053 Boost Business Efficiency: Mastering Automation with Amanda Nelson
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“Don't let them fool you, computer programming is as simple as 'if this happens, then this happens’.” - Amanda Nelson
Do you want to transform your small business into a well-oiled machine, with tasks automated and responsibilities effectively delegated? Wondering how you can achieve a seamless workflow and ultimately boost efficiency and productivity? Look no further! My expert guest, Amanda Nelson, will be sharing the solution to help you achieve the desired outcome of streamlining your business processes and increasing overall effectiveness. Get ready to unlock the potential of automation and delegation and take your business to new heights of success!
In this episode, you will be able to:
Discover how to create passive income streams through content creation and turn your hobbies into a lucrative business.
Learn how to automate your business processes and delegate tasks, freeing up your time to focus on what you love and grow your business.
Find out how to test your ideas and adapt based on audience feedback, ensuring that you're delivering what your customers want and increasing your chances of success.
Uncover the secrets of monetizing your hobbies through affiliate videos, earning money while doing what you enjoy and sharing your passion with others.
My special guest is Amanda Nelson. You can find her at the Pythoness Programmer on her platforms:
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Amanda Nelson, aka the Pythoness Programmer, is the go-to expert when it comes to automating business processes and delegating tasks. With a background in programming and a touch of mystical intuition, Amanda helps small business owners streamline their operations for increased efficiency and productivity. Her catchy name, inspired by the ancient Greek oracles, perfectly captures her unique blend of tech savvy and intuitive wisdom. Through her TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube channels, Amanda shares practical tips and tools to simplify workflows and save time. Whether you're a creative entrepreneur or a small business owner, Amanda's insights and expertise will help you navigate the world of automation with ease. Get ready to discover how to automate and delegate tasks, freeing up your time to focus on what truly matters in your business.
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00:00:00 - Amanda Nelson
All right.
00:00:00 - Regan Bashara
Hi, everybody. This is Regan, host of Money through Ease. And today I have my next guest on the podcast, Amanda Nelson, who is the Python. That's programmer Air Horn noises. Maybe I can add that in post production.
00:00:19 - Amanda Nelson
Don't overextend yourself. That sounds like a lot of work.
00:00:22 - Regan Bashara
I said I wasn't gonna do a lot of editing, and that's sounds like a lot. Let me acquire a soundboard with a hotkey for the air horn. All right. So I brought Amanda on. We are mutuals on TikTok, and I first came across her and saw that she was a witch in tech, I think, is how you identify. And the name the Python S programmer. Just the Python s. I was like, I know what that is. My mom and my husband are both computer programmers, and I think that is a brilliant name. So please introduce yourself to the audience, tell us who you are, what you do.
00:01:05 - Amanda Nelson
Yes. So my name has a great story. It actually comes from the oracles of the ancient Greek temple of Apollo. There were Python s. They were actually called Pythia. That's the Greek word for them. Python S is the more colonized term for it. And I love that because, yes, as a tech person, it is a catchy name, but it also really exemplifies the kind of, like, mysticism that my intuition has developed over the years as well. So I am the Python S and Python s programmer. I help decolonized neurodivergence reprogram into their own little success stories, and so that's what I aim to do with my channel.
00:01:57 - Regan Bashara
Awesome. And if that sounds like something you're into, you should go follow her on TikTok and Instagram, and she's got a YouTube channel that maybe will have a.
00:02:07 - Amanda Nelson
Lot of things coming, maybe completely planned out for next year.
00:02:11 - Regan Bashara
It will be awesome.
00:02:14 - Amanda Nelson
We're working towards that progress, not perfection here.
00:02:19 - Regan Bashara
That's it. So every day I see you on TikTok giving your intuitive messages. Most of the time, they call me out, and they're extremely rude. And I appreciate, like, today, yes, those are so fun. And I think that's how I first, I feel like that's probably one of the first videos I saw, but then I was liKe, which in tech, well, I'm the numbers witch, so I think we're going to get along and be friends. So you kind of help folks do workflow and automation things, and especially for folks that are running a small business, especially folks that are creatives. Tell us a little bit about maybe your favorite tools or how we would start if we wanted to set up an automated kind of workflow in our business.
