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5 Practical Tools to Automate Your Workflow

October 3, 2016 by Lidiya K 2,532 Comments

In every entrepreneur’s life comes a moment when the work that needs to be done increases to the extent where you need to prioritize. So identify the areas that matter the most and which only you can do, and outsource or automate the rest.

Luckily for you, innovative business owners have created products that help you free up some time and automate your workflow.

There are so many tools out there thanks to technology, and once you give a few a try and find the right ones for you and your business, you’ll be able to stop worrying about repetitive and tedious tasks, and focus more on what you do best.

Here are 5 such tools you’ll find useful:

1. Onlypult

As we all know, Instagram can become a powerful marketing machine and brand builder if used in the right way.

But instead of having to be there at the specific times of the day when it’s best to publish content, why not schedule these in advance and know they’ll appear just in time for your audience to see them? What’s more, there won’t be any annoying notifications, but non-push ones.

You can enjoy a 7-day free trial and see how much time it saves you and how easy it is to use. Learn more about Onlypult’s features here.

Also check out these 3 apps for analyzing Instagram data.

2. Calendly

That’s a tool designed to make scheduling appointments and meetings easier than ever.

All you do is set your availability and create custom links for specific clients. Then, each person who wants to contact you just picks a time period you’ve listed as free and creates an event in your calendar.

No need to send multiple emails, lose potential clients, make them wait or use the phone. Anyone using this particular scheduling software swears by its simplicity.

Start with a 14-day trial period and see how you’re able to get more work done and simplify communication with clients and staff.

3. Basecamp

Moving onto project management, which is another aspect of the business you must automate as early as possible.

Basecamp is one of the best options as the features it offers can solve almost anything you’re struggling with.

From organizing tasks, prioritizing and assigning each, to having a separate page and discussion for each topic and adding all the necessary files there for anyone involved in the project to see and use.

You also have the freedom to chat in real time and share and organize any type of files. Easily keep track of deadlines and set milestones, with the option to add people to each and notify them right away.

You’ll receive notifications about anything that concerns you, so no need to even think about a project when you’re not working on it.

4. 17hats

Sometimes, even if you automate some aspects of the business, you still end up wasting a lot of time doing administrative tasks.

For example, you may often need to remind clients to pay you, or spend time creating different responses, contracts or invoices.

What about tracking your expenses and trying to manage your money? Even if you have a bookkeeper, you still need to take care of some things. You may also get lost in spreadsheets and notes when tracking all the areas you should manage.

Not anymore. 17 hats’ purpose is to help you stop using tens of apps and let you stay sane and on top of your game.

It’s an all-in-one business management tool that takes care of client correspondence, tracking payments and getting paid on time without annoying the client, capturing leads, bookkeeping, and building templates for the documents you use the most so that you never repeat the same thing twice.

Use it free if you just want to test the basic options, and upgrade when you see the benefits.

5. SumoMe

A set of tools that comes in the form of a plugin for your WordPress site and helps you build an email list, grow your traffic and optimize through analytics.

You can install a scroll box, smart bar or welcome mat to invite visitors to join your newsletter.

The heatmap and Google analytics will give you information about where people are coming from and what they are doing once they land on your website.

To encourage them to share your content, you can add beautiful share buttons, or install the image sharer and highlighter.

All these are free to use, but there’s also a premium version with even more features.

Which tool will you give a try today to make your work easier?

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: business owner, payday, productivity, small business, social media

Personal Branding: Practical Ways to Improve Your Online Presence Today

September 12, 2016 by Lidiya K 1,682 Comments

Personal branding may be the missing piece in your business.

Many of you are working hard to build a business online, and wonder why you may not get any results. You put in the time and hard work, you’ve chosen the right niche, have done your research and you’re constantly learning things, staying up-to-date on current events and improving their skills to offer even better products and services.

But you may be neglecting a key element of the digital success – your personal brand.

Personal branding is the process of constantly creating awareness for your brand, business and especially your name.

But things have changed in the last decade with the Internet evolving at the speed of light, which also creates opportunities to come up with innovative business models. It’s often hard to keep up.

One thing that’s becoming more and more important in the digital age is the power of your online presence. It’s a combination of all your activities online, every profile you’ve ever created, the comments you write here and there, the stuff you share with your friends, and how you talk about your business.

If you aren’t doing all of this consciously, chances are people will form the wrong opinion about you. Because today you yourself are a brand. Everything you do online becomes part of your overall message and affects the way people perceive you.

Luckily, you can always do something about it. If you’re a first-time business owner and just starting out, begin building your online presence today with the actions below. If you’re already in the game, make a step-by-step plan on how to improve it with concentrated and consistent actions.

Here at Womeneur we take personal branding very seriously. Every element on the site, everything we publish, everyone we welcome on board, every status we share on social media – all these are aligned with our core values.

