Productivity Hacks for Busy Mompreneurs

Mompreneurs are carving out their niche, balancing the demands of entrepreneurship with the joys and challenges of motherhood. While juggling these dual roles, productivity becomes a crucial factor in achieving both business success and family harmony. Unlike widely shared tips, such as sticking to a rigid schedule or multitasking to the extreme, we’ve gathered some unique and practical strategies specifically tailored for mompreneurs who work from home amidst the chaos of family life.

Utilize Early Mornings and Late Evenings

The flexibility of running your own business allows you to optimize your working hours to fit around family life. For mompreneurs, early mornings and late evenings often provide uninterrupted time to tackle important tasks. Starting your day before the household wakes up means you can dive into projects requiring deep concentration without distractions. Whether it’s drafting proposals, working on marketing strategies, or managing finances, these quiet hours can be incredibly productive.

Similarly, once the kids are tucked in for the night, take advantage of the calm to focus on less demanding tasks. This can be an ideal time for organizing your work area, responding to non-urgent emails, or planning the next day’s activities. By aligning your workload with your children’s schedules, you make the most of the day without sacrificing family time.

Implement Micro-Tasking

Micro-tasking is a powerful productivity strategy for busy mompreneurs. This approach involves breaking down your larger projects into smaller, manageable tasks that can be completed in brief intervals. When you’re balancing work and raising kids, long, uninterrupted stretches of time can be rare. Micro-tasking allows you to make steady progress even in a fragmented schedule.

For example, if you need to draft a comprehensive report, break the task into smaller chunks like researching, outlining, writing the introduction, and so forth. Tackle each piece during short periods when your children are occupied, such as during their nap time or independent play. This not only makes the workload less overwhelming but also ensures you remain productive throughout the day.

To implement micro-tasking effectively, keep a list of tasks that can be done in 5, 10, or 15-minute increments. Use tools like digital timers or task management apps to allocate and track these tasks. Knowing you have a clear, actionable list can make it easier to dive into work the moment an opportunity presents itself.  Additionally, try incorporating tools that can help streamline these micro-tasks. Voice-to-text apps, for instance, can allow you to draft emails or notes while multitasking. Cloud-based project management tools can help you access and update your work from anywhere, making it easier to squeeze in productive moments.

Schedule Regular Breaks and Self-Care

Taking breaks throughout your workday is essential for maintaining productivity and avoiding burnout. Aim to schedule short, regular breaks to step away from your workspace and recharge. Activities like stretching, deep breathing exercises, or even a quick dance session with your kids can rejuvenate your energy and focus.  Equally important is incorporating self-care into your daily routine. Allocate time each day for activities that nurture your well-being. This might include reading a chapter of a book, enjoying a leisurely bath, or practicing yoga. Self-care helps you reset and approach both your business and family responsibilities with renewed vigor. 

Remember, self-care isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity. By consistently integrating these breaks and self-care activities into your schedule, you’ll maintain a higher level of productivity and a better balance between work and home life.

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7 Strategic Ways To Grow Your Mompreneur Business

If you are a mompreneur who has been working your business for a while, there comes a pivotal point when you seek to take your business to the next level. Whether it’s to increase your income goals, elevate client experience, streamline your processes or all of the above, growing your business will require some high-level strategies.

As a full-time mompreneur myself in business since 1996, it can be easy to get overwhelmed with the details but the best place to start, even when growing your business is to focus on drilling down what has worked best for you so far. And it’s important to keep in mind, that there is no substitute for keeping it simple.

So here are our 7 strategic ways to take your business to the next level right away.

 

1. Reevaluate Current Expenses

Before you dive into all the new ideas you have for your small business, it’s always a good idea to evaluate where you are right now. Make a list of your current business expenses and ensure you are not spending time and money in areas that you aren’t using. Those $15-$20 monthly subscriptions can really add up.

 

2. Juicy Offer

If you have been building an email list with an opt-in through your website great job! Building an email list is one of the best things you can do for your business. With social media platforms changing daily and algorithm’s decreasing the organic reach of content, having a clear and consistent email marketing strategy is a must. When you email your list, you don’t have to worry about how much reach it will get.

