Systemize Your Success

🎙 Steve introduces the RED method, a simple yet powerful technique for documenting tasks in your business without taking up any extra time. By following the RED method, entrepreneurs can effectively delegate tasks and create robust systems for their businesses.   KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 The RED method is a simple and powerful technique for documenting tasks in your business without taking up extra time....

🎙 In this episode, Steve continues the conversation on the personal systemization plan and provides tips and tricks on how to effectively use that information in your business. He discusses the importance of prioritizing tasks using an impact effort matrix, which visually helps determine which tasks should be delegated or automated first. Steve also looks at how to use the personal systemization p...

🎙 Steve begins his series by taking you through the methods he has developed over the past 20 years in systemising his businesses by explaining the nature of a Unified Operations System and how you can make a plan to drive your business toward success while freeing your own time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 The first step is to detail your high-value work from your repetitive work that can be automated and...

🎙 Steve talks about the current AI and automation techniques available, the lure of new applications and technology, and how they can distract you from getting your work done, getting your clients served and making your business successful. Your business still needs people and systems to function effectively. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 Despite the opportunities that automation can offer, many small business...

🎙 This episode details the real reasons why Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are essential in your business, and they are probably not the reasons you would expect. Steve reveals his experiences with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and how he has decided to take action and put some sturdy and accessible measurables in place.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 It is challenging to celebrate successes when they...

🎙 Steve introduces a simple technique that will help you improve your staff's expertise and competence, bringing value back into your business while acknowledging that people make mistakes, can learn beyond them and ensure that they don’t happen again with your entire team.  KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 Turn your staff's weakness, failure or lack of understanding into a strength by having them create a short...

🎙 Pantelis Zirinis is the ultimate remote businessman. He spends most of his time sailing the oceans while maintaining a busy entrepreneurial lifestyle as CEO of It’s All Greek To Me, a restaurant and souvlaki bar serving authentic Greek food in Paddington, London. Steve and Pantelis talk about how even the most ‘brick and mortar’ of businesses can be run effectively, remotely.   KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡...

🎙 Steve explains how you can achieve much-improved organisation, visibility and control over your business using a Task Management System correctly. How can we empower our team to consistently maintain and improve their tasks and create a culture of continual improvement using systemisation? Steve details the eight elements of the Task Board Management System to utilise to achieve this.  KEY TAKEA...

🎙 In this episode, Steve reveals why video is the number one productivity hack in his business and the seven compelling reasons why you should consider adopting it for your organisation too. Gain benefits in productivity, efficiency, time-saving, training, communication and marketing by embracing the advantages of video. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 Video can fully depict a task in as much detail as a live de...

🎙Find out three essential meetings to balance cadence, focus, length and discipline in meetings and also to be available for questions without opening yourself up to constant interruptions of your time. Using these methods you can build much more efficiency into the running of your business and increase the trust and teamwork of your staff.     KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡The Daily Standup meeting is the hub...

🎙 Steve talks about AI meeting Note-Taking Apps and if they are worth investing in, their capabilities, and his first impressions of having used them regularly now for a few months. Steve has been using Read.ai but has also familiarised himself with Otto.ai, and today, he will be giving you an overview of these two apps.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 The Read.ai app records the live Zoom meeting included wit...

🎙 Many entrepreneurs struggle with the decision to use WordPress LMS (Learning Management System) or choose a standalone system. Steve details his decision and experiences so you can make a more informed choice if needed. KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Learning Management System (LMS) allow you to create and run online courses and consolidate all client-facing content. There are many available to choose from,...

🎙 In this episode, Steve shares a huge milestone that he has just reached in his business. As business owners, we often feel that only we can provide the product that makes our business unique and have the expertise to pass on the wisdom to our clients that they need. The potential to upscale is limited as we are only a single unit.  Steve has finally solved this problem by transforming his Virtua...

🎙 Here’s one for the Mums and Dads on how to keep your kids safe from the more base content of the internet while they are glued to their electronic devices. Steve has some clever tips to ease your worries, whether they use Android or iOS devices like iPad or iPhones.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 On iPad, switch on Guided Access, available in Settings under Accessibility. This option will lock your child's...

🎙 Steve describes a process that anyone can use, including your Virtual Assistant, to allow you to emulate any marketing funnel, including any webpage, email and copywriting, without needing any technical or marketing expertise. It combines some cheeky tricks to simulate your favourite influencer’s methods, utilising groundbreaking, clever AI tools. KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Capture an entire landing page...

🎙 Steve talks to author, CEO and Marketing Consultant Chantal Cornelius, who set up Appletree Marketing in 2000 and has helped hundreds of coaches, consultants and speakers grow their businesses. She has authored two books on marketing and business survival and is the Marketing Director and Vice President of the Professional Speaking Association (UK). She’s currently writing her third book about t...

🎙 Steve shares his experience using an AI video editing app to repurpose his long-form podcast videos on Instagram, TikTok, Reels and other social media. Find out how Vidyo.ai fared when maximising the use of recorded media to create short clips.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 It has traditionally taken quite a lot of manual editing time to chop up a long video into usable short clips. 💡 Short clips are requ...

🎙 In this episode, Steve interviews his long-time client Dr Rachael Coates, Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of UNA Nannies, to gain insight on making the most of your time by considering the way you work, who you work with and the systems you use.  Rachael is a full-time Surgeon but also runs businesses parallel to this in property and healthcare and now a busy childcare sourcing agency,...

🎙 In this episode, Steve explains why you should use a WhatsApp Business Account, what you need to know, and what mistakes to avoid when you get started. Many people use personal WhatsApp accounts and miss out on the advantages of WhatsApp Business.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Using your personal WhatsApp account for business can get confusing and messy and appear unprofessional.  💡 To avoid sharing your...

🎙 Steve Day’s guest today, Steve Bustin, is all about communication, from the stage, in the media and online. He is an award-winning professional speaker, named UK Speaker of the Year in 2015, a public speaking coach and a sought-after event emcee. Previously he ran a PR agency for 11 years after starting his career as a BBC TV & Radio news journalist. He's the author of two books, The Authority G...

🎙 Want to increase efficiency, organise yourself, gain more insight into your staff and what they do with increased visibility, and easily create a plan for setting up systems in your business? This episode highlights the incredible advantages of using a Task Manager to keep all aspects of your business under close accountability without succumbing to micro-management and hours of precious time lo...

🎙Avoid the nightmare of lost data by ensuring you backup your content, data and tasks effectively. Plan for all the disasters that can happen and put your mind at rest with unlimited zoom cloud storage for free! Steve gives you all you need to know to achieve this and provides some of his cautionary tales to incentivise you to start regular backups of your business.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Save yoursel...

🎙 In this episode of the Systemize Your Success Podcast, Steve will take us on the behind-the-scenes of how he recruits new staff for his business. When is the right time to hire new people, who should you employ, and what work should you give them?  This hiring process works for all businesses and all types of roles, and getting this right the first time is a massive advantage for any company, bi...

🎙 When communicating a product, service, idea, or presenting oneself to a listener, it is best to keep the description simple, concise, comprehendible and relevant. An Elevator Pitch is the industry name for an introduction or opening gambit, your initial conversational selling point during a social or networking engagement. Steve’s guest in this episode, Mike Verret, has spent over 25 years in th...

🎙 If you have sites, data and software that you need to protect, then it is crucial to have strong passwords to circumvent modern decryption and hacking software and prevent anyone from guessing your password. In this episode, Steve will explain why you need to perfect your passwords and how to do it and pass on some practical and simple advice on password creation.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Remembering...