00:03:08 - Amanda Nelson
Yeah. So my number one recommendation is an application called IFTTT. And this is a really great introduction to most people who may not have a full tech background, but it is so really just simple in showing you how simple automations can be. And it says, if this happens, then this happens. And that's all computer programming is. Don't let them fool you. And I think they do a really beautiful job of making it very simple. There's a lot of hacks that you can create in your workflow, and everything is so individually personalized, but that's usually where I tell people to start, especially if they don't have any programming knowledge, because you don't need any programming knowledge to make your first workflow. It's just as simple as every time I click this, I want this to happen, and it's not hard.
00:04:23 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, I heard about that if T many years ago, and I used it briefly, but I haven't used it since then. And honestly feeling like I should look into it because they do have like a free kind of, you get so many triggers.
00:04:40 - Amanda Nelson
It's a great option for people who are just getting into it and don't really want to spend money on their automations because they offer applets, or what they're called is each one of the little programs, and I think they give like two or three for free. And that's perfect. That's all you need to get started. And then you're like, oh, well, actually this is making me more productive. Let me spend $5 a month and make all of these. And now they have AI integration, which just gets so crazy. And before you get overwhelmed, that's why I was like, just start there and see what you can make easier that you're already doing day to day.
00:05:22 - Regan Bashara
Right. I always tell folks like you, as an entrepreneur or a business owner, are showing up with your unique brain to run your business. There are certain things that no one else is going to do them. You're the one with the vision. You're the one who wants to kind of shape the brand or the products or services you provide. But there are so many things in your business that you do not have to be the one sitting there clicking the button. So hiring it out or automating it through a workflow is a great way to buy back a lot of your time.
00:05:55 - Amanda Nelson
Yeah. And it's also a really great way as a business owner to really get into that mindset of being able to hire out that work as well, because if you're willing to automate something, you might be willing to get rid of it completely off of your plate. And I think that should be the goal of looking into automations and stuff is what don't I need to do to make my day easier? And when you start making those shifts, that's when your business takes off.
00:06:26 - Regan Bashara
Okay, so if you have trouble as a business owner delegating, I see my clients especially. But just like people that I am in community with in the entrepreneurial world have so much trouble doing that first delegation, like giving something up. It's like, why are you grasping onto that so tightly? It's an email, it is not high stakes.
00:06:50 - Amanda Nelson
And that's the real essence of it is it's not high stakes. These are things that you're doing every single day. So something as simple as I post once on TikTok and that gets reposted on other platforms with a tool I use repurpose IO, another great tool if you are a content creator. But just adding those little tiny steps into your workflow saves you time and money and it helps so much just in a mindset aspect as well.
00:07:24 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, I use Metro cool for scheduling things out in advance. They have this amazing feature called auto lists. And basically if you have content that just needs to go out on a regular basis, that can be the same content over and over again. You can set up an auto list to repeat.
00:07:43 - Amanda Nelson
Oh, I love that.
00:07:44 - Regan Bashara
And you can put all of the data into a CSV file and upload posts that way. Oh my God, it changed my life when I found out about this. Metrical does have a free plan where you can post so many free posts a month. I paid for the upgraded plan, but I think I pay $20 a month and I post to like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, shorts like everywhere. And I just let those auto lists kind of handle my entire life. It's amazing.
00:08:15 - Amanda Nelson
And I think that's a great point for other entrepreneurs as well, is the tech is constantly changing. Just with AI in the past year, all of these tools and softwares are going to change, which makes us even more frustrating, which is why just learning how to make that first automation or getting more familiar with computer software is going to help you in the long run.
00:08:45 - Regan Bashara
I find the most frustrating part. I work a lot with quickbooks online, with all of my clients. I use that for my business and they change their shit once a year. They just changed their entire interface. Like they forced everybody into it. It used to be that you could only opt in if you wanted to. And now it's completely changed.
00:09:04 - Amanda Nelson
We love into it.
00:09:06 - Regan Bashara
Every time I log in to do a training, it looks different and I'm like sitting there like an idiot, just deer in the headlights with my client expecting me to teach them how to use the software that looks brand new to me.
