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Right lads and lasses,
Picking up quite a lot of work recently. Mainly bathroom refurbs which keep me in a spot for 2 weeks a time. Or atleast I book a full 2 weeks, if I finish in 1.5 i'll fill the gaps with CP12's or boiler services.
What do you lot use to keep your business running? I'm a one man band and from start (18 months ago) I've used Google Calendar for my cal and Kashflow accounting package.
However, I'm finding I'll write the names / numbers / addresses down on an A5 pad when on the phone to them as my calendar is on my phone. Then I transfer that to my larger A4 pad which I write all my quotes on. I like to keep this pad tidy, so I can scroll through quotes etc. I then type them up on Kashflow and send them. Once I win them I obviously book them in.
However, those smaller jobs i'm really struggling with planning. I'll write them down (or started putting them on Google Tasks), but they're the jobs I'll plan in, the morning I know i'll have chance to get to them. Where you think, I'll finish the bathroom prep at 2 and shoot off and do a couple jobs but hit problems and leave at 4 etc. Those sort of jobs. Some of which, i forgot i've even got to do because i'm flicking between like 2 pads and google cal and kashflow.
Surely there is something out there to keep track of all this? Apart from someone doing my Admin lol
Are most digital these days or sticking with a paper diary? My worry is leaving it somewhere and that's your jobs booked in gone **** up
Picking up quite a lot of work recently. Mainly bathroom refurbs which keep me in a spot for 2 weeks a time. Or atleast I book a full 2 weeks, if I finish in 1.5 i'll fill the gaps with CP12's or boiler services.
What do you lot use to keep your business running? I'm a one man band and from start (18 months ago) I've used Google Calendar for my cal and Kashflow accounting package.
However, I'm finding I'll write the names / numbers / addresses down on an A5 pad when on the phone to them as my calendar is on my phone. Then I transfer that to my larger A4 pad which I write all my quotes on. I like to keep this pad tidy, so I can scroll through quotes etc. I then type them up on Kashflow and send them. Once I win them I obviously book them in.
However, those smaller jobs i'm really struggling with planning. I'll write them down (or started putting them on Google Tasks), but they're the jobs I'll plan in, the morning I know i'll have chance to get to them. Where you think, I'll finish the bathroom prep at 2 and shoot off and do a couple jobs but hit problems and leave at 4 etc. Those sort of jobs. Some of which, i forgot i've even got to do because i'm flicking between like 2 pads and google cal and kashflow.
Surely there is something out there to keep track of all this? Apart from someone doing my Admin lol
Are most digital these days or sticking with a paper diary? My worry is leaving it somewhere and that's your jobs booked in gone **** up
