Home - Contact

October 14, 2007

Reader Poll: Can your business run on auto-pilot?

by Andrew

If you were to have a long term illness would you be in big trouble? Or, could your employees continue to maintain & grow your business? On the more positive side, can you take a very lengthy vacation with no business contact?

Can your business run itself?
View Results

7 Comments

  1. No, but honestly I don’t really like the idea of running any business that completely runs itself. I enjoy the challenged of new situations and new things that popup unexpectedly.

    Sure, I know how to relax and take a vacation, but I really enjoy my work and wouldn’t want to ever just leave it on autopilot for an extended period of time.

    Comment by Josh — October 14, 2007 @ 5:56 pm

  2. Definitely not for me. I develop sites for clients as my primary income and the sites I built for myself are really in their infancy stage that I feel like I need to be omnipresent.

    Comment by ses5909 — October 15, 2007 @ 12:41 am

  3. No, but it’s not a bad thing.

    Comment by Ross Hill — October 15, 2007 @ 3:54 am

  4. I think the bigger issues are medical emergency, death, or — on the more positive side — selling your business.

    Comment by Andrew — October 15, 2007 @ 12:23 pm

  5. I don’t but can you consider it a business if you have to be there regularly? I think it was Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad/Poor Dad) who said, if you have to be at your business too often its a job not a business, which I agree with. But building auto-pilot businesses can be difficult for both technical and emotional reasons. I think a lot of people struggle with delegation/outsourcing, I know I do.

    Comment by Brendan — October 15, 2007 @ 1:13 pm

  6. Some portions of the business could run, most could not. It scary to think of my un-budgeted and no limit PPC campaigns running amok in my absence!

    Comment by Chad — October 19, 2007 @ 2:09 pm

  7. Since I am not full-time working for myself yet, the business is designed to run itself. On the downside this also makes business growth a little slower and more difficult to get to the next level.

    Comment by Christoph — October 30, 2007 @ 12:09 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.