I have run as much of my business online as I possibly can. I have been able to shift all of my accounts to direct deposit over the last year. It was pretty easy to do for everything except one or two of my accounts which still mail me a check based on invoices I had to mail each month.
These invoices and the checks were the last pieces of paper that I had to deal with and generate the most waste in my business besides the electricity it takes to power my electronics devices. I moved the invoices to Google Documents this month and I will continue to produce the in PDF format and email them.
Everything in my business has been digitized, this means I have no more paper copies of invoices, checks or anything else to deal with on these accounts. It also means I no longer have to produce said reports from a certain PC and I can now access the documents from anywhere at anytime.
I no longer have any paperwork to deal with in my business and this includes all state corporate documents, all banking transactions, all customer invoicing and billing even all of my business licensing is now done online. I’ll have some paperwork in taxes and a few other small things like receipts for business expenses I have to deal with but I no longer produce any paper waste and I can run everything from any computer with internet access.
Now all I need to do is make more money and my business will be perfect.
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