not harder’.

You’ll learn how to have your business run without you, so you can finally take a vacation, spend more time with your family, and have a life.

If you want to learn how to scale your small business with a plan and be able to measure what’s going on, you better listen until the end.

McDonals’s, 7-Eleven, RE/MAX, Marriott. They all have proven business systems and can grow and scale quickly. You can do the same for your small business if you systemize your business and treat it like a franchise as well.

Transcript

Time Stamps

• 00:00
  Introduction
• 04:41
  What is systematization?
• 06:44
  Examples of business systems
• 12:03
  Benefits of systemizing your small business
• 15:58
  How to get started with systemizing your small business
• 27:21
  Pieter's framework

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• What is systematization? & What does systemizing your small business like a franchise mean?
  • Systemizing your business means to arrange the tasks, work flows, responsibilities, data, resources, processes, etc. in accord with definite plans and schemes. The components are ordered systematically with the goal to increase the efficiency of your business i.e. to reduce waste, save costs, resources and time, and increase profits, as well as to be able to grow and scale the business.
• What are the benefits of systemizing your small business?
  • Reduce costs
  • Increase efficiency
  • Improve performance
  • Make your business run more smoothly
  • Improve communication
  • You can take time off
• How to get started with systemizing your small business
  • Make a list of all recurring tasks
  • Organize and prioritize the functions in your business
  • Create a directory structure for your folders and files
  • Think of naming conventions for your folders and files
  • Document your processes step-by-step and determine the most efficient way of doing things as the standard everyone should follow
  • Create SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for your processes
  • Map out your production or service flows
  • Develop a quality assurance checklist
  • Have policies for various circumstances
  • Sign up for an automation tool like ActiveCampaign to automate your processes without having to know how to code
• Example of a business system that's simple and easy to automate
  • Inquiry is received → Confirmation email with further information about the next steps is sent out
• Download The Free Buyer Persona Template!
• Learn more about Pieter K De Villiers on LinkedIn, discover his books 'Franchising Freedom' and 'Barefoot Business' on Amazon, and learn more about Macanta CRM.