WEBVTT 00:00.080 --> 00:00.410 Now. 00:00.410 --> 00:03.080 Fulfilling your orders in the beginning is great fun. 00:03.080 --> 00:04.520 It's enormously satisfying. 00:04.520 --> 00:08.150 And of course, it's very, very exciting as you're building out a new business. 00:08.150 --> 00:12.950 But if you're really following this course and taking action, it probably won't be long before you 00:12.950 --> 00:16.130 have something of a luxury problem on your hands. 00:16.130 --> 00:21.170 And that luxury problem is going to be the number of orders that you'll need to process every day. 00:21.170 --> 00:24.710 Because it is, of course, a somewhat repetitive process. 00:24.710 --> 00:30.410 Now, whenever we have a repetitive process in business at the point in which we can afford it, then 00:30.410 --> 00:36.080 it's a really good opportunity to look at how we can improve that process, how we can take that off 00:36.080 --> 00:38.960 of our hands and use our time more wisely. 00:38.960 --> 00:43.130 So I've entitled this lecture How to Scale Your Orders a suggestion. 00:43.130 --> 00:44.570 Okay, because it is a suggestion. 00:44.570 --> 00:46.040 You don't have to do this. 00:46.040 --> 00:49.820 You can just carry on yourself fulfilling those orders. 00:49.820 --> 00:54.950 But if you are looking for an alternative route as your business grows, then the tips I'm about to 00:54.950 --> 00:57.290 give you here may well be of interest. 00:57.290 --> 01:03.410 So first off, whatever you do, I strongly recommend that you manually process your orders yourself 01:03.410 --> 01:07.820 until you reach ten orders a day, and I suggest doing that for two reasons. 01:07.820 --> 01:13.550 The first reason is it's always a good idea to have a thorough understanding of a process before you 01:13.550 --> 01:15.530 look at alternative ways of doing it. 01:15.530 --> 01:20.420 And by doing ten orders a day, you're definitely going to get very, very familiar with exactly what 01:20.420 --> 01:21.890 needs doing now. 01:21.890 --> 01:28.820 Secondly, when you reach ten orders a day, you should be looking at a profit of around about $3,000 01:28.820 --> 01:29.750 per month. 01:29.750 --> 01:30.560 So let's be clear. 01:30.560 --> 01:33.560 That's $3,000 in profit, okay. 01:33.560 --> 01:35.150 Money in your pocket. 01:35.150 --> 01:39.110 Money that you can reinvest if you wish back into your business. 01:39.110 --> 01:42.290 Or to put it another way, your business can now afford it. 01:42.290 --> 01:47.120 Whenever I try to make decisions about whether I'm going to buy something could be anything, any product, 01:47.120 --> 01:51.350 any service, I always look to see if my business can afford it. 01:51.350 --> 01:55.580 Do I have money in my business bank account to actually go ahead and buy it? 01:55.580 --> 01:59.120 And that might sound really, really obvious, but you'd be very surprised at the number of people who 01:59.150 --> 01:59.870 don't do that. 01:59.870 --> 02:05.600 They might take money from other sources to finance their business in order to buy products and services, 02:05.600 --> 02:08.600 because they feel that it's somehow going to accelerate the whole process. 02:08.600 --> 02:09.320 And it might. 02:09.320 --> 02:14.780 I'm not here to judge anybody, but generally speaking, I think it's very, very good advice to only 02:14.780 --> 02:18.830 buy products and services from the money that your business itself has made. 02:18.830 --> 02:20.840 Now, that doesn't have to be $3,000. 02:20.840 --> 02:25.460 It could be $1000 or $10,000 or whatever it is that you feel comfortable with. 02:25.460 --> 02:28.580 But the key point here is that you can now afford it. 02:28.580 --> 02:34.580 And when you reach that point, I strongly suggest you consider hiring a virtual assistant, a VA. 02:34.580 --> 02:38.390 So a virtual assistant is perhaps not as virtual as it might sound. 02:38.390 --> 02:42.950 We are talking about a real person here, but they're virtual in the sense that they're not with you 02:42.950 --> 02:43.670 in your office. 02:43.670 --> 02:46.130 You can basically hire them from anywhere in the world. 02:46.130 --> 02:50.750 Now, there are plenty of websites where you can hire Vas, but there's one in particular that I've 02:50.750 --> 02:53.030 had good experiences with, so it's the one I'd like to show you. 02:53.030 --> 02:53.270 Now. 02:53.270 --> 02:55.520 I'm not affiliated with it in any way. 02:55.520 --> 02:55.790 Okay. 02:55.790 --> 03:00.290 You can choose any site you want, but I do think that this is a good place to start. 03:00.590 --> 03:06.350 So I'm over here now on online jobs, and this really is a site that's exploded in the last really sort 03:06.350 --> 03:07.580 of 2 or 3 years. 03:07.580 --> 03:14.750 And it's essentially workers from the Philippines who are incredibly good workers, incredibly diligent. 03:14.900 --> 03:17.600 You really do get very, very good value for money. 03:17.600 --> 03:20.570 And at the same time you're providing valuable employment. 03:20.570 --> 03:25.460 Now, I'm not about to do a detailed tutorial on how to use online jobs, but suffice it to say it's 03:25.460 --> 03:26.450 a marketplace, right? 03:26.450 --> 03:32.030 You have job seekers and you have employers, and the easiest thing to do is to post a job. 03:32.030 --> 03:34.010 So when you get to that point, you can post a job. 03:34.010 --> 03:36.500 It's free to post a job after that. 03:36.500 --> 03:40.250 When you want to contact people, there is a paying element to the site, but again, you can afford 03:40.250 --> 03:45.740 it at this stage so you can post the job and you can say something like, I'm looking for somebody to 03:45.740 --> 03:49.400 fulfill my hundreds of orders that I'm now getting from my Shopify store. 03:49.400 --> 03:50.450 Can anyone help? 03:50.450 --> 03:54.740 And then of course, people will respond and they'll bid, and you can decide on the best person to 03:54.740 --> 03:55.610 help you out. 03:55.610 --> 03:57.710 And when you get the right person, it's incredible. 03:57.710 --> 04:02.030 It's a game changer because they're going to take a huge amount of work off your hands, and hopefully 04:02.030 --> 04:03.740 they stay with you for years.