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 organised with Snap Appointments

Startups need to be efficient. There are no two ways about it. You need to be completely organised and be able to plan out your day, your week, your month and beyond. Too many startups fail too early in their life cycle by not being ready for whatever is thrown at them.

The efficient startup can react quickly and the order understands that time is money. If you have control of your time then you can gain control of making income much more easily.

One way of making sure that you are in control of your time is to use an online appointment scheduling solution. But there are so many out there so which one do I use? Well you use the best one that is available.

You use https://snapappointments.com

The fact is that you want a solution that does everything you need it to. Half measures are no good in this situation. You want it all and you want it all to be just right. Use the best system available and you can make sure that your business moves forward in the way you want it to.

SnapAppointments give you the ability to scale up the software as you grow, customise it to manage exactly what you want and provide a stable framework for your startup. You will want all of your initial solutions to grow with your business as you become more successful and expand. This software is one of those tools that are so useful to you and your time you will want to use it forever. It can allow you to-

•          Online appointment scheduling
•          Client management
•          Business reports
•          Automated appointment reminders
•          And more

The software has been developed and refined over a period of time. This means that it has improved and improved every time there has been feedback or a new development. This online appointment scheduling solution is the best out there. Snap Appointments really can make a huge difference to your startup because it features fit the startup profile perfectly. Time is of the essence and you need to make sure that you use every minute you have to its full effect. Snap Appointments helps you to do just this by giving you access to organising software wherever you are.

Get in touch with them today and get along the road to being the smart efficient startup that has control over their time and is geared up to making money.

It's caught me up and passed me by

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Just a week where I've felt that everything has caught me up and passed me by, and I've made little progress. I've conducted 4 mystery shops, done a couple of little chores around the house, but with a days overtime at work I've not really had the time to make much of an impact on anything and the what's next list feels like it hasn't changed since the start of the week.

I'm almost at the end of my photography course with just three weeks left. One to pull the folder together to hand in, one to frame and hang my prints for the exhibition and the last one is the exhibition itself. That will kick start the creative writing side of things. I've also looked at starting a distance marketing course run by a local university that will lead to diploma status if I follow through the three years (you only sign up for a year at a time.) I'm desperate to have as many skills as finely honed as possible and I believe that having all these things in place will hugely help me in setting up and running an estate agency. And I'm really interested in marketing. Looking three years into the future and having diplomas in marketing and photography will put me well ahead of the competition in terms of qualifications and it will be a case of applying this to the business.

I've made no moves towards even finishing my office for the business, after having found a wii senn strut gnawed through and mouse dropping in the floor if the garage I am still converting. The mouse bait has gone down and the strut has been patched up, pending a full repair. I need paint to finish this and then look at the desk, the flooring and the doors. A long way to go with this, but I'm sure there are brighter days ahead on this front.

Too many balls to juggle - what to let go?

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As the snow has set in to my part if the world this week, and I'm almost half way through the 245 days, it's become clear that I need some fresh impetus to be able to move forward.

The home office is more organised and is set up to take the next steps in weatherproofing, but the sealing needed on the roof and the painting on the inside have completely stalled when the weather is like this. With a few major other jobs to do around the house to get that up to scratch, I've struggled to make the time to get anything else done in the road to opening my estate agency.

I listened to a radio interview on BBC Radio Five Live a couple of weeks ago with the author Emma Healey. She spoke about dedicating your energy to one thing at one time. She said that if you are writing a book then put losing weight or any other long-term goals on the back burner as writing a book takes enough energy and concentration of its own. At the moment I've possibly got too many balls in the air, including-

Writing five different blogs

Writing a self-help book for home buyers

Attending a college class in photography

An Open University course on creative writing (with a view to writing a novel)

Mystery shopping, where I aim to conduct 10 shops per week

Expanding my Amazon and eBay selling accounts to generate income

As well as trying to set up the business, work part-time and live as part of a family of four with two children aged 8 and under.

I'm probably biting off more than I can chew and I need to look at everything I'm doing and decide what is important.

Watch this space.

My organisation steps up a gear to ensure I'm productive

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I've got a diary and things are slotting into place!

From sitting in front of the PC or a blank piece of paper and having so many hundreds of things to do, and achieving none of them - I've got a diary, I've identified spare time and I've given specific tasks to these times to ensure that I'm better organised and I'm actually getting things done.

And, do you know what? It feels like a massive burden has been lifted from my shoulders. I'm still using spare time like this, sat on the park and ride bus, to write blogs and respond to emails. But I'm happier in the knowledge that I have other things in some sort of controlled order and this time can be spent on things like this.

Each time slot has been given it's own specific tasks, linked to my start of the week list of items I must get done. This week is-

*risk assessments for my photography course and the new business

*move photographs from memory cards to disk and format cards

*get completely up to date with all pending surveys and cash in where I can for Christmas presents

*fully research and contact small business/new business grants providers in my area

*hair cut (I know it's trivial but it's been far too long)

These and a few other things have made it to my "to do list" and I intend to keep using it to ensure I hand a plan, and I can sleep at night.