ScheduleThing Blog

Helping small businesses reach their customers online, and take their scheduling to the web.

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Resolve to De-Stress

It's now nearing the end of January and for some of us, those new year's resolutions that we were definitely going to stick with this time have already fallen by the wayside. Adding new elements to your routine (whether it's extra workouts at the gym or more home-cooked meals during the week) can add stress to your already busy life.

We know this is a common problem. Forbes even made a list of 5 New Year's Resolutions you are likely to break (and five you'll probably keep)!

That's where ScheduleThing comes in. It's a great tool to help you keep track of a busy schedule and make time for new, healthier habits. The online scheduling software creates a place to make appointments and reservations. ScheduleThing's purpose is to post your calendar and availability online in order for clients or customers to schedule their own appointment time with you.

The best part is, you set the parameters! Whether you're a babysitter, attorney, real estate agent, or rely on scheduling in any other way, our software can book all of your appointments, leaving more time to do the things you really want to. The best part is, it's free to sign up! ScheduleThing can help make your resolutions happen this year.

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Are you currently working as a freelancer or thinking about becoming your own boss?

If so, ScheduleThing is the perfect choice for your online scheduling software.

Being a freelancer can be daunting, but here are some reasons why it can turn into a successful business: 

1. You are the boss

2. Flexible schedule: Put your 9-5 work days in the past. When you are a freelancer the schedule is all up to you. This means, ScheduleThing would make as a great tool to have customers or clients book an appointment via the site. 

3. Can work anywhere

4. Sense of accomplishment

5. More freedom

6. The sky is the limit!

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Never look at another post-it again! Do not worry about the loads of papers you have accumulating on your desk. No need to always depend on your calendar or planner to stay organized and schedule your appointments.

Sign up for your own online scheduling site and start becoming less cluttered!

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Calling All Teachers!

Lets take a minute and talk about teachers. 

Teachers are essential in everyone's life. No matter how young or how old you are, every person encounters a teacher sometime in their life. Because of this, teachers tend to be very busy and sometimes overwhelmed with grading, office hours, meetings with parents/other teachers and just trying to do their best every single day. 

So, if you are an overwhelmed and busy teacher, why not find something that can help decrease your stress levels and make your life a little bit easier? This is where ScheduleThing comes into play. 

ScheduleThing is a GREAT tool for teachers because it creates another space to make appointments and reservations. For example, if you teach various classes and offer many times/days for office hours you are bound to be flooded with emails from all of your students. Instead of reading through every email, figuring out time slots and then emailing everyone back, ScheduleThing does everything for you. The purpose of the online scheduling software is to publicize your calendar and availability in order for each individual to schedule an appointment on their own.

Does this sound great or what?

Never worry about responding to emails or double-booking. The accessibility and efficiency of ScheduleThing is there to erase all of your stress and book all of your appointments.

Create your own booking site now and make everyone in your academic life happy as well as yourself! 

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5 Ways to Organize Your Home Electronics

1. Manage Office Equipment

Stay organized by keeping all of your electronics up off the floor. Store things in shelves, boxes, drawers & anything else to keep your mess hidden.

2. Get Rid of Cord Clutter

Cords can be a hazard when sprawled out on the floor so keep everything bundled together and neatly placed.

3. Set Up Charging Station

Keep all of your products that need to be charged in the same area so you never have to go far or forget.

4. Use Boxes/Binders to Keep Things Organized

In order to keep your workplace organized, place all of your important items and electronics into boxes or binders. Boxes & binders can also be a way to show your creativity and personality by choosing different colors & designs. 

5. Consolidate Items According to Purpose

Label each of your storage containers so you know exactly where everything is. 

Once everything is perfectly organized in your home office, stay even more organized and sign up for your free online booking site to keep reservations and appointments in the same place. http://bit.ly/PA8doJ 

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Whether it be your living room or kitchen, interior decorating can solve any home design dilemmas. 

When choosing an interior decorator, why not make it easy and instead of shuffling through papers and then having to call around to multiple candidates and set up appointments, simply go online and with the click of a button schedule your appointment. Everything is at your convenience and no one is wasting time on the phone and discussing potential dates. Search through the calendar, find an available time & day and then just click. 

It is THAT simple!

Have all your decorator friends create their own online free booking site to make it fast & easy to schedule an appointment to start designing your house!

CREATE YOUR FREE BOOKING SITE NOW!

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Why should you start decreasing your use of paper??

Read the top 8 reasons for why becoming paperless saves time, money and space!

Then, create your own online booking site to start your paperless process.

https://www.schedulething.com/signup/

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Online Organization vs. Paper & Pencil Organization

Why should anyone create a website in order to organize their appointments?

Easy answer, because online organization is faster, more efficient and easier to navigate compared to classic pencil and paper ways to organize.

Just think, if you were to only make reservations and appointments over the phone then the time you could have spent doing more important tasks was spent talking to customers and answering questions that a website easily could have done for you.

