One thing most small business owners have in common is that they often have to wear multiple hats in the day-to-day operation of their business. This can prove challenging as the business grows and can in turn cause burn-out of the business owner and/or loss of potential income.
To avoid this, the business owner must be savvy enough to employ smart services that can improve efficiency.
Here are five services that can help scale your business without having to hire extra personnel.
1. MailChimp
MailChimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you manage and talk to your clients, customers, and other interested parties. You can use MailChimp for automated email campaigns, ads and landing pages. Their approach to marketing focuses on healthy contact management practices, beautifully designed campaigns, and powerful data analysis. MailChimp can help you become an expert marketer.
2. Zapier
Zapier is an online automation tool that connects your apps and services. You can connect two or more apps to automate repetitive tasks without coding or relying on developers to build the integration. You can create one or more Zaps which are automated workflows that connect your apps and services together. Each Zap consists of a trigger and one or more actions. When you turn your Zap on, it will run the action steps every time the trigger event occurs.
3. Browsee
Ever wonder what your web visitors do when they reach your website? Ever wish you could see the friction points on your site and what may be costing you conversions? Browsee is a web plug-in that records the user actions on your website which you can Then play back at a later time. It can also alert you when user experience is hurt due to errors or slow loading pages on your website.
4. Buffer
Buffer allows you to build and grow your social media audience. With this tool, you get an intuitive social media planning and scheduling experience that works with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
5. All-About-PDF
This list would not be complete without mentioning our very own All-About-PDF. Every business deals with a lot of documents and most of these come in the versatile PDF format. As the business operates, it will find itself in the need to process documents whether that be to merge documents together, convert them to editable Word files, to add password security to PDF files and more. All-About-PDF is a powerful toolkit that contains all the tools a business may require when dealing with PDF documents.