Efficient meeting scheduling
If you run a business that requires meeting with clients or groups of people, you will know how tricky it can be to manage and organise times that suit everyone.
Don’t spend endless hours emailing, texting or phoning back and forth with everyone to try to coordinate – there are some tools that will help.
Allowing clients to book time with you directly is a great option that lets your clients feel like they matter – they can select a time to suit themselves and put it into your diary directly. I use an app called Timetrade for this. This neat app hooks itself into my Outlook calendar. Via my website it shows my existing appointments/meetings as busy time (no, it doesn’t show who I’m with, it just shows the time as busy) and gives clients the opportunity to create a meeting with me.
Another handy feature of this app is that I can have different views of my calendar for different websites/businesses. In my consulting business, clients have the opportunity to set up two hour meetings. Whereas for my face-to-face training business, clients prefer either morning or afternoon bookings, so I publish different calendar options for each on my websites.
If you need to organise meetings with multiple people, whether for business or socially, Doodle is great. Simply set up as many or as few choices of dates and times as you like, add people to the list and an auto-generated email will invite them to select those times they can attend. You can then choose the option that suits most people and lock it in.