Managing and Automating Your Business with Chad Dike

It is essential for business owners to utilize tools that can help manage the business flow. It is vital to know useful business automation and marketing strategies that can help gain and retain leads.

Joining us in this episode is Chad Dike of Autogration. Chad has a passion for leveraging automation and automation software integration. Through these tools, he helps business owners remove bottlenecks and repetitive tasks. He maximizes efficiency in the workflow to stop wasting time and focus on their right zone of genius. Don’t miss this episode if you want to learn more about marketing strategies and how to use automation!

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Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

  1. Learn practical strategies about marketing automation.
  2. Stay up-to-date with industry trends.
  3. Gain insights from an experts on analytics.
Resources

  • You can connect with Chad on Autogration’s website. You can also reach him through his LinkedIn profile to know more about his work.
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Episode Highlights

Getting Started in Business Processes

  • He was always interested in tech and CRM. So, he got a computer science degree.
  • He worked his way through IBM.
  • He continually explored his skills by doing web projects, email marketing, and web designs.
  • Getting his MBA made him well-rounded.
  • He then shifted gears from being a programmer to a solutions architect in IBM. He translated business needs into tech building requirements.

How Do Developers or Business Owners Think About Ways To Automate A Business

  • The bottom line of customer needs drives business.
  • Tech people, on the other hand, are more driven by a sophisticated technical solution. They dislike time-consuming processes.
  • You have to find a way to speak the common language between any two groups with divergent interests. It could save time.

Starting On Your Own Small Business

  • You have to differentiate yourself while you learn how to automate business processes.
  • You have to identify your niche. Communicate that you’re fulfilling a unique need.
  • Create your own category.
  • Find out what you want to do and not the latest thing that everyone else is doing.
  • If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you’re not going to find long-term success. Business process automation is tedious. Make sure you love it.

Automate Your Business: Evolving in the Business

  • Learn how to market yourself and all the things every small business should automate.
  • There are a lot of online groups and communities which can help you add value by contributing. Start with a small team.
  • Lead with value.

Business Education and Streamline

  • There are a lot of paths other than a business degree that can add value and that you can use to make a living. Review all the areas of your business.
  • It can give a broad and diverse way of looking at things.
  • You’ll have a deep understanding of how the business needs to operate and what drives a business.

Productivity: The Greatest Mistakes and Challenges in Business

  • Most businesses don’t have proper tracking of their numbers. That’s where automation tools come in handy.
  • If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. And if you can’t handle it, you can’t grow it.
  • Lack of information.
  • Having an expert set up your tracking makes sure that your software tool is functioning and reporting.
  • Correctly managing your data can put essential leverage points for your goals.
  • Tools can only impact your business if implemented correctly.

The Importance of Reporting

  • You have to begin with the end in mind. Do you want to automate your business? Imagine that.
  • If you don’t have the reporting in place, it’s hard for you to know what success looks like.
  • You can identify bottlenecks when you have the reports in place. This is how you automate your business for growth.

Metrics, Tracking, and Ways To Automate Your Business

  • Don’t just focus on the metrics, a self-assessment on where you are spending your time. Focus on sales automation, email automation, and business process management.
  • Time tracker applications help with focus, organization, and productivity. It could increase customer satisfaction.

Simple Business Automation With Powerful Outcomes

  • Every form of marketing and type of automation involve capturing leads.
  • You have to have something on the back end to organize your leads and your customers as they come in.
  • It is essential to stay in touch with your customers. You should continuously collect data within your business. Index them in a spreadsheet. You may use automation software if you want to do it faster.
  • Customers stick around because they believe in your principles or the foundation of your business.

Habits That Lead to Success

  • Taking an inventory of what you get done for the day and then list your priorities for tomorrow. 
  • Becoming more open and interconnected.
  • Setting up an automated system.Teaching employees ways you can automate your business.
  • As a business leader, set a good example to your employees.

About Chad

Chad Dike is the founder and CEO of Autogration. Autogration is a certified partner of Zapier and ClickFunnels. After 15 years with IBM and American Express, he combined his technical and business experience to help businesses. His goal is to improve their marketing and operations through smart automation.

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