4 ways to grow your salon business without giving up your social life

Balancing work and a social life can be tricky enough, but when you are also trying to grow a successful business often it's your private life that ends up taking a back seat. Sometimes it feels we’re living to work, not working to live, and here at software provider Beu, we don’t think that’s right.  

We provide salons, spas and self-employed stylists with software to automate their work flow, but there are other things that you can do to get your work-life balance back in check and get back to living la dolce vita (aka the good life).

Prioritising your time can be tricky, and with your smartphone always within reach it feels like there are a million-and-one ways to get distracted. If you often feel like you’re fighting fires then the Urgent/Important Matrix could help you plan ahead and stay on top of your to-do list.

The Urgent/Important Matrix brakes down tasks into the following four quadrants:

1. Urgent and important

There are generally two types of tasks that fall into this quadrant – tasks that could be foreseen and those that couldn’t. 

If you find yourself stuck on urgent and important tasks and always up against a deadline on work that could have been foreseen, then maybe more focus needs to be put into quadrant two and planning your workload.

2. Not urgent but important

These are the tasks that you need to do to achieve your goals. It could be sorting out a new marketing strategy for your salon or learning a promising new treatment that could boost profits.

By staying on top of not urgent but important tasks, you will remove time sensitive tasks, hopefully reducing work stress and freeing up some social time for yourself.

3. Urgent but not important

Often tasks that fall into this category are other people's problems. For example, unnecessary emails are often a killer for productivity. If you can schedule your emails for a certain time of the day and smash them all at once, rather than as they come in, it may help claw back your time. 

Often a lot of tasks that you can delegate fall into this category, so don’t be afraid to ask for a little help from time to time.

4. Not urgent and not important

Learn to say no. Tasks in this quadrant are things you don’t really want to do anyway and they don’t contribute to anything. Setting boundaries can block these tasks before they get to you, and avoid the friction that can come with saying no.

 Identifying what kind of tasks you spend your time doing with these quadrants will hopefully help you get back on track and keep your work-life balance in check.  

If you find yourself spending too much time taking care of admin or organising bookings, then maybe Beu business management could help. We provide a software platform that lets clients book and reschedule appointments, allowing you to run your business from anywhere. 

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