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    Fiona Lewis and Peter Moriarty:

    The amazing free platform for

    business systemisation

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    In the podcast we discuss:

    00:42 - Whos Pete?

    01:52 - Why would you do it?

    04:02 - So many people forget: systems bring you ____ and ____

    07:26 - What happens when systems are missing

    08:30 - What is business systemisation after all?

    13:11 - Take these 5 steps to create your business system

    16:45 - The key for digital business systems

    20:12 - The free platform Peter is using in his business

    21:47 - Creating business systems using ready-made templates

    25:24 - The amazing features of this free platform

    29:23 - Peter makes you an offer

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    Fiona: Well, hello everybody its Fiona Lewis fromSuper Savvy Business and welcome back

    to the next episode of the Super Savvy Business Podcast. Today I have with me somebody

    who I admire greatly, a fellow entrepreneur, his name is Peter Moriarty.

    00:42- Whos Pete?

    Now Peter started IT consulting at the age of 15 with a backpack and a pushbike in rural

    Sydney. And since then, hes pursued his passion for technology in growing IT Genius into afull service-managed IT support consultancy servicing businesses up to 200 employees

    across Australia and beyond. Now hes the resident Small Business Tech expert on Eagle

    Waves Small Business Radio, and was listed as an honourable mention in Anthills 2012 Top

    30 Australian Entrepreneurs Under 30.

    Now Ive known Peter personally for just under a year and Peter was one of these people

    whos on a crusade to realize his dream of helping as many people as he can embrace

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    technology as a tool to improve their lives, rather than feeling like a slave to the tech

    machine.

    And I know from what youll learn today, youre going to walk away with some amazing tips

    and strategies that you can implement very, very easily into your business.

    So first of all Peter, I just want to say welcome to the call and thank you for sharing your

    time with us.

    Peter: Fiona, thank you very much for having me.

    01:52 Why would you systemise?

    Fiona: Now, Ive mentioned in the intro that youve come today to talk to us aboutbusiness

    systemization and this is one of the areas that we really connected on when weve first met

    last year. Peter, do you wanna talk to us first of all about why is it so important for

    businesses to systemize?

    Peter: Yeah, sure Fiona! Uhm, I guess the problem is with most businesses and most

    entrepreneurs is that they start working in the business you know Michael Gerber wrote

    a lot about the journey of an entrepreneur and you know how the entrepreneur can move

    to being move from being the person doing all of the work in the business to being the

    person whos, you know, the true entrepreneurs, the creator of the business, and the

    designer of the business and, you know, having other people actually help do the doing of

    the business in the everyday things

    So, you know when I started my business and my business journey I was lucky enough to

    read some ofMichael Gerbers work quite early on, and a couple of other books, you know,

    theres Tim Ferriss, who wrote about The 4-Hour Work Week as well, and I was lucky

    enough to, I guess, have that vision of a business that was systemised, so I could actually

    free up my time. Uhm, and, you know, create more time and more space to myself to follow

    those entrepreneurial pursuits without feeling like I was doing the same thing day-in, day-

    out working in the business.

    Fiona: And you know, that is one of the biggest mistakes that I think a lot of entrepreneurs

    make, you know as they do get stuck doing, you know, the groundhog sort of tasks.

    Wouldnt you agree?

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    Peter: Oh, definitely, definitely! And you know, when I started I saw a lot of business

    owners. You know, I worked for a lot of business owners, and they just seemed to be, youknow, stuck with their work, because they I guess they didnt, you know it wasnt that

    they didnt necessarily didnt have the passion, but maybe they just didnt have the know-

    how or the tools to actually, you know, create some systems and create a business that was

    gonna work for them. Because after all if you got the guts to start a business be sure to be

    able to reap the rewards of having it work for you otherwise you may as well just go get a

    job.

    04:02 So many people forget: Systems also bring you ___ and ___

    Fiona: Yeah. And the other side I guess of systemising your business apart from the effect

    they phrase you up to focusing on the money making sort of tasks within your business is

    that it also adds an awful lot of value to to your business and makes it something you can

    actually sell, rather than something that is just sitting in your own head.

    Peter: Yeah, thats look, thats absolutely right. You know, having learnt a little bit about

    buying and selling businesses and where a business gets its intrinsic value, Ive come to

    understand that when youre selling a business, having something which is called key man

    risk, which means you know, the entrepreneurs is vital to the business, unfortunatelydramatically reduces that potential selling price of the business, because theyre so

    dependent on the person running it.

