Running a small business is much harder than running a corporation. Surprising? Not if you're a small business entrepreneur.
As a fledgling business owner on a restricted budget you have to multi-task, juggle, prioritize and balance. Unlike corporations, you don't have a specialized professional team to help you manage, allowing you to focus on more critical business strategies.
Neither do you have the capital to afford such luxuries. At best you have about twenty employees that you need to train, supervise, motivate, schedule and pay.
You're the sole manager, running your business on a shoe-string budget
with only 24 hours a day.
Given such stressful financial and time constraints, how can you successfully maintain a balance between excellence, efficiency, and improving productivity all on your own?
The answer? Think big.
Manage your business like the big corporations do. Corporations rely on
efficient organization that is cost-effective. Yes, even big companies have
budget (granted big, but not unlimited) constraints that warrant
resourcefulness.
Today big businesses resort to business management software whenever possible to replace business processes that were once done manually, reducing costs of labor, time and human error.
Scheduling employees, for instance, used to be a tedious, time-consuming task before automated scheduling software made rosters, schedules and shift management a breeze.
Today, small businesses can not only easily be a more efficient organization
with the help of such software but can also obtain business software at no
cost. The business software market offers a variety of free trial software
programs for evaluation before purchasing. The downside of those programs
is either a time limitation (meaning you might not get fully acquainted with
all features) or limited in features (meaning you can't test all the features). If you like the program, you find out it carries a corporate price tag. On the other hand, there are companies (few though they exist), such as Kippax, that offer free fully functional business management software, with
no time/feature limitations.
Kippax, a leading provider of employee scheduling software, provides businesses of all sizes with DRoster Employee Scheduling. DRoster creates, manages, and automates shifts, rosters, schedules, personnel contact information, job descriptions and tasks.
DRoster Employee Scheduling software enables a small business to manage
its workforce in advance. You can ensure replacement for absentees, breaks,
time-off, vacations. Kappix gives small businesses the professional edge that
big companies have. This software provider is an example of the few quality
providers of true free business management software.
Now you can "think big" - focus on more critical business issues and leave the scheduling to DRoster. Kappix provides DRoster at no cost along with free support. Their employee scheduling software is intuitive and designed to meet the scheduling needs of a myriad of industries.
Free software like Kappix's DRoster Employee Scheduling Software, can afford you the time to boost productivity without sacrificing valuable money and precious time. Think big, like the big successful corporations. At no cost.
Would you like to run your own small business? Have you an idea for a small business but do not think that you could make it work?
Are you bored of being an employee and yearn to become your own boss? Have you the required skills to run a small business? In this article I look at the type of skills that people need to possess to be able to successfully run a
small business.
My name is Stephen Hill and I have been running my own business for around nine years now. Previously I had been employed by a major insurance company and even though I progressed well during my time there, I always wanted to run my own business, to choose my own hours of work and basically have no one to answer to etc.
I am now a speech coach helping people who stammer/stutter to achieve
fluency and I also help people to promote their websites as a form of web
marketer or web promoter.
I love what I do as it allows me to take my children to school as well as to pick them up from school. I am able to watch their football and netball matches and attend their school plays and other functions. I am not bound by what hours I work, for example nine to five. I sometimes
work late at night when I do the web promotion work but have the day free
to relax. This is not to say that I do not work hard, because I think that I do
work very hard.
Self-belief is an important skill required to be your own boss. If you have an inner belief and self confidence that you will make the business succeed, then you will have a great chance to make it work. There will be times when during a month you only earn a small amount of money but in other months you should earn quite a lot.
Some people prefer to know exactly what their income will be each month and these people may struggle to be their own boss.