Running a small companyoften leaves business owners with little time on their hands. The demands of meeting the expectations of your customers and your staff for that matter, is an endless task. On top of all that, you have your family commitments so there is probably not a lot left for you.
When you started yourcompany you probably had something else in mind. Higher earnings, more annual leave, a mid week game of tennis or more time with the family. Most small company owners don't get past first base... they get the income they want but not the lifestyle they wanted.
A big income is great and we all want that but do we really want our businesses just to give us a well paid job? or do we want a better lifestyle as well? This is the challenge for most business owners and quite frankly, very few get this right.
Some time ago I changed all this because I got an warning from an unexpected source. No, it wasn't my wife it was my Doctor. He told me that unless I changed my lifestyle and found more time to eat better and exercise I would not live long enough to see the benefits of my years of hard work. This is such a common story and unlike many others I acted on it and found some solutions.
I knew that I couldn't work more hours and I couldn't find anyone I was comfortable with to take some of the workload. My solutions came in the form of better systems and better accessibility to those systems.
My staff had been using a saas contact management systems called Salesforce.com for a number of years and it dramatically improved productivity. I had systemized my sales and marketinting department and I decided that I absolutely had to apply that practice to the rest of my operations. So I invested time over the next few months taking every business system I had and found a Cloud based application.
The company todayoperates very differently. My entire business manages itself. My own tried and tested processes and practices are replicated by my staff because the system guides them into doing it a certain way. Training new employees is ten times easier because there is a system to follow. My clientsschedule online, request invoices online and provide customer support responses faster than they ever did under our manual systems. My company is significantly more profitable and I now have the time for family and friends and of course I have time formyself. I am a happier and healthier person enjoying life and looking forward to what the future holds for me.
I can not fathom how I managed without online business management software.
Author Resource:
Carl Dupas has 15 years experience in time management providing consultancy services to companies across the US in a range of industries. Take a look at some of the resources available to make your business more efficient at schedule online website.
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