    You know, if youre able to create a business that runs without you there, then you can

    come on to a much higher a selling price, if that is something that you consider doing in the

    future.

    Fiona: Hmm. And I know it also in my experience, as my businesses are mainly built through

    the use of virtual staff and systemization has also allowed me to provide, to create a certain

    amount of security within my business because, you know, with virtual staff they can comeand go, or perhaps they might be taking holidays or be unwell for a period of time and if the

    staff member within the business is the only one that knows how to execute certain

    processes and then that person is not there, then it can leave you in a very vulnerable

    position.

    Peter: Haha! Yeah, youre absolutely right. I remember in one of the businesses that I did

    work in when I was younger, when a new staff member, came on board there was actually a

    six week process for training that new person, where basically the business owner had to

    pay the two wages, so they could have an extra person there learning the ropes, but with

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    their existing staff member who was on the way out, teaching that person, you know

    probably all their bad habits but, you know, how the business actually worked and I justthought it was, you know, just an absolute waste of time, really.

    Uhm, and Michael Gerber has actually written quite a lot about this, if you have systems and

    checklists and I guess they really clearly define the way that things are done in a business it

    means that individual staff members actually dont need to think too hard about doing their

    job everyday.

    And its not to say that, you know, their people are stupid or anything like that, what it

    basically means is that somebody has nice clear easy process and procedure for doing their

    job, you can deliver much better to your clients because youll be delivering a consistentservice, but it also means that your staff members know, you know, they caught the

    confidence to perform their job, because they know what the expected outcomes are.

    They know what the basic processes are, and you know, everything gets nice and consistent,

    and you know, it gives those team members a little bit more certainty in what theyre doing

    each day.

    Fiona: Yeah. Look, you know Im just reflecting back on the 5 minutes weve been talking

    and weve come up with at least 4 or 5 reasons why business systemization is so important

    and youve picked up on something that was already going through my head and thats

    justinconsistency of delivery.

    Peter: Yes.

    07:26 What happens when systems are missing

    Fiona: When you have certain expectations, you have certain levels of quality that you want

    to assure, continue in your business, systemization is the best way to go about doing that

    and we can all learn of course just by looking at the big giants like McDonalds for instance,

    where everything is systemized down to, you know, every little man or second of what goes

    on to that business, but they do that because of getting because of that consistent

    approach.

    Peter: Absolutely absolutely. And you know what it equals is a better experience for your

    customers and I think thats really positive. But also frees, you know frees the business

    owner or the entrepreneur to actually have a bit more time, and I think thats what, thats

    what people really want, I think thats the entrepreneurial dream when you start a business.

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    And its saddening to see, you know, people who are stuck in their businesses, who are

    unable to get out.

    Fiona: Uhm. Now just a moment ago, Peter, you mentioned something about, you know,

    processes and having, you know, steps to follow. So, Id like to touch on now, you know,

    what does business systemization actually mean?

    08:30 What is business systemisation after all?

    And weve been throwing this word around and on the call so far, but some people might be

    thinking, well, what does it look like, how do we go about actually systemising our business?

    So could you maybe share? I know youve got some great ways of doing this, and

    obviously Ive followed lot of what you thought, to systemize my whole business. So lets

    touch on that now.

    Peter: Sure! Well to start off, I think, you need to get your philosophy in the right place.

    Uhm and thats, you know, I think that the two books that I learnt the most about

    systemisation from was The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss and then the E-Myth

    Revisited by Michael Gerber, which is the first book of the E-myth series by Michael

    Gerber. And that philosophy is, you know, like weve just discussed, if you can systemizeyour business you can create not only a consistent service but also start to free up your

    spare time as an entrepreneur to free it up from interruptions.

    And what does systemization actually mean? And how do you actually achieve it in your

    business?

    Michael Gerber has a most practical advice, and thats things like creating checklists,

    procedure documents, and then I guess manuals on how to perform all of the certain duties

    in your business.

    So lets say weve got maybe a technician and they fix some computers, and you know,

    therell be a system in their process where actually, you know, fixing those computers and

    the way that you want it done in your business. Michael Gerber uses the example of a pie

    shop, somebody working in a pie shop and the checklists in the systems and processes there

    will have, you know, start from the basics like Have you opened the shop in the morning?

    and, you know, Have you swept the floor every week and where is the broom stored?

