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5 ways small business owners can make more time in their working day

12 August 2019 by Vicky

Imagine all the things you could achieve if you had just an extra couple of hours in your working day.

If you’re feeling time-starved and worry that your business may be beginning to suffer as a result, then it’s time to review where you are wasting time and what you can do to gain more hours in your working day.

Your time is best spent developing new ideas, progressing your business, and focussing on revenue-generating tasks, but if you’re bogged down with the day-to-day running of your business then business growth could be slow.

A shortage of time can be caused by many different factors including inefficient processes, unorganised information, distractions, and a work overload.

Here are five ways you can counteract some of these common problems and start gaining more time in your working day.

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4 key time-saving tips for small business owners

17 December 2018 by Vicky

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.

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Here is why you should outsource to a virtual assistant…

16 October 2018 by Vicky

Do you deserve a bit more time and money? We believe you do.

We believe every small business owner needs and deserves a great Virtual Assistant. Why? Because a great VA will save you time and make you money. Bear with us on this one…

So let’s just say you have a task you have to do each month. It takes you 5 hours. Quite honestly you hate doing it, you don’t really have the skill set for it and you procrastinate over it each month.

It’s always sat on your to do list making you feel slightly uncomfortable, guilty and let’s face it a little bit resentful that it won’t just vanish from your list FOREVER.
You have one in mind, don’t you?

If you hand this task over to a VA with the right skill set it’s likely they can do this task in a fraction of the time… or they could even automate it for you.

The task can be outsourced to a virtual assistant in 3 hours each month, saving you 5 hours. Or it could be automated as a one-off project and now your task only takes 30 min each month!

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Small Business Saturday Recognise Michelle from our Chester Office

13 September 2017 by admin

We are proud that our franchisee covering Chester & North Wales, Michelle, has been announced as one of the 100 UK businesses to be featured in their Small Business Saturday campaign. She will have a whole day with her business being promoted across the UK, in the run-up to Small Business Saturday in early December. Read the full press release from The Guardian.

Turning a Passion into a Business

3 April 2017 by Vicky

There are many reasons to start your own business – independence, to cut the commute, to be your own boss – but sometimes the starting point is a personal passion. Your New Life Plan is a Pink Spaghetti client with a very personal mission.

Case Study:

Your New Life Plan

Going through an early menopause herself prompted Clare Shepherd to start ‘Your New Life Plan’ to help other women on the same journey.

After a hysterectomy at 39 following years of ill-health, Clare decided to take control of her well-being and explore natural solutions to enable her to come off HRT.

3 years of nutrition training gave her the idea to turn this quest into a business:

“I’d learned so much, realising that managing the menopause years needs to be ‘fluid’ with different strategies employed to address both the physical and emotional, nutrition being fundamental, and it would have been criminal not to share what I’d learned with other women struggling through the menopause years too. I decided to put my nutrition qualification to good use.”

A Facebook page generated over 8000 followers within 12 months! There were clearly a lot of women out there who were totally confused about what they could do to help themselves if they didn’t want to take HRT.

A trial online programme had amazing results, however there were setbacks:

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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.

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