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If you work from home then you know
that your time is valuable. Creating ways
to automate your home business can save
valuable time or even provide you with
more time to build your business. By pinpointing
the things that take up the largest part
of your time, you will be able to begin
to find more efficient ways to complete
your work.
Managing your email or communication
is a great place to start. Whether it
be simple emails or answering questions
over the phone, you can become more efficient.
Being in a situation where you have to
tell people the same thing many times
can become overwhelming; don’t worry,
you can easily lessen you workload.
If you are answering questions over the
phone then make sticky notes of common
questions and answers. If you’re
on the go then get one of those tiny spiral
notepads. Instead of writing out detailed
answers, just make a checklist of the
things that you must say to your customer
to answer the specific question. Once
you spend some time doing this you will
end up with most of your answers memorized;
this makes it easy to find even better
ways to handle your customer’s questions
or problems.
Perhaps email is where your redundancy
is; email is even easier to deal with
than phone communication. If you send
email with the same type of information
to each of your customers then you’ve
got a lot of typing to do; let’s
make this easier!
Send an email to yourself – just
like the one that you normally have to
send out to your customer – make
it perfect. We will call this email your
‘template email’. Now, every
time you have to send this type of email
out, you already have a starting point.
Go to your inbox and find that ‘template
email’ that you sent to your self.
Scroll down to the very bottom; click
and hold your mouse button and drag it
up to the very top of your email. Let
go of your mouse button when all of the
text has been highlighted.
Now, click the edit menu at the top of
your email program and choose ‘Copy’.
Next, make a new email to your customer;
it’s getting so easy. Click where
you would normally type your message and
then go to the edit menu again; click
paste.
WOW! That’s all there is to it.
Of coarse you need to change the contact
info to your customer’s info. Make
any necessary changes to the text, give
it a subject and click send! You can refine
your ‘template email’ until
you only have to change the customers
name and contact info; creating efficient
template emails will save your more and
more time.
These same ideas can be applied to many
other areas of communication (including
anything that you print and mail). The
next time you are communicating with a
client and you realize that you are repeating
your self, remember to automate! Small
notes and templates will save you weeks
in the long run; they work for me and
they can work for you.
There, we eased some of your workload
for today – and – forever!
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