3 Steps to Automate Twitter Lead Generation and Grow Followers

Twitter is a treasure of business leads. But the problem is there’s too much noise. Finding and engaging with prospects can be a laborious process and not worth the returns. Using smart automation tools, you can easily discover leads on twitter, increase followers and engage with them in quick time.

Here we present ways to automate twitter lead generation and grow your twitter followers that can potentially convert into customers. This process involves continuously and automatically gathering leads from twitter into to a Google spreadsheet, engaging with them either manually or in semi-automated ways, and convert them to leads or followers.

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5 Tips to Land your Marketing Emails in Gmail’s Primary Folder

Email is still a preferred marketing channel for most of us as it offers a great ROI compared to other channels. But this is changing quickly with an explosion in the volume of emails being sent, and Gmail’s increasingly smart algorithms that filter out automated emails from Gmail’s primary tab.

Here we present actionable steps that give you a great chance of landing your emails in Gmail’s Primary folder, and standing out from the crowd.

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How to Connect Typeform with Google sheets, MailChimp and more

Typeform is a great app to run surveys or collect leads information. It really takes the pain out of filling forms. While it does store all your form entries you would typically want to send data to your other apps. 

Here we discuss how you can seamlessly integrate Typeform with Google Sheets and MailChimp. Continue reading How to Connect Typeform with Google sheets, MailChimp and more

Sales Force Automation for Small Businesses – A Step by Step Guide

Imagine a typical work day of a sales person’s job. It involves hundreds of emails, dozens of phone calls, hours of data gathering on new leads, sending proposals/invoices, follow-ups. All of these are essential and there is no substitute.

The problem is the insane amount unproductive time spent on these activities, with manual data entry, looking up different tools and collating data.

According to studies, sales people spend less than half of their time actually selling.

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Top 12 Lean and Free Productivity Tools for Small Businesses

Every small business owner dreams of getting more work done every single day. Question is – How? You can’t add more work hours to a day and the only option is to make each hour more productive. The business tools you use play a very significant role in determining your team productivity. There are a plethora of low-cost or free productivity tools available that can help you improve your team productivity.

But how do you choose the right tools? How do you know what tools are right for you?

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How to Create a Sales Process and Increase Revenue by 28%

Imagine being able to clone your top salesperson. How much more revenue could your company generate? Duplicating your top performers isn’t as difficult as you may think: studies show that companies with a formal sales process enjoy 28% more revenue than companies that do not. Continue reading How to Create a Sales Process and Increase Revenue by 28%

3 Traits of Entrepreneurs that Kill Startups

Having been associated with startups for over 8 years, when I have been an entrepreneur and worked with successful startups right from the idea stage, I have come to know some seemingly good traits of entrepreneurs, which in fact hinder success. Continue reading 3 Traits of Entrepreneurs that Kill Startups