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18 Ways to Save Your Small Business Time

PlanningShop" 18 Ways to Save Time in Your Small Business @ RhondaAbrams RhondaAbramsSmallBu siness www.PlanningShop.com Make the most of every minute. Pick 3 tips to start with immediately! Create templates for forms and letters you use repeatedly. Create a to-do list Use an app like todoist, Any.do, Wunderlist, or Carrot, which turns your list into something of a mean game. Or opt for old-fashioned paper and pencil. Don't micromanage. Hire people you trust and then trust them. Don't Talk Use Technology Be tough on meetings. Cut people off who like to talk. In an open office especially, a quick question can turn into a long conversation. Schedule quiet times to tend to work. Still doing accounting, payroll, invoices, expense reporting, timekeeping, and orders by hand? Really? Cut it out. Go to the Cloud Give yourself deadlines. Your most important tasks may not have time-specific due dates. Set them. Move key business processes to Internet-based services Tackle the most important thing first. You'll be fresh and you'll procrastinate less on other items. instead of running them on site. You can run payroll, arrange snipments, retrieve files, and much more from wherever you are, whenever you need. Clean off your desk. Focusing is easier when you have only the thing you're working on in front of you. Get help. Just because it's your business, you don't have to do it all. Outsource or hire others to do your bookkeeping, administrative tasks, errand running, and customer support. Check out services like TaskRabbit for local errand runners. Create operations manuals listing the steps you or staff members take to complete critical tasks. $19.99 (+ tax) Turn off your email. Set times to deal with it and don't continually interrupt your day. Unsubscribe from newsletters you don't read. Prepare standard responses. Create cut-and-paste answers to common questions for you and your staff to use. Accept mobile payments with apps like Square, Intuit GoPayment and PayPal Here. Spend less time on invoices, deposits, and collections. Limit your time on social media to 30 Stop Surfing the Web minutes per day. Don't kid yourself. It's not research. It's procrastination. Close other browser windows and programs and focus on one thing at a time. PlanningShop is the leading producer of content on business planning and entrepreneurship and is headed by small business guru and USAToday columnist, Rhonda Abrams. PlanningShop",

18 Ways to Save Your Small Business Time

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Every small business needs more time! Use these 18 tips to find more time in your busy day. SHARE!! www.planningshop.com

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