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5 Super Fast Tips to Save Time Online

September 25, 2020 By Sabrina Quairoli Visit our "Disclosure Policy and Cookies" Page. Our blog earns income from ads. This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

5 Super Fast Tips to Save Time Online in your small business

If you are visiting our blog, you are most likely a small business owner. You are so busy and can’t fit social media into your day, right? There’s no wonder – you are probably preoccupied with all the tasks you have to do each day. I’m here to tell you that you are not alone in not having time to be online. But knowing that, it is crucial to be involved and get your brand online as well. Today, I am going to share with you some tips to keep your online tasks simple, quick, and easy.

5 Tips To Save Time Online

Tip 1: Create Automatic Startup Tabs

If you go to the same sites each day, you can set up your browser to open up the tabs for you when launching the browser. In Google Chrome, click on the three vertical dots next to your profile picture. Then, select “Settings” and scroll down to the “On Startup” section. You can “add more than one page to start-up.” Just click on “Open Up Specific pages or set of pages” and show the pages you want to start-up when you open the browser. If you have the pages already opened, you can select “Use current pages,” and it will pull all the pages that are open in your browser.

Chrome settings

After you do this, you can close the browser and open it up again. You will see the tabs will open up exactly how you want them in the exact order you want them.

Note: It may take the browser a little longer to load. Keep that in mind when setting the pages.

Tip 2: Schedule routine to-do tasks online:

Schedule time to go online once a day to check your website and your different social media sites. Try going online at lunch while having lunch. All you need is an hour to stay on top of your correspondences. This way, you can respond promptly.

Tip 3: Set notifications on your smartphone for your email and social media apps:

If you don’t want to be disturbed throughout the day, set the notifications for each of your apps and emails to update once a day. The afternoon around 3 or 4 works great. This will help you stay on top of new prospects on the go. If you have an iPhone, here are the instructions about notifications. 

Tip 4: Use a Social Media Manager application

There are several out companies that will help you manage all your social media accounts, like Buffer, Tailwind, and Hootsuite just to name a few.  In Hootsuite, you can easily set up all your social media accounts and be able to see all the social media feeds in one place through their “Streams” feature. These services can be used to schedule posts also.  

I recommend scheduling ads, older posts, and other articles that you want to share with your followers once a month at the end of the month for the next month.

Tailwind (affiliate) is designed specifically to share on Pinterest and Instagram (if you buy the upgrade). If your target audience is on these platforms, this service may be better for you.

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Tip 5: Use Google Alerts

If you are looking to keep updated on a certain topic for your business, using Google Alerts works excellent.  You need a Gmail account to set this up. All you need to do is write the subject in the space provided, and Google will email you any news, blogs, videos, the web, finance, etc… that are available on the topic.  You can set it up for once a day, once a week, or as it happens.  Click here to set this up for your business.

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I hope these tips help you get your online presence up and running and help you save time online when doing your small business task.  If you need help, feel free to contact me. What is your favorite social media save time online tip for these small business owners?  Please leave the comments below. 

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Filed Under: Business, Productivity, Small Business Tagged With: Saving Time, Time management, Tips

About Sabrina Quairoli

I love to help small business owners make their work and home life more organized and effective to speed up actions and minimize costs. I own and write for Sabrina's Admin Services and Sabrina's Organizing Blogs.

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  1. Jeannette Paladino says

    February 11, 2016 at 11:14 pm

    Sabrina — excellent tips. I use both Hootsuite (to follow different categories of people) and Buffer to schedule my posts, which saves a lot of time. I think the only downside to opening tabs automatically is the time to load and slowing down your computer speed with these pages loaded in the background as you work on other applications.

    • Sabrina says

      February 12, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      True, Jeannette. If you have a newer computer, it doesn’t take long. It also depends on how many tabs you automatically open up when launching the browser. Thanks for commenting.

  2. Phoenicia says

    February 11, 2016 at 3:20 pm

    I like your idea of setting notifications for particular times. It is all too tempting to check social media throughout the day. It proves as a great distraction.