Online scheduling is the solution for anyone in a profession that thrives on maintaining a consistent customer base.

When first upgrading from paper and pencil scheduling you must remember three important things:

1. Embrace your personality!!

- When creating an online presence you must always embrace who you are and what you are all about. Never disguise yourself! If you are a photographer, make your site creative and fun to look at. If you are a doctor, make your profile professional and mature.

2. Commit

- Once you develop a ScheduleThing site do not forget about it! Commit to your new organization plan and utilize the website to its fullest potential.

3. Use your resources

-If you are new to the online world and are clueless in how to approach the situation do not be afraid to get help. First, check out the ScheduleThing website and watch the introductory video, read the guidelines and look through example sites. Then, ask a colleague or friend who is sufficient in "internet language."

Create Your Free Booking Site Now!

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Organization, What is The Point?

What is the point of being organized? Have you ever had someone ask you this question or overhead people talking about organization and why it is said everyone should embody organizational characteristics and skills. 

Well, the answer is simple. EVERYONE can benefit from obtaining a few organizational skills. The first step towards becoming an organized individual is to understand why organization can be essential in your daily life. Here are the top 5 reasons to be organized:

1. Reduces Stress: no need to worry about not making a deadline or forgetting about an appointment, once organization is implemented into your life say goodbye to worries!

2. Saves Time: never again will you need to waste precious time or have to reschedule anything due to your lack of organization.

3. Manages Your Workload: organizational tools such as calendars, lists, online scheduling sites, agendas/planners and reminders are great ways manage anyone's hectic work duties and tasks.

4. Prioritizes Your Schedule: If you find it difficult to prioritize and manage your time well, then becoming organized is the best solution. When organization is applied into daily life, tasks are clearly defined. Time does not wait for anyone or anything, so managing the time you do have is important.

5. Less Forgetful: When something is not written down it is very common to forget what you were supposed to do. Because of this forgetfulness that everyone is guilty of having happen to them, organizing and writing down tasks/deadlines/meetings and etc.. is extremely important. 

Create Your Free Booking Site Now!

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Welcome Back!

We have been on a little break from the blogging world these past few months, but ScheduleThing is BACK!

And, this is perfect timing because students are heading back to school while everyone else is getting back into the swing of work days since summer has passed. 

Enjoy our new daily/weekly posts about the online booking software that is ScheduleThing!

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Gutter Installation and Cleaning

Imagine you're on the job, up on the ladder, in the middle of a gutter cleaning or repair, and you get a phone call about scheduling an appointment for another client.  Since you're attentive to the needs of your clients, you come down off the ladder, walk to your truck, and pull out your planner to schedule an appointment for the following Monday.  You end up chatting with your client for 10-15 minutes before hanging up the phone.  As you're on your way back to the ladder to finish the job, your phone rings again.  It's the same client that just called asking "are you available next Tuesday, instead?"  Now you're on your way back to the truck, making for a sluggish repair time and a disgruntled customer.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to let clients see your schedule in real-time and book appointments online instantly?  Well, with ScheduleThing, it is a reality.  ScheduleThing is an online booking service that gives you a customized site for your gutter installation and cleaning business that lets customers schedule appointments without making a phone call that drags you away from your tasks.  You and your customers receive instant email notifications the moment there's a cancellation, rescheduling, or new appointment. You can also opt to send your clients reminders, so missed appointments or no-shows at the site of repair are a thing of the past.

This spring let ScheduleThing ease your scheduling worries. Happy Scheduling!

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Group Bookings / Multiple Seats

At ScheduleThing we cater to a wide variety of businesses and industries. In doing so we have had to make our software flexible and capable of handling a number of different booking types. One of the ways in which we maintain this flexibility is by offering group booking or multiple seats. Are you teaching a class that has room for multiple students? Or giving a tour for a group of people? With ScheduleThing's online scheduling software you can customize the number of seats in a reservation time. 

Start by Clicking the "Reservation Types" tab

Select the Reservation Type you want to edit and scroll down to "2. Advanced Options"

At the bottom of this section you'll see "Restrict by Seats:" This is where you can edit the amount of spots available in this reservation type. 

When customers view your booking site it will automatically display how many seats are left for each time slot. If you don't want this information to display, click the box next to "Check to suppress number of available seats message"

Once your customer selects their reservation type and the date, the information will show as above. the seats will be automatically updated in your ScheduleThing account to ensure no over bookings. And there you have it, Group booking made easy!

Happy Scheduling!

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Real Estate Agents

If you're in the real estate business, you know that your job's success hinges on two things: your ability to successfully manage your listings and your ability to keep your showings organized to maintain your reliable reputation. Closing the sale is important, and getting overwhelmed by the number of listings or by last-minute cancellations or schedule changes could make all the difference between a sale and a missed opportunity.

Juggling your schedule is a challenge. If you don't have enough time to deal with booking, cancelations, or reschedule viewings, consider making a change for the better by adding ScheduleThing's online appointment setting software to your daily routine. ScheduleThing lets you manage resources like house listings, agent and appointments while allowing potential clients to view your availability and schedule an appointment online.

