Posted January 19th, 2010
How to Organize Your “Virtual Closet” With a Online Standard Operations Procedure(S.O.P.) Manual
I don’t know about you but over time my closet can get pretty messy. Whether it is due to running late or flat out laziness, it is apparent that there needs to be some system in place to restore order and flow to my closet. Likewise, we accumulate lots of tools and processes that accessorize our online business and make it pop. And more often all the different pieces get buried, misplaced or lost in a pile of information.
So we find ourselves searching for logins, recreating documents and making things complicated all of which costs us more time and money than we bargained for. However, now all that is about to change with one simple acronym “S.O.P.”.
It’s never to early or too late in the year to get your “virtual closet” in order. by “virtual closet” I mean the internal processes of your business. Having a Standard Operation Procedure Manual (S.O.P.) in place can do wonders for your business.
Here are four ways you can benefit from having your own SOP in place.
- Systematize your business and increase profits: Lack of documented systems plague both online and offline businesses and become a drain on your time and profits. An online S.O.P. allows you to smooth out all the different processes or “hows” in your business and houses them all in one convenient place.
- Hire and train new team members in a breeze: Document your hiring procedures and cut or eliminate training time. New team members can simply log on to your S.O.P. workspace to learn the ins and outs of various organizational tasks.
- Take a ‘real’ vacation and relax: With processes documented, you won’t have to worry your pretty little head as to whether things can get done without you!
- Operate your business outside of your head: Get all the sorted details of your business out of your head and into a place where delegation is made easy and seamless. If something happens to you, can your business move forward?
Click the image below to watch this video tutorial on how to “Set Up” your S.O.P. Manual for FREE online!
P.S. I am working on adding audio for those of you who’d like to follow along audibly. My kids just would not allow me the quiet to record for this release…boys will be boys, right?
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Happy Wishing
~Kenya
