Behind The Scenes: Looking Into The Systems Behind My Business Success

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about the systems that I use in my business, that help to make my life easier and enable my business success. In this episode I go through the main platforms that I use, how I use them and how they help me in my business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST Why it is important to have good systems in place The platform that I couldn't run my business without The things you need to consider if you're taking payments Like this episode or have a business friend or someone that you think will find the content that I put out useful? I would love it so much if you would go and share the podcast with them!   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Get a 30 day free trial with Kajabi Find out more about about the systems I've used and loved Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter *Please note that some of these links include affiliate links, which means if you sign up I may receive commission, but I would never recommend anything that I didn't use and love!   Transcipt Hello and a really warm welcome to this week's episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast. As always, I am your host, Teresa Heath Wareing. I hope you are having a good day. I was going to say a good start to your week, but I really have no idea at what point or when you, listen to this. So it could be Monday when it comes out and if it is happy Monday, if not happy, whatever day it is. So I was just doing a bit of planning around what podcasts I'm going to do coming up. And I decided to listen back at a few old episodes. And the first thing that was really interesting is how some of the old episodes, I now can disagree with what I say, which is so interesting. How people who I really enjoyed listening to and learning from are definitely not the people I do that now. And how professionalized side, maybe a little bit stiff, but definitely more professional. And as I was going through it, I look back at when my first ever episode was, and it was February the fourth, 2018. Like that blows my mind. And in fact, one of the episodes I said my daughter's age in it, and I think, so did I say she was eight and she's now 13? Like that is crazy that I've been doing this long and I have to say, you know, and this isn't what this episode was about, but you know, I'm just chatting. I have to say there are points where I question still doing it because, you know, we're on episode 310 or is it 311 now? It's 311. And I have to say, you know, I've done it since 2018. Do I still need to keep doing it? And there's a part of me that really doesn't want to stop, but there's also a part of me that thinks, God, imagine if I didn't have to do that. Like, obviously it's a lot of content I produce and it takes a lot of work and it takes work with the team. And what would it look like if I no longer did my podcast? But anyway, that's not a question for today, unless you have an opinion on it. Then by all means, come and tell me. But it's just, you know, sometimes we think about these things and it's all right, it's all right to sometimes change our mind, that's fine. Now, if I'd been doing this for three months and I changed my mind, no, that's not okay, I need to give it a good go, but I think, you know, 2018 to 2023 is a really good go. Anyway, I'm talking like I'm cancelling the podcast. I am absolutely not. Now what would be particularly handy and helpful and definitely make sure I won't cancel the podcast is if you could go and share my podcast. So if you have a business friend or a business buddy or someone that you think will find the content that I put out useful. I would love it if you would go and share it with them. If you would put it on your Instagram stories, or even on your feed, or on your Facebook, or your LinkedIn, or whatever Twitter's called this week, wherever you think someone might be interested, I would really, really appreciate you sharing that out there. Because even after all this time, it's still not easy to get people to listen. So Anyway, that was a weird side talk. So today, what I'm going to be talking about is systems. Now, it doesn't seem a particularly sexy subject to talk about, and it's probably not going to change your life or give you some amazing mindset skill. However, it is incredibly important that We have these systems in place. And when I say systems, I'm meaning actual platforms. So I'm going to be talking through the platforms that I have in my business, what I use, how I use it, and how it helps. And it's a really, really important, although, like I said, it's not the sexiest thing in the world. It is really important that we have good systems in place to make our lives a whole lot easier. And what can often happen and has definitely happened with me in the past is I get swayed by the latest new system. Now, this doesn't happen so often now, I have to say, but either someone shows me this new shiny system is like, it's brilliant and it's this and everyone must need it. And therefore you get it and it's only X amount a month. Well, that's fine. But then having 10 or 15 of them at only X amount a month soon adds up. And one of the things that I do with a finance point of view is we obviously have a a breakdown of our outgoings and I have one specifically for the platforms that I use and it comes to a lot of money. There's no doubt about it that we could spend a huge amount of money on all of these different systems. So do we need them? And which ones do we need and are vital? And which ones would I recommend? So I'm going to focus predominantly on the fact that I have an online business. And that's really easy for me to focus on that because that's the business I have. So some of these systems, I will make clear whether it is specifically for an online business. So the main system I use and probably one of my most expensive or the most expensive, however, it is one that I could not live without is Kajabi. Now, not only Is it a really awesome system, but they're actually really awesome people. And I really, really enjoy being part of their community. And as you will know, if you're a listener to the podcast, I have been to two of their conferences, they've only done two in person and I love them both and they just treat their, their customers really, really well. And they have a really good system that is constantly improving. So. What I use Kajabi for, if you have an online business, you are going to need somewhere to host the online element of it. Now, there are lots of ways that you can do this and you can, if you're getting started, you can, if you want, pay for something or not pay for something more like, and put it on something like Google Drive or Dropbox or OneDrive or something like that. So. You could even just have landing pages where you put your content, but it's going to be a bit clunky and I don't know about anybody else, but sometimes when you share stuff through Google Drive, maybe it's just me because I'm not that tech. So I don't think I'm that tech savvy that, you know, are the share permissions right? And can they move it out or have they got access to it? Can they edit it? What if they edit it? Like, It can just get a little bit confusing. So for me, I started straight off the bat with a system. Now I used to use something else called Wishlist Member, which I then moved quickly to Kajabi. But basically Kajabi hosts and holds all my courses. All my membership stuff, and believe me, over the god knows how many years I've had this for now, I have a lot of content on there. And it's not based, the cost for Kajabi isn't based on the amount of content from a kind of like, so my membership, my membership is one product, but there is so much stuff in there, and the videos, and the content, and the audio, and the, like. A crazy amount of stuff and it doesn't go up the more I add into that membership. Now I have a limit on how many products I can use and I'm not over that limit. I haven't gone over it yet and I don't see myself going over it. So that's fine. I think it's 15 cause I'm on the middle level of Kajabi. But yeah, so you definitely, definitely need somewhere to host your stuff. And like I said, if you're starting out and you don't want to spend the money or you haven't got the money, then you could always do it through something like a Google drive. You can also, I was just thinking about another system I used to use and still do a little bit for different things is Amazon AWS. And you can host things within Amazon AWS. The problem is if you've got a video that you want to send out to people. It will literally only just be the video. It's not like it puts it on a nice landing page or that you can put stuff around it. It literally is, here's the link to the video. And the way AWS works is the more content you have in there and the more downloads, i. e. the more, the amount that people have...