Just as we might spend time cleaning our homes and selling the unused junk in our garage, spring cleaning our business can be worthwhile each year. It not only provides us a chance to trim the fat and see where improvements can be made, but also where we’re going wrong, and where those mistakes or redundancies are somewhat holding our business back.

Using this as an unofficial ‘review’ of your business affairs can be quite useful, even if you don’t enact the perfect solutions right now for every little thing you uncover, you can still note your observations and plan to address them in the near future.

But what does spring cleaning entail for your business? Well, of course, it could simply mean actually cleaning your office, going through the store rooms. listing your unused assets, and restoring your company’s image in this light. That can always be a worthwhile use of your time.

But of course, spring cleaning refers to much more than just vacuuming your office carpets. In this article, we’ll delve into just what this may involve:

Optimising Your Digital Workflow

It’s important to make sure that our workflow is streamlined, intuitive, easy to handle, offers great UX, and of course, is totally secure. There are many services that can help you achieve that, integrating your process and your workflow to make them both seamless with one another, cutting the fat, improving productivity, and ensuring that you’re more competitive on a moment to moment basis. For instance, with Magento Accelerator rapid deployment packages, you can install that mode of working with care and diligence without having to pause your working effort for an undue amount of time.

Reviewing Your Company Culture

It’s very easy to dimiss our company culture as something that runs anterior to our actual daily operations, but really, our workplace culture is tantamount to our success as a business and the happiness of our employees. This is true even if most of our staff are working from home. Reviewing how staff talk to one another, making sure you interview each staff member to see how they’re getting on, opening anonymous feedback forms to get a grip on what’s actually going on - this can help you work to restore social fragmentation or even just bring more authentic morale to your team again. Those efforts really can and do make a difference in the long run.

Reaching Out To Your Clients

Consumer confidence is at an all time low, and that’s because recent societal challenges have caused us all to be a little more discerning with our spending. It can be worthwhile to reach out to our clients of the past, maintaining a physical presence (even if that means sending them a card or promotional offer), or being seen in a trade show capacity (even if digitized) can help you maintain your presence your audience would expect to see you thriving in. This kind of reaching out can help you touch base with those connections your business has worked hard to curate, if only to understand your status in those fields.

With this advice, we hope you can more easily spring clean your business as appropriate.