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When you have a clearly defined niche, it’s easier to craft marketing messages, virtual patchingmaterials, seminars and articles that will serve your clients and build your business.   2. Set up a time for returning phone calls to clients. It’s really important, not only for your personal sanity, but also for creating a sense of virtual patchingconsistency around your business operations, to set up a clearly defined time for returning telephone calls. First, from a personal energy standpoint, it’s much virtual patchingeasier and time efficient to return calls at one or two time intervals each day, than to react and respond to calls as they come in. You can gtrainh your clients or potential clients to understand how you operate, by simply leaving a message on your voice mail that you will return calls promptly twice per day. Of virtual patchingcourse, you can alter the schedule to fit your needs, but then you don’t need to feel overwhelmed or overburdened reacting to every ring of the phone.   3. Create folders to handle email. Most people will agree that handling email is one of the most time consuming tasks. To deal more efficiently and effectively with the virtual patchingvolumes of email you may be receiving, create email folders within your email program to handle the mail sorting. Almost every email program contains the ability to design custom email folders which email is automatically sorted into as they are received. You can create folders for your clients (by client name), vendors or virtual patchingsuppliers you deal with, family members, as well as for newsletters or other frequently received materials. Whether you choose to categorize folders by names or subject matter, email folders will cut down the time consuming process of wading through one long list of emails.  4. Schedule email handling. Similarly to handling your telephone calls, it’s important to set aside regular times to answer virtual patchingyour email. It is so tempting to keep checking your email to see if you have any new mail or surprises! Unfortunately, that activity wastes your valuable time and is distracting to your mental energies. You may find that answering your email first thing in the morning, immediately after lunch and then at the end of the day (allocating no more than 30-minutes at each sitting, if possible) works well. No matter how tempting it might be, discipline yourself to look at email only at these times unless there is an overriding circumstance. Just like in the case of returning phone calls, this will allow you to keep your mental energies focused on the work you have to do.   5. Use a calendar system. Scheduling your activities, while it might sound dull or boring, is actually the best way to ensure that you are operating in an optimal way! To do lists are wonderful, however, to do lists get done faster when they’re actually integrated into your calendar. Giving yourself due dates serves to motivate you and pull you forward to accomplishing things. When putting items from your to do list on your calendar, make sure you break each of these items in to smaller items which are easier to do. Completing shorter, smaller tasks will give you a sense of achievement that will help motivate you to move to the next step. Also, make sure you build in slack time by either scheduling it or taking each task and blocking out more than enough time to get it done.   6. Schedule creative time to virtual patchingbalance your energy. You may have heard the phrase, gall work and no play makes us dullh. Dull is not a quality that will lead to business success. Creative time gives you the space to re-vitalize your mind, body, and spirit – its playtime! Having time to balance out your energy is critical to your business success. virtual patchingIt’s important to have new ideas and points of view to keep your business perspective fresh. Using the calendar system described in Tip #5, make sure you schedule in creative time at least once per week. Creative time can mean different things to different people. Your creative time might consist of taking a walk, enjoying a bubble bath, reading through magazines or books for pleasure, or even listening to music.   7. Hire a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant or a VA, as they are commonly referred to, is a wonderful addition to any business operation. They can be just as valuable to a new businessperson as they are to one who is experienced. If virtual patchingyou are feeling overwhelmed, or you don’t have a skill in a particular area, instead of spinning your wheels and wasting valuable time, find someone who can help you out. A virtual assistant can be hired by the hour or by the project or even by some other creative arrangement. You don’t need to hire a full-time assistant or consultant to get through some of the challenging issues in your business.  8. Use technology to your advantage. Technology tools will make your business operations much easier. One excellent tool you can use to save a lot of time and energy is auto responders. An auto responder is a system that allows you to automatically send information to your clients. Let’s say that you have a free special report that you want to be automatically sent to anyone who requests it.http://www.trendmicro.com.sg/sg/enterprise/challenges/cloud-virtualization/virtual-patching/