We hope you and your business have enjoyed 2016. Whilst New Year is a time to reflect on how lucky we are at present and the successes we’ve enjoyed so far, my mantra is: “how can we find a better way?” I’m always looking for ways to improve, streamline, optimise and get smarter. So what have we learnt from our A-Z of CRM blog post series this year that can shape practical and useful New…
Don’t you think business life is better united? Being on the same page as a client to help them achieve their goals through your services, being on a similar wave length to your team, sharing the same values as your business investors, mentors or partners, you name it, business, and life in general, is brighter and better united. We’re huge fans of leveraging neat technology and savvy online tools to enable business owners and…
Time’s pretty fickle isn’t it? When we have lots of it we love it but usually end up squandering it with a ‘I’ll do it tomorrow mentality.’ When time is of the essence and we have very little of it, we resent it and tend to leave an urgent task until the very last minute before a deadline. Poor time can’t win! Time is so tricky because we can’t control how fast passes but…
From the TalkTalks’ well talked about data breach, and the infamous celebrity private photos leak to the much more recent Tesco Bank cyber attack on over 40,000 customers’ details, we all know that data ‘hacks’ are a very real and present risk in today’s digital world. Not only did these chilling headlines make us ask ourselves just “how secure is my online data?”, but this month’s Tesco Bank breach demonstrated how it’s not just celebrities…
The beauty of having all our business’ data stored and categorized into a reliable and organised system or CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platform isn’t just that it helps us keep track of contacts’ details…or that it seamlessly integrates with other systems…or that it minimizes our chances of missing valuable opportunities to grow our business. The true beauty of a tailored and dependable CRM means we can be Location Independent. If you’ve read any of…
Number crunching, data munching, result bunching…button punching… scowl scrunching… sound familiar? While some people’s minds are very analytically inclined and almost wired to make sense of figures and information, others get confused, overwhelmed and downright frustrated with numerical data. But ask any business owner; reporting, analyzing and calculations have to be done. They’re necessary- but they don’t have to be stressful. Basically, the need for reporting can be explained by: measure, pleasure and leisure…
If you’ve stumbled across this or one of our recent blog posts and you’re a tad confused then you’ve come to the right place! Even better, if you’ve read a few of our posts and can see they’re connected by a theme that you can’t quite put your finger on, it’s because they are! We are currently producing a blog series called A-Z of CRMs, as CRM customisations are among what we do here…
People generally fall into two camps when it comes to organisation. They’re either very uber-organised or else completely scatterbrained, scraping through, meeting (or missing!) deadlines just in the nick of time. When it comes to whether we want to be organised we fall into one black- and-white camp: we all want to be organised. Why wouldn’t you? Being more organised= feeling being more prepared=feeling less nervous=being more confident in a meeting or presentation or working more…
How many things can you do at once? When was the last time you multitasked? I bet you can do a fair few activities at once and have multitasked at least once today. With the advent of the internet, technology and an acceptance of 24/7 working hours, as well as the expectation that we all should socialise, exercise, have hobbies, families, keep a good home, etc we’re all accustomed to multitasking. Why do we do…
How well does your company’s team gel? Take a moment to reflect on that question. If you think they get along fairly well, what about your wider team, beyond the immediate department you work in? Do they enjoy as smooth a relationship? If so, why not, do you reckon? Is it because they have different ways of doing things, different goals, different purposes? Companies where departments are segregated are missing a huge trick since…
