In times of continuous technology turbulence, taking advantage of the technology advancements out there is absolutely essential. Nowadays we have the luxury of the numerous tools, platforms and apps enabling us to gain speed, free our time and automate inefficient and repetitive and manual-heavy processes.
The last but absolutely essential 3rd Pillar of building a strong support system for success is therefore to Leverage the power of TECHNOLOGY.
What are the key 5 areas to consider automating for you and your business (immediately)?
#1 Project & Content Management
Eliminate email ping-pong by creating an online collaboration space for you, your team and your clients to keep track of your projects and to-do-lists. You can explore Project Management platforms as: http://asana.com , https://trello.com , http://podio.com , manage your content in http://monday.com, and share and co-create documents via http://dropbox.com or https://www.google.com/drive/.
#2 Social Media Management
Pre-set and share your content on all of your private and business social media channels within seconds using: http://buffer.com or http://hootsuite.com. Implement a Chatbot on your Facebook Messenger channel.
#3 CRM / Database Building & Emailing
Get an off-the-shelf or customizable CRM system allowing you to build a up-to-date database of clients, collect information about them automatically (via your website etc.) and send them the right email at the right time (automatically). There are various CRM systems out there such as http://infusionsoft.com, https://www.aweber.com, http://insightly.com or http://odoo.com, but if you are not ready for a CRM implementation at least get https://mailchimp.com/ to automate email collection, newsletter distribution and email-blast sending. (PS: Careful to stay GDPR 2018 compliant!)
#4 Scheduling & Feedback gathering
Save hours by allowing your team members or clients to schedule appointments with you directly via https://calendly.com/, being synchronized with your (Outlook) calendar, use https://www.timeanddate.com/ or http://doodle.com to find the best date for your international conference call and gather feedback via https://surveymonkey.com.
#5 Accounting & Invoicing
Make the ever-present accounting and invoicing less painful by automatically collect and process expenses with http://expensify.com, collect your invoices using https://due.com/, https://hiveage.com or http://freshbooks.com or get a full ERP system as http://odoo.com or http://netsuite.com.
YOUR TURN!
Do you leverage the power of technology in order to save time, gain speed and reduce inefficiencies by mastering automation?
Get the foundation of achieving sustainable success right and start creating a winning support system for you and your business, starting today!
