When running a business, spending money is certainly necessary. Jagoans who own businesses must already know this. To make money, you need to spend money. But it turns out, there are unnecessary expenses. If you want to reduce business expenses, there are 3 ways you can try.
How to Reduce Business Expenses
1. Switch to digital documents
Documents related to business are of various kinds, Jagoans. When hiring employees, you need to provide them with employment contracts. Then, there are also letters of agreement, invoices and many more.
Printing everything can add a lot to business expenses. You need to buy paper and ink. You also need to provide a printer. Not to mention if the printer is broken.
In this modern era, technology is ready to help you switch to digital documents easily and practically. To sign documents, even the most formal ones, you can digitally sign them.
Not only cutting expenses, by switching to digital documents you also speed up business operations. Everything can be done from the laptop or computer that you are opening.
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2. No more traveling for conferences or meetings
Traveling is expensive, especially if you have to go out of town just for a conference or meeting. You need to provide a car and money for gas or buy a plane ticket, for example. Business travels are also quite a waste of time.
Just like documents that can be converted into digital form, now you can also hold conferences or meetings online. Especially after the strike of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are more and more software choices to choose from if you need to hold conferences or meetings. More practical and more cost-saving, of course.
3. Make sure to pay bills on time
There are various kinds of bills, especially if you run a business. If you rent an office building, you need to pay the building rental fee. You also need to pay bills for electricity, water, internet and so on.
The frequency of bill payments also varies. There are bills that need to be paid every month. There are also bills that need to be paid only once a year, for example.
But, for one reason or another, sometimes people forget to pay their bills on time. If bills are not paid on time, you may be fined. The late payment fees are actually unnecessary expenses, Jagoans.
So, all you need to do is make sure you pay your bills on time. There is an easy and practical way for this. In the Jago application, you can take advantage of the Plan Ahead feature.
The Plan Ahead feature allows you to schedule the transactions you need so you never forget to complete them. You can also set the payment to be automatic or semi-automatic.
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