Driving Jobs And Courier Jobs Importance Of Time Management To Achieve Both
have a question for you? harder when both acquiring
How is it that one courier jobs or doing courier
freelance courier can make jobs so the correct allocation of
between £750 and £980 from your time is crucially essential
courier jobs per week while to avoid having stress as a
another in the exact same result of having to do too much
circumstances can only make in too little time.
between £150 and £250 per week?
What’s the difference between To give you a rough outline of
them? what you should be doing when you
first start your freelance
In this article I want to talk to courier business, should make it
you about time management. One of clear as to why proper time
the reasons freelance couriers management is so important:
are struggling is because it
seems there is never enough hours 1. You have to survey your area
in the day. While this is not to scout and identify potential
true, the real reason is a star customers. This includes
wastage of time. customers from 2 segments
initially namely private
You see time is the only real companies and courier companies.
modern currency we have today to
trade with. You can’t save time 2. You then have to present your
and use it later. So how you use business in a professional manner
your time is a great and direct to these companies to build
determining factor in your credibility and establish trust.
success a s a freelance courier. This could be in the form of
having a smart universal outfit
I believe it is more important to or uniform with a company
work smarter then it is to work identity badge.
Yes, as a freelance courier you
Large courier companies like will not be the only one
CityLink, parcel force etc. all tendering for work so it’s
have their staff wear company important to understand what
close to establish branding and makes you unique from your
professionalism in the minds of competition for example you might
customers. You should do the offer a lower price, better
same. support, faster delivery times
etc.
3. Now that you have researched
and surveyed your target customer 5. Once you’ve bagged a number of
base, created a professional customers it only make good
image and established some sort business sense to keep in touch
of brand in the minds of the with those customers and that can
customer, you need to make be via phone or direct mail or
contact with those customers. email. I recommend email because
This is where you’ll start making you can automate the process –
phone calls, send out direct mail more on that in a later article.
pieces, place classified ads and
advertise on Google’s search As you can see just from the
engine. small list of activities I have
mentioned, there’s a lot to do,
4. Once you have some and wasting time surfing the net
appointments with customers you or talking to friends on the
need to have a service agreement phone will severely detract from
ready to show customers why and the time you need to grow and
how you are better then Tom, Dick market your business.
and Harry freelance couriers down
the road. So how can you be more productive
and manage your time more
effectively? become more productive while
growing your business rapidly.
The first thing you need to do is
to list all the activities that Next you need to assign times by
is directly responsible for when you need to complete these
bringing in the work. You can activities as well as having a
start by making a detailed list check list to check up on
of the activities you need to do yourself as you make progress.
as mentioned earlier in the Check off the things you have
article. completed and immediately move to
the next activity on your list.
You need to focus your time on
these activities above all things I find that by making yourself a
so prioritize your list in that poster with the words, “ BACK TO
order of importance. WORK” generally helps when I’m
sitting idle. You might want to
The next you need to do is to try a similar idea.
break that list of activities
into segments and focus your Remember not many people are born
attention on one part of that with perfect time management
particular activity. For example, skills so you have to practice it
if you need to make a list of until it becomes a habit. I’ve
star customers in the private included a very useful piece of
companies segment, don’t mix up software called Time Keeper that
that list with courier companies. you can use to track, how, and
where you spend your time.
Do one thing thorough and as long
as it’s an activity that directly I Hope this article shed some
contributes to your business light on the importance of time
growth, you will immediately management.
Andre Hendricks
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