Business by Design this month reports that design professionals should concentrate on top dollar duties rather than chump change chores.

THIS MONTH:
+ Time Wasted is Income Lost
+ Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Time Wasted is Income Lost
It's one thing to charge a hefty hourly fee. It's another thing to get it.

You won't get it very often if you waste your time instead on minimum wage work. Like making deliveries. And standing in line at the post office. And buying office supplies.

You're not going to reach your financial goals by licking stamps and stuffing envelopes.

You'll reach them by providing design services to high end clients, and performing those sales and marketing activities which generate the most income.

You've heard it a million times: Do what you do best, and delegate the rest.

But do you get it?

Not if you spend valuable time reorganizing your files or waiting around a job site for a painter to show up.

Not if you spend hours learning a software program that the 13 year old kid next store could handle for you in 10 minutes.

Not if you use your time placing simple orders or sending out invoices or tracking down fabric samples or futzing with other things that a junior designer or student intern could do just as well.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Think you can't afford to hire design school students or college kids or temps?

Think again.

What you can't afford is the time you spend now on routine adminstrative tasks. Pay others to do them. Spend money to make money.

Working longer hours is not the best way for you to increase your income. Managing your time more effectively is.

Don't sweat the small stuff. Hire others to do that for you.