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We know everyone is busy in their own life even if he/she is a small business owner or a business tycoon. Everyone is looking to save money and time, and no one is more eager to increase productivity than those running their own businesses.
There are many types of small businesses. It is not important, small business means you have to buy any shop on rent you have to sell products in that shop or anything else. Small business can be just done by your home like you can be a home tutor; there are many online services available. They help people to do their homework and they will get some money for doing assignments. It means, more assignments you will do, and then you will earn more. The only thing is just you have to give time.
Running a small business can take up a lot of your time. Once you will get some success from your small business then you can make a good business. That does not mean you have to stop your small business, you can continue it and hire some trustable people who can help you in all that and through this process, you can earn a good amount of money.
So, here are some tips and tricks which will help you to increase productivity for your small business.
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Decide what is good for your business.
First and very important is that you have to decide or prioritize your tasks. Start by making lists of tasks mostly done on a daily basis, but most of the time we can’t do them on a daily basis so do it weekly basis. Next for each of these lists, prioritize the tasks. Set them in order. Give priority to those which are very important to do. This doesn’t mean only do those which are important, but you have to do all but in a sequence or series wise.
Once you are done with these things, you should be able to easily see what tasks are vital to your business and which ones you are the most capable of completing.
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Bring a strong team
If you are a solo person and you want to do your business without any other person then it can be very difficult to do tasks on time. No more you can just bring one or two people and they will save you more time. So if you want to make a team. Bring people who can work and have some passion for doing work.
For those small business owners with one or more employees, you will consider which tasks should assign to which employee. Because if you assign any task to one employee and that employee is not for that department so it will become difficult for him/her. So make sure before assigning any tasks to any employee.
For example, you want to create content for your business blog. So, if you have few employees that love the idea of writing or content writing and are able to give some time to that task then they would be the perfect people to assign the task.
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Understand the value of time and money
So we have discussed assigning the tasks. But in business, we know there are many people who can work on the same task. This means, more than one person will show interest in the same task. So we have to allow that person who can do it quicker than anyone else. It will save you most of the time and more importantly it will make your client happy which can be beneficial in the future.
When you have tasks that would be better suited to a skilled expert, but you are not ready to hire an employee, then choosing a freelancer is a good alternative. It will save you a lot of time and also money. Which is very important to focus on that thing.
So spending a full day just thinking about how to design a logo for your business or brand. So don’t waste time just on thinking but handover this type of work to any other employee you just generate revenue and use a fraction of that revenue to pay a designer.
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Batch your day into productive chunks
One thing that can take a lot of time is managing day-to-day tasks in a business. The ability to focus only on one task at a time keeps others aside because it will help you have more concentration on that task which will be easier to do.
This is why you want to batch the tasks you do as much as possible for your business. Let’s say if you are a solo person you don’t have an employee and you have to manage all the tasks alone like handling emails from customers, packaging, and shipping products if you have any store and also marketing on social media. We know it is hard to manage alone but it can be done only when you make your schedule like in the morning from 8 AM TO 10 AM and in the evening from 5 PM to 8 PM this is the time when you will only handle emails.
Check social media networks notification and post a new update about your business or any business-related thing on your social media accounts twice or thrice a day.
Set one or two hours before you have to leave to drop off packages or before your carrier comes to pick up packages to do shipping and handling preparation.
By doing this, you will not be worried about anything and will not be left anything. Also, it will get you into a rhythm and this rhythm will save you a lot of time.
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Improve your marketing
Marketing is the pillar of our business. If we do good marketing then our business can get more fame. Because more people will know about our business, more supply will happen, more supply will happen, more demand will occur. In short, marketing is the main way to start any type of business.
There are many types of marketing like social media marketing, email marketing, and many others. Social media marketing is one of the best sources of marketing because nowadays 98% of the population uses social media networks from all over the world. So through social media, we can deliver our business info to another country.
Another is email marketing which is also important for business purposes. If you are using a personal email for marketing so please stop it as soon as possible. There are some email marketing tools out there that will help you to work in a smart way with pre-built templates and scheduling.
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Monitoring
This is the main part of the business in which you need to monitor everything. You need to monitor and look after the activities which are being done for your business. You need to see the profitability and efficiency in everything you do.
By doing this, you will know when one task is starting to take longer than usual, or when one once profitable task no longer is. Here are some examples:
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By setting up Google analytics:
You can always take any type of help from the internet and also can find activities which can boost traffic to your website. For example, if you see that Twitter can boost traffic to your website than any other social media app. So you just need to focus on Twitter. This doesn’t mean that you should skip all other social media apps. You can also use them but more focus should be on Twitter.
By using coupon codes and discounts:
This can be used in email marketing through which you can find out whether your emails are generating more revenue than your paid marketing.
Use of timer:
By using a timer you will know how much longer it takes to do any specific task, you can find out whether something is taking too much time. On that behalf, you can hire an outsource person who can handle that task.
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Follow the best to be the best
We know everyone can get inspiration from any other person for anything. In business, we should follow this trend. We can see other entrepreneurs how they have built all these, how they have started, what they have done. If we follow these things I am sure you can be an entrepreneur like others.
Some people follow some blogs which can be inspirational. Staying on top of industry information, government laws and regulations, marketing strategies is a key to success.
So, don’t forget to subscribe to your competitor because you can also learn more from your competitor. For example, you are new in business and your business is small as compared to a competitor so you can follow him/her just by following his strategies or any type of his industry’s blogs to keep your small business maintained which can lead to big industry.
Of course, there are countless great blogs or industries or there could be many competitors. So don’t hesitate you can’t learn everything from just one person so you need more to learn more.
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Outsource:
This doesn’t matter what type of work you want to do, even if it is small or not, people will like it or not. Do not think of others if you like to do it and you see there is a lot of profit in this business then you should do it and don’t ever think what type of things will happen after starting a business.
The secret to outsourcing is to first realize that you are not only one who can get things done and also should know about yourself that you are not the best. If you want to think that you are the best then I will suggest you lie if you have to.
There are exceptions like if you are a scientist who can just invent any type of things but work like data entry, customer service, sales, and many others can be outsourced affordably. This will help to keep calm and will make your brain fresh every time and will get innovative ideas to expand your business to a very scale.
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Keep yourself fit and fine:
This is a very important part to do any type of business because most people become an entrepreneur very soon. But along with earning money they forget about their own life they want to earn money only. Everyone should earn money besides that they should take care of themselves. Because your health is important for your business.
If you are a healthy person you can do more work than an unhealthy person. So to keep you fit and fine you need to exercise daily. I am saying to go to the gym. I just want to say you can do some exercise at your own home for an hour daily. Exercise burns up cortisol, the hormone our body releases in excess when we are stressed. It also releases endorphins, which burns excess blood sugar and many others.
