Now.
Fulfilling your orders in the beginning is great fun.
It's enormously satisfying.
And of course, it's very, very exciting as you're building out a new business.
But if you're really following this course and taking action, it probably won't be long before you
have something of a luxury problem on your hands.
And that luxury problem is going to be the number of orders that you'll need to process every day.
Because it is, of course, a somewhat repetitive process.
Now, whenever we have a repetitive process in business at the point in which we can afford it, then
it's a really good opportunity to look at how we can improve that process, how we can take that off
of our hands and use our time more wisely.
So I've entitled this lecture How to Scale Your Orders a suggestion.
Okay, because it is a suggestion.
You don't have to do this.
You can just carry on yourself fulfilling those orders.
But if you are looking for an alternative route as your business grows, then the tips I'm about to
give you here may well be of interest.
So first off, whatever you do, I strongly recommend that you manually process your orders yourself
until you reach ten orders a day, and I suggest doing that for two reasons.
The first reason is it's always a good idea to have a thorough understanding of a process before you
look at alternative ways of doing it.
And by doing ten orders a day, you're definitely going to get very, very familiar with exactly what
needs doing now.
Secondly, when you reach ten orders a day, you should be looking at a profit of around about $3,000
per month.
So let's be clear.
That's $3,000 in profit, okay.
Money in your pocket.
Money that you can reinvest if you wish back into your business.
Or to put it another way, your business can now afford it.
Whenever I try to make decisions about whether I'm going to buy something could be anything, any product,
any service, I always look to see if my business can afford it.
Do I have money in my business bank account to actually go ahead and buy it?
And that might sound really, really obvious, but you'd be very surprised at the number of people who
don't do that.
They might take money from other sources to finance their business in order to buy products and services,
because they feel that it's somehow going to accelerate the whole process.
And it might.
I'm not here to judge anybody, but generally speaking, I think it's very, very good advice to only
buy products and services from the money that your business itself has made.
Now, that doesn't have to be $3,000.
It could be $1000 or $10,000 or whatever it is that you feel comfortable with.
But the key point here is that you can now afford it.
And when you reach that point, I strongly suggest you consider hiring a virtual assistant, a VA.
So a virtual assistant is perhaps not as virtual as it might sound.
We are talking about a real person here, but they're virtual in the sense that they're not with you
in your office.
You can basically hire them from anywhere in the world.
Now, there are plenty of websites where you can hire Vas, but there's one in particular that I've
had good experiences with, so it's the one I'd like to show you.
Now.
I'm not affiliated with it in any way.
Okay.
You can choose any site you want, but I do think that this is a good place to start.
So I'm over here now on online jobs, and this really is a site that's exploded in the last really sort
of 2 or 3 years.
And it's essentially workers from the Philippines who are incredibly good workers, incredibly diligent.
You really do get very, very good value for money.
And at the same time you're providing valuable employment.
Now, I'm not about to do a detailed tutorial on how to use online jobs, but suffice it to say it's
a marketplace, right?
You have job seekers and you have employers, and the easiest thing to do is to post a job.
So when you get to that point, you can post a job.
It's free to post a job after that.
When you want to contact people, there is a paying element to the site, but again, you can afford
it at this stage so you can post the job and you can say something like, I'm looking for somebody to
fulfill my hundreds of orders that I'm now getting from my Shopify store.
Can anyone help?
And then of course, people will respond and they'll bid, and you can decide on the best person to
help you out.
And when you get the right person, it's incredible.
It's a game changer because they're going to take a huge amount of work off your hands, and hopefully
they stay with you for years.