Time-Saving Tips for Small Business Owners
Running a small business is no small feat. Between managing employees, coordinating with clients, and keeping up with finances, your to-do list can become overwhelming. Here are ten practical tips to help you save time and focus on the aspects of your business that matter the most.
1. Prioritize Your Tasks with the Eisenhower Box
The Eisenhower Box, also known as the Urgent-Important Matrix, is a simple decision-making tool that helps you prioritize tasks by urgency and importance. By categorizing your tasks into four quadrants—urgent and important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, and neither—you can focus on what truly matters and delegate or eliminate the rest.
Example: If handling customer complaints is urgent and important, it goes at the top of your list. However, planning next month’s social media content, which is important but not urgent, can be scheduled for later.
2. Implement Time Blocking
Time blocking is the practice of scheduling your day into blocks of time, each dedicated to a specific task or group of tasks. This minimizes multitasking and helps you stay focused.
Tip: Use tools like Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook to create time blocks. For instance, dedicate mornings to client meetings and afternoons to administrative work.
3. Automate Repetitive Tasks
Automation tools can save you hours each week by taking over repetitive tasks. From email marketing to invoicing, there’s likely an app or software that can help you automate these chores.
Data: According to a McKinsey report, automation can save up to 20% of a small business owner’s working hours.
4. Delegate Effectively
Delegation is key to scaling your business. Identify tasks that can be handled by your team and assign them accordingly. This not only frees up your time but also empowers your employees.
Example: If you spend hours managing your social media accounts, consider delegating this to a dedicated team member or an external agency.
5. Outsource Social Media Marketing
Social media is essential for business growth but can be incredibly time-consuming. Outsourcing this function can save you significant time and ensure your social presence is managed by experts.
Data: According to a survey by Buffer, 73% of marketers believe social media marketing has been “somewhat effective” or “very effective” for their businesses. Imagine the impact when managed by professionals.
Action: Check out 98 Buck Social, a service that helps businesses maintain a consistent social media presence, offering best-in-class content, graphics, captions, and hashtags. They handle your social media so you can focus on core business activities.
By implementing these time-saving tips, you can better focus on growing your business and achieving your entrepreneurial goals. Ready to take one step further? Sign up for a consultation with 98 Buck Social to see how our expert social media management can free up even more of your valuable time!
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Can you help me grow Instagram followers?
We partner with Socialboost to help build Instagram followers. Click the link below to enroll. Plans start at $59/mo.
What photos or videos do you use?
By default, we can use the photos you have on your website as well as utilizing the plethora of photos available to us within our royalty free library.
If you have photos or videos for us to use, depending on your subscription, we welcome you to upload them into a Google Drive folder and share that link with us!
Looking for custom videos? Some of our plans include videos or you can add them to any plan starting at $98/mo!
How do you mimic my branding colors and style?
As mentioned above, depending on your plan, we can use whatever you’d like to provide us! If not, we’ll resort to using your website or our royalty free library.
That being said, we can come up with custom graphics that suit your branding style as an add-on to your posting subscription.
$98/month for 3 custom graphics each week
$148/month for 5 custom graphics each week
Note: The cost of custom graphics is on top of your monthly subscription cost
What is content review & approval?
Content review and approval is where your social media content creator sends you a weeks worth of posts, prior to their designated publication time the following week.
This way, you will have the chance to give us feedback on each post in case you’d like us to make a minor edit.
Note: One round of editing per post permitted, depending on your plan.
What are the results I can expect from your posting services?
The idea behind consistent posting onto your social media pages is to keep them active with content that promotes your business solutions, educates your audience to showcase your expertise and to also keep things lighthearted, it’s social media after all!
There’s nothing worse for a business than to earn someone looking into what you do, only for them to see a barren social media page. To them, it may appear that you are out of business or potentially a scam.
We are often asked about growing followers and generating sales or leads. These are great goals to have but please understand that those goals are better obtained through paid advertising campaigns.
For more information on paid advertising, please visit our paid advertising services.
Do you use a posting scheduler and how do you get access to my business pages?
We are fortunate to be partnered with CloudCampaign.com to utilize their excellent scheduling platform.
By signing up for our content services, we will set you up with your own Cloud Campaign workspace depending on your plan.
During onboarding we request admin access to your social accounts using a secure platform. This allows us to manage the occasional disconnect when the platforms push out updates.
Furthermore, with your own workspace you are welcome to view and edit content at your leisure!
Why do my posts say “Posted by Cloud Campaign”
We use Cloud Campaign, which is a 3rd party app, to scale social media management and posting. When a post says “Posted by Cloud Campaign”, it is only the admins of your company page that can see this and not your followers.