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Side business admin week, one evening at a time
Keep a side business ticking along with a short admin slot on weekday evenings, from inbox and orders to bookkeeping and one growth task.
What’s inside
Side business admin week· 5 items
Clear the business inbox
On the Monday
- Every customer message answered or given a date
- Anything that needs real work turned into a task
Orders, bookings and deliveries
1 days after the Monday
- New orders or bookings confirmed
- Anything waiting to ship or deliver scheduled
Bookkeeping catch-up
2 days after the Monday
- This week's sales recorded
- Receipts saved in one place
- Unpaid invoices noted for a follow-up
One growth task
3 days after the Monday
Pick a single thing that moves the business forward, like a post, a price check or one supplier email. Keep it to 45 minutes.
Plan next week
4 days after the Monday
- Next week's evenings checked against your day job calendar
- Anything that can wait moved to a later week
Why weekday evenings, not one big session
A side business usually lives in the cracks of a full week. Saving all its admin for the weekend means the pile is at its largest exactly when you want to rest. Spreading it across Monday to Friday keeps each evening’s job small and specific: messages on Monday, orders on Tuesday, numbers on Wednesday.
Thursday is reserved for one growth task, on purpose. Admin expands to fill any time you give it, and the work that grows the business is the first thing to drop. Giving it a named slot protects it.
Making it repeat
Templates don’t carry repeat rules, so the template creates one week. When the rhythm suits you, open each task and choose Every week on…. Only one occurrence is ever open at a time, and a missed one never piles up, so a busy week costs you nothing extra.
How to adapt it
- Only two free evenings? Merge Monday and Tuesday into one task, and Wednesday and Friday into another.
- Use ClickUp for the business? Keep client work there and use this template only for the admin around it.
- Add an estimate to each task so Thendoo knows how much of your evening it takes.
An honest tip
Pick a stop time and keep it. A side business that eats every evening stops being a side business.