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Welcome to the first of our LinkedIn newsletters where we’ll take you through the A-Z of Pink Spaghetti Weston-super-Mare.

Each month we’ll be looking at a different alphabetical aspect of the services that we can help your business with - from Admin to Zoom, we’ll be talking to the experts on the team, giving you nuggets of wisdom, and offering you an extra helping of business brilliance.

Hungry for more? Read on…

We bet you didn’t see this coming - to start us off, we’ve got:

That we can help with your business admin tasks might not come as a great surprise but the scope of our team’s abilities, and the practical experience we’ve had with many different approaches to admin means that we’re in a unique position to help you find the best way to tackle those paperwork nightmares!

We’ve put together a Mini Masterclass in Small Biz Admin to help you identify where you might be slipping up. It’s a necessary evil when it comes to running a business, but there’s always a way to make it easier!

• Do not let it pile up. Whether you need to block out time each week or tackle it as it hits your desk (or inbox) - find a way to handle your admin that means it’s not something you’re neglecting for months on end, and then spending several days sorting out the resulting mess.?

• Get a system in place early on - don’t wait until it’s overwhelming to try and get things organised. It might feel like a big job now, but if you wait until you’ve grown to a point where it’s absolutely necessary, it’s going to be hideous.?

• Consider outsourcing. Sometimes it’s a far better use of money to get someone else to handle the things you know aren’t your strong points. Letting someone who enjoys, or is good at, admin (or even both!) means that you can focus on what you’re good at.?

• Plan ahead. If you find at certain times of the month you are busier than others, set aside time for these additional tasks and push back less important ones for when your workload has decreased again. Many business owners we speak to know the ebb and flow of their workload, so make it work for you!

• Automate repetitive tasks wherever possible. Use rules to organise your inbox and make your emails more manageable. If you have regular tasks that use the same format, then set up an automation or template if you can to reduce the amount of time spent on it. It might mean spending a little more time on it upfront, but it’ll pay off in the long run!

“I have so much paperwork, I’m afraid my paperwork has paperwork”

Our Business Administrator, Alexis says:?

Always EAT THE FROG! Identify the most important and hardest task and do that first. You'll feel much better about the rest of your workload knowing it’s done and out of the way.?

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