Be More Productive and Make More Money with Supportive Technology

Working as efficiently as possible will save your clients mo.ney, help you to develop stronger relationships with them and allow you to create a highly profitable business.

One of the keys to doing this is to use technology to assist you with your workload.  Likely, it is your goal to build a business that serves several clients at the same time.  How will you manage working with them all in systematic way?  As a Virtual Assistant, you are receiving emails, phone calls and voicemails at different times regarding a variety of projects and tasks.  How can you maintain your productivity and sanity?

That is the question of the day. The solution is not far off!  A collaborative tool like Central Desktop can save you from a lot of wasted time, lost information and lost business.  The days of writing notes on tiny pieces of scratch paper and losing them are OVER!  No more accidentally deleting client voice mails that have important instructions on them? Now, you can capture notes, instructions and updates all in the same place without ever leaving a voice mail or sending an email.

Using a collaboration platform will improve your productivity tenfold.  Tools such as Central Desktop allow you to manage people, projects and documents in a centralized location. (There are similar platforms such as Basecamp, but we prefer CD.)

Central Desktop is like sharing one computer among multiple users. For example, using a collaboration platform would allow you and me to seamlessly co-write this article.  If we worked together through Central Desktop, I could make changes and save them.  Afterwards, you can be notified via email regarding the changes and any notes that I want you to see. Isn’t that cool?

Now, think back to the scenario that we mentioned earlier. Let’s say that you work with seven clients.  With each of those clients you concurrently work on 3 projects and other tasks. From the standpoint of the projects alone, there are twenty-one different matters that clamor for your attention.  How do you track it all?

In Central Desktop, you can create a separate workspace for each of your clients.  What is more, you can manage an unlimited number projects, tasks and milestones for each client.  This gets even more exciting!  When you or your client make any updates to a project or task, you both can be notified immediately.  All notes and updates stay within the collaboration tool.  That means you do not have to worry about picking up the phone every time you have a question or need more information. This takes a lot of stress off of your brain and records your most important business matters in one location.

Think about how well you collaborate with your clients and colleagues presently.  Do you find this a great challenge?  Consider leveraging supportive technology that will improve collaboration, decrease stress and increase your productivity!