Business automation is especially valuable to entrepreneurs, because
your greatest constraint is often on your time. You’re likely running
your startup with a lean staff, but you still need the results and
growth of an established company.
Below are a list of
simple-to-use, affordable tools that can help you scale and automate
your business for faster growth. Best of all, these tools were designed
to be affordable.
1. Dasheroo
Today’s business environment
requires numerous third-party apps for success. Many entrepreneurs are
promoting their businesses on Twitter and Facebook, measuring their
sites' performance on Google analytics, marketing email through
MailChimp and the list goes on and on.
These
platforms individually are great at what they do and provide valuable
data, but require unique logins for each platform, but more often than
not, their analytics don’t talk to each other. That’s where Dasheroo can
help. All your platforms can be found in one central dashboard,
accessible through a single sign in and with analytics that work
together between platform silos. It’s brilliant for the busy
entrepreneur who wants it all in one place.2. Shopify
Whether you have an online storefront or a physical presence, Shopify can
help you process payments easily. For online entrepreneurs, you can
plug your unique business URL into the Shopify platform and build out a
customized online storefront inside its vast library of templates. Add
products, build in return and exchange policies, set up state taxes and
shipping rates all with a few simple mouse clicks.
Shopify
has great customer support, sends informative and helpful set-up
instructions and handles all the aspects of your online storefront for
your end user. It also offers a retail location application for a
checkout register so you can get the best of both worlds.
3. ClearVoice
Content
marketing is an essential aspect of today’s sales environment. You
drive visitors through your purchasing funnel with effective, valuable
content-marketing campaigns. However, content takes time to ideate,
create and seed out into the world to effectively drive visitors to your
site and get them into your funnel.
How do you have the bandwidth to handle all those steps for your business? ClearVoice is
your solution. Inside the platform you can start ideas, get expert
feedback and hire great content creators. You can then manage the
creation process through its dashboard and when content is completed,
use ClearVoice's third-party publishers to get the content out to the
masses.
It couldn’t be simpler and is the most automated content-creation platform on the market.
4. Infusionsoft
This is the gold standard for small businesses and startups needing a sales and marketing solution. Infusionsoft offers
entrepreneurs a complete end-to-end sales and marketing-automation
software that includes customer-relationship management, email marketing
and effective lead capture. Perhaps the most brilliant thing about
Infusionsoft is the platform’s ability to simply plug in other
applications you might need.
For
example, if your online business storefront is set up through Shopify,
Infusionsoft offers integration between its platform and Shopify, so
your online shopping cart sales get captured and your leads and
customers get plugged into your Infusionsoft CRM.
5. Printful
Printful
will create and ship on demand a wide variety of custom products so you
don’t have to carry inventory or take on the stress or risks of
printing and shipping. Printful offers a wide variety of print-on-demand
products ranging from hoodies and tees to coffee mugs and posters, so
there are lots of options to choose from.
The Printful interface
plugs easily into Shopify and other online shopping-cart solutions, too,
which makes setting up an online store a cinch. No products to carry,
no shipping to worry about, just make your designs and upload them into
your Printful account, then as your products sell, the Printful folks
manufacture and ship for you automatically. It couldn’t be easier to
start creating products.
6. ClickFunnel
A great sales
funnel is a highly automated way to convert your site visitors into
clients. When you have a great piece of content you’ve created in a
platform such as ClearVoice, you’ll want to get it out to the world, but
what happens when the world clicks on your content? Driving your
content viewers into a sales funnel is a great way to effectively
monetize your content.
ClickFunnel
has the templates for effective, easy-to-create sales funnels. You can
choose from all types of layouts, such as landing pages for
webinars and white paper. There’s bound to be a template for the type of
funnel you need to create and ClickFunnel automates the process, so
once you set it up, the process is automated and done.
7. Sprout Social
Social
media is a necessary tool for every entrepreneur and the expected
standard for communicating, sharing and distributing your content.
However, measuring the engagement, scheduling your messages and
interacting with your social followers can get complex and
time-consuming, especially if more than one person on your team is
responsible for social media.
Keep track of the conversations that are happening and understand the metrics behind all your various social-media content with Sprout Social.
Its interface keeps the lines of communication clear, while providing
valuable insights into the conversations that are happening on your
accounts and between your team and social followers. You can also
automate sending messages with its great scheduling tool.
Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/251162
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