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    And then it goes right down to things like actually producing the product, so Whats the

    recipe for the pies that you can be making?, How are they presented?, How long arethey going in the oven for?

    And once you start actually writing all of these things down, thats when you start to build

    the basic systems of your business and everyone one of those that you write is actually a

    system that you dont have to train somebody by hand-on or explain to somebody by hand

    because youre actually got the system written down.

    Fiona: Hmm. So really, what we are doing is we are looking at our business and creating a

    process for anything thats done more than once in your business, is that right?

    Peter: Absolutely! Yeah, and anything thats done more than once, and its really chunking

    right down. You know, its chunking right down to the nice simple bite-sized tasks that, you

    know, you start to perform. And, you know, especially the repetitive ones, because it means

    that while you might remember one way of doing things, it means that things are kept nicely

    and consistently. Especially if you wanna scale a business, you know maybe you want a

    franchise or maybe wanna open a second store, or something like that. You know, or just

    grow a really big team. If you like to keep things consistent, then its best to have that

    system that keeps it under control.

    Fiona: Yeah. And the other sort of thing that I have started putting into my business

    systemisation weve talked about recording processes but sometimes is just recording

    information that you might need to recall at some point, or people need to go back and

    retrieve. Yeah?

    Peter: Oh yeah! Look, weve got a system and a process for everything, but as you alluded to

    yes, weve also got uhm I guess just information documents for the business, so you

    know, weve got a place to store things, like What are the company bank account details?.

    You know, everyone knows if somebody needs to send us a deposit where are the details?

    You know, Is there a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the company nice and

    readily handy?, and you know, is the ABN stored somewhere nice and handy where

    everyone can find it.

    That little things that, you know, you will only be asked this kind of questions by a new staff

    member that comes on board or someone whos managing the office, you know, whos new

    to the team. But if you got all those stored it an easy-to-find place yeah, then people haveaccess to information they needed.

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    Fiona: Hmm and one of the things that Ive learnt from you last year was the system

    behind creating systems. Haha! And you know its really important to have that, I think tohave a bit of continuity in the way; because Ive actually now get my virtual staff members

    to create lot of the systems for the processes that they are responsible for. And its great,

    weve got a framework to actually base it all on.

    13:11 Take these 5 steps to create your business system

    So, Im wondering right now, would you be able to share, you know, just briefly what that

    framework is and how we go about, you know, creating these systems?

    Peter: Yeah, sure! Id be happy to, Ill run it through nice and quickly. So this is the system

    for writing systems, which was coined by Jack Delosa who runs The Entourage, which is an

    educational organization for young entrepreneurs, and this is I guess the framework or the

    blueprint on creating systems to business and basically theres 5 points that you need to

    have covered when youre creating systems.

    1. So number one is WHAT?

    - What is the result of the process? and

    - What is the result of the job that needs to be performed?

    Thats really easy way for people to measure how well are jobs being done.

    2. WHY? Is the second question to ask so:

    - Why is it important that the person, you know, learning that job or doing that task

    actually does it? You know, its important that its done on time or is it important because

    you know, somebody needs to rely on that process being done.

    3. Point number 3, and question number 3 is: WHEN?

    So What are the trigger points that must alert you to the fact that the process needs to be

    followed? So might be cleaning the office on a Friday afternoon or maybe checking the mail

    on a Monday morning.

    4. Question number 4 is: WHO?

    - So Whos the person who is actually responsible for ensuring that that job gets done?

    5. The final one is: HOW?

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    Thats when you finally get to the process of writing down what are all the steps to actually

    achieve this task. So, you know, if you think of a recipe, how long do you preheat the ovenfor? How much of whatever ingredients you put in and in what order do you mix them all

    together?

    Its also a good idea in the HOW section to have a checklist, so you can check thats actually

    being implemented properly and then so you can create a video of the tasks being

    completed, you know, you can record it on your iPhone, it can be nice and simple, but it

    means youve got an accurate report and you can see, what, you know what a successful

    process being completed look like.

