Everyone needs a bit of technology to speed up their business and streamline tasks. This will save time, create efficiency, and help scale your business.

However, it isn’t easy to scale your business, unless you know what tech tools to use and where they would be most effective. We put out collective minds together to come up with the areas where you can automate your startup.

To read more great tips on how to scale your startup, read here.

Here’s what we came up with.

Cloud-Based Storage

It’s amazing how few people backup their data and utilise the cloud effectively. Cloud based storage ensures your data remains safe, forever archived and accessible on the go, on any machine whatsoever.

Some examples include Box and Google Drive.

Tech tools make it easier for entrepreneurs

Email marketing

Bulk emails, automated emails, read receipts, and so on, can improve your ability to communicate with your clients or even internally. Microsoft Outlook isn’t the only option available.

Other options include G-Suite, MailChimp for mass emails, and Intercom for email automation.

Email automation

Social Media Management

If you want to expand your business, then social media is by far the easiest solution. However, managing multiple platforms effectively can be challenging for a small team.

Automating that process is essential to being able to engage a large audience effectively.

Tools like Hootsuite and Tweetdeck are great for small teams.

Web analytics

Analytics are essential to understanding how consumers interact with your web presence. Using simple and free tools can be critical to improving your online businesses and making them more effective.

We all use Google Analytics, which has helped us understand our business effectively.

There you have it, some simple tips on how you can automate your startup, as well as the tools to use. If you like what you read, please comment or let us know what we left out.