Are You Stuck in the Day-To-Day Operations of Your Business?

Business Operations is the compilation of all the activities carried out inside a company that keep it running and generating revenue.
In standard business plans, the operations section is dedicated to helping business owners understand what systems, tools, people, and processes will be needed for the company business model to function.
A few examples of business operations:

• Creating and maintaining key systems needed to run a business, including customer service, billing, communications, marketing, deliver, and backup
• Creation of processes, tools, and players for key systems within the business
• Management of systems that control access and login information
• Establishing decision-making guidelines for team members
• Creation and maintenance of your Standard Operating & Procedures (SOP) guide
• Setting up effective backup systems to control company information
• Creation and management of systems that process payments
• Implementation of business tools and software to manage multiple systems
• Managing the process of delivering products and services to customers

The operations area is a constant segment of your business and requires daily attention.And this where most women business owners get stuck!
In the beginning stages of your business, it was just you. Just you making all the daily decisions and executing the many tasks that must be performed each day to accomplish goals and strengthen your business model.
As your business model proved successful, the endless task list began to increase exponentially. Business decisions and responsibilities increased. Quiet, creative, and productive time to focus on growing the business was more and more limited and many times downright non-existent.
As women in business, we must stay focused on those areas of business that ONLY we can do - everything else must be delegated to a team!
The Visionary and CEO role in the business at this level needs to stay focused on very high-level leverage tasks that will grow your business, such as:

• Big Picture Vision
• Marketing and Sales
• Delivery of Services
• Content Creation
• Creating New Products
• Partnerships
• New Sources of Traffic

Everything else you need to get off your plate - much of this lies in the day-to-day operations of your business.If your business has reached six figures, hold on to your seat belt because your company has taken on a life of its own.
And this is the point where you are most likely feeling that you've hit a ceiling and are even feeling a bit burned out. You may not see how you will be able to grow past the current challenges.
Bad news... good news...
You won't be able to break that ceiling when you are the only one in charge of everything. The good news is that it does not have to stay that way.
A seasoned online business manager is the perfect second-in-command to pull you out of the day-to-day operations and marketing management of the business. You'll have the time, energy, and focus you need to work on those high-level leverage tasks that will grow the business.
You can't possibly expect to grow if you don't position someone else in your business to be your "Mini-Me" - to take the day-to-day operations and management of business off your plate with the support of a team. Your business is now bigger than you are, and in order for it to continue to grow, you must have your operations running smoothly and cost effectively.
Isn't it time that you are LIFTED out of the day-to-day activities so you can work ON your business instead of IN it?

About
Brenda Violette is Founder and CEO of Violette Business Services, a business management company that partners with entrepreneurial woman who have built a multiple six-figure online business and are stuck in their ability to create new revenue with them being the only one in charge of everything! They struggle and lose traction as they are buried in the "DOING" of the business.
Being a seasoned woman business owner herself, Brenda understands the struggles of other women trying to build a viable online business, balance work and a personal life, and contribute to the world through the business.
Brenda is an Online Business Consultant, Certified Online Business Manager, and most importantly, a diehard Integrator in every sense of the term.

How To Find a Tradesman Online?

There are lots of incidences at our home, office or any place where we either live or work, when we find ourselves caught in the situation where we do not know or understand or find the way to come out from that casualty at the earliest. Let us for instance say that after having hectic working schedule throughout the day when you come back to your home your find no light inside due to electric fuse. This although is not a very big issue and even a layman can get it rectified with little knowledge of electric work, but as this is not possible with most of us, we start finding a tradesman who can help us to come out from the problem.

However, this is also possible that you must also be having the details of some electricians in your phone book, from whom you had got the electricity work done at your home earlier. But, as it had been long years back it is quite possible that telephone number of the electrician would have changed or even he would have retire from his position and someone else from his family might be looking after his business. In simple words you may not be able to locate the same person who offered his duties at your place long back

So, how to locate a tradesman for any reason seems to be a daunting task, especially at the time of an urgent requirement. However, if you had faced the same problem two decades back, then you had yellow pages to find a tradesman of your choice depending upon your requirement, but today with advent of internet use of yellow pages has become an outdated activity. Interestingly now days there are various online portals from where you can access the list of different tradesman registered in their list. An interesting feature of these online tradesman providers is that here you can find huge list of different service providers varying from plumber to electrician to building contractor to lawyer to air conditioner repairer to interior designer, carpenter, locksmiths and others depending upon your requirement.

Working of these online service providers:

As referred above now days various online portals are working as online telephone directories providing contact details of the different tradesman working in your region. But, now the question arises that how you can located the service provider of your choice according to your requirement. This actually is done according to following steps, which are referred ahead:

1. In the beginning you will be required to post your requirement at the portal detailing about the type of service required by you whether you wish to extend the existing portion of your house, repair of heating or air conditioning system of your home, plumbing or repair of door etc. One thing while posting your requirement about the tradesman it would be better to explain every aspect of your requirement clearly whether you want to repair any of your equipment or its service or install the new appliance etc. whatever type of service you need it should be clearly mentioned in the form determined for posting your request. Doing this will also enable the portal to provide you the contact details of the tradesman that offer services which are required by you.


2. Once you have posted your job requirement the portal will provide you three quotations taken from the service providers offering the service required by you.


3. Doing the above exercise is helpful in determining the best service provider for your job depending upon the funds available with you. With this it also facilitates you in understanding the types of services offered by them and also to go through the feedback posted by their previous clients about their service.


4. After this the only thing left with you is to call the tradesman and ask him to visit your place and get you free from that unexpected situation.