TIME MANAGEMENT - STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO STARTING AN E-COMMERCE STORE

42. Time Management
 
Managing your time is a key daily habit to get into. Once it becomes a habit many a potential problem will be prevented.
 
At some point you will need to hire people to help you expand your business. You cannot do everything yourself but to minimise this set up systems. Many businesses have survived the pandemic recession because of digital tools.

• Create a To-do list that is revised every day and every week.

 

• Use a Scheduling Tool like Calendly.

 

• Email:
  1. Check emails daily 3 times a day.
  2. Reply to emails that need a reply that day.
  3. Respond to emails with a holding reply.
  4. Flag or star emails that should be dealt with within a few days.
  5. Unsubscribe to junk mail as this is a time waster.
  6. Manage your diary – reschedule appointments if necessary.
  7. Enable automated folder allocation.

 

• Customer Relationship Management – CRM
  1. Organise customer information and data – sales, shipping, fulfilment, and orders.
  2. Reply to customer enquiries
  3. Use Pipedrive or HubSpot to assist with this.

 

• Social Media
  1. Schedule content
  2. Like and reply to comments
  3. Check comments
  4. Spend 20 minutes each on 3 platform
     

• Plan your next launch.

 

• Update your website, product information and prices. Check for broken links on your website.

• Use Asana for tasks and Slack for communication.
  1. Asana.com. Worker collaboration tool, manage deadlines, tasks, status updates.
  2. Slack or Microsoft teams is great for discussions. You can share anything. For example: Files, any type and most sizes.
  3. Slack.com. Create a large virtual network of employees that can communicate as though they are together.

 

• Keep records
  1. Eg: Excel sales, subscribers.

 

• Create a Directory - manufacturers and contacts.

• When to do list becomes over whelming use:
  1. Get things done (GTD)
  2. Pomodoro
  3. Eisenhower box
  4. POSEC
  5. Pareto analysis

 

• Prioritise tasks: Use:
  1. Google calendar
  2. Todoist
  3. Pomodoro timer
  4. Desk time
  5. Wunderlist
  6. Team management software
  7. Trello
  8. Jira
  9. Asana

 

• Notion: meeting notes, project
• Zapier: connects slack, gmail mail chimp to handle repetitive tasks
• Salesforce: CRM customer relationships. Store and manage all your customer’s information and interactions purchase history, custome4r information etc
• Docusign: eSignature

This list is by no means exhaustive.