This blog post has been authored by Stand Out Online Member Tineke Rensen, Powerful Business Academy
Many female entrepreneurs have the misconception that they need to hire a company when they want to start automating. However, as a business coach for entrepreneurs, I can tell you that hiring a company for automation is often not necessary.
Here is why female entrepreneurs don’t need to hire a big company for automation but can instead apply their own automation tools.
Why You Shouldn’t Hire an Automation Company
Automation companies are very expensive and often will typically offer services that are already out there for you to use.
Plus, they mainly build integrations that you can connect on your own with the connection tool Zapier.
My advice as a business coach for entrepreneurs is that you often are better off building your automation on separate tools than hiring a company to do automation for them.
My Advice: How to Use Automation Without Hiring a Company
Instead of hiring an expensive company to manage business automation, female entrepreneurs should decide what automation they need and set it up themselves.
1. Examine what aspects of your business you want to automate.
You can find ideas of what business tasks to automate in our other blog on how automation can help female entrepreneurs.
2. See what automation tools already exist to help you automate those things.
There are plenty of automation tools out there already! You don’t need to reinvent the wheel to set up automation. And you don’t need to pay high fees to get access to automation tools.
3. See if either you or someone else in your company can implement these tools.
You or someone else on your team can easily implement most automation tools. And the best part is once they are set up, they take very little time to manage.
4. B. If not, and you need to use a large CRM, ask for referrals and see if you can do a free trial before signing a long-term contract.
On my team as a business coach for female entrepreneurs, I have set up several different automation tools over the years, but I use very few expensive companies – only use these if you have to.
Where to Find Free or Cheap Automation Tools
As a business coach for female entrepreneurs, I have personally tried over a hundred different automation tools and will only give you recommendations that I support. I’ve wrapped them all up into an eBook for female entrepreneurs.
Check out my FREE eBook “130 Cool Automation Tools to Automate your Business” to find lots of tools and platforms to help you get started with automation.
Keep Learning About Automation
If you’re a female entrepreneur looking for extra knowledge and expertise look for a GOOD business coach for women because there are many out there who never even had their own business. This advice could make or break your business.
How do you know if someone is a good business coach for women? Check out this article about the 20 questions you should ask a business coach.
My name is Tineke Rensen and I am a business coach for female entrepreneurs. I host monthly masterclasses about various business topics.
The next masterclass is on the 18th of March at 8 pm CET (Amsterdam). The topic of the next masterclass will be “How Automation Tools Could Help Cut Out Tasks That Are Wasting Time”. You can check it out here. Try it out!
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Tineke Rensen, from Powerful Business Academy, is in business for 31 years. She built an international Outdoor and Survival business from scratch and sold this after 22 years. Tineke was a national whitewater kayaking champion.
She now is one of the most all-round business accelerators and mentors you can find. She helps businesswomen to “Scale & Grow, Make More Impact And Work Less”. There are very few topics she cannot help you with, in your business. Many people find this hard to believe, but hey how much do you think you know about scaling businesses if you live it day and night for 31 years?
Tineke created the system “A Women’s Blueprint To Business Success”. She is a multi-award winning, serial entrepreneur and she is the author of the book “Maximum Business Growth For Women”