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# 5 Steps to High-Productivity Scheduling

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 Jul 15, 2019 2:24:39 AM / by [Zuhaib](https://blog.upbook.com/author/z)

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Your schedule is **the backbone of your business.** Without it, you won’t see any customers — that means you won’t gain any revenue, **much less make a profit.** It stands to reason that **when you productivity scheduling, your UPbook business improves.**

Here are **five steps you can take to achieve high-productivity scheduling** at your UPbook business:

### **Hire a Scheduling Coordinator**

**Hire or promote a dedicated scheduling coordinator.** This person is **responsible for your UPbook business’s entire appointment schedule** and is in charge of making sure that all clients are scheduled appropriately. Their main job is to **focus on filling the day.** That means **filling TODAY’s appointment slots** before continuing on to focus on the next day’s appointments, and two and three days out.

### **Move to Short Appointments**

If your business is using 20-minute, half-hour, or longer appointment slots, **you’re missing out on a big source of revenue.** Moving to shorter appointments — 10 or 15 minutes, for instance — allows your UPbook business to **take care of at least four or five clients per hour, and perhaps more.** That’s a huge jump in revenue! Have support staff help to move clients in and out of the office to fit in these larger numbers.

### **Fill Slots With Future Customers**

Any schedule suffers from cancellations, missed appointments, etc. **The trick is to fill open appointment slots with future customers.** This effort should be led by the scheduling coordinator and **put into practice by the UPbook-trained front desk staff.**

When a cancellation happens, the team calls ahead to see if a future client can come in now. Consistently filling these cancellations with future customers **creates a snowball effect** — it keeps your UPbook business’s schedule **jam-packed, week in and week out!**

### **Offer Flex Appointments**

A flex appointment can mean a few different things depending on your particular business model, but it’s a **great way to maintain a high-productivity schedule** at your UPbook business. Flex appointments might allow a client to drop off their materials within a range of time and come back later; it might mean your organization **fits in an emergency client around two other appointments**. In any case, **having some measure of flexibility is imperative** when it comes to maintaining a packed schedule!

### **Schedule to Production Goals**

Does your business schedule to a production goal every day? If not, **it’s time to start.** This means **scheduling every client with an end goal in mind,** whether the goal is financial in nature or a unit figure, such as a certain number of clients your UPbook business sees that day. This avoids arbitrary scheduling and makes the schedule the centerpiece of your revenue-building mechanism!

It’s time to put your UPbook business’s schedule to work — it’s one of the only ways to **increase your business’s revenue without adding additional staff or expanding in some other way.** Revolutionize your appointment booking and watch revenue jump!

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