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The concept of an organized, planned program should be the base for increasing profits through cost reduction. There can be no basis for determining and evaluating costs unless adequate records are maintained through a proper accounting system. Simply slashing any and all expenses un-methodically cannot be a justifiable answer to reduce cost. Instead, businesses must understand the nature of expenses and how expenses inter-relate with sales, inventories, cost of goods sold, gross and net profits. Reduction of specific expenses doesn’t imply reducing cost, but you can achieve greater control by managing them effectively. Today, with businesses trying to get control over their expenses they need to try to get beyond the traditional ERPs. This is exactly what the CFOs of major organizations are trying to achieve. So why are CFO’s looking to do that? Major reasons being:

  • Reduce Spend and Stay within Budget
  • Reduce Cost of Processing (A/P, Procurement)
  • Reduce Occurrences of Malpractices, Frauds, and Non-Compliance
  • Have Timely & Accurate Closure of Expense Accounting
  • Build a good & professional relationship with employees, suppliers, auditors and regulatory bodies

Having an ERP today is just not enough and businesses need a software to manage and control expenses that also compliments the ERP. This is where the need for an expense management software steps in. There are many types of software which provide expense management solutions which cater to different needs of the industry like travel expense management software, employee expense management software, pay to procure software, invoice management software with other categories and sub-categories.

Over the years, organizations have been looking for ways to cut on their unwanted expenses, such as employee expenses, travel expenses, etc. Through employee’s expenses management software, this goal can be successfully achieved with the higher turn around time.

A complete expense management system incorporates the following features.

  • The Purchase Orders automation
  • DoA implementation
  • Budget control
  • Vendor invoices checks
  • Supplier invoices preparation

Expense management software integrated with the ERP has helped businesses cut on all their expenses and has offered many benefits such as:

  • The management can approve bills even without logging
  • They can claim input credit for GST with ease
  • Can track paper receipts easily
  • Provisioning of expenses is now accurate

In today’s business dynamics, ERP’s have limited ability and cannot handle the complexities of managing different expenses. Many businesses have realized that they require specialized ‘post-modern ERP’ solutions which take care all the activities in one go, helping them in reducing spending, cost of processing and risks to a great extent.

learning the secrets of options

What do today’s buyers give a flip about? They care about buying value that starts with the product or service as most of us think of value. However, part of the value equation with today’s customer often includes meeting personal objectives, e.g., shopping convenience, relevant information and/or experience, sustainability, brand purpose, monetary incentives, and tech tools to make it all happen ASAP, to name some of the more important factors.

Here’s a word of caution about today’s retail environment: If your business thinks of brand value only as the intrinsic value of your product and/or service you deliver, you are ripe for disrupting!

Since it’s our business to help you be more successful with Internet technology, the focus of this article centers on an effective tool that you can deploy to help create a better than ordinary customer experience. It may not be a right fit for your business, but read on to decide for yourself anyway.

How much we value business disruptions are typically linked to whether we are the disruptor or the disrupted. And when such disruption is fueled by genuine innovation, then many more people may benefit than not by such disruption and the world becomes a better place.

Take Amazon for example. Is Amazon disrupting your business or helping your business? Maybe Amazon is the frenemy of brick-and-mortar retail? If you are a retailer of packaged commodities and you have a successful Amazon store, then your daily shipments via the Amazon network may exceed your daily walk-in business.

Even more, according to a recent survey, online buyers have the highest regard for Amazon and may be more inclined to purchase your product because of this overall sense of goodwill and trust that Amazon has built with customers.

Of course, the Amazon store may be just one click away from being a competitor, too. Regardless of where your coin lands on this merchant dilemma, I’m going to suggest that all of our business challenges are bigger than any one competitor. Amazon deserves a lot of credit for being a true innovator by significantly improving the customer experience.

Here’s the real dilemma: We now live in an age where customers, competitors, and technologies are changing so rapidly that common problem analysis and problem-solving are too slow at addressing solutions!

Adam Richardson, the creative director at global innovation firm, frog design, characterizes this enigma quite well in his book, INNOVATION X – Why A Company’s Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantages.

