A couple of years into wedding photography, there was a big buzz around pre-wedding gifts and fluffing up the client experience. The problem was that I ended up spending a lot of time figuring out what to put in the gifts, shopping, and packaging everything up. Then, remembering to send them. It all added up to making way too many low-impact decisions, which limited the high-impact decisions I could make that day. The solution to decision fatigue is SOPs - Standard Operating Procedures. By establishing a procedure for your repeatable processes, you minimize your decision making because the small decisions are all made ahead of time. There are only a handful of tasks that only you can handle. The rest could be automated or delegated.  The 6 most impactful SOPs in a business are: Overall project workflow so you don’t have to try to remember what comes next Sales process - questionnaires, scheduling links, welcome kits, consult checklist Getting paid - contracts, invoices, and following up if someone doesn’t sign Keeping track of tasks - sticky notes won’t cut it! Yearly planning workflow - set goals for the year and each quarter, review previous goals, and dissect why they were or weren’t met Keeping track of finances - at the very least, a profit and loss spreadsheet

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