Maybe you have a freebie on your website that has been working and now it’s time to create some additional free resources so you have multiple offers to share and market. Consider creating a “Resource Library” on your website where your visitors can sort through the best offer(s) for them. Create pinnable graphics for each offer through a Pinterest Canva template and pin to a free resources board on Pinterest. This will help you capture more leads for your business where you can build a deeper relationship with through email.

Don’t have a freebie offer on your website? Now is the time to create one! Come up with a high value resource that can help your ideal client solve an immediate problem and position you as an expert.

 

3. Email Marketing 

As you build an email list, it’s important to communicate on a regular basis with that list in order to take your business to that next level. Send out a weekly newsletter to share something of value, your latest blog post, tool, video training, helpful hack or resource.

When it comes to email marketing, it’s definitely quality over quantity. The goal is to provide high-level value that can help your ideal client while positioning you as an expert. The goal is not to pitch your audience to buy something (this is a strategy that is okay every so often but 90% of your emails should be high quality value). Pitching your email list with offers constantly will only land you with lots of unsubscribes.

When crafting emails focus more on letting your personality shine through and less on perfecting polished sales copy. Tell a story through your emails and talk to your audience like you are sitting down with them for coffee.

At the end of the email include a photo of you with a bio, a subtle call to action and link to learn more about how they can work with you.

 

4. On Boarding Process

Maybe you’ve built your business doing discovery type calls and while it’s worked, you are wanting to take back control of your time so you can focus on only working with exactly the type of clients your skill sets are best suited for.

Having an on-boarding process for new clients can definitely grow your business by helping to weed out people who are not 100% your ideal client. Create a Google doc that you can direct people to through your website. You can set up this document to email you the responses once it’s filled out.

Ask important questions that can help you determine if a phone call is the next step or if responding with an email to let them know they are not the right fit for you at this time. You can direct them to paid resources or courses you offer, (we will talk about this more below)or refer them to someone who is a better fit.

Having a process to properly vet clients can save you hours of precious time each week so you can spend that time on other revenue generating activities, working with the right clients and spending more time with your family.

 

5. Passive Income Resources

Marketing a business takes a lot of hard consistent work, and you want to leverage the leads that come into your business as much as possible. While not everyone who lands on your website will be a good fit to work with, that doesn’t mean you don’t have value to offer them.

Put together digital products or courses that can generate passive income so you can focus on investing time to work with higher-paying clients. If you are a graphic designer who designs logos for example, you could put together an eBook training of how to create a simple logo for a new website and charge say $27. Those who may not be the right fit for you to work on a larger scale can take a DIY approach allowing you to still earn revenue for your expertise without doing any extra work.

Passive income resources like this are a great way to grow your business since it’s a product you’ve already created that you can sell over and over again.

 

6. Streamline Processes With Templates

Create templates for every aspect of your business for tasks such as onboarding clients, emails, proposals and invoices. Tools like Freshbooks are great for this as they not only manage invoices and expenses, but also client and project notes.

Use apps to track expenses to save you hours at tax time and create folders for client emails so you aren’t spending hours searching for them. Spending time up front to stay organized can greatly increase your productivity and take your business to the next level.

 

7. Batch Your Time

There is nothing worse than feeling like you are going in circles not being productive. In order to grow your business, you need to use your time wisely and batch your recurring tasks.

For example, instead of trying to figure out every day what to post on your Facebook business page, batch that task and work on it each Monday from 9am-10am and plan out the whole week. You may not even need a full hour as you will find that as you create content focusing on one platform, your creativity and momentum will flow more easily.

Now think of other recurring tasks and batch those. For instance, schedule an hour each Tuesday to create pinnable graphics for your blog posts and quote cards in Canva and upload them to your Pinterest boards.

Batching your time will drive up your productivity while creating a higher level of consistency.

There are your 7 strategic tips to grow your mompreneur business. Implement even half of these and your business is sure to flourish!

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