He provides two key points of what he calls colliding business disruptions that are affecting all businesses regardless of size:

POINT 1: Today, we have disruptive competition and blurring of industry boundaries as companies leap into each other’s spaces (this is a traditional way a business disrupts the marketplace).
POINT 2: Today, we face more demanding customers who place a higher premium on the experiential qualities of using a product-ease of use, how it makes them feel, how it fits into their lives, what it communicates to others, does it sync with personal values-that go above and beyond familiar objective criteria like performance and price (this is relatively new phenomenon… the connected generation is driving massive changes in the marketplace).

Richardson summarizes where he sees this leading, noting that “there is a need to create integrated systems of physical products, software, online experiences, and services that work as a single whole. (Often these integrated systems are the keys to meeting customer needs in ways impossible from a more isolated offering.)”

He is talking about something related to product eco-systems, but that subject is vast, and we need to boil it down to one important detail if we are to gain a better grasp of what we might do to help SMB businesses succeed in the rapidly changing present.

With this in mind, let’s consider Amazon’s secret weapon that they deployed with large success but not much fanfare over the last couple of years. It facilitates and drives both customer experiences and satisfaction.

Some of you are currently using their secret weapon; it’s their well-designed and functional mobile app. According to Millward Brown Digital research in early 2016, 76% of all digital shoppers have downloaded the Amazon app, and that is by far the largest acceptance of any mobile shopping app in the United States. The next closest is Walmart’s at 33%.

What does rule in any business is customer service, and if a well-designed app can give you an edge in customer service, there may be one in your company’s future, too.

App technology is a tool that can have a significant payoff for your business in the form of better customer convenience and service, and if you think of it the way Amazon thinks of it-it’s all about delivering better customer convenience, experience, and service, relentlessly.

Other Businesses

As your business grows, your status in the business contacts may rise significantly, and this initial acquaintance with the fundamentals of the business, which is carried on these pages is probably not enough. But by that time, it is important that you have a desire to do better. You will have to look for a more extensive and specialized sources of information. But it is very likely that they did not have fully formed ideas and sequence.

Often, it is almost impossible to make a professional analysis of the selected areas, which would provide for every aspect. For example, the source may be unreliable numbers, and some of them may simply not have, so the calculation will be inaccurate. It may also be a change in the number of staff that does not involve the development of plans. A considerable part of businessmen agree that the strategic reorientation and expansion are often performed not only on the basis of plans developed, but also under the influence of external circumstances. Such as changes in the customer base can make you rethink your marketing strategy. New features may require you to re-evaluate the situation. That is reviewing opportunities may occur in response to changing situations. But in this case, the formation of a long-term plan and tentative assessment of possible growth rates allow for greater stability in the business and help to cope with the competitors, and more receptive to new opportunities.

Successful businessmen are rarely long rest. You should treat your business like large corporations, which are continuously engaged in planning and developing strategies to increase the cost. We must realize that developing and profitable business that is growing, and not static. Business growth must be based on a careful strategic thinking.

To buy company that suddenly offer to sell, invest in a new business, to make a payment in a huge amount of real estate, such action on the part of big business is often preceded by a thorough analysis and deep thought.

Doing business, experienced and successful businessmen rarely hesitant. Even leave access to the funds required to maintain their ambition is not seen as a significant obstacle. Often they use the business as collateral to raise additional capital. Successful businessmen believe that they can succeed and finish to earn a significant profit. This should serve the goal of every entrepreneur who wants to earn a decent capital.

Strategic planning goals will give opportunities for the successful development of other areas of small and medium businesses.

When to take a step in the development of other business lines are insufficient funds, you will need to attract partners who have the capital and are interested in establishing the value of your company. Invite them to share in the business. Look for large corporations that can multiply the value in the hundreds. But know that the involvement of partners directly associated with reduced control. Parterres, which enter into a successful business, be prepared to pay additional capital for the opportunity to join. This way you can find the means, but the lower your participation in the capital of your business. Besides it is possible to issue shares. In this case, you may have a smaller part in the capital of the enlarged business.

Business Innovation Is Important To Each And Every Company

Business innovation is such a hard act to follow, if you ever wonder how certain companies seem to beat the competition all the time then the answer is right there, they innovate and they don’t let their strategies get stagnant. They think of new ways to better their customers and clients and it’s something that a lot of businesses lack. If you want to stay ahead of the curve, then you should know when a certain company technique is losing its charm so that you can upgrade or change. Mind you not only the old things and machineries are upgraded; techniques and strategies should be upgraded as well.

