After careful consideration, we’ve come up with what we believe to be the top four ways that small business owners can save themselves time and lighten their workload.
Being a small business owner is hard work. When you are the driving force behind your own success and have few or no employees, it’s easy to find your to-do list is as long as your arm every day.
Use these four super effective time-saving tips to work more efficiently and start feeling more focused and less frazzled.
Enlist the help of a PA
Sometimes accepting that you are taking on too much and could do with some help is the first step towards business growth. Figure out which tasks are eating up the most of your time, or an area where you could benefit from the help of a specialist and outsource the task to a virtual personal assistant.
The role of the Personal Assistant has changed enormously over the past decade or two. At the end of the 20th Century, the job titles ‘PA’ and ‘Secretary’ were often used interchangeably, and there was little difference in the public’s perception of the roles. Now, with advances in technology and a computer on pretty much every desktop, except in specialised areas such as legal and medical, the position of ‘secretary’ has largely disappeared, and gone are the days when a room full of ladies spent their days typing, making tea and answering the telephone.
There are myriad advantages to small businesses, both to the business owner and to the customer. Here are a few of them:
emailed Catherine, our South Manchester franchisee and said, “This is awesome, should have got a PA ages ago, finally going to get some things done that I’ve been wanting to do for ages!”. People feel relief when they hand things over to us and feel a weight has been lifted once they’ve made the leap and outsourced for the first time.
