If you ask the owner of any IT Solution Provider or Managed Service Provider (MSP) business what one of their biggest challenges is, and they’ll tell you it’s finding the time to do everything they want or need to. In this slide deck from a one-hour webinar I delivered for MSP Business Management on 27th February 2014, I share some practical techniques and methods that IT Business Owners can use to manage their time and reduce their stress levels — all while increasing your businesses profitability.

1. Time
Management for
IT Business
Owners
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2. I’m too busy to get stuff done

3. Getting out from under
• What do you need to
•
•
•
do in the office?
What outstanding
tasks do your clients
need completing?
What errands do
you need to run?
What do you need to
do at home?

4. Building an effective to-do list
• Do things at home (@Home)
• Do things at the office (@Office)
• Do things for clients (@Client Work)
• Call certain people (@Calls)
• Remind me that I’m waiting on someone for
•
something (@Waiting For)
Do certain errands (@Errands)

5. Using a Productivity tool
• Old school Pen & Paper!
• Microsoft Outlook
• Remember The Milk
• Nozbe
• AllThings.Io

6. Use an Internal Ticket Board

7. Be Specific about what to do

8. Use your Calendar!

9. Batch Tasks together

10. Questions

11. More Tips coming soon!
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