3 Areas of Your Business that Need a Spring Clean

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3 Areas of Your Business that Need a Spring Clean
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• Its not just your home that benefits from a
  regular tidying up and weeding out. Your business
  will also be easier to manage once its
  reorganized and de-cluttered. Here are some great
  tips that can save you time and money all year
  long.

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Records

• Move all paperwork related to completed jobs and
  2017 activity into storage.
• Use that newly freed-up space in the filing
  cabinet to clear your desk of everything not
  immediately necessary.

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• Do the same for digital files on your computer,
  server or the cloud. Delete, compress or archive
  them externally.
• And how about your computers desktop are all
  those icons helping or hindering your ability to
  find something quickly?
• Scan hand-written notes and file them digitally
  so you can throw out the paper.

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2. Communications

• Email detox Archive all emails not related to
  current activity.
• Organize the emails youre keeping into folders
  so you can easily find them again.

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• Create rules or filters for certain email subject
  lines.
• Unsubscribe from sales emails that take up too
  much of your inbox real estate.
• What frequent emails can you automate using
  technology?

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3. Financials

• Revisit your small business loans. Are better
  rates available?
• Ditto for utilities, shipping and any other
  services your small business uses. There may be
  more and better options since the last time you
  did your research.

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• Get caught up on your accounting and bookkeeping.
  Delegate this task to an expert CPA team.
• Consolidate inventory and re-evaluate products
  that are not selling.
• Do a competitive comparison. Have competitors
  products, services and prices changed in relation
  to yours? This could be a signal that the market
  is changing.

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• If this seems like a daunting list, just pick
  the ones that are most important to your small
  business, or that you feel need the most
  improvement. And remember, you dont have to do
  it all by yourself. Some tasks may call for
  professional assistance.

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• Xendoo offers bookkeeping catch up services that
  can wipe out nearly any backlog in less than two
  weeks even if youre years behind. Lets clear
  the decks so that your business can move forward
  in 2018!