Time is money the old phrase goes, but actually it’s more valuable than that. Regardless of how organised you are you’ll only ever have 24 hours in the day. You can’t ‘make’ more time, you can only make the most of what you’ve got. Try our five simple tips to maximise your day:
1. Start off [...]
Category Archives: small business
Get The Most out of The Working Day
March 29, 2010 – 1:28 am
Our Top Five Tools for Virtual Working
January 27, 2010 – 10:52 pm
People often ask what sort of tools we use for working virtually. As I spend most of my waking time online (yes, it’s sad I know, I should be out in the fresh air running or something) I’ve built up a reasonable list in the last few years. These are my top five tools at the [...]
Small Business Owners Work Too Hard…
January 22, 2010 – 5:47 am
A recent study by the Alliance and Leicester indicated that 33% of small business owners are working more than 50 hours a week and 15% over 65 hours a week. It’s confirmation, if you need it , that running your own business is very hard work. But if you’re working 65 hours a week on an ongoing [...]
Postal strikes bad for business? Go online instead.
October 29, 2009 – 9:28 pm
The Royal Mail strikes have been causing havoc recently for small businesses. All very annoying. However, it’s a good opportunity to look at your processes and see if you could do more things online and dispense with the physical paper.
I’m convinced the physical bill that arrives in the post is fast becoming a thing of [...]
Managing Enquiries
July 19, 2009 – 10:46 pm
It’s a no brainer right? If you’ve got a small business website then you probably have a contact form on it. It makes it easy for prospective clients to get in touch and if they’re browsing your site already the chances are they are interested in your services.
All sounds good so far, qualified leads coming [...]
Five Things You Can Do With Google Calendars
July 3, 2009 – 5:12 am
As I’ve said before – we love Google calendars! For a free online calendar it really takes some beating. Here are five great things you can do with it:
1. Invite attendees and let Google keep track of responses. When you create an event in Google calendar on the right hand side of the screen you’ll [...]
Managing your time by not doing things…
May 19, 2009 – 7:10 am
When you’re running a business it can often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. There are of course hundreds of time management books to help with this issue. But can you find the time to read them?
I’ve read a few of them in recent years and whilst I’ve gleaned some helpful hints [...]
Keeping in Touch with Clients
March 4, 2009 – 10:55 pm
Most small business owners obviously spend a great deal of time and effort looking for new business, as we all need to do. However, don’t neglect your current clients in favour of exciting new ones. It’s worth finding diverse ways of keeping in touch with clients, after all if they’re already buying from you – [...]
Anyone not an expert?
February 26, 2009 – 11:39 pm
I don’t know if it’s just because I’m focused on it at the moment, but lately it seems everywhere I look there’s a social media marketing expert. I was even recently tempted to cough up some cash for a social media training course. But then I stepped back and had a bit of a think.
A lot [...]
Cutting down on email with Twitter…
February 20, 2009 – 9:50 pm
One of the criticisms that people level at Twitter is that it is yet another form of communication in a world where we are all overloaded anyway. Most of us have enough to contend with just dealing with our emails and voicemails, without having to worry about tweets as well. But how about using Twitter [...]
