How Emineo Media’s CRM Automation lets Business Owners Take Back a Ton of Time

By on March 30, 2023   /   Branding, CRM, Digital Marketing   /   Leave a comment
Emineo Media CRM Automation

As a business owner, time is your most valuable asset. With so many tasks to manage and deadlines to meet, it can be difficult to find enough hours in the day to tackle everything on your to-do list. However, with Emineo Media CRM automation, you can take back a ton of time and free up your schedule for more important tasks.

Hal’s CRM automation is a powerful tool that streamlines your customer relationship management (CRM) processes. By automating tasks such as lead generation, customer outreach, and follow-up, you can save countless hours each week that would otherwise be spent on manual data entry and communication.

One of the key benefits of Emineo Media CRM automation is its ability to scale your business without sacrificing time or quality. With automated lead generation, you can quickly and easily generate new leads by setting up parameters that match your ideal customer profile. This means you can focus on closing deals instead of spending time searching for new prospects.

Once you’ve generated leads, Emineo Media CRM automation can help you stay in touch with them through targeted email campaigns and automated follow-up sequences. With personalized messaging and automated responses, you can build strong relationships with your customers without spending hours crafting individual emails.

In addition to lead generation and customer outreach, Emineo Media CRM automation can also help you manage your sales pipeline and track your progress. With automated reports and analytics, you can easily monitor your sales cycle and identify areas for improvement. This allows you to stay on top of your business and make informed decisions based on real-time data.

Overall, Emineo Media CRM automation is an essential tool for business owners who want to save time and scale their operations. By automating your CRM processes, you can streamline your workflow, increase productivity, and focus on what really matters – growing your business. So why wait? Try Emineo Media CRM automation today and experience the benefits for yourself!

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10 Digital Marketing Tips for Small Business Owners

By on February 8, 2017   /   Blog, Branding, Businesses, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, Emineo Media   /   Leave a comment

The proliferation of digital marketing and social media resources has made it easier than ever to pitch to Main Street–without Madison Avenue budgets.

Mickey Mantas, ‎global agency and partner education consultant at LinkedIn, says these options let you be selective in how you spend digitally, and only “build a presence on the platforms that best represent you and your company.” Don’ t think of it as a one-time campaign; it’ll evolve and grow as your business does.

Chase assembled a panel of digital marketing experts—from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yelp—to help you plan your 2017 social campaigns. Here are some of their suggestions:

  1. Go mobile: We consume virtually all information on-the-go, so your marketing platform should be “mobile-centric” instead of just “mobile-friendly.” Messaging that isn’t designed for mobile access and search will be less valuable in 2017.
  2. Create compelling content: Our attention spans continue to drop—now just eight seconds, on average, according to a Microsoft study. Grab readers’ attention with information tailored to their needs and they’ll come back for more. “Put your products, services, business and employees in your content,” says Christian Eberhardt, sales manager at Twitter. “Use imagery and video to drive engagement.”
  3. Dive into data: Modestly-priced data-mining software can unearth sales and other customer information within your spreadsheets and reports, for insights you can act on: Personalizing offers and improving customer service.
  4. Think big (without spending big): No business is too small for digital marketing. These resources let you spend wisely, to elevate visibility and reputation. Facebook’s Global Head of Financial Services Strategy, Neil Hiltz says, “if people aren’t aware of you, they’re not going to buy your product.” Focus on keyword search and search engine optimization to attract more attention.
  5. Pay the piper: Relying on organic means to find your audience stack the odds against you. Amplify your presence, impact and reach through paid advertising on key sites.
  6. Build a profile: Spending a few minutes on your LinkedIn and other social media profiles—and amplifying that visibility with well-placed, paid social media posts—will raise your digital profile and attract new customers better than traditional networking would.
  7. Ask permission: Nobody wants spam. Earn the respect of your customers, prospects and influencers through permission marketing—a selling approach that requires explicit agreement to receive emails, newsletters or texts. Send “push” content only to those who want it, and leave everyone else off your distribution lists.
  8. Try “buy” buttons: Consumers can make purchases in one click, without even leaving Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites. These “buy buttons” are gaining popularity and increase the likelihood of a completed purchase, while freeing you from investing in costly app development.
  9. Look locally: A hyper-local paid strategy targets customers by zip code, neighborhood or street name, connecting you with the audiences you most care about.
  10. Email often: The so-called death of email marketing has been greatly exaggerated. In fact, email continues to be one of the most useful, cost-effective marketing tools: 78% of consumers aged 35–44 rank it as the communication platform they most prefer, according to MarketingSherpa. Used appropriately, it can be a powerful marketing tool.

