When The Wrong Click Can Ruin Your Home-Based Business

The average person clicks their mouse approximately 5,000 times per day. The action doesn’t require a lot of effort – you won’t burn more than seven calories in an entire day – but it can have dramatic consequences.

Unfortunately, because a click takes less than a second, it often happens without you registering it. The problem with technology is that we’ve been working with it for so long that it has become second nature.

Clicking happens just as naturally as breathing. And as a result, we may not be paying full attention to all the clicks we do in a day. So, one poorly thought-through click, one miscalculated finger action, and you can find yourself in big trouble!

 

Sh*t, where did my files go?

You only wanted to transfer the documents from one place to another, and you’ve accidentally sent the files to the recycle bin. If you’ve noticed in time, you can still access the trash folder and recover your data.

But what if you didn’t realize what was happening and you’ve already emptied the bin. That would be the perfect moment to launch into your favorite swearing rant.

Aside from swear words – which provide some relief, so let’s not discard them just now – there is a way around lost documents. You can typically recover a file that has been deleted using professional data recovery solutions.

If you’re the kind of person who is likely to proceed to accidental deletion, it’s a good idea to buy the full version of the tool and keep it at hand.

 

Oops, I meant to deduct that

Freelancers, self-employed professionals, and side hustlers tend to be the main people who struggle with excel formatting errors and miscalculations – to put things straight: Excel doesn’t miscalculate; it’s a user mistake. You know how things happen; you thought you selected the right cell, but you didn’t, and everybody has gone wrong as a result!

When you’re using Excel to build a simple table, the error is easy to spot. If you’re keeping your books on Excel, you might not even notice and commit a tax faux-pas.

That’s precisely why independent professionals should only rely on experts, such as outsourcing bookkeeping for small businesses. Besides, it frees up more time for you to do what you’re good at!

 

Oh no, I didn’t mean to send that!

How often have you sent an email to the wrong person? Or perhaps you’ve just realized that you’ve left a typo in the first line of your answer to a client?

Horror!

Most mailboxes can’t unsend your email, with Gmail as an exception. However, you can create an option to delay sending – which is ultimately what Gmail offers – on most professional mailboxes.

You can use the function to check your emails the last time before sending them.

 

Argh, there’s a typo in my tweet

A platform like Facebook lets you edit your posts so that typos can be easily smoothed out. On Twitter, your typo goes online and stays online.

You can’t remove it, but you can delete the tweet and publish it again after correction. Deleted tweets, however, don’t always go unnoticed. Many famous names have struggled to get the Internet to forget their deleted tweets. In other words, think twice and tweet only once.

The wrong click is not without consequences. However, more often than not, you can fix your issues, from recovering lost files to entrusting experts with your business tasks. Be careful, though: You never know where a click can get you.

What are you doing to make sure you don’t make this mistake?