{"id":2572,"date":"2024-04-30T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amivo.co.uk\/expandlydev\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T09:42:20","slug":"eliminate-the-time-wasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amivo.co.uk\/expandlydev\/eliminate-the-time-wasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminate the time wasters and give your business a boost!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the world of online retail where margins are tight and deliver expectations are high, it pays to only spend time doing the things that make us money and ignore the time wasters. That\u2019s common sense, right?<\/p>\n

Surprisingly though many businesses waste a huge amount of time just by having poor business processes. \u00a0Some businesses report that as much as 90% of their day to day efforts are essentially spent on time-wasting activities. In reality they affect all of us. No matter whether we are selling on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0eBay<\/a>, Etsy, Wish or our own websites we need to identify these time-wasters and work to eliminate them!<\/p>\n

Do you have time-wasters\u00a0in your business?<\/h3>\n

A time-waster or non-value added activity as it is often known, is something that you do as part of your work but actually doesn\u2019t give you any benefit or financial return.\u00a0At first glance it is easy to look at your business activities and think you don\u2019t have\u00a0any time-wasting activity. Be careful though. Many activities can seem like they are value-adding or are essential but are actually not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A good example of wasted activity is logging in daily to each of your sales channel(s) to process\u00a0orders<\/a>. It is essential that you log in to each of your platforms each day, isn\u2019t it? Actually, probably not. It is certainly true that it is essential that you process all your orders from all your channels every day. However, it is not true that you\u00a0have<\/em>\u00a0to do this by logging in to each of your channels to see your orders and process them one by one. There are ways to process your orders more efficiently.<\/p>\n

Another good example of wasted\u00a0activity is printing shipping paperwork order by order. It is essential and value-added that you print shipping paperwork\u00a0for each order right? Yes and No. Yes it is value-adding and essential to print your shipping paperwork as you can\u2019t ship without it. However it is time-wasting to do this individually, order by order, sales channel by sales channel.<\/p>\n

Identifying\u00a0your time-wasters<\/h2>\n

The first stage is always to identify what the non-value added activity is in your business. To do this you need to take a look at each of your activities step by step, taking note of the things that are wasting your time and effort. As you do it make sure you are looking at things such as:<\/p>\n