It’s that time of year again. It’s time to spring clean your small business. This means cleaning your workspace and business, of course. But it also means getting more organized in general and freshening things up.
A recent Twitter chat looked at how to clean up, get organized and start running your business smarter. And it drew enough attention to make #SMBspringclean the #1 trending topic on Twitter for the evening.
Spring Clean Your Small Business
Below are just a few of the tweets from small business leaders about how to straighten up and organize your business from paper to digital files. But you will also read ideas for shaking things up and bringing in new ideas to make your business better.
Read excerpts from our spring cleaning Twitter chat below, presented by FedEx Office (@FedExOffice on Twitter). For the full chat transcript, please see the PDF here.
Q2:What is your best tip for organizing digital documents?#SMBSpringClean
— FedEx Office (@FedExOffice) April 12, 2013
A2. I am attempting evernote for that#SMBSpringClean
— ItzJenna (@ItzJenna) April 12, 2013
A2:Organize digital files into folders. Some claim this is no longer necessary with desktop search – I disagree.#SMBSpringClean
— Anita Campbell (@smallbiztrends) April 12, 2013
A2: File names for every project and client. #SMBSpringClean
— leahsinger (@leahs_thoughts) April 12, 2013
A2 Make sure filenames are descriptive so you can ID them at a glance. #SMBSpringClean
— Small Biz Marketing (@MarcREnriquez) April 12, 2013
Q4: What’s your best tip for conquering/organizing paper files in your office? #smallbiz #SMBSpringClean
— FedEx Office (@FedExOffice) April 12, 2013
Scan to existing PC “folders”, encrypt w/ password all that need it and shred the documents.Backup offsight nightly.#SMBSpringClean
— BusAlliesGroup LLC (@BusAlliesGroupL) April 12, 2013
Use a label maker for neatness, buy different color files, different color pendaflex, plan first, create index, act last #SMBSpringClean
— JaneAnderson (@JaneAnderson) April 12, 2013
@fedexoffice a5: review them 4 current info, look at changing formats, styles/fonts 2 go with the times.not too wordy #SMBSpringClean
— lifespondering by AS (@lifespondering) April 12, 2013
A5: Start by changing year. Move on to updating offers & promos #SMBSpringClean
— Robert Brady (@robert_brady) April 12, 2013
@fedexoffice: Q5: Have someone who has never seen them before take a look at them & give you their thoughts#SMBSpringClean #smallbiz
— Geek Dad (@GeekDad248) April 12, 2013
Disclosure: FedEx Office compensated me to participate as a small business expert during the FedEx Office Tweet Chat program and write this post. The ideas in this blog post are mine and not ideas or advice from FedEx Office.
It was a great chat! I learned several tips on how to do conduct a spring cleaning of my workflow. I look forward to the next chat! 🙂
I recommend you to check out #SMBspringclean on Tagboard if you want to have an overview of the whole chat.