067 - How to Create a Simple Repeatable Process for Your Product Business

Episode 23: You Became the Human Search Bar for Work the Business Already Learned Product Biz Made Easy | 30 Days to More Sales How to create a simple repeatable process for your product business. A promotion had been run before, but the next round still required another hunt for the emails, photos, links, inventory answers, customer-service notes, and approval. Because Becky knew the history, she became the human search bar for the work. In this episode: Why a job that happens every week but still requires remembering every step, answering the same questions, and hunting down the same links isn't a repeating job, it's a recurring emergency with excellent attendance How a monthly promotion that wasn't especially complicated became scattered across inboxes, folders, messages, somebody's memory, and a document named final-final-use-this-one, turning the owner into the human search bar for work the business had already paid to learn Why familiar work hides missing steps: after doing something ten times, an owner's brain fills in steps without telling her, so what feels obvious to her is invisible to someone doing the job for the first time Why a system doesn't have to be a giant manual: it's simply the best way you currently know how to complete a repeating result, written down now rather than carved in stone, so the first version doesn't need to be perfect How to choose the right first job to document: something that happened at least three times in the last 30 days, caused the same questions, or required rescuing more than once, since fixing something that repeats every week means the savings keep collecting The six-part Repeatable Work Page: what starts the work, what finished looks like, the important steps, the decisions or rules that cannot be guessed, who owns the job, and where the files, links, and examples live, plus a Make It Better Next Time box at the bottom Why "finished" should describe the result, not just the activity: a tested email sent to the right group with the right link is a finished result, while simply sending an email is just an activity Why the rules matter as much as the steps: a checklist tells people what to do, while rules like not launching a promotion with less than four weeks of stock, or not discounting below the approved profit line, tell them how to make the normal decisions that come up along the way Why every repeating job needs one named owner, not because that person does every step herself, but because someone needs to know where the job stands, what's waiting, and who needs an answer Why giving the work one home stops the owner from becoming the human search bar: one clear folder, one link from the Repeatable Work Page, and one agreed current file A completed monthly promotion example: starting 21 days before the promotion date, with finished meaning the offer is approved, the Shopify page is live, Amazon and shared-warehouse inventory are checked, three emails are scheduled, customer service has the details, and every link is tested on a phone, with the marketing lead as owner and one added note after each round in the Make It Better Next Time box Why testing the page with somebody other than the person who wrote it is the fastest way to find the holes, since the first version will always have gaps the owner's brain filled in without noticing, and why the fix belongs to the page, not the person A caution against documenting broken work: if a job needs seven approvals because nobody trusts the information, or a report takes two hours and nobody uses it, fix the underlying problem before writing instructions for it The one clear next step: choose one job that happened at least three times in the last 30 days or came back for the same answer more than once, build its Repeatable Work Page, have somebody else use it once and mark every place she had to guess, search, or ask, then fix those spots before the job comes around again Resources mentioned: Free Repeatable Work Page: BeckyJAnderson.com Grab your FREE Downloads here: https://www.beckyjanderson.com/offers/BYHabR7G/checkout Next episode: Episode 24, "Where Should Your Next 100 Customers Come From?" 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