Time Management
I can't join another Facebook group or page!
It’s a comment I hear a lot lately, people are getting ‘grouped out’ on Facebook. Personally, I don’t see the issue and there is a simple solution.
Let’s look at the problem first. What happens when you join a group or page?
Well.. for starters, you are now connected to many more people through the group. hmmm… that was kind of the point in ‘working’ Facebook for your business wasn’t it?
Then you start to receive updates or invites to events. Let’s see… if you respond, your update goes out to all the members… again, your name in front of many.
Now, when someone posts a note, wall post or link, on any of the groups or pages; their post will show on your wall. Which also means, if you make a comment on another group’s wall or page, your comment will be seen by all the group members or fans. Wow, so many people you are talking to.
The issue everyone seems to have is when they start to RECEIVE all these notes, invites, links and more on your Facebook homepage…that’s when most people become overwhelmed and stop joining anything.
Well… if you are like me, and have more than 100 friends on Facebook, you probably have lots of stuff already being posted on your wall from actual friends – not to mention the flower gardens, butterflies, IQ challenge tests, TV quizzes etc, etc, etc. Do you read all those? Probably not… that’s why everyone skim-reads now. Way too much to take in. You skim and only look further into items that catch your eye.
So… long before you joined any groups you had trouble brewing already. How do you deal with it and still remain connected to all the groups and pages? Read the rest of this entry »
It's Tax season… Are you ready for your Accountant?
If you have a great expense tracking system for your business and can say the word “Accountant” right now without having bad thoughts of something hidden in your closet, then this column is not for you.
If however, like many busy people, you have been stuffing slips and receipts into an envelope or box – you may be feeling a bit stressed at the mention of the words tax and accountant.
Finding a solution to keeping track of expenses and invoices can be as simple as hiring a virtual assistant (VA) to do them as a special project right now, or to be even more efficient, on a regular basis during the year. Keeping up to date also means you have a better picture of where you stand financially.
Recently, I took on a client to do just this for her during the year – this will take me about 1 hour a week to keep her on track – and will save her double that in time, as well as allowing her more time to work directly with clients and invoice them.
More revenue and less time wasted, one of the major benefits of hiring a Virtual Assistant. Hiring someone for one or two hours a week is something most businesses would never think of doing. VA’s make this a possibility. They work for several clients and only for the time needed, and can take on a job that may only require one or two hours a week as well as ones needing 10 hours a week.
My advice to you as a business owner, is to look at your bookkeeping system and how effective it is. If you are in a position right now where you will have to take several days to sort and organize everything in order to get your taxes done, may I suggest you look at a time saving alternative such as hiring a virtual assistant.
Call our office for a consultation and learn how you can be ready to smile at your accountant every time you see him or her.
How will you get organized?
Last Thursday at my good ol’ workshop with CEED, Jane Veldhoven of Get Organized! Professional Services was speaking to our group on Organization and Time Management. Like many who bring up time management she also stated that time management is not really about time, as you only have a certain amount of time every day. It’s more about managing the activities you have to do each day and make them work in the time available.
For some this may mean hiring a Virtual Assistant such as myself, to take care of the many tasks that have to be done, but which take too much time to complete. For some it may mean learning how to better organize yourself so you can manage these tasks your self, by hiring someone like Jane to come in your space and help your reorganize, make a system that you can follow. Read the rest of this entry »
DANG, My Inbox Looks Great!
As part of Time on Task‘s quest to help businesses work smarter, we have recently launched our monthly Newsletter full of many ideas.
This month’s feature article is a system created to help you keep your Email Inbox under control. It’s called DANG, My Inbox looks Great! The core of any Virtual Assistant’s business is to help their clients work more efficiently and that is why Time on Task came up with this system.
Just visit our website, sign up for our monthly newsletter and you’ll receive some great tips on Social Networking, keeping in touch with clients and the 4-step crash course in how to keep your inbox under control. Something many, many people struggle with daily.
It is possible to take control of all your emails, even those of you with a few hundred or more daily. Sign up for our Newsletter today, and you soon will find your self being able to say “DANG, My Inbox Looks Great!”
Pain and now lies, what next?
I read a great blog yesterday, all about time management lies. I know, yesterday I was talking pain and now it’s lies… what next?
Anyhow, I stumbled across this blog and loved it! And, better yet, it’s from a fellow Canadian! Ian’s Messy Desk, what a great title, is a blog by Ian MacKenzie, and his topic this past week was just great! It was about how 5 typical statements are really time management lies, and how they work against being productive.
I liked this post because I could really relate to it. In my work as a Virtual Assistant, many of these “lies” happen daily to people and so much of this type of work is something that can be outsourced to a VA. And when you do farm it out, you’ll find you are more productive in your workday.
Check out Ian’s Time Management Lies, and if you feel some of these things are occuring with you, get in touch and see how many hours a week you can gain by having a VA do this work for you.
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