00:09:15 - Amanda Nelson
Cool. Thanks, guys. Yeah. And when you force people to use new software all the time, you're forcing them to be engineers every single time you change something.
00:09:27 - Regan Bashara
And if I have to submit another recommendation to you all, I might as well get paid to be a developer.
00:09:33 - Amanda Nelson
At this point, right? That's how I felt recently. I was sitting with later who I used for scheduling, and I was doing like a paid research study with them and I was like, how have you never heard of these services I'm telling you about? This is literally your job to know these things.
00:09:53 - Regan Bashara
And please tip me $100 for that. Right.
00:09:56 - Amanda Nelson
I'm going to need more than a month of service.
00:09:58 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, send a check. So bringing up scheduling out content and using, I mean, content creation and scheduling content, I think is such an easy automation task for many small businesses, and I kind of want to use that as a segue into talking about content creation. Because you and I met on TikTok, I have been posting a lot. TikTok this year has been like my main focus for growing my audience. So tell me about your experience using TikTok specifically, but just content creation in general for your business?
00:10:33 - Amanda Nelson
For my business, it has been extra interesting because I actually started on TikTok when I was still my old, old brand, which was sticky schedule, which is, I used to make planner stickers, which I still do, but like, it used to just be like, oh, I have to be on this thing to promote my stuff. But then it became part of my daily life. And I think that's where a lot of us content creators turn into. It's just like, well, you know what, I'm learning a lot here. I want to share what I'm learning here, but I want to do it in my way because I need this information for, let me talk to myself from two, three years ago and let me go down this path. And my entertainr loves it, but it's hard. It takes so much consistency that I want to scream every day, but in the best way possible.
00:11:36 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, talking to yourself from a couple of years ago, whatever it is that you needed to hear, somebody out there still needs to hear it. So that's a great point that if you're struggling about what to say or who you're even talking to. Start with yourself from a couple of years ago, whatever advice you needed to hear. And for me, it is also a part of my, at least during the work week, part of my daily life. One of the things that I practice is like, oh, this is just what I get up and do every morning over my coffee. And that kind of helps me create that consistency is like chaining it to other tasks for my morning routine.
00:12:14 - Amanda Nelson
Yes, that's exactly how I ended up staying. Consistent with my morning perspective is I've done a few weeks where I have recorded them in batches and posted them over time, but it didn't feel authentic to just my intuitive messages, and it also got me out of my routine. And so even just keeping letting myself do that as part of my thing, not even for my business, but just for me, has been so much more helpful. And because of, like, I can see my consistency, like, oh, Amanda, you've done this thing for six months now, every single day, and now I'm finally getting those answers of, oh, this is what I'm really good at, this is what I'm going to do for my business, and this is how I'm going to take my content and shift it into next year. And that's not going to happen unless you're shit posting, at least for six months. And I cannot over explain that. Enough.
00:13:14 - Regan Bashara
Yes.
00:13:15 - Amanda Nelson
Ship posting your heart out.
00:13:17 - Regan Bashara
Garbage posting. I follow a coach who teaches marketing for life, coaches Simone Soul, and she does the garbage post challenge, which is 100 posts in 30 days. And if you are somebody that is not posting consistently right now, you might be like, holy shit, that is a lot. 100 posts, 30 days, any post. It could be an email. It could be you showing up to the public and talking your shit. And so shit posting is also a good option. It's just like your spurts of your subconscious that leaked out and you put them in front of other people and develop.
00:13:54 - Amanda Nelson
So scary. It's scary to do, but that fear and that anxiety, it builds resistance over time. And it's fun. It becomes fun.
00:14:07 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, the visibility thing was huge for me. I was scared shitless to get on TikTok because I follow a lot of people that like, well, I originally followed a lot of people that did, like, a bunch of call outs of public shit. I don't know why, it just, the algorithm fed it to me, and I love drama. Whenever it was time for me to get up and start posting, or that's what I decided to do, I was like, oh, my God, I just don't want to be one of those people. And I had to get over that. But getting over that means I just kept showing up over and over again and putting.
