Whether we like it or not, a recession is brewing. You may wish you could bury your head in the sand and wait for it to pass, but the best thing you can do as an agency owner is to take deliberate action and create a plan to protect your business now. This way even if you can’t completely shelter your agency from the impact of a recession, you can stay profitable and avoid a total wipe-out.
Executive assistants are an indispensable part of every organization. They make the workload of executives bearable by taking charge of ad hoc tasks and responsibilities. Such tasks include scheduling meetings and coordinating with other executives and teams in and out of the organization. This helps the executives focus on more pressing matters in running the company. However, no matter how overwhelming the duties are, there are always ways to overcome these roadblocks.
For the companies that use it, Slack is the business equivalent of mission control. The collaboration hub that connects everyone’s work – wherever they are. Much more than a messaging platform, the secret to Slack’s success is how easily it integrates with the tools businesses use every day. From popular collaboration tools like Google Docs, to automated alerts and notifications for thousands of niche and specialist products.
As per Social Stamina, 64% of customers expect a reply within an hour of posting on Twitter, and 85% expect a company to respond within six hours. While this trend in customer expectations applies to almost all industries across the board, certain businesses – such as e-commerce apps – are witnessing an all-time high in traffic. Most companies may be crowded with service-related concerns, drowning customer support agents in an ever-increasing volume of tickets.
With many companies shifting to remote work, virtual meetings are now an indispensable part of the working environment. Virtual meetings are great. You can have meetings with people across the globe, without incurring costs for gas, transportation, and travel time. Time zones are less of an issue as well since workers can do it at a time that is convenient to them, without managers having to worry about finding a time and place to assemble them all.
Statistically, if you own or manage a website, you’re probably using Google Analytics. For countless business owners and marketers, Google Analytics is their go-to source for website performance data. Google’s dominance in the analytics world looks set to continue, even as it currently migrates its 35 million customers onto Google Analytics 4 (otherwise known as GA4 – the new version of its product) by July 1 2023.
Imagine working on a project without knowing where to start, how to set deadlines, which tools to use, and which tasks to assign. You don’t need to be a wizard to see the disaster coming: The project will sink before it gets a chance to sail. How to avoid it? Have a project onboarding strategy in place. Having a detailed project onboarding strategy is beneficial not only for your team but also for you.
The right time tracking software can turn your business around with enhanced productivity, workflow optimization, and powerful automation. Insightful and Time Doctor are examples of such robust productivity tracking tools. Both tools offer time tracking, productivity management, and reporting features to help transform your business. But which one is better? Find all the answers in this Time Doctor vs Insightful review.