What’s more, we have Brittany Fells to thank for when it comes to brand strategies. She shares practical advice on how to skyrocket your business and build a following with brand guidance and powerful visual content. So make sure you check her packages out.

Now, here are some things to do connected to personal branding to stand out from the crowd in a competitive niche and build a name for yourself out there:

3 Key Aspects of Personal Branding to Take Care Of

  1. Website.

You can’t go without a website today, that’s needless to say. It’s your digital home and the only place online you have full control over.

You’ll want to make it look great and add useful content to it because that’s where you’ll be attracting visitors and turning them into customers.

So get a domain name and a self-hosted WordPress site and start working on the home of your brand online. If you want to do it right but also save time and avoid the hassle, try our Starter WordPress Website Package

  1. Blog.

After setting up your website, it’s time to create the most important pages. The Homepage, the About page, the Contact page, and others such as one for sponsors, a portfolio, or else, depending on the type of business you run.

Take your time when creating each of these or hire a copywriter to do it for you (serviced by Womeneur Preferred Partner Vanessa Williams). It must look professional as that’s what potential clients will be looking at before deciding to work with you.

Then comes the moment to start your blog. Today every site must go together with a frequently updated blog because content is more important than ever.

It’s another way to get traffic from search engines, engage your audience, become an expert in the niche by sharing practical blog posts, and grow your website and brand.

A big part of your personal branding efforts are also the design elements of your site – your logo , the colors, the images you add to articles, the font, the tabs on the menu and how you name them, etc.

Don’t forget to make professional photos too as you’ll use them all over the Internet.

  1. Social media.

Once you take care of the previous aspects of personal branding, let’s get social.

Your audience is already spending time on almost every social media channel. So it’s your job to be there and connect with them.

That can happen by creating a profile, linking back to your site, sharing your own content and interesting stuff you read online, creating and posting motivational images and quotes at specific times, commenting on other people’s content, and sometimes just asking a question and starting a discussion.

Most aspects of social media can be automated and there are plenty of useful tools for that out there, but there’s still a lot of work to do. You need to get clear about your goals, how you’ll connect with the right people, how often you’ll post and when and what your strategy is. Our DIY Social Media Starter Kit can help you with all that.

Personal branding is a never-ending journey, so learn to enjoy it. You’ll constantly take focused actions in the right direction and see how you become popular in your niche and soon people start to find you more easily and tell their friends about your company and products. How awesome is that?

Before you go improve your online presence, though, check out our preferred partners again, who share their knowledge hoping to inspire more female entrepreneurs like you to transform their life and business.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: female business owner, female entrepreneur, new business, small business, social media

Onlypult: The No-Push Notification (Yes, We Said No-Push) Instagram Scheduler

August 9, 2016 by Womeneur Guest Contributor 2,179 Comments

Did the universe just answer our Instagram scheduling prayers? From what we’ve seen from using Onlypult for the past few days, we believe it did.

Onlypult – based on our research – has been around for about a year and is the ONLY Instagram scheduler that allows you to automatically post to Instagram – yes! –  as in no annoying push notifications, no missed posts because you couldn’t communicate with your mobile device due to low or lack of reception. Which translates to you can do whatever and be wherever you want without having to give a second thought to “pushing” anything to schedule your Instagram posts.

We have to give a BIG shout out to The Modern Marketer who put us onto this game-changing platform.

We don’t know how Onlypult managed to bypass Instagram’s API system, but we don’t really care, because this platform appears to be completely legit. Onlypult’s the perfect, affordable solution for you and any other small business owner who wants to stay organized by planning their Instagram content – for an entire month and more!

We’re still subscribed to Onlypult’s 7-day trial period and so far so good. Here’s the really good stuff we found out from using it:

  1. no push notification required. no push notification required. Did we say absolutely, completely hands-down… no push notification required
  2. setting up your account is seamless on this very user-friendly platform
  3. you have the option to schedule a single or multiple posts
  4. the 4-step posting process is super easy
    • upload the image
    • edit the image size
    • filter the image
    • input the caption, optional hashtags and even assign a location!
  5. Upload images and video
  6. Add multiple accounts and users and keep track of their posts
  7. And get this… Onlypult tells you if you you went above the hashtag count (you’re allowed 30)
  8. Your posts are displayed with their engagement (“likes”, comments)
  9. Monthly pricing plans are: $12, $20, $39 and $60

Coolest Features

  1. Analytics – we really like the analytics feature, which details:
    • the best time to post
    • your top followers
    • comments, average likes per post, etc
    • top hashtags by interaction (great way to see which of your hashtags are performing well or not)
  2. Planner + Calendar – your very own content schedule allowing you to see posts planned out for the month

Overall, we LOVE Onlypult and are super excited it doesn’t require a push notification. We know some of you may be avid users of Hootsuite, Schedugram, Latergramme or any other scheduling platform, but the one thing you cannot say about them is they’re push notification free!

What platform do you currently use to schedule your Instagram posts?

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: instagram, social media

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