    Fiona: Yeah, and you know for us now in Super Savvy Business a lot of our tasks obviously

    are based online so we complete them using a computer and weve been using Techsmith

    Snagit, which has a video capture, screen capture function which you can record, so as

    theyre actually going through and doing the process just, you know the second or third

    time, theyve recorded and explained what theyre doing. And then weve got the system

    already done. So its super simple to be able to do those sorts of things, isnt it?

    Peter: Oh, hahaha, excellent! Yeah, look it does make it nice and easy we happen to use

    Snagit as well and, you know, some examples of what weve used that for: you know weve

    got, bookkeeper training, so we train our internal staff members on how wed like the

    bookkeeping to be done and, you know, we can train people on to use our email software

    and, you know, anything that needs to be done on a computer, you can just hit the record

    button and you know, allow yourself to train your staff or have these things to be done.

    Fiona: Yeah. You know, Im wondering, Peter, if people are listening to this, saying, Well

    this all sounds great, you are creating these videos and these checklists and that sounds like

    it could be digital to me, so when a lot of people think of systems they are probably

    thinking of, you know, that leverage folders that sit on the shelf and often go out of date

    and dusty very quickly and no one ever refers to them.

    Peter: Haha! Yeah.

    16:45 The key for digital business systems

    Fiona: Uhm, but you and I, listening to you talking about digital systemization which could

    be like a completely new concept for people. So I think we probably better share with

    people how we go about creating these business systems in the digital world?

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    Peter: Yeah, sure! Well, look, that was an interesting journey for me Fiona, because when Istarted my business, I got a business coach and you know, one of the first things they told

    me was, you know, You need to go and start creating some of these systems, and what I

    did was what most people do is I, you know, I started talking about the marks of word and

    I was saving them in the company folder or on our network drive, and you know, all of a

    sudden I started to realize that we have the same kind of problems that you have in a larger

    organization, in that the systems very quickly became out of date and they werent really

    organised in a very easy fashion and it wasnt easy to search through them, they werent

    stored in, you know in smart folders, or anything like that, and like you know, If I recorded a

    video, I couldnt embed the video in there or like that. So they kind of werent really usedand so the systems and procedures werent really as effective as I would have liked them to

    be.

    Fiona: So what was your solution to all of that, Peter?

    Peter: Well, it was interesting, I was oh Im not sure if youre familiar with the back-end of

    Wikipedia, but Wikipedia has actually been built and written by people, you know, publicly

    on the internet. You know, you can actually browse to any page and theres a little Edit

    button, where you can sign in and edit that page, and thats what I guess built, whats now

    come to be known as a Wiki. And uhm and some corporates will call it an intranet and

    what an intranet or a Wiki is and how you can use one in business is:

    - an intranet is a private website just for your company, just for all of your staff to use and

    that private website is only accessible by your employees, but anybody in your organization

    can actually collaborate on the information in there.

    And so you might be saying, well you know, What does it look like?. You know, What

    does it look like, what does this internal intranet website look like when you use one?. Uhm,

    and basically its pretty straightforward if you have ever used the WordPress blog, which I

    know, Fiona, you promote WordPress quite heavily

    Fiona: Yes.

    Peter: You know, if youve ever used a WordPress blog, you can sort of browse around the

    pages and edit it yourself or you can post up, you know, posts in a blog kind of format.

    Thats what an intranet is, but instead of being public to the whole world its private just to

    your team in business.

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    And so, we started using that to organize all of our systems and processes on this internal

    website, so instead of putting them in Microsoft Word, we will create a page for eachsystem or process and then we can organize them in a nice simple fashion and everyone can

    access them from inside our company and collaborate on them if the process needs to be

    improved.

    Fiona: And this is where my inner-techno geek starts to get excited, Peter, because when I

    saw the platform you were using to do this because you know Ive been looking for quite

    some time to find a way to effectively store my systems and to make them accessible easily

    with my virtual staff members who work across the globe we needed something that we

    could collaborate on, no matter which country or which time zone we are in and to ensurewe always had the most up to date versions.

    20:12 The free platform that Peter is using for his business

    So, can you just share with us now the platform that you have been working with and what

    you have actually done to make this platform even better?

    Peter: Yeah, sure. Well, uhm, you know, we looked at multiple different solutions ahm,

    when we were trying to find the right one. Uhm, you know, there are some out there likeMicrosoft SharePoint which some people may have heard of if they have worked in a

    corporate however, that involves an expensive server being installed and new business

    premises, which wasnt really something we were interested in doing. There are other

    programs out there, but, you know, nothing that we felt would really fit the bill for us.