So how do you gather new intelligence and techniques to utilize for your company? During events and seminars related to your company’s cause should never be ignored. You need to learn about what the masses think about your product or services too and if you don’t take time to listen to them then you will most probably fail in that department. Have a team ready to venture and listen to the masses, a study now and then to know which of your products and services are liked and which ones are frowned upon will most likely push you to better that same product and service to great effect. If you don’t know how to listen to your target audiences, you are bound to fail, whatever business you are in.

If you have a business innovation that failed, dot give up. There are still many techniques out there not utilized to its full effect and you should study them to make use of their potential. Try mixing new things with old ones, old techniques are something quite viable to be merged with new techniques and in doing so you make better ones which will help your company immensely. The fact of the matter is that those who know how to learn and listen are the ones that get ahead of the curve. The people who insist not only their ideas but those of their colleagues are the ones who usually become successful in the business world. Take for example Steve Jobs, he sure listens a lot and sees a lot, he pools all his knowledge together along with other people’s and look where it got his company.

Overall, business innovation is not something that should be taken lightly. You should be able to know its importance by now, if you are a company that seems to not grow, and now that you know what your company lacks, you know what changes to do. Better yourself, better your employees empower each other with new ideas and an open mind and your company will soar above the competition.

Is Strategy a Change Process?

I once taught a class on strategic change. The participants were 20 high potential leaders from a global service organisation that you probably know. These people were chosen because of their leadership potential. The organisation believed them to have a high probability of becoming the next C-suite executives of the company. After a two days intensive workshop I asked the participants for feedback. Many comments were positive. A few were negative. I still remember one of the negative comments. One manger said: “Dan, this was a course on strategic change. The part about strategy was OK. But the change part really doesn’t belong at our level. Change management should be the concern of lower level mangers or the HR-department. Top mangers have to focus on the strategy part.” This comment shows a problem that I have experienced in many organisations. Mangers don’t see a strategy process as a change process. Of course my learning was that I could have been better making this clear to the participants. My experience is that this is really hard.

Do top executives really need to care about change management in relation to strategy processes? Shouldn’t top managers just concentrate on crafting the high level strategic plan for the future and leave the details about implementation to the organisation? I think not! My experience from doing strategy work for more than 20 years has taught me that strategy and change are really two sides of the same coin. Strategy always concerns something new. The core part of a strategy is a vision or and idea of a better company. It could be about better performance, better service, a better place to work or many other things that basically concern an improvement of the present status quo. If a strategy doesn’t have anything new to it I wouldn’t really call it a strategy. So what a strategy basically does is to ask people to do new things. If a strategy is formulated and nothing new happens it is worthless. And the effort is wasted. Asking people in an organisation to do new things is all about change. If I would ask you to do new things I would certainly think about how the content of the message (the strategy) would affect you. Both the content of the strategy (often in the form of a document) and how it is created (the crafting process) will affect how much and what kind of change the strategy will generate. In my opinion it is not possible to separate strategy formulation from change. It is up to you as the strategist to use this connection to your advantage or not.

Why is it so hard for executives to see the link between strategy and change? One key reason is the way this subject is treated in business schools. When you go through your training at a business school the areas of strategy and change are treated separately. The basic focus of the strategy part is typically about analysing the business to discover opportunities for competitive advantage and to create a plan to exploit these opportunities to the benefit of the company. The strategic plan shows how you want to “outsmart” the competition and improve profits. The basic premise is that systematic analysis will lead to better decisions, which in turn will lead to higher profit. It is not until after you have prepared your strategic plan that you turn your attention to the change part. In business school you go to a change management class. The purpose is to learn how to turn your strategic plan into action. The subjects will typically be about the psychological aspects of change, how change affects people and various tools to make change happen in organisations. These are all important subjects. And the teachers will tell you that strategy should be followed by implementation (change). So there should be a link. The problem is that you will not learn for instance how a strategic analysis will generate (positive or negative) change depending on how it is carried out. When you analyse a business you generate expectations and create change in the company depending on how you communicate and whom you involve. In the same way the content and layout of a strategic plan will generate positive or negative change. It is not enough to come up with an ingenious plan to beat the competition if it is so long and complicated that no one will understand it. The end result will be frustration and you could harm the business instead of creating competitive advantage.

My point here is that strategy formulation is a change process. Change is not just something to think about after the grand plan is ready. A central part of your strategic competence is to realise this and build positive change into your strategy process right from the point when you start planning strategic activities.

