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3 Ways to Enhance Efficiency in Your Home-Based Business

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April 18, 2019 by Home Jobs By Mom
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Enhance Efficiency, Home-Based Business, Home-Based Business tips, work at home tips, work at home tips business, work at home tips & ideas

As a work-at-home mom, you're likely already keenly aware of the delicate balancing act you perform every day. From hitting deadlines and working with clients on projects to picking up the kids from school and dealing with household duties, you're a supreme master of multitasking.

While you enjoy the perks of being a WAHM, you might feel like your to-do list is way too long. 24 hours isn't nearly enough time to get everything done in a day. If this sounds all-too-familiar, read on for some tips to help your home-based business run even more efficiently.

Outsource What You Can

As a small-business owner, there are probably tasks you love doing and those you put off as long as possible. Give yourself permission to outsource the jobs and tasks you despise.

Maybe you hate creating and managing your business websites. It's just not your thing. Well, thankfully there are places like online that can take that burden off your hands and help you grow your business while you kickback. This will allow you to focus more time on the important goals and projects you enjoy.

Make a list of the things you do every day or every week and then determine whether any of these tasks can be outsourced. Since you work out of your home, these tasks can also include household tasks that you simply don't have time for. For example, this might include hiring a housekeeper to clean every week or two.

Invest in an IVR System

If your home-based business involves taking product orders and shipping, then you likely spend a great deal of time on the phone with your customers. In order to free up some of the time, you spend answering basic questions — like, “When did my order ship out?” — you may want to invest in an interactive voice response system from a company like Aspect.

Unlike those annoying automated systems in which many customers aren't fond of, Aspect's IVR systems allow your customers to easily and naturally interact with a virtual assistant through voice commands and basic touch-tone controls. You can even use IVR systems to answer questions about an order status, information retrieval, and more.

Use Kid-Free Time to Your Advantage

When your child is attending school, you can usually count on those precious hours to get your work done. Likewise, if you have young kids, you can typically rely on nap time to accomplish business- or home-related tasks, at least most of the time. As Parents.com notes, get as much of your work done during these chunks of kid-free time as you can.

Yes, the dishes may pile up in the sink, but those things can wait. If you were working in a typical office environment, you wouldn't even have the opportunity to complete those other tasks at work. That's why you must adopt the same mindset about your work time.

Concentrate on getting as much paying work done as you can. Also, look for other kid-free pockets of time to finish up your projects. If you're an early bird, get a couple of hours of solid work done before the kids get up. Or, if you are a night owl, by all means, burn the midnight oil after your kiddos hit the hay.

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  1. Shannon M Gilchrist

    May 9, 2019 at 7:01 pm

    I am actually a work outside of home mom, but I have two thriving home-based direct sales jobs, as well. This article helped me, as well, as there’s definitely not enough hours in the day. The Party Plan Diva, Cinchshare and Melissa Fietsam give me time saving tools that I need to make it all work.

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    • Home Jobs By Mom

      May 14, 2019 at 1:28 pm

      What direct sales businesses do you do? I’ve tried Avon and candles in the past.

      Reply
  2. Lauryn R

    April 19, 2019 at 5:25 pm

    These are very helpful tips, thank you so much for sharing! It definitely helps to take advantage of the little kid-free time that I get.

    Reply
    • Home Jobs By Mom

      April 27, 2019 at 9:47 am

      We got to make it work!

      Reply
  3. Zoey

    September 17, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    These are some great tips. I’ve never heard of an IVR system before.

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    • Krystle

      September 20, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      I hadn’t either! It can be quite handy though!

      Reply
  4. Sarah M

    September 14, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    I like the idea of hiring a housekeeper. It takes so much time and energy to build a home based business that it would be nice not to worry about common household tasks.

    Reply
    • Krystle

      September 20, 2017 at 5:01 pm

      I couldn’t agree more. I’m with you on passing off some of those basic duties, there’s no shame in it!

      Reply
  5. Terri S

    September 13, 2017 at 5:49 pm

    This posting was very informative. You have some great tips. Time management is my biggest problem. .

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    • Krystle

      September 20, 2017 at 5:00 pm

      I think most of us run into time management issues. I think it’s a natural part of life, ha!

      Reply

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