00:14:41 - Amanda Nelson
Exactly. I'm showing up every day, and I am staying educated, I'm staying informed. And I think that's what this next generation needs right now from the next generation of entrepreneurs that we are. They need somebody to look up to that's like, hey, these people aren't afraid to stand up for genocide, but also actually know what they're talking about.
00:15:13 - Regan Bashara
I don't even know how old you are, but I think we're, like, both millennials.
00:15:17 - Amanda Nelson
Yes. I'm in my 30s.
00:15:20 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. So I have memories from childhood before the Internet, and then I have the rest of my life with the Internet. And the younger generations have just always had the Internet. They've always had a screen in front of them. And so we were really the transition of people that had a lot of time with both, but still in our younger, formative years, not having Internet. And I think that it is good, like you said, to be kind of like that role model, that we can go be our authentic selves out in the real world and not worry about what we're putting online either, and also still show up authentically online and talk our shit, whatever.
00:16:05 - Amanda Nelson
There is a balance to be had with ethics and love and all these things that really tear us apart. But when you're able to almost encapsulate that within your own brand, which I feel like TikTok just does in such a unique way, which is why everybody hates it, it's just so beautiful to me because I'm like, oh, this is the chaos magic that we know.
00:16:33 - Regan Bashara
It is chaotic. And now it's like QVC all the time, which, honestly, I think that's hilarious. When I first love it, realized that.
00:16:41 - Amanda Nelson
It totally would happen to TV, it.
00:16:43 - Regan Bashara
Was like a 24 hours shopping channel. All of a sudden, I was like, this is hilarious, though. There are some people that are like, oh, my God, it's just turned into QVC online. And I'm like, I don't know about you all, but I sometimes just enjoy people digging through rocks on TikTok Live and shilling their. Whatever. I'm here for it.
00:17:05 - Amanda Nelson
Absolutely.
00:17:06 - Regan Bashara
I am a chaos goblin.
00:17:08 - Amanda Nelson
There's a reason you click on those lives, and there are thousands of people.
00:17:11 - Regan Bashara
Watching or the hamster raves that are like, it's like, 03:00 a.m. My time, and these hamsters, like, strobe lights are going, and they're all on their wheels going so fast. Yeah, I don't know. I'm here for that. And then I'm also here for the activism and the social justice conversations that are happening and then seeing other people market their businesses. I am here for all of it. I want to participate in all of that. Please.
00:17:46 - Amanda Nelson
Thank you. Yeah, it's an artist economy, and it's here. It's not coming. It's here.
00:17:52 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. And the gig economy has really gotten more and more solid, especially since the pandemic since 2020. And I wanted to ask you about your content creation as it relates to developing a passive income stream. You've kind of described yourself as a chronic entrepreneur. And can you tell us a little bit about what you've done in the past as far as developing a passive income stream, which is not truly passive? Right.
00:18:23 - Amanda Nelson
You should. No, yeah, no, I think I've always been very interested in passive income. I think growing up especially, that's the goal, right? Is to. Oh, we're going to make this one Etsy listing, and it's going to make us millions of dollars, and that's not the case at. And, like, when I got diagnosed with my chronic migraines and I was dealing with my own mental health struggles, I opened up my first business, which was sticky schedule, and it had some planner stickers. The planner girlies do not have the money I was looking for, so I did not do well in that. Oh, balloons.
00:19:10 - Regan Bashara
Why are there balloons?
00:19:12 - Amanda Nelson
I don't have no idea.
00:19:15 - Regan Bashara
I didn't do anything.
00:19:16 - Amanda Nelson
That is the weirdest. That was the worst thing. Know how to do all of the hand signals. I did one in therapy the other day that did something so stupid, and I was like, this is super not appropriate.
00:19:31 - Regan Bashara
Oh, my God. I don't have that turned on on my end.
00:19:34 - Amanda Nelson
Okay, cool.
00:19:36 - Regan Bashara
That was the worst thing that could have happened to our two brains, was all of a sudden balloons. And now I have no idea where the conversation.
00:19:43 - Amanda Nelson
I have no idea what we're talking about. We're talking about sticky schedule stickers. Jesus.
00:19:49 - Regan Bashara
Oh, gosh.
