As a small business owner, we need to save time wherever we can. This week, I will be talking about saving time using Pinterest for your small business. Yes, I know this sounds like an oxymoron statement, but it isn't. Benefits of saving time using Pinterest: If you are a visual person and need to see things to remember them, Pinterest has lots of images to keep reminding you of tasks that need to be done. After all, it is an image-based social media site. Planning events for your … [Read more...]
Small Business Procedures Tips Archive Page
Welcome to our Small Business Procedures Tips Archive Page to help you and your business streamline processes. Read the archive posts for tips to use in your business.
7 Questions to Ask when making an Effective Mobile Office
If you are like so many people these days, you may work at the office, at home, and on the road. And, keeping all the projects and tasks going while being mobile can be challenging. You need to be pretty organized to keep everything where they need to be when you need to use it. The list below is questions to ask yourself to help your mobile office get more organized and efficient. 7 Questions to ask when creating a mobile office for your small business QUESTION 1: What is and is not working? … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Organize Your Small Business Files
Your office files can get very disorganized if you don't have a good management system established. By not having it organized, it will result in undue stress for you and your employees. Taking the time to organize these systems will make your business run more smoothly and will reduce stress for you and your employees/clients. Here are three powerful ways to organize your home and office files. 1. Sorting by color coding: Use different colors to represent different types of data. Try green … [Read more...]
How to Track Social Media Followers in your business
I work with several clients that need help managing their social media marketing. From managing a few social media accounts to several accounts, I had to set up a tracking social media followers system that would make it easy for me and them to track the progress of the account. 3 Important Tracking Social Media Followers Tips Here are tracking social media followers tips: Make a list of all your social media accounts: Be sure to include the username and password. Also, add the email address … [Read more...]
Consistency Is Important to Any Small Business
When developing systems in your small business, consistency is key. Having incorrect data and content that is not in the correct placement is very time-consuming and frustrating to all the people that have to work with the information. My virtual clients come to me to have me help them clear up the inconsistencies in their systems. Some don't even realize there is an issue until they are looking for something and then realize that the information is incorrect. Note: I'm not just talking about … [Read more...]
How to Make an Effective Task List For A Sole Proprietor Business Owner
When establishing your business, you may forget how to do different steps for a particular job. It's OK. You are doing a lot so you are bound to forget. To help you remember better, make a task list for each process that isn't done often. What task lists should be created? Some examples of task lists are quarterly estimated taxes process, emailing customers reminders about upcoming services, working on social media engagement jobs, and creating blog posts. Why make a task list for my sole … [Read more...]
7 Easy Tasks before going on a mini-vacation
Summer is here and we are all planning for some time away, even us Small Business Owners. Last week, I talked about ways to take an affordable mini-vacation. This week, I will be talking about 7 easy tasks to do before actually going on a mini-vacation. If you use papers often, set up your desk for the first day you return. Place all the tasks in order by priority. Update your planner for when you have returned BEFORE you leave. Write down what you need to do when you return the day … [Read more...]
Questions to Make Your Office More Organized When Business Grows
As a small business grows, we tend to adapt our current procedures to our new larger company. However, this thought may not work because larger companies work differently than smaller companies. For example, the invoicing process will need to change and take more time if you don't update the system when you have more clients to invoice. A solution to this issue is to use a software package, like QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online, instead of invoicing with Microsoft Word document … [Read more...]
How to Organize Your Seasonal Summer Business Before Busy Season
Some years ago, I worked with a food truck business owner who would have super busy summers, and we found that it was tough for them to stay organized when they were going from event to event all in one weekend. So, to help them, there were several tips we implemented. 5 Tips To Organize Your Seasonal Summer Business Create a list of events needed for the entire season. This time of year is the best time to schedule those upcoming events. Keep a list of the yearly events you take part of … [Read more...]
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