Imagine if there was a way to get back a whole day of your busy week. That’s the goal of Sarah Greener, a specialist in helping women business owners find ways to focus on their high-creative tasks instead of getting bogged down with the minutia of running a business. She joined me in a fruitful conversation that covered a range of issues related to time management, including:

SOPs – standard operating procedures and how they can transform your work and home life
Starting from your goals and mapping your activities to serve them
How business systems are like adult lego – and building with them can lead to amazing results
Answering the question: can you have too many systems; or too much automation?

I think most expertise-based service providers who have or plan to become entrepreneurs need to transition from working entirely in their zone of genius without losing that creative spark. Listen to this podcast for some important insights. If you are ready to make that transition and you need to work out the SOPs for your Intellectual Property, I’m your gal. Contact me to discuss scaling your business with your IP assets.

Connect with Erin to strategize how you might use an online community to help make your business scalable and saleable. hourlytoexit.com/podcast.

Erin's LinkedIn Page: www.linkedin.com/in/erinaustin/

Think Beyond IP YouTube Page: www.youtube.com/channel/UCVztXnDYnZ83oIb-EGX9IGA/videos

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Sarah Greener is passionate about businesses - mostly small ones. For the past 7 years, Sarah has been helping busy, stressed and overworked business owners transform their business and reignite the passion they had when they started out. Growing up in a family that ran on business and a keen entrepreneurial spirit, gave Sarah a thorough grounding in the fundamentals. From there, she went on to own and run multiple businesses, in New Zealand and overseas. These ranged from retail through to e-commerce businesses, where she ran small to medium teams and dealt with the day to day operation. Each new business threw up different challenges as she thrived on the constant and never-ending improvement of each business. Despite her natural business drive and knowledge, Sarah still made plenty of mistakes.

But here’s the thing, there’s no learning or growth without mistakes. Eventually, she got caught up in the same game most business owners get into - where the passion they once felt for their business becomes all emotion and busy noise. She knows what it feels like to become overwhelmed by the ineffective activity of working in your business rather than on it, and she has helped many business owners exit that cycle. Sarah enjoys providing actionable insights to business owners to help them put into action immediate ways to strike that necessary balance and stop the overwhelm.