Time Wasters & Savers : Time Wasters & Savers A guide to running an Efficient Business in 2010
Separate the Time Wasters from the Time Savers : Separate the Time Wasters from the Time Savers Create Productivity
By using
Current Business Practices
Business Growth & Death : Business Growth & Death Over everything else is activity
What kind of activity?
Busy Work, Selling Work, Lost Time
Wasted Time, Productive Time
Tools of Trade 2010 : Tools of Trade 2010 Excel Spreadsheets
Efficient Filing System
Frequent purging of files Label Makers
File Folders
Use of emails
Inventory system
Record Keeping
Money Time Savers : Money Time Savers Use Spreadsheets for Tax Records
Put everything in one file
Universally recognized system
Takes seconds to maintain
Instant printing for Taxes
Helps you see where you are investing in your business
Time Wasters : Time Wasters Searching for papers “I know I have it…”
Searching for stuff “it was right here…”
Recreating sales, paperwork from memory
Time lost due to putting something off is usually because you feel unprepared
End of the year Headaches – Taxes, after holiday exhaustion
Time Savers : Time Savers Don’t enter orders until you have it all together
Keep orders by dates, not instutions
Make your online record base the most complete: tax ID, phone, contact, address
Touch paper ONCE
Rewrite the TO DO list DAILY
MUST do’s : MUST do’s Back Up your Hard drive - $118 for 500G portable Lap top backup
Buy Thumb drives on sale and keep them handy
Shred EVERYTHING
Make your “desk” Grand Central Station – nothing comes or goes from the house without passing by your desk
Excel Spreadsheets : Excel Spreadsheets
Stocked Cash Box : Stocked Cash Box Receipt books
Pens
Small bills & change
Calculator
Breath mints
Labels
Business cards
One Source for Contact Data : One Source for Contact Data No scraps of paper
No searching for business cards
Note who, where, when
Portable
Color coded to match calendar
Time Savers of Time : Time Savers of Time Searching = Headaches
Quick, easy, cheap
Use for home and office
Necessities for Your Business : Necessities for Your Business
Helpers : Helpers Sticky notes
Sticky Tabs
Highlighters
Speaker phone
File Folders
Paper clips
Notebooks
New Ideas : New Ideas Virtual Meetings
Working Summer Days
Book Weekly vs. monthly Skype
WizIQ
Set Daytime hours out of the house – call on schools, libraries, dept.
Farmer MKts, Neighborhood sales