Articles by Thijs
The best scheduling apps for small businesses
If you're looking for a scheduling app for customer appointments, there is no shortage of choice. Calendly, Reservio, Cal.com and SuperSaaS all let customers book themselves. You set your availability, share a link, and the appointment turns up in your calendar.
Time management for business owners with customer appointments
Most time-management advice assumes a working day you largely control. You block out some focus time, work through your list, and keep your calendar as free of distraction as you can.
Digital planning board or paper diary for your business
With two people a whiteboard is usually fine. But as soon as your team grows, scheduling gets complicated fast. Who has which appointment? Who still has room today? And where does that emergency job fit?
A daily schedule that works when you work on location
Most daily-schedule advice assumes you work at a desk: an hour for email, an hour for a project, a break in between. If you work from customer to customer, your day looks nothing like that. It is shaped by appointments on location, the travel time between them, and customers who expect you to be done inside the slot you agreed.
Building a weekly schedule: the 30-minute system
Building a weekly schedule does not have to be an evening-long project. With a fixed 30-minute system you lay out your entire week: what is set, what still has to happen, and where you have room left. Not scattered moments across the week, but one session after which you are ready for the rest of it.
How to plan your week as a business owner: four steps that actually hold up
You are not the only sole trader still calling customers on a Wednesday evening to fill up Thursday and Friday, while the rest of the world is doing something fun. Planning your week sounds simple, right up until the planning itself becomes a second job.