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Often-Overlooked Business Boosters

When operating a business, it’s easy to become preoccupied by the day-to-day running of things, spending most of your time making sure targets are hit and profits are made. When every hour of the working day is spent spinning plates and trying to keep the business running, it’s difficult to find time to take a step back and assess areas where time can be saved and improvements can be made to your business model.

What are the aspects of business which are most frequently overlooked? These are corporate features that are typically dismissed as “nice-to-haves” or not worth the time or money – but giving them a go could make all the difference to your company.

SAVING TIME - Outsource Your Shredding When you’re up against it, nothing’s more irritating than having to park everything while you feed confidential documents sheet-by-sheet into your tiny office shredder. Commonly, office managers dismiss the thought of handing the responsibility of shredding to an external company without much thought. But when one calculates the amount of time saved (and thus the amount of extra time which can be spent on profitable tasks) by outsourcing shredding to an affordable provider of mobile document shredding services such as Datashredders, it starts to look like a no-brainer.

GENERATING NEW BUSINESS - Social Media Often regarded as an unnecessary luxury by businesses, social media’s influence is becoming more and more powerful, and companies that don’t use it are putting themselves at risk. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and other social media sites are a quick, easy and cost-effective way for brands to connect with both existing and new customers, promote offers, and show a personable side to your business. With 67% of Twitter users saying that they’re far more likely to buy from the brands they follow and 70% of business-to-consumer enterprises stating that they have acquired new customers through Facebook, the benefits of running social media accounts for your business cannot be underestimated and are well worth the time investment.

IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY - Team Bonding The phrase ‘team bonding’ often conjures up images of miserable, rainy weekends in the Cotswolds, being made to do a scavenger hunt with Judy from accounts, but this belies the fact that having staff who can work effectively together is a boon to any business. Too often, staff can simply focus on clocking in, doing what’s required of them, and clocking out again – but by doing this, they may be oblivious to ways in which their colleagues can help, where efficiencies can be found, and where by working together, staff members’ work can improve. Even if your team is stretched, consider planning a relaxing company lunch or a few drinks on a Friday afternoon – the bonds formed by your staff will make them happier in the workplace and more open to working together, and you’ll soon see an upsurge in productivity.

Business managers – have you been overlooking these easy ways of saving both money and time, while increasing productivity? With social media able to help drum up new business at a fraction of the cost of conventional advertising, plus the availability of commercial shredding companies such as Datashredders to provide cost-effective, confidential waste disposal to save you countless hours of shredding, in this day and age giving business a boost is easy.

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