From repetitive tasks to business growth: How automation tools can help

Ways of taking advantage of automation tools in your business

If you are running a business in the UK, you can take advantage of UK-dedicated servers, which can provide faster response times and better performance for your automation tools. 

As we previously discussed, the integration of these tools can offer numerous benefits for your business processes. In this section, we will explore several ways by which automation tools can enhance the performance of your business.

Generating leads

Searching for potential clients and business partners can occur naturally just as you go. However, to give additional momentum to your business and find new leads regularly, actively searching for them is a widely spread strategy. One way of performing such research is by using the LinkedIn business and employment-focused social media platform, which can be pretty much rewarding. 

The problem, however, with this platform is that such research includes lots of manual work, like looking through hundreds of profiles, most of which can turn out to be irrelevant, and sending lots of requests, only some of which can eventually be responded to. A good solution here can be using some of the LinkedIn automation tools, one example of which is LinkedHelper. 

Such tools automate the searching process, automatically picking up leads according to your preferences and the tool’s algorithms and setting up basic communication with them. Once the contact is established, the leads are handed to you and now it’s your task to develop productive and on-subject communication with them.

Link building

The process of promotion on the web is in many ways connected with making your website more visible on the web, in particular, more visible to search engine algorithms. One of the approaches is the one called link building. 

It consists in sharing the links to your website with partner websites, so the weight of your own website on the web increases.The difficulty with link building is again that it involves a lot of manual research of websites that can eventually become your partners and be ready to share your links on their website.

In this case, automation tools can be helpful as well. They can automatically perform the research, picking up the platforms that are most likely to be your partners. Furthermore, they can automate the process of sending invitation emails, so the only thing that is left for you is to continue an already established communication.

Automating document workflow

Creating and handling documents is an essential part of the functioning of any big corporation. However, the process itself can be extremely tedious and monotonous with a lot of repetitive routine tasks of creating and filling in similar forms and similar. 

Human error is another issue to consider because it can cause discrepancies and additional work to locate and correct errors. Automating document workflow can be extremely helpful, with the machine creating and filing all the necessary fields with extreme precision. 

The rapid rise of AI-language models which we faced a few months ago also creates a possibility of creating more sophisticated automation tools that will perform tasks that would otherwise require what is called “human thinking”. In this way, the only work remaining will be reviewing the ready documents and engaging in some more responsible tasks.

Automating bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is another activity that is necessary for literally any business. Such things as financial transactions, maintaining financial records, and preparing financial statements is what allows business to coordinate their financial aspects and exclude any legal issues associated with it. 

However, since bookkeeping is as well a rather monotonous activity involving lots of calculations, bookkeepers can sometimes be prone to human errors, which might and in wrong numbers on some important bills. automation tools can be extremely useful, making the work of a bookkeeper significantly faster and drastically reducing the chance of an error.

Conclusion

By choosing the right automation tools and implementing best practices for their use, your business can stay competitive in today’s changing landscape.