Use DayViewer to make the most of your time every time

Organisation and collaboration in business brings quality by managing time effectively and sharing expertise and best practice. With your startup business you will want to make sure that your team, however large or small, can share their ideas and their experiences whether they are sat next to each other or rarely meet. You will want to make sure that everyone (or just you if you are staring on your own) is organized and ready to operate to their fullest potential. The idea behind this is that you can all get on the same page without necessarily being in the same room and that all resources are properly allocated to the correct tasks.

This can be difficult to achieve when there are so many time pressures on your business and on you the startup owner.

One great way to ensure that your time is planned, your team is organized and everyone is working together to the same ends is DayViewer.

DayViewer is a great productivity tool. It is a system for professionals and teams or offices. It enables organization, planning of resources with time and task management a major feature around an online calendar. It's essentially an online office diary and planner that will promote productivity whether this is for your team or whether you work alone.

By having a grip on the time you and your team spend on certain tasks you get control over your business. You will know what resources are being allocated to certain tasks and how cost-effective that task is to your business. You will be able to see which members of your team are working where and have a thorough knowledge of what you need to achieve today, tomorrow, this week and this month.

You can make sure that everything you do revolves around the online diary management tool that DayViewer offers and this will means that you can work efficiently and manage your team to do so as well. This means better productivity and more time to spend with customers and doing the things you do best. By having complete control of your time you can make more money by making sure that you are spending the right resources in the right areas.

Time management became a buzzword in business some time ago. Effective management will always be a part of successful businesses. Get your startup in touch with DayViewer today.

Get your startup organised with great software from WorkStraight

At ‘245 days...’ I look at the real issues that affect startups. It is a well-worn phrase that a high proportion of startups don’t make it through the first year. It is imperative to make sure your time and your money goes as far as you can get it in those crucial first twelve months. This is the time to get organised and have every part of your new startup work life as efficient as you can possibly make it. The fact is that you must be structured. The best way to do this is to use a piece of software that does the hard work for you. The best software I have found is www.workstraight.com

With WorkStraight you can get your startup in order, because the lean efficient startup is the one that makes ends meet, brings in income, survives and thrives.

You can use the WorkStraight software to –

•          Create work orders
•          Customize work order fields to match your needs
•          Have your tasks assigned to certain people
•          Cooperate with your members of your team, your vital customers, and any contractors you use
•          Securely create, receive and manage any service requests
•          Assign work orders to multiple people
•          Optional require approval of work order before work starts
•          Generate invoices
•          Attach files to work orders and tasks

And much more.

This can be used in the office or in the field to maximise the efficiency of you, your contractors, your team and your customers. This means that you can work smartly, always stay in touch with events and relax in the knowledge that you will be kept updated with all progress through the software any time of day wherever you need to be. The freedom to manage people effectively without standing next to them lets you get on with all the parts of your job that you need to concentrate on. This means you will be running your startup and generating the next set of customers to get you ahead of the game.

WorkStraight is a great tool and what’s more – it has a free plan and offers a 30day free trial for paid plans (no credit card required) so you can get used to the software. It is jam-packed full of features and extras that can allow you to take the software, and the management of your startup business, to the next level. Try it today, as it allows you to take control and manage your startup in a more efficient manner, whilst always staying in control.

Three weeks off work after an eye operation leaves hours for reading

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It's been a while since I've been on any of my blogs and the main reason for that is an eye operation I had last Thursday. It was quite a major operation, and the main recuperative source of recovery has been to lie face down for fifty minutes out of every hour, day and night for five days and five nights. Quite frankly, it's been horrible.

What it has allowed me to do is catch up in some television (what I would have done without the ipad, Sky Go and the iPlayer I'm not sure) and catch up on some reading.

I've had a stack of books I've been meaning to to read for a while now. It's not that I haven't been reading at all, it's just that I've been reading other things. I think at the rate I'm going (and I still have nearly 3 weeks off work left) that I'll have read everything I currently own before Christmas and I'll be ready to start again. It's not been management, marketing and estate agency books for a little while though, and I need to get back into that as a matter of urgency.

The books I've been reading have been fiction with a little 1970's non-fiction work thrown in-

Brewster by Mark Slouka

This was picked up at Poundland and I found it started slowly hit really fired up towards the middle and end as you could see the potential conclusions forming before the actual end. It's a coming-of-age book set in small-town USA and I'd recommend anyone to read it - there's a style in there that engages and brings in the reader.

The Runner by Christopher Reich

This is an old book I picked up at a charity book sale for 50p and it was gripping. It's set at the end of World War II and is about a US attorney trying to find and stop a German soldier from a plot to reignite the war in some way. The book moves along at a great pace and is something that's difficult to put down.

Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

This is a summary of some of the stranger, more paranoical aspects if the 1970's and was interesting in parts - particularly for someone like me who missed most of it! The fanciful situations and correspondences that politicians got themselves into made it feel like a fiction work. Some of the things you just couldn't make up.

The conclusion of reading these books, particularly the fiction books, is that I want to add some fiction to my bookshelf on Amazon. To do this, I need to take some steps towards making my work more creative and I need to think about some simple areas of creative writing. To this end, I'm going to sign up for a course on creative writing - I looked into one offered for free by the Open University last year. And I'll look again at a course in this area. I've decided that I'll skip photography level 2 course this year. The course at the college I studied level 1 last year has already started and I can't drive there for at least another 2 weeks, the next nearest course is on a Tuesday night (my only late night at work) and the next nearest is £400 more expensive than the others.

After the creative writing course, I'll look to a marketing course that's starting in January and I'll be ready to go back to photography next school year.