Interview

Natasha: Can you share a story where you had to find a creative solution to a situation, where you dropped the ball because of an inefficient system? How did you recover?

John: Well something that I do A LOT is schedule interviews. Naturally, when I first started EntrepreneurOnFire, I didn’t have a whole lot of systems in place, and so when I scheduled interviews I would go back and forth with interviewees via email trying to find a date and time that worked for both of us.

Sometimes things would get lost in translation, and interviews would be delayed – or even completely missed – due to scheduling issues. I knew I needed to find a system to help with scheduling so that this didn’t continue happening, and so I did a ton of research and luckily found ScheduleOnce.

Natasha: Please describe a system/process that you can’t imagine running your business without.

John: ScheduleOnce is it! ScheduleOnce is an amazing online scheduling tool that allows me to simply send my interviewees a link, which they then click on and it brings them to a calendar that lists out all of my interview dates/times.

All they have to do is select one that works for them and it automatically alerts me and puts it on my calendar, and also sends them a calendar invite and automatic reminder about the interview.

I am able to easily set and determine which dates and times show up as available on the calendar, and so it’s just a very easy and efficient way to book times. It’s been such a lifesaver!

Natasha: How does having this system in place affect your profits?

John: This system doesn’t have a direct affect on my profits per say, but having it in place saves me so much time (and saves my interviewees time, which is also huge). It is so much more efficient than what I was doing before, and so I know that the time it saves me allows me to spend time on other areas of my business that do bring me profits.

Topics

• Systems prevent things from getting lost along the way
• A scheduling program saves time
• Being efficient saves time for both provider and client

Resources

ScheduleOnce

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Bio

John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, a top ranked business podcast that interviews today’s most inspiring and successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week. His book, “Podcast Launch” the #1 ranked book in Amazon on podcasting, and Podcasters’ Paradise is a community for Podcasters to create, grow, and monetize their podcast. EntrepreneurOnFire generates over 500,000 unique downloads a month with past guests such as Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, Barbara Corcoran, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Guy Kawasaki. Recaps of the 300+ episodes and MUCH more can be found at EOFire.com. Subscribe to his weekly newsletter packed with incredible content.