How To Say Goodbye To Your Admin Headaches For Good

Administering your business isn’t usually painful in the early days. Once you’ve registered your company with the authorities and sorted out your accountant, there’s not a great deal you need to do.

As your company grows, however, that rosy picture can change rapidly. Before you know it, you’re inundated with paperwork, contracts, messages, files, folders, and goodness knows what else. 

The good news, though, is that most admin headaches are partially avoidable. With just a few simple strategies, you can streamline this aspect of your business and make being a boss a lot more fun. Here’s how. 

Automate Your Contract Creation

Going to a lawyer to draft a contract is expensive. Doing it yourself is inadvisable. So what’s the solution? 

The answer lies in digital technology. Suppose you’re a designer and you want to create a graphic design contract. In 2020, you no longer need to go for an expensive consultation with a legal professional. Instead, you can use online tools to create legally-binding documents with ease, even if you have no legal expertise. These tools are a little bit like regular wizards. You give the software a rough outline of your requirements, and then it’ll fill in all the details instantly. 

Of course, these types of builders aren’t just for contracts – you can also find them for terms and conditions, privacy policies, and even mission statements. 

Stop Dumping Your Time Into Social Media Admin

A lot of business owners fall into the trap of managing their social media campaigns in real-time. They wind up spending vast chunks of their time responding to messages and creating content for posts which eats up their day. It’s a disaster.

Smart entrepreneurs know, however, that their time is valuable. The more time they put into social media activities, the less they have to spend on everything else. 

Fortunately, you can pretty much automate your social media marketing campaigns these days. You don’t have to upload everything manually and in real-time. Just use a tool that does it all for you. Even better, hire a third-party to take over that aspect of your firm. 

Automate Receipt Management

Managing a dozen or so receipts per week is manageable. Documenting and filing away thousands by hand is not. Thus, when their business grows, many entrepreneurs quickly find themselves in hot water, unable to track their expenses. 

These days, there’s no need to do any of this work by hand. Numerous software applications now automate vast tracts of the process, freeing you up to focus on the core aspect of your business. You don’t need to spend hours poring over receipts. 

Store Your Passwords In A Digital Vault

Remembering dozens of unique passwords is beyond the scope of most bosses or employees. Passwords, however, are a necessary part of life in the digital era. We need them to protect data and restrict access. 
Writing them down is not a good option. Fortunately, Google Chrome and others offer so-called password “vaults,” where you only need to enter one password to unlock all of them. Use these services to cut down on both admin and typing.