Prove your idea before building software.

I really appreciated what happened to me maybe about four weeks ago.

And I was on a call with a business friend.

And He was like, you know, Tom if you're going to build software, make sure you prove it.

First, make sure it works, prove it manually do it with...

Don’t try automating without proving it manually first...

The lure of automation in business is very high.

Suddenly you don’t need to remember or manage tasks… They just happen “automagically”.

You may not immediately consider it to be a form of automation but the software is just like this.

I’m...

How do systems decrease error? Like this is one of the significant benefits of a system or in a business multiple systems that they significantly decrease error rates.

Because when you have errors, then this cost you money, this cost you time this cost you headaches, it's cost you profit this is all...

Two avatars, you have to choose one.

I was working with a client yesterday.

And it was so interesting to see the temptation to go to two avatars.

And it's not really that she had two avatars, what she had was an avatar at one level, and then that same avatar as if they had gone through their first e...

What to do after you have completed your webinar slides.

So I was brought a question by a friend of mine, and He had just finished his webinar slides.

So he's gone through expert secrets by Russell Brunson, created all of the slides, and then said, well, now what, and this is actually the very daunt...

How to almost blow up your own car.

Yep, had a little bit of a systems error today.

My name is Tom Rolley.

And yet, if you've been on the podcast at all, if you've been watching the videos for a while, you know that I'm pretty into my systems.

But today had a problem.

So we have a spare car.

And wit...

We're still struggling with the internet here.

It just started raining again.

And my wife and a friend of ours, went out to listen more today.

And they said it was like a, like, not Ukraine, not really, not really.

It's not really a warzone.

But it's some pretty messed up stuff.

There's been one guy...

Hello, and welcome to today's episode Tom Rolley here for systemio.dev excited to be talking about the most important business books that I have I, I have many, I'm sure you have an extensive collection of books and courses and seminars and all the sorts of things that you've been on looking to incr...

The four primary systems that must be in place for a business to be successful coming to you on record because right now in the Northern Rivers where I live, there is a serious internet outage.

There is an ongoing flood situation the rain has stopped, which is extremely helpful but schools are close...

Don't leave it until a disaster to find out that your systems don't work.

What I want you to do is check out behind me, I'm down at the beach.

And what we've got is just a huge amount of foam coming off the ocean.

And the reason for that is that all of the rain that we've had here in the Northern Ri...

When does investing in systems make financial sense? This is an interesting topic and it came up.

I was talking with some of my buddies, and we're discussing, hey, at what point do you move to systems.

And I say, You know what, it's an interesting decision because the system's investment is a one-of...

Is this the most important thing to get right when you're working with your SOPs? SOPs being, of course, your standard operating procedures, you might wonder why we're talking about SOPs in the first place.

But they are a critical part of your systems, they are the instruction set part of these syst...