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Accountant / Tax Preparation

Tax season is coming!  You know what that means. Every hour of your day will be jam packed and micromanaged. 

Many CPA firms are still stuck in the dark ages when it comes to using technology to improve their in-office efficiency. Don't get bogged down by the huge surge of clients and ditch the old desk calendar. Get online and let ScheduleThing manage your life for you.

Online scheduling

Nine months out of the year, your schedule is internal.  Tax season, however, is a different story.  For the three months, your clients need to know your schedule.  So why not let them book their appointment with you on their own?  

ScheduleThing gives you a customized booking site where clients can view your availability and schedule appointments online, all without picking up the phone. Set up email updates to remind you when appointments and important meetings are.  

Schedule internal resources at your firm

You don't need expensive licenses for software like Microsoft Office anymore. ScheduleThing lets you reserve resources in your office like important meeting spaces and conference rooms for internal meetings or client engagements.

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Solar

Everyone is going green, and you couldn't be happier. Not only do you feel passionately about the environment, but business is good and you're keeping busy. Whether you work for a consulting company or a installation business, you know how important it is to keep a schedule during the busy seasons. Phone calls start rolling in and you want to fit as many clients in as possible without stretching yourself too thin. 

This is isn't as easy at it seems. Especially during stressful times, miscommunication is bound to come up. You may forget to call a company back one too many times, and you eventually lose the client and valuable business. Or maybe you frantically wrote down a referral in the car on the way to work, thinking you would remember to pencil them in the schedule. You forget, and they move on to another company. 

These things are inevitable. No matter how organized you are, there are bound to be those days where it falls apart. Lose the calendar and planner from the 1980s. After all, going green is a modern movement right? Give your scheduling an uplift as well. 

ScheduleThing allows you to post your availability on a custom booking site, so potential and current clients can reserve times for meetings and installations. It makes it impossible to double-book, and you can set up email notifications and reminders so you know exactly where you need to be each day and when. You can also see cancellations and reschedules so the time is open for other clients to use. Get online and let ScheduleThing manage your life so you can focus on expanding your business. 

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Home Inspection

A house is a huge investment--one of the biggest we make in our lifetime. As an inspector, you know this means that a buyer wants to know everything. They want to know about every leaky pipe, moldy wall and sneaky rodent before they shell out thousands of dollars. Nobody wants to buy a home and find out later they need tons of maintenance.  

That's where you come in. Potential homeowners rely on you to do a thorough inspection, and oftentimes, they want it done as quickly as possible. You've got to keep your schedule straight, and your reputation is on the line if you miss an appointment or double-book your day. The problem is, with so many phone calls and voicemails, it can be difficult to stay organized. Things come up, and sometimes it's a challenge to keep up. Families call to cancel and reschedule, and some just forget to call. Sometimes it's a mess to deal with, and any confusion slows you down and makes you appear less reliable.

Start scheduling online with ScheduleThing's web-based reservation system. ScheduleThing allows you to post your availability online on a customized booking site so clients can set up appointments based on when you can be there. Its online reservation system sends email alerts so you can see cancellations as they happen and plan your life accordingly. Clients can schedule and change appointments multiple times, and you won't have to play the dreaded game of phone tag. You can send clients email reminders, making no-shows less frequent. Inspecting houses, you've got enough to worry about without dealing with a hectic schedule. Keep chaos in check by switching to ScheduleThing, and rest at ease knowing that your schedule is organized and worry-free.

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Catering

If you’re in the catering business, you’re passionate about food. You’ve got the cooking and baking down, but when things get crazy, the last thing you want to worry about is your schedule. Unfortunately, a small scheduling mix up can throw off your whole routine. Whether you cater large events or small events, your reputation can be badly damaged by one scheduling mistake. As a caterer you need to know about schedule changes as soon as possible in order to keep your clients happy and avoid wasting food. ScheduleThing can make your job way easier. Its online scheduling tools make it easy to stay on top of your schedule.The ScheduleThing system allows your clients to make appointments online in real-time. Your schedule is updated instantly, so you’ll get an email notification the second anything changes.You and your clients will always be on the same page.   Not tech savvy? Not a problem. ScheduleThing makes it easy to set up a custom booking site by walking you through each step. If you already have a website, you can customize their widget to fit seamlessly into your current site. It’s easy to customize ScheduleThing to your catering business. You can create different reservation types that make it easy to keep track of each event’s size and occasion.You may only need a few people on hand for a business meeting, but you’ll need a larger staff for a wedding. You set the requirements and ScheduleThing does the rest. When the holidays roll around your schedule can get pretty chaotic. ScheduleThing’s calendar view gives you and your clients an easy-to-digest look at your schedule. The Blackout feature allows you to show your clients when you’re closed or unavailable. Simply put, ScheduleThing takes care of the details so you can focus on the food.

Bon Appetit!