It seems like open-source CRM software is a dime-a-dozen these days. For good reason, though. Everyone needs a good CRM, and many of the premium platforms are cost-prohibitive for smaller businesses who need the more advanced features. So open source is definitely a way to address that issue. SuiteCRM is open-source and free to download […]
A Quick-Start Guide to Project Management
Agile. Scrum. Waterfall. Strategic. Adaptive. PERT. Six Sigma. Buzzwords, each and every one. They’re important buzzwords for project management, but without a background in knowing what they mean and how to understand them, they don’t do you much good. We want to take a high-level look at project management, so that those of you looking […]
Famous Introverts and What You Can Learn From Them
It’s common to associate success with “putting yourself out there,” but garnering attention isn’t a telltale sign that someone will be successful. Thanks to a newfound appreciation for quieter success stories, famous introverts can teach you three impactful lessons. First, there isn’t only one type of personality that can attract success. Second, introverted characteristics hold […]
Seamless AI Overview and Review
Seamless AI is a marketing intelligence platform to find and develop sales leads. It makes it easy to find people, get emails and phone numbers, and use insights to build relationships. It imports directly into your CRM (Customer Relationship Management). In this article, we’ll take a look at Seamless AI, see what it is, what […]
How to Use an Affinity Diagram to Organize Project Details
An affinity diagram is an excellent creativity and productivity tool – so long as you know how to use one effectively. Teams use affinity diagrams as a way to see data come to life, and physically moving the data around helps immerse the team in it even more. It’s also a way for team members […]
How to Find and Fix Pain Points in Your Business
All businesses look at their customers’ pain points to get an idea of how to help them better. Companies and brands like yours are fixing their clients’ pain points every day. But what sometimes gets overlooked, is the company’s own pain points. This can lead to a company’s demise, simply for not looking inwards and solving […]
Top Project Management Software for 2019
Anyone who has ever been put in charge of a project knows that organization is your number one priority. The team, information, knowledge, outcome, goals, and so on are also very important. But if you can’t keep all of that straight, the project is doomed (or at least hindered). We want to wade through some […]
Can Mattermost, A Self-Hosted Team Chat App, Replace Slack?
Everyone uses Slack. Well, not everyone, but a whole lot of people do. If you are looking for an alternative team chat app, either to get started with or to move from Slack onto, Mattermost is definitely worth taking a look at. Like WordPress itself, Mattermost is a open-source, self-hosted software that you can install, […]
What to Do When a Client Won’t Pay
Professionals who work with contracts know the horror of the client who will not pay. Chasing down payments isn’t just obnoxious and time-consuming, but it can have a major impact on your cash flow for the month. If you’re relying on that money to pay a bill and then the bill becomes overdue, you’ll owe […]
A Simple Guide to Understanding Omnichannel Marketing
When it comes to marketing efforts, every company has its own approach. In email newsletters and on roadside billboards, brands send messages to their customers. Most brands use multichannel marketing to connect with their client base and others use omnichannel marketing. In this post, we’ll look at the basics of omnichannel marketing and how you […]