Previously we covered two other ways to do business online as a mechanic profile, while leveraging your natural strengths. The first was fixing and maintaining systems, the second was creating systems and this article covers the third way: improving systems.
If you have been following this series you will know that as a Mechanic, it is really important not to think too much like a Creator – who wants to build products, services and spread ideas. You don’t want to reinvent the wheel and you don’t want to create entirely new products. What you should aim for is to think in terms of systems and processes. What can scale, what can be simplified, what can be made more efficient? How can you improve a process?
Making money online is all about solving peoples problems, needs and wants and monetizing it. There are so many ways to do that. A mechanic can do that by fixing and maintaining systems, creating new systems or modifying existing systems.
Mechanics are great a breaking things apart and learning how things work from the inside out. There are an endless amount of systems already out there, that are already producing results. If you are starting out online looking to start a new business, the easiest way to get results is to simply copy a working system and then tweak it. In fact, the areas of marketing, application development, design and analysis all depend on this process:
Step 1: Test
Step 2: Interpret Test Results
Step 3: Improve
Step 4: Repeat Step 1
These industries embody what a mechanic does best: which is to look for continual improvement. Take the Google search engine for example. Probably the best search engine out there, but did they stop improving? Not at all, it is a continual work in progress.
Every single time a user types in a query, Google is testing. Every user query is part of test. Google is always measuring and tweaking. Every single day it makes adjustments to its search algorhythm. It is always looking for improve the search experience by making search results more accurate, relevant and valuable.
Even if you are not a mechanic, this is a fundamental to doing business online:
Test – Improve – Test – Improve – Test – Improve
Mechanics often struggle getting started. Taking something that already exists comes far easier for them. Starting a new business, inevitably means starting something new, but you can take an existing system that is already proven to work and improve it. That is the easiest way to get results in a short window of time. You can extend this even further by looking to leverage existing architecture to multiply your results. Mechanics often look for ways to automate and multiply distribution. They are intuitively geared toward finding a way to have minimal human input while geting maximum output, by letting automatic systems and processes do all the work.
So if you are starting out, find a system to apply, start testing and tweaking, make it a better system. And use existing architecture so can you spend less time creating things from scratch. Focus on the process, the system and improve that.
Another way you can get a headstart starting out fresh is joining an existing business to improve their systems. You can help another business with your strengths by helping them streamlining their systems and processes and helping them scale and multiply their results. There are a lot of creators out there that already have a good product but they aren’t that good at running the day-to-day operations, they don’t know how to systemize and scale and they don’t know how to multiply their results through systems. A Mechanic could make a great compliment to that persons business.
