If you didn’t read my last 3 part series. It was about how to build a system for freeing up your time to spend it on high value activities.

Well guess what this is your first HIGH VALUE ACTIVITY!

Obviously a lot of the last post was taking things off your plate and putting them on others. But you have to be careful about that. Why? Because, the MOST IMPORTANT thing about hiring people; is that you put them into good systems.

But how do you build and design those systems?

I’m not going to claim to be an expert in this department. I didn’t graduate from college and have learned from the world of hard knox. No fancy MBA’s or prestigious schools here. However over the last 20 years of running small to larger businesses I’ve constantly re-analyze what I’m doing and make it better. So this is all based on many years of building systems and companies.

Hope that’s good enough for you…. if not well you know what’s I’d say if you know me 😀

I hope there’s some PhD’s in business management that can give pointers in the comments on how to do things even better and even more efficient.

Lets get started with the magical process (well not really magical, but it sounded good)….

Step 1 – Go to a quiet place for 1-2 days with no internet and take a step back

I know this sounds lame but it’s extremely important. As online marketers the world we live in floods us with a constant onslaught of valuable and important information. Affiliate managers, merchants with issues, account reps, budgets getting cut, Skype groups, friends on IM, emails, forums to keep up with, etc. You may miss on that mythical unicorn of an opportunity doing this…. but so what? There’s always more.

For this exercise you really need to clear your mind.

The first time I did this I went to Lake Tahoe, with my family, for 5 days. A4D had wrongly got drug into a situation with the FTC that was cheaper to settle out of then the legal bills it would have cost to fight. So we settled with them and needed to entirely change our business model.

I stepped away so I could clear my mind for a while and I suggest you do this too.

Step 2 – Optimize Your Companies F ...

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