What You Can do When The Business Strategy Changes

Your business may be doing incredible at present. As the economy bounces back, a great number of small businesses are discovering that income is getting up again after years of sub-standard business. Over the recent years, our economy has faced a few difficulties, yet the recuperation seen today raises questions for a lot of small business owners – is the strategy of your business relevant to today’s market needs?

You should understand that the changes in the business world are natural. With regards to business, both your clients and your rival are continually evolving. This is due to the fact that economic situations do stay steady for long, and adjusting to these progressions becomes vital for any business to be successful. Your business strategy may have been an immaculate technique for what the market required when you began your company, however as your organization develops and outer conditions change, analyzing your business strategy is necessary to your long-term achievement.

Thirty years back, newspaper organizations would not believe that their printed dissemination would drop significantly over the accompanying couple of decades. Presently, news organizations who have not embraced the changes that are accompanied with the advancement of the web are feeling smashed from advanced innovation that is, if they’ve figured out a way to stay in market for this long.

You should identify the areas of your business strategy that require changing. Only because the economic and market situations have transformed, it doesn’t imply that the core purpose of your business needs to change as well. When assessing whether your business strategy is up to date, it is essential to break down each one segment independently and review it. By figuring out the areas that require change, you can prevent a huge adjustment to your organization’s operations and focus while enhancing your company’s competitiveness and relevancy in the market.

Another technique to stay relevant to the needs of your market is to change your strategy by 10% every time your review it. This 10% change permits you to upgrade your strategy to be applicable with the times, yet is still small enough that it shouldn’t shake the core of your organization. By making small changes with time, you will see that your business will move more easily amid evolving markets.

You should stay ahead by anticipating change. The greatest thing that any business can do to ensure achievement is accurately forecasting what will happen in future within their specific industry. Similarly as with the news organizations, incorporating the web into their business model was the change numerous associations required to make so they could stay pertinent to client needs. The companies who were early adapters and rolled out the changes years back found the transitions much less demanding as customer inclination started to intensely support digital content.

By staying aware of innovation and customer changes in your field of business, you can introduce new improvements into your organization early on, rather than catching up to the technology after your competitor has already adapted it.

Tips to Increase Customer Interactivity on Business Websites

Customers are the primary requisite to make any business survive for long and thus, it is necessary for the businesses to attract customers and maintain a good relationship. With customer engagement on your site, you can easily grow your business and design it in a way that it can fix the needs of audience. The time has gone, when people used to engage customers by sending emails; customers are no more interested in one sided communication. Online presence is not enough; you need to be interactive regardless of your business level!

Where and how to engage audience?

  • Technology provides us with heaps of approaches to get engage with audience online and social media is the most effective way out of them. If you are socially active, you can easily reach to the audience and keep them updated with your posts. But be careful; do not post same stuff frequently. You have to bring variation in the posts to stop staling. By shaking it up, you can observe – what kind of posts get maximum response by the audience.
  • Conduct quizzes and offer prizes and perks to the participants in order to generate interest. Everyone loves to be awarded and rewarding audience for engaging helps you build loyalty. Another thing that you can also try is asking the visitors to caption photos or share your posts and offer them special discount for doing so.
  • Create a twitter account and talk about the things that interests you, share pictures, and respond to the audience posts. It will make people feel connected to you. If you are an Instagram user, keep a track of people behind your business and take full benefit of re-gramming a post.

What is the ideal time to post on social media?

You must be consistent on the social media platform you are using. But keep in mind, posting so often can make people sick of seeing your posts every now and then. Understanding when to post is as essential as understanding what to post. Being a market expert, you must know your audience and create audience specific posts accordingly. How often you should post is highly depend on the site you are using. If you are a Pinterest user, post four times a day, whereas three posts a day are okay for twitter account holders. Facebook users must keep the interaction as minimum as possible.

Many social sites have analytic tools to offer. Additionally, some special tools are also available enabling you to determine how good your posts are. With the help of these tools you can also check Facebook insights to know who are interacting with your page. We hope this information will aid you keep the customers engaged for long on your website.

Business Planning Of Company

General Description Of Organic Pabulums

Mission, goals and objectives of Organic Pabulums

The mission of the company is to deliver organic food item to customers as per their orders and carry out the business transactions with implementation of the advanced technology of as well as giving importance to the traditional retail marketing strategy (Barrow, 2011). The mission of Organic Pabulums generated the objectives to be followed and the goals to be reached.

