It is very important for us to know that we're giving our viewers the advice they need to make their businesses run better.

Over the last few weeks, we've been going out directly to businesspeople to find out what their biggest headaches are at present.

One of the most common challenges that businesspeople identified was simply not having enough hours in the day to get everything done that they needed to do.

Sound familiar? We thought so too.

So we took that question out to 70 business experts from around the world and asked them to give us their best advice and tips to fix this problem.

We got tonnes of great ideas, but there were some very clear themes.

Here are the top 5 tips which have emerged out of the experts' advice so far:

1. Prioritise, prioritise, prioritise – start each week and each day with a to do list, and be brutal about what really needs to be done to get your business moving.

2. Analyse your time – note down exactly how you spend your time every day for a week. This is a very effective way to identify tasks and activities that can be delegated - or even dropped entirely.

3. Be disciplined – remember that procrastination costs you money, and so does wasting time on activities that might be easy or fun, but that don't benefit your bottom line.

4. Poor communication also costs money – so when you're giving instructions, take that little bit of extra time to be crystal clear. When there is confusion you get mistakes, work needs to be redone, and you need to repeat your instructions.

5. Manage your email – email is one of the biggest distractions and time wasters in business. Set specific times aside two or three times a day to check your inbox, otherwise leave it alone!