Source Chase

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5 Ways to Grow Your Brand in 2017

By on February 6, 2017   /   Branding, Businesses, Digital Marketing, Emineo Media   /   Leave a comment

Small businesses face challenges, and these five ways of growing your small business can differentiate your business from the others. Do not get distracted with spreading operations thin across a multitude of unnecessary platforms. Focus on simplification, customization and understanding your free cash flow. Once you accomplish those vital tasks, learning to invest the retained earnings may be the most challenging task of all, but in business, we call that a good problem.

1. Get Better At Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

In the words of Bill Gates, “there will be only two kinds of businesses, those with an internet presence, and those with no business at all.” This one statement effectively illustrates the modern business landscape. People go to the internet for almost all information. What kind of internet presence does your small business have? Today you can’t just have a sexy website, instead you need to have a means for attracting visitors in the first place. This is where SEO comes in. With roughly 644 million active websites on the net, it is becoming very challenging to be discovered online. SEO involves a series of rules and protocols that helps bring your business out of the background and into the virtual highway. When someone is searching the web after a hailstorm for “Cleveland roofing service,” you want your business to be one of the first pages on Google. If you rank high enough organically, that’s free advertising. The easiest way to get better at SEO is to simply hire someone. Although that might be the best option for companies with a big enough budget, others might not be so fortunate. If you’re strapped for cash, I have two important recommendations. First, there is a free website that teaches small business owners how to optimize their websites for Local SEO. I can’t recommend this resource highly enough. Second, there is a book titled The Ultimate Guide to Link Building. This is an incredible resource to help people understand how to do SEO the right way.

2. Understand Lean Operations

A key element to running a business is organization and prioritization. Do not allow your business organization to disintegrate into an array of convoluted finger-pointing when it comes to operations. A good book to reference regarding lean business operations is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good to Great evaluates the qualities of companies that not only grew but also maintained success beyond their growth periods. The book discusses the importance of simplification in business operations. Collins and his associates found that great businesses comply with three major operational components: level five leaders, the right staff and confronting brutal facts. Once businesses understand the intersection of those three components, the managers continue to optimize and simplify operations. What are bare bones to your small business? More importantly, what activities give you 80% of the value for 20% of the time?

3. Focus On Free Cash Flow

A small business needs to define their free cash flow. Businesses typically calculate free cash flow based on what is left over after all necessary financing expenditures are paid and non-cash items are adjusted on the net income. When a small business owner starts to think about business decisions from a free cash flow vantage point, new opportunities and perspectives are gained. More specifically, growth opportunities become more apparent. Where many business owners lose sight of this important consideration is when they make huge capital investments into infrastructure that has large depreciation costs and little long-term value is created. Having a balance sheet full of stagnant assets that add little long-term value creates a financially inefficient company. This is one of the reasons Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have been so successful through the years; they have always looked at the free cash flow of their own business and any new opportunities for growth.

4. It’s All About The Customers

Small businesses have a fundamental advantage over large corporations. Small businesses can interact with customers at a much more personal level. This is not to say that large corporations do not care about the customers, but it’s more challenging to put the CEO or other high-ranking executives face to face with new customers. Small businesses are local and can customize their services to their specific population. Take for example this dental practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recently, I talked to one of the partners at this practice and he told me how important customer interactions were to their overall business model. For him, there was nothing more important than ensuring each customer had a satisfactory visit. Although this might seem like common sense for most business interactions, many companies get customer fatigue and complacency.  Culture and focus on individual customer interactions is something that many small businesses take for granted and fail to realize the long-term importance. Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People demonstrates the value of placing the customer first. One pivotal element to focusing on the customer involves Covey’s rule of “seeking first to understand before being understood.” We live in an era of complete customization, from social media profiles to iPhone cases. People want what they want. Make sure you understand your customer or client, then you can cater to their specific desires. Additionally, billionaire Tony Hsieh wrote a book titled, Delivering Happiness, and it talks about how an online shoe company uses its customer service to create a competitive advantage over other retailers. Whether you’re running a local dental clinic or a large online shoe store, focus on the customer and treat each interaction as a vital source of future growth. This habit is the lifeblood of any great business.

5. Invest The Retained Earnings Intelligently

Your business runs well. You understand the balance sheet, and you want to explore other opportunities. You can reinvest your retained earnings back into the operational business, or you can choose to invest in external assets that are non-operational subsidiaries. What is the right decision? Well that’s the hard decision. I guess my point for bringing this discussion into the fold is to simply make the reader aware of the idea. Too often business owners think they need to reinvest retained earnings into the organic business. In many cases this is the right decision, but in some instances they aren’t doing the hard math. In fact, many business owners that have had successful companies in the first 10 years take the retained earnings and invest in another operational business. The failure comes when the overconfidence from the first success overshadows the realism in the second venture.  New ventures that have low odds of success and huge upfront costs could mean the death of both businesses. Instead of taking low-probability choices with huge sums of money, a better choice might be to invest in non-operational assets (either private or public).

Source Forbes

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