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Business Hacks to Keep Your Office Running Smoothly

These simple changes will make all the difference

By Kari OakleyPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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A business hack was created to help a business or office grow and run smoothly. Business hacks usually improve processes that are associated with marketing, sales, and product development. Business hacks are very beneficial to an office or business, because they help the business grow in a short amount of time. A few key focuses that can help an office or business grow include—number one—prioritizing content marketing—number two—using Facebook and Google customer retargeting—number three—show social proof, and—number four—use content upgrades. All of these things can help both small businesses, and big businesses grow.

Prioritizing content marketing is very cost-effective, and it generates triple the leads as traditional marketing. Facebook and Google targeting comes into play, because most consumers visit websites before making a final purchase, so retargeting helps to get purchases that you might have not gotten otherwise. Social proof or posting reviews are important, because most consumers check reviews before making a purchase. A poll was taken by a company called Brightlocal and the polls show that 84 percent of people trust online polls. Lastly companies must keep up with the latest trends and constantly upgrade their blogs and content regularly, because this can help to grow the company's email list.

Keep Your Tech Running Smoothly

There are many different ways to improve the function of an office setting, and make it run smoothly. The most important aspect of helping a business run smoothly, or improving a business office setting, is the IT service and equipment. This actual process is called managed IT services. This is defined as an information technology task that is provided to a company by contractor or subcontractor. A customer pays a monthly fee that is similar to paying Netflix on a monthly basis. The purpose of managing it is to take a minimal task off the customer or business owner, and transfer this task to a service provider. The service frees up the business owner or customer to spend their time focusing on other things that can help grow their business.

Keep Your Information Safe

There are many different types of managed services available, but the most commonly used are remote monitoring and management, managed security services, and cloud services. When devices such as network devices, desktops, and servers are being supervised, and controlled by an outside agent, this process is defined as remote monitoring and management. When a company outsources the network to a security service provider to protect against malware, customer data theft, and skill shortages, this is defined as managed security. Managed security is gaining a head of steam, because studies have shown that 82 percent of IT professionals are currently using managed security services. When a service is made available to customers on demand through the internet, this is defined as a cloud service. It is managed by a cloud service provider, and is used to make a business function easily, help the business to scale, and provide other services and resources to help a business grow.

Traits To Ensure Your Business Is Running Smoothly

There are other key traits that can ensure a business is running smoothly, and they are: you have to have a solid core team, a good policy and procedure manual, try to recruit & hire the best talent, empower employees, challenge your team, and have a strong management team. If all these things are implemented properly, this can lead to a business running smoothly and efficiently. A few other successful steps that a business owner can consider implementing as well is to set deadlines for employees, and give clear instructions, and let the employees know what is expected of them. Lastly the business owner should test the foundation of the processes that he or she has implemented to ensure things are running efficiently.

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Kari Oakley

Kari Oakley is a fitness trainer from Kenosha Wisconsin. She now lives in downtown Chicago, and loves to get out. She is a big fan of anything adventure, and loves getting a workout in the outdoors.

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