Has this ever happened to you? You come across a thread on Facebook where people rave about a task/project management tool:
Ooh, it’s super easy to use and crazy effective;
I no longer have to rewrite to-do lists or have them in 9 places;
I use it to pretty much run my life;
It’s been my go-to tool for client management;
I’ve been using it for both business and personal tasks just to have everything in one place. It’s amazing!
All that sounds heavenly. Excited, you create an account with that tool and start moving your tasks and projects there. For the next few days you diligently open your new tool and poke around to figure out how you can make it do the same wonders people talked about.
We’ve already established that Trello has a variety of unconventional business uses, including planning your webinars and keeping track of your metrics, and now I want to show you how you can manage your blogging system using it as well.
If you’re not already familiar with Trello, it is based on a Japanese concept called “kanban” boards, which help you focus on status in projects as opposed to due dates. This approach gives you a clear indication of where tasks are stopping, or becoming bottlenecks, and it’s visual, which can be appealing to all you right-brained entrepreneurs. :]
So let’s see how you can use Trello to manage your editorial calendar and help you make sure that you never miss publishing an article.
If you’ve been using it to manage your daily to-do list, great!
While it’s an effective tool for organizing tasks, it can be used for so much more than that – which could help you be a more strategic, organized, and productive business owner.
Curious?
Here are four unconventional ways to use Trello for your business.
Knowing what markers to look out for in order to reach your ultimate goal is imperative, but what about day-to-day? How do you organize your daily workload so that you hit the milestones you’ve set for yourself?
Certainly not by working harder.
As cliché as it sounds, it’s true.
Working longer hours is not the way to get more stuff done.
What do you do to ready your business when you’re about to take some time off?
Do you schedule your content in advance? Alert your clients and virtual assistant? Set up an autoresponder for emails?
While these are all useful and necessary steps to do pre-vacation, there are some less practiced, but just as critical steps, that many entrepreneurs forget to take that would help them relax on their vacation with the peace of mind that everything is being taken care of.
To see a full list of the tasks you should complete before you take a vacation, get my Pre-Vacation Checklist.
