It's true, our first thought is how could I afford that, I am a small business owner with limited resources. I need someone to help me with creating a quality website but I don't have the budget for expensive design! I need an office manager, a marketing consultant, I could go on. I hear this often when the bottom line price is introduced. Let's look at this way: I can afford that because I gain valuable time, energy, and high quality support from an experienced local business person that cares about my business and wants to help me grow. Look at your total time you spend in your business. Does this sound familiar? Your many hats, as a small business owner usually are: Marketing: website design and on-going management of it. Brochures, business cards, networking online and off. Total time: At least 15 hours per week. Accounting: invoicing, expenses, projected budgets, financials, projected sales goals, bookkeeping, tax preparation. Total time: At least 20 hours per week. Various administrative processes: letters, spreadsheets, data bases, client emails, work projects, inventory, orders. Total time: At least 10 hours per week. Client meetings, potential client meetings, retaining current clients/customers: Total time: At least 15 hours per week Learning curve process: Business Facebook, blogs, website management, software programs. Total time: At least 10 hours per week. That's an estimated 70 hours work week. Sound about right? As a professional, estimate your projected revenue vs your projected expenses (based on at least 1 year). Is your bottom line revenue at least breaking even or because of all the time running your business you don't have time to pursue potential clients? Or even worse, neglecting current clients/customers? Are you making a profit? What did you pay in taxes last year? Did you at least make some sort of profit? Now let's look at your other life (if after all of the above you actually have an "other life"): Family, social, friends, wellness, vacations, fun activities time: At least 2 hours per week if you are lucky. Value based vs. Priced base provided by AdminTechsLLC: Experience in administrative processes - time saved Experience in marketing support - time saved Including website design and maintenance - time, energy, and money saved (like LOTS of money saved) Experience in accounting - time saved Take some time to evaluate your business, with what you projected for your revenue in one year (you did complete your projections right?) and what you projected your expenses would be in one year (you did complete your projections right?) Let's discuss your needs with a one-hour complementary consultation; time, energy, and money you could save. If you just had your own personal administrative professional who operates from her own office, has her own equipment, and completes projects in a short amount of time, wouldn't it be nice to be able to do those fun things again? Spend time with family and friends? Take that vacation (yes, I said vacation)? And spend time pursuing those leads at your last networking event? (You are networking right?) Services are based on on-going, administrative and technical support, one-time projects, or retaining services on a month to month basis up to 15 hours per month. If you need someone for more than that, I suggest you either hire a part-time employee (and if your like me, that's out of the question) or utilize other members of your family's expertise. You will only need a certain amount of time with AdminTechs LLC though. With one complementary session, you could discover with AdminTechs LLC - a simple Value Based vs Price Based matrix. Call Michelle, CEO of AdminTechs LLC at 920-794-1542 today, and with a list of 3 tasks you hate to do - let our team do those at no charge for 1 week. If you don't like the completed work, or working with our team, it's free, no questions asked, no obligations, simply free. Michelle is an experienced small business owner that has discovered through her own journey of owning a small business, the valuable time and money she saved by utilizing all the resources to bring revenue to her bottom line, and enjoy time spent doing all those activities outside of her business. Her passion is to help other small business' remember why they started their business in the first place. Visit www.admintechsllc.com for additional information or email michelle@admintechsllc.com. ...read more
By AdminTechs, LLC October 05, 2013
Small businesses can benefit from accepting credit cards. Credit card processing companies now recognize that you may need to take a credit card while away from your office and have made that easy to do with your phone. Credit card machines come in a number of sizes, and small businesses have a variet... ...read more
Making a living from home offers independence and unlimited potential. To improve a home business strategy, explore the areas of your business that might benefit from a change. Home office organization, marketing strategies or communication with clients may be areas in need of improvement. ...read more
