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Making things easier
Ok, this is not in reference to actually DJing on the night, but rather the 'running of the business'.
I am currently spending far too long on the admin/business side of things and looking at ways to make things easier. I am in the process of arranging to meet a G-Suite advisor who I know can help greatly and have automated quite a few things, but putting it out there to find out what little tips and tricks others have to make the office work less of a chore and a lot quicker.
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I operate everything through DJEP and Office 365.
To echo Toby - what is it that's taking up the most time?
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In all honesty I am not sure what exactly is using up the time.
I have virtually no client meetings now, although quite a lot of venue meetings. Accounts don't take me long, processing a booking a little slow but not bad.
Think the main time consumer is likely marketing if honest.
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Marketing does take time, as I'm finding out myself.
However - it's not admin. It should be seen as a high priority task which actually brings in money and bookings.
I tend to spend time writing all of my marketing copy way ahead of time (as and when for instance I have the time for a blog post etc), and schedule it to appear on the site at a later date.
it takes time, but I'm getting a lot quicker and better at it....and it's bringing in more business so can't complain too much from this end.
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Get DJEP and relax
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Originally Posted by
ppentertainments
processing a booking a little slow but not bad.
What do you use for bookings? I use DJEP and my process of getting an enquiry to booking is seconds.
The enquiry gets added in automatically from my website - I add in a few additional details and the price.
When they want to book I click one button.
When they paid the deposit and signed the contract, I push another button.
And that's it!
It's been a massive time saver.
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I looked into DJEP as I presently use Pages and Numbers.
It seemed an huge amount of work to set up and wouldn't import my existing templates from Pages.
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Originally Posted by
DJColsie
I looked into DJEP as I presently use Pages and Numbers.
It seemed an huge amount of work to set up and wouldn't import my existing templates from Pages.
Absolutely - I can't deny that it took a long time to not only set up, but also learn.
It's an incredibly complex product to enable it to cater for all eventualities.
But my time investment up-front has definitely paid off in the huge amount of time that I have saved.
My life is so much easier - and it all integrates in to my Office 365 calendar, so I can never "double book" myself by mistake!
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