What projects we are currently working on:

CTM
Peter Knight is the author of the ‘Churchill Time Management System’ (CTM), a breakthrough approach to time management. It is a new approach that adapts to a persons strengths, lifestyle and work that can be used to achieve goals, improve your day-to-day experience and transform your habits and decision-making.

GetItLaunched

Get It Launched is a project devoted to helping people launch their ideas and projects, big and small. It comes with a set of tools that helps you in reaching the three big initial milestones that almost all projects needs to meet:
1) Attracting the funds and resources needed to start a project
2) Establishing that your idea is something people are willing to buy or commit to
3) Building a list of people, be it customers, future customers or supporters that you can build a relationship with and communicate to.

SuperSmartForms

We wanted a way to quickly and easily build out interactive web-based forms that do more than just collect information. We wanted a way to build smart forms that can process the information a user supplies and provide instant and personalized feedback. From decision trees, to interactive tests, to personality quizzes, you name it. We want to build forms that are fun. We don’t want to store all our data with a third-party or have to pay them a subscription fee every month. That’s way we started building a WordPress plugin that you can install on your own website.

I am so glad you have joined me on 11strategies.com’s journey. It is still very early days, but I can promise you, 11strategies has a lot in store and I won’t forget those who joined up in its early stages.

By now you will have learnt that I love to share powerful and practical strategies with you for a productive and profound living.  More specifically you can expect to find practical ideas on the subject of time management and meaningful productivity, practical spirituality and wealth creation.

I also want to grow this site into a place where other people share their strategies, tips and techniques. In my opinion everyone is different and therefor has their own ‘optimal’ approach to productive and profound living. Don’t let it go unshared because others (and I) can learn from you. I hope 11strategies can become a platform of discovery to do just that.

In the month of June I posted 30 posts and 2 articles on 11strategies as part of the 30 day blog challenge. I covered a lot of content, like:

The Wealth Dynamics Bootstrapping Experiment

11 Timer Techniques To Boost Productivity

Transformational Time Auditing Method + Custom Time Sheets

This was a lot of content at a fast pace which is hard to keep up with. You might be pleased to know I won’t be keeping up that frantic pace, I will instead be posting 3-5 posts a week.

So what else is on the horizon?

Well a new blog design for starters, which should be up in a week or two.

I’m going to recap the month that was as the Mechanic Profile and also introduce the second experiment in a few days.

I want you to know I’m building this website to be a leading resource. I am in it for the long run. I’d love to hear your input. I also want you to know I put my subscribers first: you will be getting unique content and be notified of big news in advance of everybody else.

What big news for example?

Well for starters, I am getting ready to BETA test a brand new, breakthrough time management system.  This you don’t want to miss.

Stay tuned!

Best,

Peter Knight

I am so glad you have joined me on 11strategies.com’s journey. It is still very early days, but I can promise you, 11strategies has a lot in store and I won’t forget those who joined up in its early stages.

By now you will have learnt that I love to share powerful and practical strategies with you for a productive and profound living.  More specifically you can expect to find practical ideas on the subject of time management and meaningful productivity, practical spirituality and wealth creation.

I also want to grow this site into a place where other people share their strategies, tips and techniques. In my opinion everyone is different and therefor has their own ‘optimal’ approach to productive and profound living. Don’t let it go unshared because others (and I) can learn from you. I hope 11strategies can become a platform of discovery to do just that.

In the month of June I posted 30 posts and 2 articles on 11strategies as part of the 30 day blog challenge. I covered a lot of content, like:

The Wealth Dynamics Bootstrapping Experiment

11 Timer Techniques To Boost Productivity

Transformational Time Auditing Method + Custom Time Sheets

This was a lot of content at a fast pace which is hard to keep up with. You might be pleased to know I won’t be keeping up that frantic pace, I will instead be posting 3-5 posts a week.

So what else is on the horizon?

Well a new blog design for starters, which should be up in a week or two.

I’m going to recap the month that was as the Mechanic Profile and also introduce the second experiment in a few days.

I want you to know I’m building this website to be a leading resource. I am in it for the long run. I’d love to hear your input. I also want you to know I put my subscribers first: you will be getting unique content and be notified of big news in advance of everybody else.

What big news for example?

Well for starters, I am getting ready to BETA test a brand new, breakthrough time management system.  This you don’t want to miss.

Stay tuned!

Best,

Peter Knight

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 people’s 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 algorithm. 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 getting 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 head start 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 systematize 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.

]]> http://11strategies.com/uncategorized/173-autosave/feed/ 0 http://11strategies.com/wealth-dynamics-bootstrapping/online-business-for-the-mechanic-profile-part-2-of-3-creating-systems/ http://11strategies.com/wealth-dynamics-bootstrapping/online-business-for-the-mechanic-profile-part-2-of-3-creating-systems/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:47:06 +0000 Peter Knight http://11strategies.com/?p=173 Mechanics have their fingerprints all over the web. They are responsible for the IT that makes everything online work. It’s their systems that allow us to send emails, post information online, purchase products from an online shoppingcart. The entire online advertising industry is run on systems created by mechanics.