If you’re wasting too much time on menial tasks rather than spending time on high-level business growth activities, you’re not doing yourself—or your company—any favors. As a small business owner, you’re always looking for ways to lean up, lower costs, and generally improve the bottom line without hindering productivity. Unfortunately, repetitive, mundane daily tasks are the bane of any company’s existence.
When starting out, chances are you did everything yourself. You set up your online presence, you uploaded pages and/or products, you engaged with all your customers or clients, coordinated and set your own meetings. A spectacular one-person show!
The problem here is that while doing everything yourself is great, it’s also incredibly time consuming. This is valuable time you could be using elsewhere – spending it with your family, brainstorming new ideas, having some much needed time to relax, or building business relationships, just to name a few.
Think of it this way: your workday is made up of 8 hours. If you spend 30 minutes every day posting content on your Facebook page, in one year, that will add to 120 hours.
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- For a daily 5 minute task, you spend 20 hours/year.
- For a daily 10 minute task, you spend 40 hours/year.
- For a daily 15 minute task, you spend 60 hours/year.
- For a daily 1 hour task, you spend 240 hours/year.
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Now consider that a full-time work week is 40 hours long.
In 3 years, you’re wasting 3 weeks of your life on one single 10-minute task that needs to be completed every day. How many 10-minute tasks are you actually completing in a day? How many weeks or even years of your life are you wasting this way?
Menial tasks come in two varieties: necessary and unnecessary. You’ll want to hand off as many necessary menial tasks as possible to a trusted teammate, your Virtual Assistant. This will have a cost, but the headache and heartache you save typically outweighs the money you’ll spend. It is an investment in yourself, your business and your customers or clients. Teaming up with a Virtual Assistant from Aim2Assist to cover tasks such as inventory uploading, data entry, managing correspondence and meetings, (and so much more) will free you up to do more specialized, focused work building your business. Stop wasting too much time on menial tasks – Aim2Assist can help!
Aim2Assist is here at your service to help with all your administrative needs. You can learn more about our services and monthly plans here. 