You might have a great idea, a lot or a few decent customers, but scaling your business to another level is spine-chilling. It requires you to automate most of the business to grow at a faster speed. Automation technology can streamline mundane tasks, consolidates resources, and gives you the ability to focus your time, energy, and money on high-returning tasks that allow you to scale in an efficient manner. For startups or businesses, automation is the key ingredient to success.  The point is that I know that you’re a hustler and exactly that’s why you deserve to know that if you miss on automation, you miss on scaling your business forward. It might require your immense effort, but you cannot overlook the power it comes with. Hence, in today’s episode of “The Hustlepost Podcast”, I will share with you  5 things you need to automate in your business to grow and scale faster in the right direction.Major takeaways from this episode:Automation technology has the power to make or break your business.Most of the startups don’t fail because of the terrible idea. They fail due to lack of planning and automation. They fail because of not being able to use their time to grow business and instead of wasting it on things which can be automated.The most basic automation you can use in your business right away is welcoming your new customers.Your customers spent their money and it's your duty to tell them that you’ve noticed their action. Let them feel precious through your welcome or thank you email/message when they make a purchase.Your business must not require you to sit for hours every day and create fresh content. That’s where the automation in content creation comes into play.For content curation, use apps and websites like Stackla, keyword planner, Ubersuggest to find ideas which are trending. Or use Instagram hashtags to see what people are creating around your niche. For content creation, purchase Canva templates through websites like creativemarket.com and then create posts for your Instagram for the whole month in one go.For content scheduling, use tools like Buffer and get rid of the habit of devoting a few minutes every day to posting on your feed.Once you’ve figured out where you get customers from, you can then think about automating the process required to get customers. For example, Facebook,  Google ads, Email marketing or a combination of all. Create an automated funnel, test it for a few days and keep it running on automation.Automate the tracking of your team performance. Who is doing “what and when” is something you should know. This will help you to assign the right roles to the right people when your business grows. Accounting is often one of the most feared parts of running a business. Hence, never miss on the relevance of automating it. It just seems to send business owners into a panicked frenzy.You can use tools like Xero, Botkeeper, etc. to keep a record of your daily expenses.But if you’re still afraid, to begin with, automation, start slow and go step by step. As you become familiar with one tool, consider adding another.