Turn It Up Tuesday: Tips from Insightly to Take Your Business to 11
Welcome to Turn It Up Tuesday, where we bring you 3 weekly tips—a tip on running your business, a tip on using Insightly CRM, and a tip on improving your life. Enjoy this week’s tips!
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Consistency is Good for Business |
Consistent positive results are great for business. To get there, consistent business practices will help your customers and your staff stay on board and contribute to your company’s growth. When customers have repeated positive experiences, they’ll attribute more value to your brand which leads to repeat business and higher profitability. Track your efforts and results to figure out what’s working and then make winning practices a part of your day-to-day operations. With a clear plan that’s communicated throughout your company, your staff will never be confused about how to measure and reach goals that you’ve set. With a cohesive team focused on a clear brand strategy, both your reputation and business will be sure to grow.
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Use Pipelines to Manage Your Processes |
Last week, I wrote about how Insightly’s activity sets can create groups of tasks for you. When you have sequential steps to follow for a sales process, marketing communications, or any other business process, Insightly’s pipelines feature helps you clearly lay them out in stages. You can even tie an activity set to a pipeline to automatically create and assign tasks when a stage is reached. By setting up a pipeline, everyone on your staff can clearly see the next thing that needs to be done in a project or an opportunity and even get notified when tasks are assigned to them. Insightly’s pipelines are a great tool for keeping everyone in sync and getting things done in an orderly fashion.
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Achieve More by Making a List |
| If you haven’t heard it already, multitasking is a terrible way to get things accomplished and consistently move toward your goals. By not focusing on one thing in a given period, you’re wasting time and possibly damaging your ability to concentrate and to manage your emotions and thoughts. So, if you have to pick one thing to work on next, how do you choose? Prioritizing is always a challenge, but when it comes to your own life, think about what is most important to you and work from there. If you love to travel, maintaining your financial and physical health is important. If artistic expression brings you joy, you’ll need to get painting supplies or sign up for that stone carving class. Make that first decision and then write out a list that will get you to where you want to be. Reorganize the list based on urgency and dependencies (you can’t enter the art contest until you’ve finished the painting), and then start working it—one thing at a time! |
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About the author: Tony Roma is Insightly’s Content Manager. He’s been helping businesses implement software solutions for over ten years.
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