Carve out more time as a small business owner with Adobe Acrobat online

As a small business owner, you’re in the trenches with every aspect of your company — the work, the finances, the big decisions, the minutia, and all the ups and downs. While you enjoy every ounce of success, you also feel every second of pressure.

It’s no wonder Forbes reported in recent years that 29 percent of small business owners logged more than 50 hours of work a week. Plus, that work stretched into the weekend for 86 percent of them. And that’s pre-pandemic, before the lines between home life and work bled together even more.

If you’re a business of one, the pressure is especially acute because no task, large or small, gets done unless you do it. Every efficiency you find not only has a direct effect on your business’s profitability but also saves you time and reduces stress.

With the help of Adobe Acrobat online PDF tools, you can see productivity growth, decrease expenses, and maybe even save enough time to hit the beach, visit the golf course, or just kick back and read a good book.

Automation is your new employee of the month

New technology can play an important role when it comes to multitasking and time management. Every meeting you have to manually add to a calendar takes time you’re not spending on other work. Those five minutes might seem inconsequential, but small tasks add up. As a microbusiness, the amount of time you save has a direct impact on your bottom line. So automate what you can to save time and money.

• Scheduling: From meetings to appointments, find a solution that helps you spend less time managing your calendar.
• Tracking expenses and sales: Manually entering data is a time-consuming job. Many platforms can help you track expenses and sales in real time, so you spend less time typing information and more time learning from it.
• Paying bills: If your task list of bills to pay is bogging you down, set up automatic payments. It’s a simple step, but one that can save you many hours every month.
• Invoicing customers: A system that automatically generates and sends invoices is a real time-saver for small business owners and one that ensures you get paid in a timely manner.

How Acrobat online tools deliver productivity improvements

The greatest loss of time often revolves around never-ending paperwork. But when you take it digital with Acrobat, you can streamline tasks while simplifying file management. You can try free Acrobat online tools to see where you can increase your efficiency most, or sign up for a seven-day free trial of Acrobat Pro DC to get unlimited use of all Acrobat PDF and e-signing tools.

Unify your workflow

From Microsoft Word docs and Excel spreadsheets to files in Google Drive — varied file sources make project management complex. Acrobat simplifies it all by letting you link online storage accounts so you can work with all of your files in one place. You can also convert almost any file to and from PDF for easy content edits and reuse.

Improve collaboration

Poor communication can lead to project burnout. Reduce phone calls, emails, direct messages, and more by adding notes right in your documents. With Acrobat online, you can add comments, sticky notes, text, drawings, and other markups to any PDF to make sure important edits or tasks don’t get missed. You can also get everyone on the same page faster by sending a document out for review to collect everyone’s feedback in one file online.

Stay agile by staying digital

There are few things more tedious than paper contracts or forms that waste your time with antiquated signature processes and snail mail. Prioritize signing speed with the Fill & Sign tool in Acrobat online, and sign and send PDFs right in your browser window in seconds.

Don’t let the success of your business hinge on working nights and weekends. Delegate time-consuming tasks to digital tools that can help you work faster and smarter. Explore how Acrobat Pro DC or Acrobat online PDF tools can deliver productivity gains that lead to economic growth as they give you time back — maybe even helping you carve out an opportunity for a well-earned vacation.