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July, 2015

Is Your Company Leading the Way in Sales?

Submitted by Tristan Anwyn on Mon, 07/20/2015 - 12:49

Leads help fuel your business, bringing you new interest that hopefully leads to new customers, new conversions, and more sales.

Nurturing your existing customers is vital, but new and profitable lead generation means bringing new life and new sources of income into your business.

But like with any other fuel, your business won't thrive unless you give it the right kinds of leads, the kinds that will lead to sales.

Surround Yourself with the Right Talent: What Types of Employees is your Business Missing?

Submitted by Rachelle Wilber on Tue, 07/21/2015 - 10:49

As society gets more advanced, doing business becomes more complicated. Unless a business owner gets the right kind of talent with their company, this increase in employment demand ends up being very costly for large companies. One way for companies to buck this trend is to hire core employees that significantly reduce the need to hire other employees to maintain the same level of productivity.

Developing A Continuous And Meaningful Customer Engagement Strategy

Submitted by Emma Sturgis on Tue, 07/21/2015 - 11:06

The quality of customer service is often the primary differentiator between successful and failed companies. If you’re serious about your customers, getting serious about continual and quality engagement with them should be a main priority. The following are a few techniques your business can employ to engage customers and improve your customer service quality.

Make a Cloud Call Center Part of Your Business

Submitted by Tristan Anwyn on Thu, 07/23/2015 - 09:04

Is your business call center looking to the cloud?

Whether you have a dedicated call center or staff members who man the phones in between other tasks, your call center is vital to the success of your business. Your call center should be based on excellent customer service, ensuring that callers can get in touch with the right person to get their query resolved quickly.

Using cloud-based call center technology can help you to deliver efficient service.

The Top Five Types of Freelancers

Submitted by Elena on Fri, 07/24/2015 - 12:33

How many freelancers are out there? On top of that, are there different classifications within the freelancer category?

Whether it be one’s full time career path or just a side gig, it seems like everyone is freelancing these days. However, are there really that many of them? There are around 53 million freelance workers that make up the bread and butter of the US labor force, to be more precise. This number accounts for up to 34% of Americans who currently work.

4 Important Benefits of Using Time Tracking Software for Small Businesses

Submitted by Nastya Savelyeva on Fri, 07/24/2015 - 12:57

The common problem that small businesses face is a limited budget, which sometimes is not enough to fully cover the expenses.

In such circumstances time tracking software, is the last thing that business owners think about. What they see is another expense. However, time tracking tools help to significantly improve the performance of the company and reveal hidden expenses.  

Six Biggest Ways Your Company Loses Money Every Month

Submitted by Brooke Chaplan on Fri, 07/24/2015 - 13:12

Most companies understandably focus on profits as a measure of a success, but often forget that financial losses are equally as important to pay attention to. Below explains six of the biggest ways companies around the world lose money and how you can avoid these common pitfalls.

Poor Accounting
Every company should have a clear picture of the profitability of every order, product, and project under their management. A surprising amount of companies actually don’t closely track specific costs. Without versatile accounting software, it is very difficult to analyze and understand expenses and where they are coming from. Management must continually monitor their return on investments in order to eliminate unprofitable products and projects. 

Significance of Salesforce CRM Package in Today’s Commercial Environment

Submitted by Jenny Richards on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 09:19

Salesforce is an international cloud computing solution provider specializing in CRM (customer relationship management) product. It offers seven cloud based services, namely: i) data cloud; ii) marketing cloud; iii) sales cloud; iv) collaboration cloud; v) custom cloud; vi) service cloud; and vii) analytics cloud.

Is Your Business Geared Towards Worldwide Sales?

Submitted by Adam Groff on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 09:47

Promoting and selling your business in your home country is one thing, but doing so on a global level is something else entirely.

Fortunately, taking an Internet savvy approach to worldwide sales can help your business cross international borders.

Here are a number of ways being Internet savvy can help your business with worldwide sales:

Steps On Expanding And Growing Your Business

Submitted by James Helliwell on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 08:55

If you’re lucky enough to own your own business, the ultimate aim is to expand your customer base and grow as company. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, business is business and that means that the weak will be dominated by the strong. Consequently, this means your business needs to be stronger than the competition when it comes to speed, efficiency and customer service. Once you’ve established your strength in the market and have gathered a large and loyal customer base, the time could be right to expand and this is where this article will become useful. Here are a few practices you should look at to help the business expansion run as smoothly as possible.