6) Control Bug Delegate tasks you have no time for or team up with someone who can help you. (see tip #4!)

7) Group Effort Save time and footwork by collecting everything to bring with you to complete errands or to distribute in each room of house instead of making too many trips. Make a fast list while planning out your route and be sure to plan each stop along way so you don't have to backtrack and lose time.

8) Schedule Fun Time! Make sure you include some personal time for YOU. Allot some time in your agenda - make an appointment for yourself and keep it, even if it's only a leisurly 20 minute bubble bath or a 15 minute walk in fresh spring air!

9) Space Freebies Go through any old unneeded files to free up space in your filing system.

10) Once and Only Once Each piece of paper should be handled only once. Read it and either file it, redirect it to someone else, schedule it or toss it. Don't add it to an ever-ending pile on your desk in hopes that you'll get to it eventually.

11) Post-Master Use sticky notes to write errands needed to be done. Stick them to your front door to remind you as you're headed out.

12) Systems Engineer Too much time is wasted everyday on searching for things. Find a system that works for you and your lifestyle and apply it. Use it religiously and you'll find new time slots you thought you never had!

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On all of my websites, you will find my phone number and address. Good customer service applies to your on-line business just as much as any off-line business. In fact, I have heard time and again customers say that they don't do business with someone on line unless their contact information - preferably with a phone number - is posted on their site.

Here's another axiom about customers that you should remember:

It's easier to GET a customer than it is to KEEP one.

Any customer that's in market for your type of service is as likely to hire your company as anyone's. After all, it's really a matter of having a better sales presentation, better prices - or whatever strikes that customer on that day.

So, wonderful - you're now in door. You have your shot. This is when your new customer REALLY gets to know you - and your quality of service. The stuff you can't "sales pitch" away.

Never EVER take your current customer base for granted. Do that and watch how fast door slams in your face.

You may remember some years back a television commercial that was (I believe) for an Airline. The boss was talking to his staff about customer relations because they had just lost one of their oldest clients. So he gave all of his staff plane tickest to pay personal, face-to-face visits to ALL of their customers.

While that commercial provides a good lesson about customer service it should also be a reminder to you to keep lines of communication between you and your customers open.

Personal visits to your clients should be on-going. Never stay away long enough to give them a chance to look elsewhere for service they need. They need to feel that you're connected with them.

In 15 years of servicing customers, I have never lost one. Not once.

And - this is probably biggest business benefit to all of this - they recommend my services before they recommend anyone else. I have gotten more new customers through recommendations from my satisfied customers (friends) then from ANY for of paid advertisement.

And in end, isn't that what it's all about?

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