The objectives of Organic Pabulums are as follows:-

  • To maintain quality in the organic products.
  • To become successful in keeping the commitments made to the customers. The orders which will be placed online online marketing must be reached to the customers within time and with proper care. Moreover, the customers who are interested to visit the retail store and pick the organic food items by their own hands can do that too. Thus it will serve to categories of customers and thereby meet their needs.
  • To provide customer satisfaction and customer’s reliability upon their services.

The goals of Organic Pabulums include reaching high target sales and each year the goals will be modified to cross the previous year’s sales and move forward on the way to success.

Philosophy of Organic Pabulums and the users of its market

Each and every business possesses a philosophy and this is not an exception. The business philosophy of Organic Pabulums is to compete with the previous personal records and to consider the personal business mistakes as the guidelines to modification and rectification. The company never compares the sales with any other concern but always attempts to cross the previous record of sales of the own firm. The challenges that are faced on the way to proceed in the business world are considered as miles stone to reach success (Barrow, Barrow and Brown, 2012). One more major point that must be included in the philosophy of Organic Pabulums is meeting the needs of all kind of customers by offering versatile retain services of organic food products. This will make the market provided by the organization accessible to all people with variable mentalities which is indeed a plus point for the company.

Description of the industry

The project of Organic Pabulums will surely be useful for countless people. Common people will possess an option in marketing organic food products from this company as they can avail online marketing as well as come to the store, visit the products, examine and buy as per their choice. As soon as a single customer will be satisfied, the message of this satisfaction will be shared among numerous people and same way a number of new customers will be the benefiters by this firm. This, growth of the company is highly predictable and thus it can be termed as growth industry. Customers may report about changing a strategy in the online marketing domain which can be considered as a short term chance. Thus customer support section will be there to value the reports of the customers. On getting high benefits from the services of Organic Pabulums, the customers may demand to include some more categories of products apart from organic food products. This is a long term change and the company must predict the outcomes of the change before planning to implement the change.

Strengths and core competencies

A research has been taken via personal interviews and telephonic interviews to various groups of people. These groups include housewives, working women, students, aged people, and people covering all other categories. The analysis of the interview infers that the entire mankind has rising needs to buy and use organic food products and they desire to solely depend on this food type in future as it is the only natural way to lead a healthy life. A prediction can be made that this business will not meet downfall in future and the rising needs of organic food products will result to the growth of the company (Blackwell, 2008). Thus, the type of the product to be sold by Organic Pabulums brings the greatest competitive strength for the firm.

Legal form of ownership

The form of ownership of Organic Pabulums is sole proprietor. This form of business is chosen as the initiative and effort to execute this business is only of a single person. Moreover, the investments made to make this business stand are also from a single source. It is neither a sub part of a limited organization nor involves partners in supporting the business (Brockhouse, 1989). A single person is solely responsible for maintenance, execution, profits, losses and all tit bits of the business. Thus the form of the business is termed as sole proprietorship.

Myths About Business Planning

Business plans have always been synonymous with entrepreneurship, largely because they act as a bridge between entrepreneurs and investors. The primary function of a business plan is to outline an investment opportunity, so a prospective investor has the required information they need to assess its attractiveness.

However, this is not the sole purpose of a business plan. They can also benefit entrepreneurs well beyond this narrow interpretation, helping them to manage cash flow, to set goals and milestones, to prioritize tasks and in helping them to deal with uncertainty.

However, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are eschewing business plans for a whole host of reasons, which are ultimately to their detriment.

Let’s look at some of the excuses entrepreneurs come up with.

Myth: Who needs a plan? It’s all in my head.

Surprisingly, I have met several entrepreneurs who think in this direction. Well…Let I take an opportunity here to tell you that “PLANNING IS A MUST”. There’s in no alternative to it. When you are working on an idea it might not need a plan but the moment you want to turn it into a venture the overall process becomes complicated by many folds. Understanding your dependencies, schedule and budget is as important as breathing in case of entrepreneurs. Documenting your plan is extremely important. “You cannot have the complete plan in your head”; if you do then it will change constantly with your thinking and there is no way to track and monitor your business. Every successful entrepreneur has a plan. If you don’t believe in planning, better start believing in miracles.

Myth: Planning is such a hassle. Who has the time?

