{"id":2776,"date":"2022-08-04T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:17:06","slug":"automate-more-work-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beomniscient.com\/blog\/automate-more-work-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes #005: Automate More, Work Less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You know about marketing automation. There are dozens of tools for email automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what about your internal processes — the little tasks you need to do to keep the business (or your team) running? Are you automating those?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We think about this a lot at Omniscient Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We take a lean approach to building our business and that means creating process documentation and automating as many things as possible. We view hiring as the last resort.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From reporting to administrative tasks, these are things you and your team shouldn\u2019t have to worry about. That way you can spend your time focused on higher leverage tasks (aka $10k tasks<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you find those automation opportunities?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We use Miro to map out our business processes visually. Here\u2019s a map of our process from the discovery call all the way to the click kick-off call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That white box contains all the tasks that need to happen to onboard a client\u2026 huge opportunity for automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By mapping out every step in the workflow, you can speak to and label each step and ask whether it should be automated and, if so, how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n