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Systemisation of Your Trade Business

When you consider systemisation of your trade business, the first thing that jumps to owners minds is, “That’s a load of work - how can I possibly find the time!” You will only have to invest time in setting up these systems once. In the long run, it will save you hours, days and weeks per year. Automation and systemisation is something we take very seriously in our own business. These systems are in the form of flow diagrams, with one chart being developed for each element of the business. ...
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Chat Heroes Alternatives

In this day and age providing the best user experience for your website visitors is becoming ever more important. There are some incredible technologies for providing this functionality from no/low cost in house managed to a fully outsourced manned service. Chat Heroes Alternatives can be found below. Chat Heroes Tawk.To Gnatta        
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Servicem8 help in Manchester from a Certified Partner

Are you based in the Manchester area and looking for help with ServiceM8? Mills Consulting Group are ServiceM8 Certified Partners based in Manchester, UK. If you would like to learn more about ServiceM8 and how Mills Consulting Group could help you to systemise your trade or home service company then feel free to schedule a 15 minute Discovery Call with Julian Mills. Click here to schedule a ServiceM8 Discovery Call. To find out more about ServiceM8 then please follow this link.
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Plumber Marketing Ideas- top 6

If you are responsible for plumber marketing then I hope you will find these 6 ideas valuable, so please read on. The first step to winning more plumbing jobs is to think like a potential client who has an issue with their plumbing. Put yourself in their shoes. What thought processes will they go through? Which websites do they visit when they have an plumbing need or problem? How can you engineer so they “see you” online when they are searching for a solution? Idea 1 Initially, potential cust...
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A client testimonial

“Finding Julian was a revelation. He was able to come into our business, review our processes and automated much of the business thus increasing our sales and saving me time too. For instance Julian was not only able to create the email marketing but also set up the CRM and sales pipeline so that the sales team could easily and efficiently manage the sales process right through from initial web or phone enquiry through to the sale and installation, and ultimately asking delighted customers to ...
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ServiceM8 UK Consultants – here to automate your trade or service business and streamline your operations

Take control and work smarter from the client's first call through to scheduling, quoting, job completion, invoicing and payment with ServiceM8. Mills Consulting Group are ServiceM8 UK Consultants who specialise in working with small and medium-size enterprises to automate business processes from marketing automation to service delivery processes.
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Integrated Marketing with Infusionsoft – email, direct mail, sales team, telesales, text (sms) & customer service

One of the often forgotten strengths of Infusionsoft is that it enables users to conduct integrated marketing campaigns. All too often growing companies are solely focussed on email marketing, after-all this is all we can expect from the email only systems like Aweber, Constant Contact etc. etc. that many companies start with. Also email is seen as "free" or "very low cost". But the problem with an email only marketing approach is that because it is easy with Aweber, Constant Contact etc then s...
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Handy tip to download images and videos from your phone

Isn't it a hassle to download images or videos off your smart phone. What I had to do was email the image to myself, save it and then open it in the photo editing app like photoshop or Gimp 2, the free alternative. This app - Simple Transfer makes it easy to connect your devices and download your images and videos. The free version is great, well worth a look Simple Transfer Julian    
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