Planning definitely takes time, I would say the longer it takes the better it is. During planning, we brainstorm to understand the scenarios the business might face. It enables us to identify the activities and also equip us with the ammunition to face any kind of hurdles. Planning also ensures that we have a clear enough idea of what we are doing and why we are doing it. If anything goes wrong, without a plan it’s very difficult to identify the root cause and even if we understand the problem, it’s too little too late as we usually haven’t prepared for it. My suggestion would be give it time, invest in planning, rather than going about like a headless chicken trying to get it right.

Myth: Business Plan is only useful for getting funded

We all know the importance of having a well drafted business plan in the fund seeking process. Especially if you are seeking funds from private investment institutions like venture capitals or angel investors. But there is a notion about business planning that it is only useful for fund seeking which is a complete myth. Business Plans help primarily the founding team to ensure that their idea is documented in a structured format. It acts as a starting point to the overall journey. Business plans help in getting strategic alliances, collaborators, advisors and future team members. A business plan cannot be viewed as a simulated document; rather it’s documentation of the reality and to some extent perceived reality.

Myth: Planning is restrictive. It takes away the flexibility.

A plan is a strategic overview of the transition from idea to implementation. Plans are based on assumptions and perceived reality. Not every scenario can be captured in the plan right from inception but most can be. While you are driving your business, certain parameters might change. Based on you operations you must update your plans, revisit them. Business plan is a flexible bible. It gives the entrepreneurs the chance to monitor their assumptions and correct them. Without a plan it is very difficult to understand what’s actually going on. If you treat the planning to be a onetime exercise then the overall purpose is defeated.

Myth: Planning should not have a budget. No need of seeking professional help.

As an entrepreneur we all come with certain skill sets. Entrepreneurs know their business the best as they are the creator of the idea. But while transforming their ideas to a venture there are some implementation hurdles. There are two ways of going about it; try and learn from the errors and get professional advice. As a practice, we should chalk out a planning phase, not too long and not too short as well. The planning phase should be long enough to give you a workable idea of what needs to be done. There are certain areas of the business like industry knowledge, market analysis, strategic initiatives which are widely accepted depending on industries. Reinventing every bits of business would involve a huge research and development with the chances of success diminishing. If there are grey areas which seem like a potential hurdles for implementing your idea, you should always set aside a budget to seek professional support.

Having all these in mind you must remember that a business plan is a strategic roadmap. It’s the starting point of your venture. It is not are placement for the hard work, perseverance and passion entrepreneurs have. It just ensures that your efforts don’t go to waste.

How To Be An Effective Manager

Being a manager requires a unique set of skills. Being an effective manager requires an even more unique set of skills. You have to possess interpersonal skills, technical know-how, time management skills and the ability to mitigate problems. A manager is also crucial for the team. He or she is responsible for the performance and productivity of the team through various different projects. Let’s take a look at what essential qualities and policies differentiate a manager from an effective manager.

Open Door Policy

This is a must to become a good manager. An open door policy encourages team members to approach you with problems. It makes the project management process much simpler since team members can comfortably communicate with the manager. Marketing managers should especially employ this policy since a there is a lot of creative work and analytical work that goes into creating a marketing strategy for a client or product. This policy allows quick communication.

Comfortable Working Space

Gone are the days when cubicles were the only way an office could be furnished. These days, an open office space punctuated with comfortable sofas and beanbags is the way to go. With a comfortable working space, team members can find a spot that allows them to focus on their work and do it effectively. The open layout is also much more beneficial that having a stuffy, cubicle filled office space.

Collaborative Environment

A team must learn to work closely amongst itself. For this, a manager should invest in project management software. Such tools allow team members to work on shared tasks without disrupting anyone’s schedule. Zapty.com is an online collaborative workspace that lets team members chat, share documents, conduct opinion polls and ask for approval on various matters and also run projects and marketing campaigns. It eliminates the need to shuffle between various tabs and allow members to focus on the task at hand. With easy access to one another, the team will pick up speed and produce the required results.

Appreciation And Motivation

Always make sure your team members know how much you appreciate them. This is a great way to boost their confidence and let them know that you, as a manager, know how hard they work. Motivate them during each project to bring out their best. Remind them that the end result, if successful, will be a team effort where each one of them will have contributed something. Plan team outings to foster team spirit and let them let their hair down once in awhile.