Small businesses have many options to choose from to automate their businesses further
Tech tools such as cloud storage, accounting software, and electronic payment systems have been adopted by many small businesses to automate their operations, but can they move to the next level?
Small businesses still don’t have the technology they need the most. Most of them end up doing everything themselves- from drafting proposals to meeting with clients, to keeping a check on mails. Many of the small businessmen also have to do the administrative tasks themselves. It not only makes their tasks a bit cumbersome but also leaves less time to grow their businesses. Now there are plenty of digital tools available for the businesses to streamline their processes and make the work less stress full.
Let’s look at why investing in these tech tools makes sense for small businesses.
Saves Time: Instead of working hard over manual or administrative tasks, it saves time to focus on more important tasks. Basically time is freed up from mundane activities to other important activities like business development and meeting with clients.
Saves Money: Spending on Tech tools can help businesses also save money. Business is all about money and tools like CRM can automatically identify as to where you might be leaving money on the table. An accounting software for instance, can help you identify how to save taxes.
A data backup solution can ensure that you never lose data or experience customer churn or revenue loss. A project management solution will ensure that you don’t inadvertently miss a deadline that results in service level agreement breach and other penalties.
Each business needs to make a thoughtful selection of the tech tools that they want to use considering the size and need, maturity of their business.
According to Amit Maurya of Shagun IT Solutions who has offices in Faridabad and Gurgaon said, from hardware standpoint companies can also going for leasing the laptops at anywhere between Rs 700 to Rs 1200. By this companies are not only able to save capital, but also AMC is taken care of. This gives them flexibility on the rental as well.
Tools that can help scale up small businesses include:
1. Zoho Suit (Project Management Tool)
Project management software is great if you are trying to do many things as a part of your business. These tools allow you to digitally track your activities, appointments and deadlines as opposed to having to do them manually. Zoho is an Indian origin software that many small companies use. Zoho is also being looked at as a complete tool that handles many functions including payroll, recruitment, sales, Human Resource, project management, and accounting.
According to Kunal Tyagi who offers software to many companies and based out of Faridabad said Zoho is like the Microsoft for Indian companies. It is priced cheaply, and in fact, the company does not vary their prices.
2. Monday.com (Project management)
Best for small businesses include Monday. It offers a broad spectrum of apps that make it easy to implement and get started right away. It works the best for small businesses who are new to project management software, though once the work, company Clickup (Project management size and your work, company size or collaboration across teams goes up, you might need to replace it. Clickup also is preferred by very small companies or individuals businesses.
3. HubSpot (CRM)
This is a CRM platform that is designed to scale with your business. From a one person business to a 2,000 employee enterprise, the HubSpot has the marketing, sales, customer service operations and content management features for the customer to have the best experience.
4. Freshsales (CRM)
Freshsales is a cloud-based CRM recommended for businesses across different industry verticals to manage their interactions with existing potential customers.
5. Quickbooks Online (Accounting software)
Quickbooks is a must for the small businesses as accounting is the need of all businesses big or small.
6. Slack (Communication software)
It allows a better flow of information throughout the organisation.
7. Microsoft Teams (Communication)
is another one that comes very cheap option for a small business.
8. Mailchimp (Email Marketing and Analytics)
This is for email marketing automation and newsletter campaign)
9. Google Analytics (Marketing & Analytics)
Tracks website traffic and visitor behaviour)
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