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If you’re wondering how moving in this direction could do your business any good, here are a few reasons why you should: it will improve employee collaboration within your company, make engaging customers much easier, simplify managerial processes, and ultimately increase your revenues. In this article, we’ll talk about five ways digital transformation can multiply your business’s revenues. Here they are:
Better Data Collection
Thanks to modern digital technologies, you can collect quality data about your customers, prospects, leads, and broader target market with just a few clicks. There are numerous online polling and survey tools with which you can speedily amass important customer data; Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, and Typeform are popular examples. The data you gather with these tools could enable you to make quick, informed decisions that will drive your business’s profitability.Enhanced Productivity
If you want to boost your revenues, you will have to increase your productivity. One way to do this is to make collaboration between your employees much easier. With applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Trello and Zoom, you can have your staff work together on projects in real-time, even if they are distributed across various locations, and deliver outcomes that augur well for your company.Sign up for the Connect Nigeria daily newsletter
Greater Market Reach
Another way to increase your business’s revenues is to scale your reach. This will allow you to connect with (and convert) a lot more potential customers. In the old days, the only way to do this was to pay hefty sums for TV, radio, and newspaper adverts. Now, you can get the attention of large audiences online. You may even do so without spending a dime on ads—Search Engine Marketing (SEO) and viral social media posts are two approaches in this category. If you want faster results, you could pay for greater visibility on Search Engine Results Pages, or run paid social media ads.Improved Customer Experience
Your business exists to serve its customers. And if they are satisfied with the service they get from you, they’ll be willing to patronize and pay you even more. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software allows you to coordinate your engagement with your customers, and maintain a stable relationship with them. Widely-used CRM solutions include Sage CRM, Salesforce CRM, Zoho, and Hubspot. If you’re able to guarantee a smooth and fruitful customer experience, you’ll draw in more revenues from pleased users of your products and services.Register to attend the CN Business Mixer
Flexibility and Speed
The ability of businesses to adapt to the changing dynamics of their industry and target market will determine how well they’ll perform over the long term. While this trait is largely the result of workers’ personal initiative, it is enhanced by the use of appropriate technologies. Examples include cloud-based project management apps, communication platforms and analytic tools. With these at your disposal, you could quickly tweak your approach to ongoing projects, rapidly share and work on files and see how well your product or service is being received by the public.Final Words
Digital transformation can increase your revenues by significant margins. In order to reap this reward from it, you’ll need to ensure that your digital transformation efforts are geared towards improving your data collection, market reach, customer experience, and response times. Do this, and you’ll score great wins with your business in the coming months and years. Featured Image Source: ForbesGot a suggestion? Contact us: editor@connectnigeria.com