Managing Your Business During Busy Times

Managing your business is a huge undertaking and can be extremely stressful, but throw in a busy season and things can get even more overwhelming. If you have a few tips and tricks to manage your time and lower your stress levels, you can get through it.

Here are my best tips for managing your business during busy times:

Stay on track

When busy times hit, it is easy to get off track and miss deadlines and other important obligations. One way to avoid this is to reach your goals and finish tasks before the deadlines, so that you can stay ahead. It is easy to procrastinate and push things off, but you will thank yourself for doing everything ahead of time when all of your work is done on time! This will significantly reduce your stress and help you stay on track.

Making to-do lists and checking things off as you go, and keeping a calendar with important dates and times, can also help you keep track of the many different tasks you need to accomplish. This is also a great method to remind you if you have already completed something or if it still needs to be done. Finish the more time-sensitive or important tasks first, and don’t forget to take some deep breaths. This too shall pass!

Set expectations for your customers

If you do not already have a successful way of communicating with your customers, such as a website, social media accounts, email list, or easily visible signage around your business, this is step one to setting expectations for your customers. Make sure that your customers are aware of your business hours and how long transactions could take during busy times.

Stick to the hours you set, and as long as customers are aware of special hours and additional wait times in advance, they will plan accordingly. This will reduce the stress on not only you by reducing the customers’ rush, but it will also customers stress by giving them plenty of notice to plan ahead.  

Delegate tasks

Delegating tasks is so important when it comes to streamlining your business and managing it during busy times. For example, the reason you hire employees is to take pressure off of yourself and ultimately improve your business because you know that you cannot do it all alone yourself.

The same goes for your technology and services that you look into and utilize. If you are not an expert in something, it’s best to find an expert to do the work for you. Sure, in some cases this ends up being more expensive, but you have to look at how it is growing your business and allowing it to thrive.

A perfect example of this is your copier system and your IT. Copiers, computer support needs, and other office maintenance services can be very frustrating to business owners if you do not know the ins and outs of every detail and if you do not know what you are doing.

Instead of buying a copier yourself, you might want to consider leasing one from local NJ company, Ameritechnology. They not only provide the most updated technology for your office, but they have the best customer service for your copier lease, printer ink + toner maintenance, and computer support needs, as well.

 

Ameritechnology says, “You can buy a copier or printer from a big-box store or your local office supply store. But are you buying more than you need? Less? Will that new technology integrate with your existing network? The choice is not always clear. Ameritechnology wants to help.”

With 60 years of combined experience servicing hundreds of customers, they are committed to the success of your business long after your machines are plugged in and when it comes down to it, they probably know more about printers and computer services than you do, so why try and fail when you could just hire experts to do the job for you? It will allow you to save so much stress and time, especially when you are busy.

Enjoy your free time

Work-life balance is essential, especially during busy times, so that you do not get burnt out. If you need to, make sure that you set aside time each day to do something that you enjoy. This way, if you are giving yourself time to enjoy your free time, you are still doing your very best work, no matter how busy you are. This is especially important for jobs that go through busy seasons, such as CPA’s.