I love the book by Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time, but its hard to begin the process of implementation. Some things I've done to buy back my time are:
Some things I'd love to implement to buy back my time, is truly hire someone who can estimate my jobs. Estimation companies are terrible, we've tried so many and each electrical job is truly different in every way that it takes time to price out jobs.
Great question. Here is my list, for context we are a 24 staff residential cleaning company:
This has gotten easier as we've grown, but literally anything I don't have the capacity for!
-Hiring our cleaning company to clean my house (kids aren't getting younger!)
-Hired a bookkeeper, multiple office admins, social media manager, and SEO/web
-Decided to walk away from my part-time job (I was a mental health therapist while also running my company)- I really had to reflect and ask myself if it was worth it from a financial and mental capacity standpoint
-AI! I have saved hours of my life building out AI employees to help fulfill various growth strategies within our company
I implemented TechLineSMS into my company, GHL automations, and also have a VA, Those two things saves me some serious headaches.. lol Next I think is estimations...
Hi! Love that you mentioned Dan Martell’s book. Implementation is always the hardest part. One of the best ways to "buy back time" is to stop doing manual reporting and data entry between Jobber and other tools. We are building an automation layer that handles the deep analytics and live calendar syncing automatically, so you do not have to hire a PT admin just to manage the data. We are launching a small beta group for owners focused on automation this week — would love to get your thoughts on it as someone who is already optimizing their workflow.
