This Could Be The Death Of Your Business

Take Time To Make Time

 How many times a week do you find yourself saying, "Oh I almost forgot about that."

Is it because we think our brains a working on autopilot, or we are more efficient than we really are?  Whatever the case there are a few items that should be in every business owners arsenal. 

Now if you're telling yourself that you are good, this isn't for you, then you're exactly who I'm talking to.

Separate Business And Pleasure

Now if you're scheduling appointments religiously but you're mixing your professional ones with 
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your personal ones, then you are defeating the purpose.  You're leaving the door wide open for overlap to happen and that's not good.

Try having a person calendar, as well as a business one.  It may seem like extra work but in the long run, it will save you time as well as missed revenue from double booking someone when your child's baseball game was taking place.

You Must Confirm

There's nothing worse than having an appointment not show up.  Even worse than that is going to meet a client at a restaurant or designated venue, only to sit and wait and be stood up.  It doesn’t matter if it's a long time customer who you have history with, always confirm. 

Things happen this is life, people have kids, careers, thing that can come up at the last moment.  I feel it's ok to call the morning of as just a friendly reminder.  Or, sending an email the day before to keep it in their minds.  Anything you can do to ensure that you're not going to waste an entire afternoon on one no show.

 

"A good old number 2 and note pad or calendar is fine for writing in 

important dates and a weekly schedule".

Stay out of car as much as possible----meet halfway, on your turf, etc.…..

Try scheduling appointments with clients in the same area if you're traveling to them.  Time spent driving is time not working.  Also, you're spending money on fuel that could go elsewhere.  Think about having the clients to come meet you in your space or at least meeting halfway, as not to endure unbeneficial  cost. 

Go Old School------Use A Calendar

With the many different forms of electronics we have today, everyone is using the latest greatest thing.  Maybe, just maybe staying old fashioned isn't such a bad idea in this instance.  A good old number 2 and note pad or calendar is fine for writing in important dates and a weekly schedule.  It takes more time to load up some of these newer programs than it does to write it in the regular way.  No wasted time on computers leaves more time to be productive. 

These may seem simple enough until you implement them in to your weekly game plan.  You'll be amazed at the added productivity and savings there is when scheduling becomes a daily routine.