How To Free Up 30 Minutes Every Single Week

You feel overwhelmed. There are never enough hours in the day and always too many balls to juggle. The good news is that the solution is less not more.

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The Top 2 Challenges Faced By 97% Of Small Business Owners

(Ok, so I may or may not have totally the 97% bit up. But I feel like it COULD be true).

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NEVER ENOUGH TIME

There are never enough hours in the day and my to-do list is unending! I am spending way too much time working IN the business when I need to be working ON it. And too much time on non-billable hours and tasks that don't really move the needle for my business. Because of this, I am unable to grow and improve the business. To add salt to the wound, my personal life is suffering as a result of the huge hours I'm working.

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TOO MANY APPS

We rely on several core Apps to run our business but these Apps are not well-integrated with each other. This results in siloed data, a whole heap of wasted time, increased human error and a loss of focus. We are constantly importing/exporting data between Apps & then also checking to make sure data is correct. The constant context switching from App to App causes a loss of focus and increased human error.

But In Order To Change ANYTHING, You Need Time

Can I help you escape App Overload? You bet! And I would love to. But, if you're like 99% of our community members, you don't have ANY spare time to invest in the tips, tools and techniques I could share with you to help you escape App Overload.

And that's why our #1 mission, before anything else, is to free up some of your time right now so you actually have the time to start improving your situation.

In this article, I am going to help you save 30 minutes every single week by investing just 15 minutes of your time right now. I have made the process super simple and requiring as little time, money and effort from you as possible. This is why I am going to focus on saving time on just one type of activity. It is an activity that most Small Business Owners waste a fair bit of time on every single day. So you don't have to track your time and then painstakingly analyse the data, you can just get started on saving time right away. Read on if this sounds like it could benefit you.

Is This The Part Where You Ask For My Email?

Nope. If I was to ask you for your email at this point and then started bombarding you with marketing emails, I would actually be wasting your time, not saving you time. Which would be kinda counter-productive.

If the tips on this page work for you and you'd like to read more of my time-saving and App overload eliminating tips, you can subscribe at. the bottom of this page. And if not, not.

Less

not more

I know what you're thinking. "How much time and money is all this time-saving going to cost me?"

The good news is that it's not going to cost you any money and will only require 15 minutes of your time ONCE to save 30 minutes every single week.

Think of it a bit like the goose that lays the golden egg.

Are you ready to check out that goose yet?

#1 culprit!

The Biggest Time-Waster For Most Small Business Owners Is...

Email. Most of us spend a lot of time in our Inbox every single day so it's the number one place to start saving time because almost every single Business Owner I speak to spends at least 1 hour every day in their Inbox. (And even then they are probably underestimating just how much time they spend in their email).

Constantly being distracted from what you were doing by email notifications and feeling like you "have to quickly answer that email now"
Unsubscribing from the relentless onslaught of email newsletters and other marketing junk.
Reading through countless unimportant emails just to make sure they really are unimportant.
Re-typing the same email or email snippet again and again from scratch.

START SAVING TIME NOW!

How To Save 30 Minutes Every Week With More Efficient Email

STEP 1

Install Edison Mail App

Edison Mail is a free email app that we are going to use to achieve the steps outlined in this article quickly and for free.

I'm not asking you to ditch your current email app if you are in love with it but at least use Edison Mail for the steps in this article (and who knows, you just might fall in love with it!). Sign-up is fast and easy.

Cost Free / Time Required 2 mins.

0 mins / week saved

step 2

Unsubscribe from ALL Newsletters

Now you could do this the old fashioned way but it would take you forever and we don't have time for that. Which is why I recommend using Edison Mail's bulk unsubscribe feature to quickly view and get rid of all unwanted email newsletters in a few minutes.

Cost Free / Time Required 3 mins.

15 mins / week saved

step 3

Scheduled Email Hours

The idea is simple; stop emails and email notifications from distracting you from what you're doing. The way to achieve this is by setting regular times when you deal with emails (say 10am and 3pm) and not opening your emails or allowing any email notifications at other times. You can do this manually. Some email apps (like the rather expensive Superhuman) offer this feature built in.

This will save you time by reducing context switching and improving focus throughout your day.

Cost Free / Time Required 5 mins.

5 mins / week saved

step 4

Email Templates

Many popular free email apps (eg Gmail) offer email templates. (See this article to learn how to use templates in Gmail). Email templates for frequently used emails or even parts of emails will not only save you time again and again, they will also allow you to continually refine and improve your emails. Setting up all your email templates is time consuming. So, do it the smart way. Instead of crafting that next common email from scratch, craft the email template instead and then insert the template.

Cost Free / Time Required 2 mins.

10 mins / week saved

STEP 5

A focused inbox

Again, many free email apps like Gmail offer this feature, automatically sorting your emails based on type or priority.

Some Apps (like Edison Mail) take this to the next level with powerful filtering and sorting, often powered by AI.

This is a useful tool that helps you to know which emails to focus on first and also allows you to deal with similar emails in batches, which is more efficient.

Cost Free / Time Required 0 mins.

5 mins / week saved

STEP 6

Keyboard shortcuts

If your email app has keyboard shortcuts, start learning and using them now. You only need to spend a few minutes to write down and start using the most common shortcuts (delete, archive, snooze, reply etc) and they will start saving you time immediately. Keyboard shortcuts save you time because you can keep your fingers on the keyboard the whole time and now switch from keyboard to mouse or have to look for what to click.

Cost Free / Time Required 3 mins.

5 mins / week saved

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