Automate Your Business

Right. I’m here. (Anyone actually still reading this?)

Sorry. It’s been busy. I’ve been working hard on a project in my day job, only to get given my notice. And in my spare time, I’ve been working hard on a service to provide unique content to your blog every day.

So this blog had to take a bit of a hit, as did some other sites I used to update regularly.

But I’m back now. With more regular posting coming in the future.

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So, today’s topic. Slow and gradual improvement.

It dawned on me today that making small changes, on a regular basis, is one of the best ways to improve a process in many cases. The process I’m talking about is the writing of content for the UniqueBlogContent.com service I mentioned above.

There is a part of the process that is automated as much as I could in the timescales I had, but which needs some fine-tuning. In today’s case, it’s about capital letters. It took a few seconds to ensure that capitalisation (of letters) was correct in each sentence as I prepare it for publishing to my customers, as it was a manual thing.

So I stopped writing today’s article, took a couple of minutes to amend my software to account for the capitalisation, and then went back to writing. Result? About 30 seconds saved every time I write an article, plus a higher quality output (as sometimes I’ll miss the need for capital letters, I’m sure).

A small change, but one that will reap benefits.

Inspired, I made another change. One that allows me to type in a word, even if it’s not being used in the article, and see a list of words that mean the same. Again, another couple of minutes to write the code (using code I’d already written but in a different way), but it’ll give me a great amount of time-saving as the days roll by.

So, some questions:

• What processes do you do on an hourly, daily, weekly basis?
• What’s the most annoying thing about those processes?
• How can you automate it?

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