What does consume your time and energy the most?
Sefa Sarıkaya
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And do you use automation to reduce that?
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Swapratim Roy@swapratim_roy
Sales pitching, calling, cold mailing and running campaigns. Although building a product/platform is cool (I love to build products) but without customers inflow it can die fast. I find no true automation for getting customers (relationship building is unfortunately not a matter of automation yet) and that takes up a lots of time and effort for my startup.
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@swapratim_roy Have you tried finding a CMO co-founder?
In my case, it was meetings. I couldn't find any automation for it.
After I quit to start building my products, I think it's research.
I'm considering some automation for idea generation or research storage and consumption but not sure yet.
@robertomorais But now you know an automation tool that can help you with your meetings,.
Check out this tool and detailed review here: https://medium.com/@software_guy...
@robertomorais Research is a really time consuming part. Some articles are perfectly linked so I jump from one to another.
@sefasarikaya Yeah, it's easy to enter the rabbit hole and stay there.
Meetings with potential clients of +30 min where the first 20 minutes is about anything but business. Now I don't allow first meetings of +30 min
Work & Family
Doing work that I don't know how to do or don't like doing. It could be anything, like cleaning or repairing. I'd rather spend more time at work and pay a professional for the job than have to figure out how to fix a broken faucet myself. Therefore, for me, handyman are almost sacred people who should receive decent pay for their work.
Reflection. I gather a lot of information, reasoning, imagining. Even about a task that takes 5-10 minutes to complete. Even before I cook something, I spend a lot of time searching for 10 variants of cooking and serving, and only then I get down to business. But I always find something interesting. Now, for example, I've studied https://americasrestaurant.com and I'm going to make myself a delicious snack.
For me is meetings for sure, when you are a founder you have a lot.
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Social media marketing
@shushant_lakhyani I suppose it is not your area of expertize. You might postpone it until you can hire a pro.
Earlier for me it was travel and meetings.. Now , just meetings and calls Bit relieved , as automation can not achieve full solution for this ..
However there are other areas where I use automation and definitely saves quality time and energy
@harsha_vardhan01 Travel around or travel to the work? What did change now?
In my case, Subject research, new content search
Sales calls and meetings.. not sure how automation can be done..
However there are other areas where I use automation and definitely saves quality time.
@satish_kumar_veluri Maybe a questionary would help you. You can ask questions as a form instead of making a discovery call.
@satish_kumar_veluri That's good, what are some good tools for automation that you use in your daily life.
@sefasarikaya Depends upon your product, target audience and their geographical location.
Meetings!!. I don't see an automation way for that!!
well I have no interest in gaming and sports I like to read books articles and giving online quiz on platforms like Telenor today answer it also gives you a job opportunity if you pass the test and increase your general knowledge.
@xdio_gawer Increasing the general knowledge is always interesting for me
Bababot
Travelling to the work 😣
@adams_parker Did remote work fail during the pandemic?
Sales meetings and sometimes getting prepared for them...
Freeport Gallery
Thinking about fundraising, currently
@colin_johnson5 That phase needs to be focused and it is okay to consume time there
Other then work and home management. Social media consume all the spare time.
@alexey_xerov How would you like to replace that?
Social media
@andrew_mason3 I use it with limits so I don't use it often, I recommend you the same.