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Tools for digital transformation

¿What is digitization?

During the last decades we have witnessed a series of social, economic and technological changes. Technology has surely been the most determining factor in these changes. The technological advances developed during this period have influenced almost all aspects of life, especially pushed by the beginning of the pandemic and the expansion of social networks, workflows have seen the need for digital transformation.

Digitization are actions where traditional companies implement in their processesDigital tools, changing common activities that are carried out manually to automate them with digital tools, obtaining benefits such as reducing costs, working in more organized and efficient ways, improving customer service, among others.

¿Why is it important for companies?

Nowadays, companies cannot sustain their activity solely with a physical environment, since for any business model it is important to take advantage of technological tools to move from complex processes to a simple automated process. Applying and using all the tools that technology offers us can facilitate the user experience, providing the benefits that digital transformation brings us and allowing us to accelerate work processes that can consume more time than normal.

An example is an ecommerce (online store) that works very well on mobile devices can increase your sales and reach places where it would be physically very limited.

Applying digital tools correctly in your company can be the key to success in your business. Some advantages are:

  • Improve customer experience
  • Immediate delivery of information
  • organization at work
  • Immediate communication
  • Market analysis
  • Information for Decision Making
  • Team management
  • Productivity increase
  • Reduce costs
  • Less risk of errors

Digitizing Tools For Businesses

 To understand what this tool consists of, we must first be clear about the concept of digitization, which consists of representing information digitally.Normally we live in an analog world in which diverse information is constantly being received.

Virtually everything can be “made digital Texts, images, music… anythingType of information also referring to work processes, techniquesInternal operation etc.

Business transformation is a business strategy that is related to change management and is looking for a company to achieve desired goals. This change initiative implies a constant update and a digital transformation that entails changes linked to global advances. For this, each action has a fundamental objective when applying a new technique in a company, as well as solving the challenges that digitalization brings and being able to choose strategies or tools that apply according to budgets, objectives or organizational culture.

Below you can see a wide variety of digital tools for the transformation of your company:soul

 File storage

DROP BOX: It is a cloud storage service which is used to host files in the same organizational culture, it is available in a Web version for any device.

GOOGLE DRIVE:It is used to create and save files online, where the basic plan includes a capacity of up to 30 GB of storage ·     

GOOGLE WORKSPACE (EX-G-SUITE):It is one of the favorite tools to store all Google files in the cloud like, Google Sheets spreadsheets, Google Docs documents, Google Slides presentations and other types of documents.

 

Social networks 

HOOSITE:This platform is used to analyze social media strategies and measure reports and be able to evaluate results, it is an automation tool that allows you to program publications on social networks such as: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and to be able to add statistical comments and much more.   

Manage relationship with clients·     

 SALESFORCE:It is a software that allows us to manage all the information of a client in the same History, monitor activities of your work team, assign tasks to specific people. 

HUBSPOT CRM:Software specialized in marketing and sales. Its objective is to promote the growth of your business. It is free and allows you to observe the entire business flow thanks to its activity and contact records, since you can synchronize it with your Gmail and Outlook accounts.

 

Payment gateways:

PAYPAL:It is one of the best known payment gateways, where payments are processed and authorized for your business. If your business has clients abroad, PayPal is your option as it allows you to make payments in more than 200 countries.

 

STRIP:This application is used to receive payments online. You can connect your website with a bank account and thus charge directly from your website.

Business management

GOOGLE MY BUSINESS:This tool is key so that your potential clients can get to know you beforehand. It allows you to create a kind of “file” with detailed information about your organization such as,

Address, description, hours, contact, website.

 

CLICK FUNNELS:It is used to create and design your funnels or sales funnels. This will help you when analyzing which phase of the funnel each client is in and what the digital strategy should be like for each of them.

 

CONSULTOK:It serves to validate decisions quickly and efficiently, Consultok is a technological platform that connects decision makers with experts willing to advise them. How does it work? They connect you with more than 200 experts from different fields so that you can ask them questions, resolve doubts or make queries that you will receive through personalized video messages.}

 

Projects management :

TRELLO:This tool consists of a customizable board that is used to create, assign and track tasks on different created cards. You can apply the Scrum methodology wave Kanban methodology.

ASANA:This work management platform focuses on goals, projects and daily tasks through the planning and structuring of a project. It has a schedule to establish priorities and deadlines for meeting goals.

 

Project automation:

ZAPIER:This tool allows you to unify all your websites and automate the different platforms used in your company.

MONDAY:It is a customizable dashboard that is used to manage projects, workflows and daily tasks but allows you to have a panoramic view of all the processes. You can also make reports using the calendar to schedule tasks for each person on your team

WORD PRESS:The most recognized CMS (Content Management System) worldwide, allows you to create and host your website, as well as the creation and management of written content to position it in search engines such as Google.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS:It is a tool for the analysis of metrics and specific data of your website. You can review all its statistics such as visits, most viewed pages, users, bounce rate, sales, etc.

CANVAS:It is used to design, edit and publish graphic material that will accompany your communications on different social networks. It has a wide variety of templates and images, as well as being a very intuitive tool, so you don’t need to be a great expert to start using it.

 Digital marketing:

MailChimp:Tool for email marketing, It serves to automate campaigns through email. It is one of the best known tools in digital marketing that you can use to improve the campaigns of your business or company.

Google Ads:It works for any business or company regardless of its size, Google Ads is a very powerful tool that can help your business achieve its goals.

SEMrush:It is a tool that helps increase the online visibility of the company’s website through SEO strategies. Helping to increase organic traffic from search engines like Google.

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