As a business owner, are you wasting money unnecessarily? High business costs, if left uncontrolled, may adversely impact your business. What are some tips you can use to trim down your business expenses?

1. Make use of Technology

Over here at Nucleo, we’ve predicted the trends and moved our entire team to work on a remote basis years ago. Technology not only creates convenience which translates to time and money, it also helps you streamline your operations.

Invoicing: Software like Xero helps you reduce paper documents and invoice your clients speedily, making it easier for your accounts team.

Backup: Having a private cloud server not only ensures data privacy, our PSG approved package with Synology NAS and NuCloud lets your colleagues collaborate on documents in real time.

Project Management & Scheduling: Eliminate all the logistic work and make sure that 80% of the time, your employees are doing what they need to and aren’t just focused on the logistics. Apps like Google Calendar and Asana help you create deadlines and assign roles.

2. Opt to go Paperless

Shifting to e-contracts and invoices do more than save the Earth. It reduces your business costs as you do not have to deal with excessive paperwork that results in clutter and storage issues.

3. Decrease your Financial Expenditure

Some methods of reducing expenses include consolidating insurance policies or bank accounts under one institution. Another method is to evaluate your insurance policies to see if you are being over-insured or have duplicate coverage.

Consider your cash flow and debt repayment plans and opportunity costs.

4. Time is Money – manage your time

A wise saying that cannot be overlooked. As the key person of your organisation, losing focus and spending too much time on inconsequential, trivial matters is equivalent to throwing money down the drain. Track employee hours and billable hours and use apps that help you focus by switching off notifications or restricting software on your device.

5. Cut down on Office Rent

Look for ways to bring your business from the office to the world – let your employees work remotely if you do not require a physical space for your business. There are other options like working from home, shared workspaces and hot desks that will still cost less than renting or buying an office space.

Otherwise, you can cut down on rent by assessing how much physical space you require. Consider having dual functions for each room, such as using a meeting room as a break room.