00:19:51 - Amanda Nelson
Oh, squirrels. But the passive income part was I did make some cash dividers because at the time, separating my very little income at the time into cash was the way that I was budgeting, and I just made them cuter because I hate ugly things. And truly, that is the secret to anything. Find a product and make it cuter. But I made a PDF of that and some other digital files, and I threw it on Etsy, and I didn't do anything with it. I didn't market it, and I didn't do anything. And then every year around when people are making their New Year's resolution or when a big dip in the economy is happening, sure enough, Amanda will go to her Etsy and there'll be $60. It's just enough for those moments of like, oh, shit. That you're just like, okay, this is actually pretty helpful. And I think that that's a great example for me, though, myself. Like, looking back, be like, hey, you didn't even do anything with this, and you still made money consistently. Imagine what would happen if you tried.
00:21:09 - Regan Bashara
Just think about it.
00:21:11 - Amanda Nelson
Imagine what would happen if you made this listing cuter and did more with it. And it's kind of funny looking back because you're just like, oh, this is just like a huge learning opportunity over and over. And I think that that's really what passive income ends up being is. It's just a lot of work and a lot of mindset work afterwards of realizing that, oh, it's actually not about the money anymore. It's actually just about growing and evolving my art. And that's kind of what happened with TikTok as well, is once I was able to start making money off of affiliate videos, they have a commission thing in TikTok store. I was like, okay, well, I have a million hobbies. I can monetize my hobbies. So I picked, like, a plant food and started talking about it on TikTok. And sure enough, the TikTok loved it. Algorithm loves TikTok shop as they're talking.
00:22:10 - Regan Bashara
About QVC for everybody. If you meet the requirements, go do it.
00:22:16 - Amanda Nelson
I do it 1000%. Do it because I've been unemployed since January. I was laid off in tech, and because of the current climate of the world, I have not been mentally well to go back to work. And quite frankly, probably I'm not going to because I make all of my money now off of those affiliate videos.
00:22:41 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. And that's not even more than $60 a month. I will say, just FYI for all of you all.
00:22:50 - Amanda Nelson
Yeah.
00:22:51 - Regan Bashara
At that point, I think recognizing that people use that term passive income, and it's like, it's not, you still have to create content that sends people there. But like you said, you've got all these hobbies, and you can kind of use a product to, I can now monetize them your hobby and then make money from it. Yeah.
00:23:15 - Amanda Nelson
After using TikTok for three years, posting consistently for six months, and doing all these other things, I now can start making that real passive income. Which is really something I need to tell myself for my YouTube journey. So thanks, inner self.
00:23:35 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, I think it's like, once you've mastered one thing, I'm this way. I've mastered that thing. Okay, it's like, time to go over here now. And I have thought about playing with YouTube and longer form content as well. I'm going to be doing these guest interviews, putting the video up on YouTube to watch. So if you don't know already, my mom's interview is on YouTube, and then this one will be available in video format over there. And I think that the difference between being an entrepreneur and then just being a business owner who shows up to do a job every day in their own business is that you do constantly just have that flow of ideas that you have to allow to flow through. You recognize that most of them are probably going to be shit. And then deciding which one of those rabbits you need to follow, it's like, oh, I can really do something with that.
00:24:26 - Amanda Nelson
Or figuring out how to follow all of the rabbits. Let your audience decide which of those rabbits.
00:24:33 - Regan Bashara
That's true.
00:24:33 - Amanda Nelson
That's what I've been doing, honestly. I've just been giving a whole bunch of little rabbits out and seeing which ones work. And I finally have a list now of like, oh, you guys like NFC content? Oh, you guys like GitHub? Repos? Oh, you guys like plants. And so it kind of has just been my way of just slowly building out my own brand pillars while I'm creating.
00:24:59 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. And you can have an idea of what you want to do. If you are thinking about starting a business or starting a side hustle or monetizing a hobby, and I promise you it will turn into something completely different than what you envisioned from the beginning. That is how it works. That is a fact of life.
00:25:19 - Amanda Nelson
I thought I was going to make tech content. Have I made tech content yet? I really haven't.
00:25:27 - Regan Bashara
Just been a little bit. I really appreciated the Goblin Tools video that you have up, which you had a TikTok video. But then I went around and played on that yesterday or the day before, I can't remember.
