You Can! Inspiring Women In Business
Automation: Speeding Up Without Slowing Yourself Down
07 Mar 2025
Are you stuck in tech overwhelm? In this episode of The YouCan Podcast, we’re diving into why automation is a game-changer—but only when the time is right.Too many entrepreneurs spend hours setting up complex systems before validating their offer, wasting time and money. Instead, I’ll show you how to sell first, automate later so you can start making money faster, understand your audience better, and build automation that actually works.We’ll cover:✅ A real-world example of why testing demand before investing in systems is crucial.✅ The simple way to launch your offer with minimal setup.✅ The key signs that tell you it’s time to automate.✅ Where to start with automation (and what to avoid too soon).✅ Why this approach leads to higher sales and fewer headaches.If you're a coach, course creator, or service provider looking to streamline your business without getting stuck in tech chaos, this episode is for you.🎧 Tune in now and take the smarter, faster path to success!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/you-can-inspiring-women-in-business/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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Hello and welcome to the You Can podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Jolly Jarvis, and today we are on episode 32. Can you believe it already? And so today we're going to be talking around how automation can speed things up, but only when the time is right. And that's the key thing here is when is the right time and when is possibly a little bit too early on in the game.
So that's what we're going to be talking around today. Many new business owners, they get bogged down in tech and automation before they've even made a single sale. And I see this not just with new business owners, but also with people who are creating a new offer.
If they're changing the direction of the business or the format in which they deliver their services, they will faff around with technology. We will get ourselves all dug into all the sort of black holes that exist. that are there for technology and landing pages and different resources and all these different things when actually sometimes we just need to get ourselves going.
We need to test that theory out. We need to see what people want. We need to see what format that they want it on before we start getting all those bells and whistles in place. I often see people trying to launch that first offer with... all the technology already in place, all the emails, all the automation and everything else.
And so we're going to be talking around why that's not a good idea and actually how doing it at the right time in the right order, you can actually make your life easier when it comes to what to put in those emails, what to say to those individuals and how to really resonate with your target audience. But first of all, I want you to imagine, right, just to kind of set the scene on this.
Imagine opening a cafe, investing in all that high-end espresso machine, the custom-built website, an automated ordering system, all that point-of-sale stuff, before even testing whether people wanted your coffee, yeah? Just imagine, right, if you moved into an area and you actually had no idea if these people were really into their coffee.
And if they were into their coffee, how into their coffee were they? Now, the smart approach is to start with something like a pop-up store, okay? So you can test that area. You can test the demand in that area. And rather than going the whole hog, signing a lease, committing to all that money, you could do a bit of a pop-up, okay? And you can serve that great coffee.
You can see where the demand is. You can see where there is a demand and where there are lulls in that demand. And you can already begin to start thinking around
okay actually um i only catch people during the week this isn't very busy on the weekends do i want something that is is only really busy during the week uh or do i want to look at a different location once you've signed a lease once you've got yourself committed to that that geography that you are in it is very difficult um and very costly to to change that so you know look at um
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