John T Favorite is a business automation consultant, speaker, and the author of *Automate Your Small Business*. For two decades he worked inside and alongside small companies—first as a marketing manager at a family-owned manufacturing firm, then as an independent operations consultant helping owners untangle the bottlenecks that quietly drain time and profit. In 2019 he shifted his focus to practical AI adoption, and since then he has helped hundreds of small businesses across retail, trades, professional services, and hospitality put everyday tools to work.
His approach is deliberately unglamorous: no sprawling software projects, no six-figure budgets—just clear workflows, small experiments, and honest measurement. John writes frequently about automation for small-business audiences, speaks at conferences, chambers of commerce, and industry events, and has taught practical technology workshops for entrepreneurs across the country.
*Automate Your Small Business* grew directly out of those workshops. After watching talented owners lose their evenings to the same repetitive tasks, he set out to write the plain-language playbook he wished had existed—the one that explains not just which tools exist, but which ones are worth paying for, how to install them without an IT department, and how to tell whether they are actually working. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he tests every tool he recommends on a rotating cast of real small businesses before it earns a page in his books.