    • Sabrina says

      February 11, 2016 at 6:44 pm

      Thanks for visiting and commenting, Phoenicia! I really appreciate it.

  3. Roslyn Tanner Evans says

    February 11, 2016 at 9:27 am

    It took me too long to figure much of this out. I love using buffer & I plan to look into google alert. great list.

  4. Lisa Swanson says

    February 11, 2016 at 9:05 am

    It really is difficult to stay on top of social media. With so many different platforms, I feel like I’m always falling behind on one or two! I love the idea of setting up Google Alerts. I can see how this would really help in finding info to share with our audiences.

  5. Joyce Hansen says

    February 10, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    Sabrina, thanks for the tips. I’m already using Google Alerts and just started with Hootsuite. But, I didn’t know about Automatic Start Up Tabs. That will be a big help.

  6. Beverley Golden says

    February 10, 2016 at 7:12 pm

    Thanks for the great tips Sabrina! Yes, I use Hootsuite and love it. That is one thing I agree really saves a lot of time. As far as notifications on my phone..I am not interested. When I am out or even at home, I am not interested in getting them o my phone. I do get email notifications which is probably why I have soooo many emails each day. They really add up. I do schedule time to do my online “stuff”, although no matter what I do, it seems I am online way too much and don’t seem to see an end to it in the near future.

  7. Kim says

    February 10, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    Great tips thanks! I really need to try that Google alert it sounds good.

  8. joan potter says

    February 10, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Thank you , Sabrina! I am in the sippy-cup stage of tech–competency, & often it seems so overwhelming. However, these hints seem do-able. Even knowing that a function is available is very worthwhile; I probably won’t use the social media manager, yet, but I appreciate knowing that it exists. The other hints I will employ – Thanks!!

    • Sabrina says

      February 10, 2016 at 6:35 pm

      I’m glad this helped, Joan! Thanks for commenting.

  9. Verushka says

    February 10, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    Good tips, Sabrina, I like the google alerts and smart phone notifications. Have to figure out how to set them up though.

  10. Meghan Monaghan says

    February 10, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Really nice tips, Sabrina. I liked that you said to schedule a routine to do tasks online. I’ve found the day can suddenly go in many directions and having that schedule helps bring me back on task. Daily notifications are a wise and gentle reminder, even when I have posts already scheduled in Buffer or Hootsuite.

  11. Kristen Wilson says

    February 10, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    Awesome tips Sabrina and I too love to have a schedule. Nothing like going onto each social profile to post updates every day.. Helloooo, waste of time. I use HootSuite and Buffer oh and Post Planner. I’ve used Google alerts as well, but found I got carried away and killed it. I try to stay off social when I can.. it can be a rabbit hole. Great tips.

    • Sabrina says

      February 10, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      Thanks for sharing, Kristen. Google Alerts can get out of hand easily. I noticed that I needed to keep the keywords specific when I use it for my clients.

  12. Karen Langston says

    February 10, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    WOW! These are great tips! And, I feeling pretty good that I am on top of my game in that I incorporate all of these. I have been using Hootsuite since it was in Beta testing a long time a go and I LOVE it. I spend a lot of time online and one thing I have just started to incorporate is setting up timers for each segments and then getting up and stretching and taking 30 minutes to relax and eat a couple times a day! Thanks for a great a post.

    • Sabrina says

      February 10, 2016 at 1:45 pm

      Great tips, Karen. Thanks for sharing!

  13. Teresa says

    February 10, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    Great tips! I never heard of google alerts and will have to check it out – thanks!!

  14. Beth Niebuhr says

    February 10, 2016 at 10:54 am

    It’s all about being organized, isn’t it Sabrina? Not wasting time by hunting for things but having set them up ahead of time. We can all use time saving tips and you’ve given some really good ones.

  15. Susan Mary Malone says

    February 10, 2016 at 11:39 am

    These are great tips, Sabrina! I didn’t even know you could set pages on start-up. Off to do that now! Thank You.

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