One of the best ways to get ahead of the competition in 2023 is to make your business more efficient than the rest!
The more you can stay on top of the new tools at your disposal, the more improvement you will see in your business's systems and processes.
With all of the new advancements, don't be afraid of automating every possible task! While this can feel like an uncomfortable transition sometimes, in the long-run it will reduce the burden and improve the efficiency of your entire organization!
Here are just some areas where you can improve your business's efficiency in the new year:
Inventory
If you house inventory and are still using an excel workbook to forecast your demand, its time to update your processes!
Now you can use real time data from web traffic and search engine queries to forecast your demand and house fewer products at a time, decreasing your space usage and labor hours!
Contact us if you're interested in learning more!
Meetings
Why has it taken us so long as businesses to realize that meetings don't have to be torture?!?
If you aren't already, do yourself and your employees a favor and
move those meetings online, ensure every minute you're spending in meetings is essential to your business's success and get yourself a tool that will optimize the meeting process.
Here are some new tools to consider using in 2023:
Connect Team: One of the best all-in-one online agenda planners
Google calendar: Great for checking availability!
Transactions
If your business uses business-to-consumer (B2C) sales, it's time to implement self-pay. When selling directly to a customer, you want to ensure their experience with your business is not only seamless but also efficient!
In 2023, there are so many ways you can offer instant payments to your customer, here's a few we recommend:
Braintree: allows Paypal integration
Square: great if you make in-person and online sales
Stripe: very user-friendly
National processing: best if you do a lot of ACH payments
Workspace
Getting efficient with your online workspace seems like a no-brainer, but many businesses struggle with cluttered virtual workspaces.
G-suite is a great, user-friendly platform where multiple contributors can work on projects together without things getting lost (tasks, internal discussions, calendars, etc.)
Pro tip: Whichever workspace you decide to use, be sure that everything accessible on as few platforms as possible! Read our blog for more tips on de-cluttering your virtual workspace
Outsourcing
Stop doing things you dislike doing. I'll say it again: STOP DOING THINGS YOU DISLIKE DOING.
If you only optimize one area of your business in 2023, get on the trend of outsourcing.
Everyone else is...according to this source, IT outsourcing will increase by 22% in 2023 since 2019, Business processing outsourcing will increase by 19% since 2019. According to a Clutch survey, 90% of small US businesses planned to outsource a business process in 2022.
CRM
Here's a couple hot tips for optimizing your customer relationship management (CRM) software.
Tip #1: Actually use it!
Duh, right? But this is actually a big problem for many small businesses. Make sure that if you're paying big bucks for a CRM software that you're getting the benefits these incredible tools can offer you!
Tip #2: Only use features relevant to your business.
These platforms have become so advanced that the amount of bells and whistles might make you feel like you NEED to be using every feature. This is likely a waste of your time. Be sure to reach out if you want assistance determining which data you really need to be monitoring so that you can simplify your CRM process.
Wondering about new advances in another area of your business? Contact us for help improving the efficiency of your operations in 2023!!
Thanks for the interesting article. Our company is constantly improving the software to facilitate the work of the personnel department.