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7 Tips & Tricks for Successfully Modernizing Your Small Business

  • September 15, 2021
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When you’re a young entrepreneur attempting to get your start-up off the ground, you’ll need to keep up with ongoing trends and technological innovations.

7 Tips & Tricks for Successfully Modernizing Your Small Business

However, with a smaller cash flow than the larger name-brand businesses, you may find that modernizing your small business is more complex than you initially thought. Fear not, because a lower starting budget doesn’t mean you have to get left behind in the digital dust.

For any small business owners trying to keep up with rising table stakes, here are seven tips and tricks for successfully modernizing your small business practice.

Modernize Your Business IT

You’ll see that modernizing your small business IT is essential, as this step is vital for improving day-to-day efficiency, data security, and the continuity of your work processes. Companies such as SUSE can help you in your endeavors to modernize your IT infrastructure.

Updating or replacing old legacy systems can lead to significant benefits for your organization, such as:

  • Meeting company goals
  • Boosting the consumer experience and buyer journey
  • Improving productivity and financial revenue
  • Reducing risks related to data security

With more customers than ever before choosing digital transactions online to purchase products, your company needs to modernize and invest in new technologies.

Improve Your Marketing Efforts

You will find that you don’t need a ton of funding to promote your company and boost your marketing efforts. You can purchase pay-per-click advertising and embrace bloggers, influencers, social media experts, and local journalists to help strengthen your marketing.

Advertising on digital channels, including social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, can make a significant difference for your company’s future. You can even purchase ads on social media to elevate your company’s products or services.

Frugal business owners will like social media marketing, mainly because–paid ads aside–it’s completely free to get your message out there.

You can also embrace web seminars or in-person presentations as a way to advertise your products or services. Lastly, you can try partnering with other businesses to cross-promote your companies to new audiences.

These are just a few of the steps that can put your marketing game in the big leagues.

Embrace Digital Technology and Link It to Your Physical Business

Currently, the typical consumer walks around with a supercomputer in their pocket that they use to find company reviews, addresses and directions, links to purchase products, and more. 

As such, it is essential to embrace digital technology with an online shop, customer reviews, and other critical information on your website.

While many consumers purchase online, many customers move from the digital page to the physical brick-and-mortar store, restaurant, or other business.

You’ll need to link your digital strategy to an in-store consumer experience. For example, you might want to add discounts for those who purchase products in your physical store or provide QR functionality so that restaurant-goers can view your menu on their smartphone.

Incorporate Cloud-Based Systems Into Your Day-to-Day Operations

Does your company still use filing cabinets to store invoices, receipts, or contracts? If so, it is time to upgrade and install cloud-based systems to improve your day-to-day operations.

Instead of spending a hefty up-front fee, you’ll find that most services related to moving data to cloud-based tools are based on a reasonable monthly price.

Therefore, this affordable service should help you ensure you are modernizing your business by using the newest cloud technology.

With cloud technology, all of your data is accessible from any device, anywhere, any time.

Your employees will always be on the same page as you, and you won’t have to pull your hair out over leaving essential files on your work computer.

Furthermore, these systems provide you with analytics tools that will help you make the most out of your consumer data.

Analytics can also help you find ways to improve productivity at your company.

Learn All About Your Buyers’ Journey

It is essential for you, as a business owner, to understand your customer’s journey and to put yourself in the shoes of your typical buyer.

You’ll need to map out the entire buying process at your company, both at your digital, online store, and your brick-and-mortar location.

Imagine the customer experience from their first contact with your organization up to their final purchase. You’ll also need to consider how that journey can keep your customer coming back for more purchases in the future.

Understanding the entire customer journey will help you find areas to improve the consumer experience and ensure your buyers are delighted. This step will go a long way in modernizing your operations.

Enhance Communication Among Your Workers

With email becoming a less common way for employees to communicate amongst themselves, it’s time to update the communication platforms at your place of business. More offices are now using messaging tools and apps to communicate between workers.

Email is just not the most productive way to communicate, as email represents less ease of access. Some emails get lost in the shuffle, as they may end up in the spam folder.

You’re paying hand over first in wasted time if your employees have to spend hours every week digging through their inboxes to find essential memos.

As such, upgrading to cloud-based communication platforms is a good idea. You might want to look into business-focused apps like Slack, where employees can create group threads and private discussion channels.

Protect Your Company and Customers From Cyberattacks

You might think that cyberattacks are more common among large corporations, government agencies, or banks. However, every business, even a start-up, is at risk of data security risks and cyberattacks.

Cybercrime is becoming more prevalent than ever before, with many companies facing data breaches every year. Cybercrime is the most likely type of fraud that occurs today, according to a PwC survey.

To protect your customers, employees, and business partners, you’ll need to adopt data protection policies and security systems. You need to search for the best encryption programs to keep your data safe and reduce threats or risks to your infrastructure.

You should develop a security protocol that can stay nimble in the face of changing security risks and cyberattacks.

Along with the six others, this step should help revolutionize and modernize your business over the coming years.

Before You Go

After reading the guide on the top seven tips and tricks to effectively modernize your small business, you should be ready to go and adopt some of these strategies to advance your company brand.

Adopting the right digital tools and cloud-based technologies will make a real difference for the future of your small business. Before you know it, your small business will have a delighted customer base, and your financial revenue will snowball.

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