Launching a start up and running a business is tough, especially in today’s financial climate, and so innovative digital solutions to common problems are to be welcomed with open arms, offered cake, and invited to come and stay…
So here are three incredibly useful resources that will help you solve some of the most potentially sticky challenges for any business:
1. Reliable and Comprehensive ‘Due Diligence’
Dueli lets you check the company health of suppliers, clients and competitors before you hire / pitch / spend a sleepless night wondering if they are worth worrying about.
Services include:
• History and accounting information to give you the present health of a company
• Director information and history
• Litigation red flags and fraud
• HSE sanctions for suppliers
These services are available elsewhere but one of the best things about Dueli is that it gives you everything in one place, which when time is precious is worth an extra pair of hands to an entrepreneur or SME.
2. Effective Presentations to Close the Sale
Want to show off what you can do / how much you’ll be able to help the client / close the sale? Forget Powerpoint. Hell, forget Slideshare. To get truly 21st century you need to master Prezi, presentations á la ‘Minority Report’.
Where other presentations restrict you to a formulaeic click through, Prezi is a non-linear form of presentation. Functionality isn’t just up and down, you can click sideways too and they have also added depth, allowing you to zoom in on different aspects of your presentation.
3. Customer service to Help Clients Be Happy
Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service software, that prides itself of enabling customer queries to be dealt with quickly. As they say ‘Slow First Response Time is the #1 leading indicator for poor customer satisfaction’ and as many a social media crisis has proven, is frequently a key factor in nipping a problem in defusing a potentially bad situation and changing how a brand or company is perceived. Zendesk is integrated with Salesforce and is fully scalable.
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