- This 150 page document has absolutely changed my life.
In the last two weeks,
we've had over 480 hours clocked in on our business
on tasks that we didn't have to do ourselves,
and it's made scaling much, much easier.
Standard operating procedures, what are they?
Not only am I going to be covering that in this video,
but I'm going to be giving you five steps
that you can take to make your very own document like this,
so you can start buying time back in your business,
scaling and doing things that you love.
Let's get into it.
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Work on the business, not in the business.
Work harder, not smarter.
I always hear this in the entrepreneurship community,
but how exactly do you do this?
- SOPs are the first step towards that unified approach
to your business goals.
- Just our production manager position has probably 35 or 40
standard operating procedures at this point.
- Everyone just go in and ransack everything
and just throw everything around
and it was totally ridiculous and ineffective.
And eventually, you know, I said, okay,
we need a standard operating procedure.
- The short unexplained answer
is standard operating procedures or SLPs.
Now, before I get started in this video,
if you do find any value in this video,
be sure to like, and subscribe for more content like this.
Let's get to it.
Step one, I want you to take at least one week,
preferably two and write down
everything you're doing in your business.
And I want you to give it a title,
how long it takes you collectively to do that, that week
and then I want you to give a very brief description.
And that is step one.
Now, step two,
after you have all of the tasks written out,
you have a very brief summary
and you have a timeline of that,
I want you to expand in great detail
on those rough drafts that you wrote of the tasks.
Go into as much detail as you possibly can.
This could take a day, this could take two days.
Just be sure to do it in absolute most detail.
And then once you have those in great detail,
along with this, I want you to order these
in the process that you would be doing these in.
So chronological order.
Let's use the example drop shipping.
Drop shipping goes like this and these are very broad tasks.
There are probably going to be sub tasks under these.
It goes product research, list the products,
orders placed and then customer relations.
And like I said, there's going to be subsets,
but that's generally the order of the way it goes.
Step three, once you have everything in chronological order
and you have it written out,
I want you to take a couple of days
and film videos going over your written instructions.
So you're going to film and you can,
if some of this is on the computer,
you can film with a screen-sharing service like Zoom.
We use Zoom, you can do Screencastify
if you have a Chromebook, I've been there.
And you're going to record these tasks
and store them in a Google Drive or Dropbox
and once they're loaded,
you can link those underneath the written out tasks,
so you have videos to go with your written out material.
And you can even take this one step further
and categorize them in folders inside of that drive
or Dropbox to really keep it organized,
especially as your business grows,
the document that you have is really going to grow.
Now step four, this is where I'm going to help you guys out.
Probably the most valuable thing
I've ever given out on this channel is
you're going to make a table of contents.
If you want my exact table of contents,
you can grab that in the description below
and see how we do it for our Amazon business
and how we break it up.
The reason why a table of contents is so crucial
is because it will allow you to easily navigate
through this document,
especially when it grows to be 150 plus pages.
And when you hire on new people,
you can bounce back and forth
very, very quickly and efficiently.
Step number five, you're going to bring on employees
to do the tasks for you.
This is where you can just bring people on
and everything is all written out for them to do.
You can answer questions on top of the material.
And if there is something
that you didn't put inside your SOP and they have questions,
make sure to put that in the SOP.
We go through an updated document every single month,
sometimes even more if there are a bunch of updates
and it's constantly growing.
Think of it as a work of art.
And guys, that is how you make an SOP.
There's no reason you can't do this within a month.
It will change your life, I promise you.
And even if you don't want to scale,
it'll give you time to do the things that you want to do.
I've got an interview coming up this Wednesday
and as always, live streams on Friday.
Check out the free Facebook group in the description below.
And if you do want to learn more about selling on Amazon,
check out any of the playlists I have on my channel.
One or two videos a day will really go a long way I promise.
Thanks guys and I'll see you next time.
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