    Thankfully, we stumbled across Google Sites, which is made by Google, and thats actually

    its actually a free product! which is really great; anyone with a gmail address can go to

    Sites.Google.com and thats s-i-t-e-s and yea, you can basically sign up and create your own

    dynamic intranet website which all of your staff can use and, you know, you can share it

    with other people who have gmail addresses as well.

    So thats what weve been using for probably about 4 years now, which holds all of our

    systems and processes and procedures (of which we have got probably about 4 or 5

    hundred by now) because we have been working on it for a few years and, uhm, yeah, so we

    use Google Sites for everything and uhm, you know, weve developed I guess now a

    really great, robust internal system for storing all of our systems in our business.

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    21:47 Creating business systems using ready-made templates

    Fiona: And the wonderful thing is too, that you have been very generous in sharing a lot ofthe templates for what you use in your own personal business you have come up with

    templates and that is something that I was very keen to grab hold of when we first met. so

    can you talk about the IT Genius platform that you have available?

    Peter: Yeah, sure! So, you know, obviously we do not want to sell it or push it too hard but

    for anyone who is wondering where to get started, you know, if maybe, they are so they

    are signing to Google Sites and are going, Okay, where now? Where do I start?, you know,

    we created a template to help other business owners like us who want to get started in

    systemisation but they didnt really know where to get started.

    You know, its obviously taken us 4 years to get to where we are now and weve got some

    really great systems and processes and what we did is we put some of those example

    systems and processes together and we created a template which has that skeleton

    framework of an internal intranet to get businesses started on creating their own, so it;s got

    sections for Admin, Finance, HR, Delivery, Products, Strategy you know, it helps people get

    started on Google Sites with a really easy template they can basically just walk in and start

    filling out their details and, you know, start creating systems for their own business, you

    know, with the guide at hand you know, they are not starting from zero.

    Fiona: and that is absolute gold, Peter, because a lot of people I guess who have never

    done any business systemisation, to be able to leverage off the knowledge and expertise of

    somebody that has been doing it for all of these years

    You know, you are first of all cutting down the amount of time to get it right, you are

    reducing the amount of erasable, sort of trying to work it all out in your head, so for me,

    when I saw what you had, although I probably could have worked it all out it would have

    taken me a lot longer and it would have been a lot of brain power in trying to get it alltogether.

    So the fact that I knew that I could just press the click of a button and have it delivered to

    me was just invaluable because I knew I was going to save so much time and energy. So..

    Peter: Well, thanks very much for the compliment, Fiona, I mean thats you know, thats

    what we are trying to do. The problem that I see you know, we work with lots of small

    business owners at my company IT Genius and what we see is a lot of these business

    owners are busy. They are busy and just working so hard in their businesses you know,

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    they just dont have the time to educate themselves on anything new. And so the way we

    designed this was so really nice and easy for anyone to just walk in and you know itsbasically giving you the keys and walk in and get started.

    And ideally the business owner wont even have to write any of the systems; ideally, the

    business owner will go ahead and actually delegate it to one of their staff members who is

    already performing the systems that they know to actually start writing those, and thats

    where the collaborative power of Google Sites really comes out, because you know, of

    course its full permission to lock down certain areas, but we believe in keeping the intranet

    site as open as possible to empower your staff to actually write down the systems for you.

    And so, hence we created the template and, you know, all those training videos in there and

    all that kind of stuff as well, just makes it nice and easy for business owners to get started.

    25:24 The amazing features of this platform

    Fiona: And the other thing we havent mentioned, Peter, I guess is being a Google Product it

    integrates so beautifully into, you know, all the Google Apps that are available. So whether

    you want to insert spreadsheets, or forms or just documents of any sort, they are very easily

    integrated within the Google Site.

    Peter: Yeah, thats absolutely! So, thats obviously clear if you just go to Google Sites, you

    know, the integration is fantastic and thats one of the reasons why we are using Google

    Sites as a platform and not any other platforms is because it is, you know, if you created

    something in Google Sites, you know, a document or a spreadsheet you can actually go

    ahead and really easily embed that straight into your Google Site. Some of them are more

    complex processes, that we might have a spreadsheet to track something with, well

    actually create that in Google Drive and then just embed that into our Google Sites.

