As a small business owner, you often end up taking care of tasks that aren’t necessarily things that you thought you would have to do when you first began your business enterprise.
Chances are that you opened your business because of a special interest in providing services or producing products specific to an area of your expertise and interest. However, there is a lot more involved in running a business than focusing on the parts that you are comfortable with.
16 Surprising Small Business Owner Tasks
Here are some of the many tasks that small business owners often find themselves having to handle themselves – that they might not have expected when they first chose to go into business for themselves.
- Business bookkeeping
- Collecting accounts receivable
- Daily office cleaning
- Facilities maintenance
- Facilities management
- Filling out compliance reports
- Interviewing applications
- Inventory
- Making sales calls
- Meeting with vendors
- Purchasing
- Sourcing services
- Participating in networking activities
- Tax filing
- Tax preparation
- Writing policies and procedures
By no means is this an all-inclusive list of all of the tasks that small business owners deal with. The items on this list are just a few of the things that often take new entrepreneur by surprise. When you own your own business, you need to be prepared to handle any task or responsibility that comes your way – or to find a professional who can take care of it for you.
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