00:25:38 - Amanda Nelson
But, you know, I realized I've never made a TikTok about that. That's my one video.
00:25:44 - Regan Bashara
Or did I see that on someone else? I don't know.
00:25:47 - Amanda Nelson
Or maybe I just mentioned it in passing, but I could take that long form video and turn it into a bunch of TikToks, but I just am too lazy to do that yet. Yeah.
00:25:55 - Regan Bashara
And of course, I don't use lazy.
00:25:57 - Amanda Nelson
I am too busy to do that.
00:25:59 - Regan Bashara
Yet I'm reclaiming laziness.
00:26:03 - Amanda Nelson
I like to remind myself that you're just too busy to do that right now. You're doing a lot right now.
00:26:09 - Regan Bashara
I'm tired.
00:26:10 - Amanda Nelson
So tired. I've got a lot going on.
00:26:13 - Regan Bashara
Real. It's like I'm going to let all these rabbits go. And then all of a sudden, wow, I have a lot going on. Oops. Who did that? Who allowed me to have agency over my right? That was not a good choice.
00:26:31 - Amanda Nelson
I am not an adult. Please save me.
00:26:37 - Regan Bashara
Whenever there's like, you're looking around in your life, who's the adult here? And then you realize it's you and you're.
00:26:48 - Amanda Nelson
Have like, as an older sister, I feel like that's just like my living purpose is to be the responsible one. And I used to do security fully Acab now, but I used to do security on campus in downtown Richmond. And I legit thought that this was like my calling. I'm going to be a police officer. I'm going to uphold justice in the law. And real soon after that deteriorated. You meet one person of color real well and you're like, oh, yeah, got it. Okay, so sorry. I'm so sorry.
00:27:21 - Regan Bashara
Yeah, I forgot that you were an older. Oh.
00:27:24 - Amanda Nelson
But I still need to do this. And that's kind of why I've just been like, all right, well, if I can do that in my job, I guess I can do that for myself. I can be that leadership for myself and other people when they need it. Yeah, that's what I get to do.
00:27:41 - Regan Bashara
Now, there's appropriate times for you to step in and help other people and support them, but truly it is a gift and a blessing to turn that around for yourself. But the older sister thing, not only were we made to be responsible for everybody else's behavior and emotions and actions, but we were really like the cops of the family. They literally did impose the system of justice of the family on the oldest sister. You're going to meet out.
00:28:14 - Amanda Nelson
Don't raise us to be emotionally mature, but definitely raise us to uphold the peace that was the focus.
00:28:23 - Regan Bashara
Like, avoid conflict at all costs, yet you are responsible for everybody, but also.
00:28:31 - Amanda Nelson
Never perceive me or else I will die.
00:28:36 - Regan Bashara
Please don't acknowledge that I am here. I'm going to blend in now anyway. So what would you leave with the audience as far as tips or advice that you want to give on? If they're thinking about starting to automate some things in their business? What would be the first couple of steps for them? To head in the right direction.
00:29:02 - Amanda Nelson
Honestly. Let's ask Goblin tools. So this is my favorite tool, AI in real time.
00:29:12 - Regan Bashara
Goblin, do you want to share your screen? I can give you access if you want.
00:29:16 - Amanda Nelson
Oh, yeah, here. I can do that.
00:29:17 - Regan Bashara
We're about to get a real live tutorial here.
00:29:21 - Amanda Nelson
So this is Goblin tools and we're going to ask it. Oh, can you see my screen? Great. You got to be kind of specific with it. So let's figure out how to answer this question nicely. So pretend you're a project manager. This is just tech talk for person who manages project, not a big term, paid a lot. Okay, so pretend you're a project manager. Project manager for automating my small business workflows with IFTTT or whatever you're going to use.
00:30:08 - Regan Bashara
Like Zapier.
00:30:09 - Amanda Nelson
Whatever. Yeah, with Zapier. Whatever you want to do. And now you have to turn it into a task so it will break it down for you. Let's try to think of a good juicy prompt for this group of folks.
00:30:28 - Regan Bashara
The social media content creation or common.
