Are You Wasting $$ on Tools to Work Online?
All your business friends are talking about how much they LOVE using Video ask, using Karta, using Notion, using Flodesk, using Keap, using Dubsado, Dubb, and a million other tools to support their business online…and you start to think maybe you need to use them too…
You start to think you’re missing out and not using the right tools to grow your business.
Then you start down the tech software rabbit hole researching and looking for the best, brightest and newest tools to grow your business online…
Before you get on an annual plan with a ton of software that you don’t actually need and end up wasting money on because you never end up using them and forget to cancel them, let’s talk about what you actually need to run a growing business online.
Tools you need to run a growing business online
Email is a given, but what else do you absolutely need to run your business online?
1) Project Management tool – YES you need a project management tool – even if you are a team of 1 – but especially if you have contractors, part-time team members, or employees – to keep your tasks in order and to collaborate on those tasks. Is someone on your team working on for you or do you have someone creating graphics for a launch? Your project management tool is the central place to work on these tasks moving forward and on time.
2) Cloud Storage – Saving everything on your hard drive is easy and quick for you, but how do you plan on collaborating with a team member, and worse, what happens if your hard drive crashes? Cloud storage is the best way to ensure you have backups of your important documents AND you can collaborate with clients and team members.
3) Payment Gateway – Whether you are invoicing for services or selling digital courses and products, you need a way to accept and process payments easily and automatically. Make accepting payments easy on yourself and build in automated follow-ups and payment reminders.
4) Proposal and contracting tool – if your providing services it also goes without saying that you need a contract. A software that allows you to manage your sales and proposaling process is extremely valuable so that you’re sinking a ton of time into manually creating proposals, following up, sending contracts and invoices. More importantly. The smoother this process is, the more momentum you have to close sales more quickly. And honestly, if you’re selling high-ticket, customer expect it.
5) Communication Tools – we write to customers, we write to customers, and outside of email you do need platforms to communicate with your team, with contractors, and with your customers. Unless you personally really like written long detailed emails, in today’s day and age you need some sort of video conferencing software as well as a quick-hit questions and answers like slack, voxxer or videoask.
Of course, you’ll add tools based on how you market, how you sell, how you deliver your product or service to your customer, but these are your foundation tools and once you lock in tools that you love in these categories, all the other tools you select to support your marketing, sales, customer deliver, etc… will need to work with these tools. This will cut back on the number of options you have – which isn’t such a bad thing when there are literally thousands of options and more becoming available every day.
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10x Your Business with Total Confidence
How would you celebrate if 20 new leads come in tomorrow? 🎉🎉
And how would you celebrate if you signed on 10, 15, or 20 new clients immediately?
💃 Happy dance like no one is watching and take a day off?
🧖♀️ Book a relaxing spa day?
💎 Buy yourself something pretty and/or sparkly that you’ve had your eye on for a while?
✈️ Book a first-class vacation?
🍾 Or maybe you have something else in mind that’s decadent, luxurious, and wonderful.
When this moment arrives, I hope you will revel in your success, celebrate how far you’ve come, and be more than ready to receive this and more…🥰🥰
But what if…you’re not sure if you can actually receive this level of growth without breaking down?
How to Balance Ops + Growth
I know you want to grow your business.
And I know you’ve invested in coaches, masterminds, strategists, and programs to make that growth happen.
If you’re like a lot of my clients, that means that ops and scaling fall to the wayside while you focus on growth…
…until something breaks down or frustrates you so much that you’ve had enough and your ops become a priority.
This back and forth can feel like a roller coaster ride.
One that’s full of belly dropping anxiety as you worry about break downs and whether you can handle more growth.
So how do you balance growing your business with building the ops foundation to handle that growth?
Your Uncertainty is Leaving Money on the Table
What if you could…
🤔 Build an automatic upsell for your offers?
🤔 Become an affiliate for your favorite coach?
🤔 Package and sell your methodology?
🤔 Consult for startups or corporations?
🤔 Launch the new offer that came to you during lunch last week?
How much more money would make if you actually had the bandwidth and the resources to leverage what you already have in place?
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