automate, outsource, and free yourself to grow your business

Automate, Outsource, and

Free Yourself to Grow

Your BusinessScott Jangro

Shareist.com

@jangro

AutomateSpend your time and energy

automating routine tasks

rather than doing them over

and over.

What to Automate

• Cookbook activities

• Complicated, technical routines

• Pay attention to the stuff you do over and over

again

Scheduling Posts• Work on a posting schedule and calendar

• Post social media posts at specific times

• Post blog posts based on an editorial calendar

• Stop sharing real-time, except when it matters

Automation Tools

• IFTTT

• Zapier

Workflow Tools

• Alfred

• Keyboard Maestro

APIs• Product and Coupon Data

• Networks: ShareASale, AvantLink, CJ

• Tools Providers: Prosperent, FMTC

• Linking Tools

• Skimlinks, Viglink, Prosperent

OutsourceYou can’t do everything

What to Outsource

• Content Discovery and Curation

• Content Creation

• Editing

• Summaries and Recaps

• Repetitive Tasks that can not (or should not) be

automated

• Technical tasks and programming

Outsourcing Tips• Use elance, oDesk, rent-a-coder, Mechanical Turk

• Outsource to inexpensive workers if you know the job better than

them, and if the work is routine.

• Spend more if you are hiring for skills that you don’t possess.

• Different countries have different types of workers. Learn who you

work best with.

• Do critical tasks like publishing until find someone you can trust

• Hire slow, fire fast. Test, Test, Test.

• ProTip: Outsource the outsourcing

Do

Some things you should do

yourself

Stuff to Do Yourself• Epic Content

• Connecting

• Interacting

• Training

• Automating

Put it all Together• Collect and Capture Ideas

• Schedule a week’s worth of social posts

• Create curated posts for your own websites

• Create a great original piece of content

• Interact with your audience

• Create a recap post/newsletter