00:30:32 - Amanda Nelson
Thing that I have, like in my content creation would be let's just do repurposing content.
00:30:39 - Regan Bashara
Yes.
00:30:40 - Amanda Nelson
And just see what it says. Repurposing content from TikTok to Instagram. And that might be too specific, but you can. Let's do LinkedIn.
00:30:51 - Regan Bashara
Yes.
00:30:51 - Amanda Nelson
That really just messes it up. Are you sure you want to do that? That sounds really terrible. All right, so now we're going to press this breakdown item and you don't need to give it all this prompts for Goblin tools. This is really just a way for me to show it off. All right. And identify the content that needs to be repurposed. Determine the desired format and style, set up your account, create a trigger. Define those actions that need to be performed in that trigger specific, like specify the format. And this kind of simple breakdown is really all you would need for most of your automations. So if we wanted to create, you get it even from there. So let's say I don't know how to do that. Identify the content that needs to be repurposed. That sounds terrible. Let's break that down. And that's what Goblin Tools does really well because they're able to be like, oh, consider the audience and purpose for the content on know, my autistic ass probably wouldn't have thought of that.
00:31:53 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. Do you want to send people to your email subscription or to your eventbrite page or whatever?
00:32:03 - Amanda Nelson
Right. So this kind of goblin tools is a great way to really kind of start high level, start thinking about it. And then if you go to, let's say, like Miro or any sort of whiteboard, I think Google has a whiteboard now.
00:32:20 - Regan Bashara
I think.
00:32:20 - Amanda Nelson
I don't know what it's called. Jamboard. They might. I can't guarantee that they'll keep us. Google's been doing a whole lot, but you could go to something like a jamboard, or you could go into GoogLe or, like canva or even something like that. You can literally break it down. You could be like, I want this to happen. When I press this button, then this happens. And if you write it out step by step, it makes it a little easier for when you're actually doing it. That way you're not overwhelming yourself.
00:32:52 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. If you definitely need somebody to tell you the specific tasks or if you need to explain to maybe an employee or a virtual assistant, these are the specific tasks I expect to be completed. To consider this project done, that is a really great tool to say, because when we're small business owners, we're entrepreneurs, we're always living up in our head. We never write anything down about our processes because we're just doing it. But if you need to hire somebody to take on these tasks that you want to delegate or even set up your automated workflows for you, it has to come out of your brain some way. So maybe creating a visual chart like that to flow like these tasks need to happen in this order, and it helps the other person kind of understand the rubric for what's expected of me.
00:33:44 - Amanda Nelson
Oh, my gosh, yes, 100%. And that's really everything that it comes down to, is you need to be as specific as possible for the computer to tell the computer program what to do. It really is no different than how you would explain it to a real assistant, human to human, like Regan. I need you to do this in Quickbooks. It's no different than me telling my computer, hey, Quickbooks, do this thing every time I do this. Help. That's why people like me are here.
00:34:16 - Regan Bashara
Yes. If you find yourself stuck on the workflows and the delegations and the automations of it all, please go check out Amanda's content and get in touch with her. I will make sure that all of her information is in the show notes so that you can go follow and interact with her content and learn how to automate your business and make your whole life a lot easier. That seems like the big tasks for.
00:34:39 - Amanda Nelson
You in a judgment free zone as well. We understand that not everybody is, or I understand at least that not everybody is tech savvy, but hey, I am. So let me use that to my advantage for you.
00:34:53 - Regan Bashara
And everybody's brain is different. And it sounds like you have a brain that has some neurodivergence. And so probably coming from that experience yourself, you can help folks, really, who have trouble with task initiation and executive dysfunction, which is like, how do I make myself do the thing?
00:35:15 - Amanda Nelson
Great questions. Please continue answering that.
00:35:20 - Regan Bashara
Love that.
00:35:22 - Amanda Nelson
What if we could figure that out?
00:35:25 - Regan Bashara
Wow. That would be amazing. Amanda, thank you so much for coming on and being a guest on money through ease.
00:35:31 - Amanda Nelson
I really appreciate you sharing.
00:35:33 - Regan Bashara
Yeah. So be sure to go check out Amanda in all of the links in the show notes. And thanks for listening.