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Painting Biz Owners: Need to scale your business? Delegate your core processes as soon as you can.

Name: Painting Biz Owners: Need to scale your business? Delegate your core processes as soon as you can.
Uploaded: 2024-04-01T13:00:00+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Daniel Honan
Description: In this segment, the presenter advises painting business owners to delegate responsibility for core business processes—such as marketing, accounting, and…

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In this segment, the presenter advises painting business owners to delegate responsibility for core business processes—such as marketing, accounting, and production—to trusted team members. Because processes constantly evolve with growth and new software, the owner should avoid being the sole keeper of updates. Instead, assign ownership (e.g., a production manager for exterior painting) and make them accountable for keeping the process documentation current, while the owner acts as an approver. The speaker also mentions using external services like Booking for Painters to handle accounting, emphasizing that having dedicated people or teams to develop and maintain processes frees the owner to focus on scaling the business.

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You might have somewhere between 8 and 10 processes, whether it's marketing, accounting. What you don't want to happen is you have all these processes, but then you're the one that's responsible for keeping everything updated. Your processes are going to change as you grow, as you get new software, things are always going to change. So your processes are always going to be in a state of flux. You need to leverage your team to help you update those processes. Going back to the example of the production manager, once you hire, you then give him exterior painting process and say, hey, you're now in charge of these processes. I expect you to update these as we make changes. Delegate the responsibility of updating the processes to him. You can be like the approver. For things like accounting, you can have— at Booking for Painters, we help folks with their accounting systems all the time. Bottom line is you want to have a team or a person that can help you develop processes. Whatever the case is, delegating those different processes to different team members so you're not solely responsible for updating everything all the time.