    Fiona: Mmmm thats just so powerful. I mean really, theres no restrictions on the sorts of

    things that you can do: embedding the videos, the forms, the spreadsheets, even Google

    Maps if you want to show where the post office is if people have to go to the post office or

    the bank its just all there.

    Peter: Absolutely! Look, the thing I like about it, Fiona, is that it really cuts down on the

    problem of running a business and having staff constantly ask you, How do I do this? How

    do I do that? Where is this information?

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    Once you documented something once and you start building up this treasure trove of

    information and systems on your business you can actually start directing your staff to theintranet site instead of, you know, answering the same kind of questions week-in and week-

    out.

    And the wonderful thing is, you know, you are able to actually help your staff over time to

    actually use that as a resource of search before actually coming to you first in the future,

    which means that its just going to cut down on, you know, on the interruption time of an

    entrepreneur and what it also means is your staff will actually be, you know, they will have

    the best of interest in improving those systems and processes as well.

    Obviously, we talked a little bit about selling your business at the start. If you want to sell

    your business, how great would it be to have all your systems and processes you know,

    some of your intellectual property and as much information as you can on your business

    have that all into one place that you can just give the keys to the new owner for, you know,

    for business owners that are looking to exit or to sell or to merge to somebody else at some

    stage in the future theres just so much value in having everything documented well.

    Fiona: It is, and you mentioned again just before about your staff members being

    responsible for it and I was remembering one Monday when I logged into my Google Site

    and discovered this whole new section that my team have created without me even

    knowing. It was just all there!

    Peter: Oh, wow!

    Fiona: And I was just like, you know, this is just, this is really what its all about when your

    team are empowered to be able to create those systems, when they know that thats their

    responsibility and for me, as business owner, to be able to see that my business is beingadded to like that with so much value without me having to even lift a finger is just

    phenomenal.

    Peter: Thats really special and that means that you know the system is working and I guess

    its a testament to having good systems and processes in your business, being able to

    actually, you know, prove the overall culture of the business and the work of the people

    around you as well.

    Fiona: Yep, definitely. Now, Peter, we have spoken a little bit about the wonderful productthat you have as far as the templates from IT Genius with the Google Site and in the past

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    with my insider community you have put together a really special offer, so would you be

    able to touch on that for our listeners?

    29:23 Peter makes you an offer

    Peter: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Look, I think it is really important to know that anyone can get

    started on Google Sites for free and its really easy; as long as youve got a gmail address you

    can go to Sites.Google.com and get started from there. But you know, obviously, I think

    there are some people out there who are thinking, well, they dont really have the time to

    start from scratch or they dont want to work things out themselves, you know, maybe they

    like a little bit of video training to help out and get started.

    We do sell a template for Google Sites which is our best practice template which helps

    people get started; and theres some examples in there or systems and processes, there is a

    really great structure to get you started and theres also the training videos as well.

    Normally, we sell that for $9.97 online, but weve done a very special discount for Super

    Savvy Business audience members and thats actually $2.97.

    So from 9.97 weve taken it down to 2.97 and to get your hands on that template or to just

    have a look at it there is a preview of the template up online. Its actually atSystemiseNow.com thats systemise with an s because were in Australia so

    SystemiseNow.com and the code when you go through the checkout is SuperSavvy. So

    after you sign in through PayPal you can actually punch in SuperSavvy and you get that

    message discount on our product.

    Fiona: Wow, that is just so generous, Peter. Can I just confirm the code SuperSavvy

    thats with no spaces in between?

    Peter: Thats correct. SuperSavvy with no spaces and the URL is SystemiseNow.com

    Fiona: Fantastic! Okay, guys, I hope that you gained a lot of hints and tips about systemising

    your business and that you have a really clear understanding now of, you know, why it is so

    important to systemise your business.

    Peter, thank you once again. Every time I speak on this topic Im just amazed at the amount

    of knowledge and skill you have in this area and I would like to thank you yet again for giving

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    us your time, I know that you are incredibly busy with building your empire through IT

    Genius. So thank you for being here and well look forward to speaking to you again soon!

    Peter: Fiona, always a pleasure, and I am more than happy to help out! Thank you very

    much.

    Fiona: Alright, take care! Bye for now!