I am a motivational speaker. My niche and customers keep me pretty busy year around. Like with most of us some months are busier than others.

My audience see the final presentation which is the end result of a number of backstage steps taken to get to that point. Lots of work goes into each presentation.

From initial contact / conversation, scheduling, topic coverage, fees and expense negotiation, travel arrangements, rehersals and so on...

A while back I figured that my scheduled is best administered and book on a daily bases instead of fractions of a day, so I arranged my business in that way. People now book my time on a full-day bases.

I used to spend a lot of time answering availability and scheduling questions. When a "real" one materialized, I placed it on a shared spreadsheet, and tracked its steps based by changing the colors on the cell.

I looked for tools that would help me in this task, as it was tedious and repetitive and I came across DayScheduler.com . Ever since I started using it, I am able to publish my availability on my website and allow the public to request a particular day if it is available, saving me tons of time.

The publishing process was easy to implement, and I now have one place to keep and share my schedule with team members and publicly.

Looking for more use cases? See the Series: Using DayScheduler