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With your business standards there will be many processes and activities that you’ll need to establish and maintain on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis in order to keep things working effectively. The activities may include recording your time and your mileage, accounting and invoicing, and a multitude of other actions that stretch your abilities (and quite possibly your patience). It would be very easy to cut corners or rush through something just to get it done (or to not even bother doing it at all). After all, few clients will ever see the stuff that goes on behind the scenes in your business right? Although that may be true, that attitude is a recipe for disaster and your lack of attention to the administration side of your business will quickly catch up with you.

Set out processes for all your business activities no matter what they are. If you don’t know how to do something, consider hiring help. Hire a professional to help you create a system that works for you. It might be an accountant to show you the proper way to invoice or to manage the books, or even another design business owner to show you the best way to track your time on a project. Once you’ve established a process, maintain it.