6 Questions to Ask to Propel Your Business Forward
Home remodeling and design experts share key areas to focus on to reach even your loftiest goals.
Looking to take your business to new heights? Here are six key questions to ask yourself about your progress in the first quarter of the year, and how you can work smarter for the rest of the year to hit your targets. They’re all based on the wisdom of successful design and building pros, to help you get your business where you want it to be.
Pros Share How They Scaled Their Firms to New Heights
Tips for transforming your business into a multi-million dollar firm.
Perhaps you started your business at the kitchen table - or in the cab of your truck - with just you at the helm. You are not alone. Plenty of interior designers and builders started their ventures with just one or two people before growing them to multi-million-dollar firms. We asked some of those business founders how they did it. Scaling requires building a trusted reputation, responding to changes in markets and tastes, and finding mentors who can teach you along the journey, they say. Oh, and did we mention hard work? There was that too.
Here they share some of their insights for scaling successfully.
Managing Difficult Conversations
Introducing Our Houzz Pro Ebook: Managing Difficult Conversations.
Difficult conversations are called that for a reason. They are, well, difficult! Many of us avoid them, or try to delay them for as long as possible. With these Houzz Pro tips you can empower yourself to take steps to create a safe space to take on challenging, yet productive conversations.
Our ebook Managing Difficult Conversations, shares ways to handle these discussions confidently and how to even use them to your advantage. Read on to see the ebook highlights including examples of how other pros navigate the chats many of us would prefer to avoid.
Webinar: Megatrends Driving Home Improvement
Big changes in how Americans are living at home and what they’re spending their remodeling dollars are afoot — and not just because the pandemic upended everyone’s way of life. Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing at Houzz, has been researching consumer trends for years, attending all kinds of events and informational sessions offered by industry sources, the government and more, and has distilled all of that research into a free webinar. In the info-packed 30-minute video, she details four megatrends that all home improvement pros should know about, so they can target their marketing efforts and pitch more attractive plans to potential clients.
Nonprofit CRM Checklist
Choosing the right Nonprofit CRM and Donor Management Software is critical to growing a robust fundraising program. Modern donors expect more from your organization and the right CRM system features can help you proactively build better relationships.
This nonprofit CRM checklist for success is designed to help you identify the most important capabilities you’ll need to grow giving in a changing world. This guide will cover the following:
- Key functionality all nonprofits need in a CRM.
- Data analytics features to understand donors.
- Email and marketing features.
- Marketing automation.
- Essential integrations.
- Online giving and donation pages.
- And more…
Download the checklist to learn how to find and evaluate the right nonprofit management software to scale your mission and grow giving.
The Responsive Maturity Model
The Responsive Maturity Model is designed to guide you, step by step, through the stages required to un-silo your data, increase team effectiveness, create personalized connections with each donor, and grow giving at scale.
What You’ll Learn:
Learn the 5 key building blocks to drive increased generosity with your team, tactics, and technology. The Responsive Maturity Model provides clear, actionable building blocks for healthy, effective teams and increased giving. With this guide, you’ll learn how to:
- Build data health processes that create trusted data.
- Build reports to create transparency and alignment around key fundraising KPIs across your organization.
- Identify tools that can help your team better collaborate and understand the entire donor journey.
- Segment and personalize your donors communication based on donor behavior and affinity.
- Create robust, automated, dynamic campaigns the connect to each donor at the right time with the right next step.
The Donor Journey Guidebook
Start creating donor personas and mapping your donor journeys with The Donor Journey Guidebook from Virtuous.
These fillable templates will help you approach your communication planning in an organized and deliberate way, so that you can take each donor on a relevant and responsive journey.
Responsive donor journeys help you bring donors from awareness to engagement, then onto generosity and advocacy.
Begin planning your donor journeys to build deeper supporter relationships today.
Complete the form to download the guidebook today!
Lead Gen: Looking for Leads that Actually Convert? Our 20+ Years of Experience Delivers
Generating leads that actually match your ICP (ideal customer profile) and perform once in your pipeline isn’t as easy as it sounds - we get it. We’ve tried all sorts of engagement strategies and tactics over the past 20+ years as a leader in tech marketing and the good news is we continue to drive growth for the world’s most innovative technology companies.
How do we do it? We leverage and connect with our loyal B2B audience of over 20 million monthly site viewers and 100+ million buyer database contacts. And we stick to what works and what we do well – identify high-intent prospects, employ methodical targeting, then engage and nurture.
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A Comprehensive Buyers Guide for Retailers
The purpose of this PIM buyer's guide is to equip online brands and retailers with the knowledge and insights into the significance of PIM, the myriad of benefits it offers, key features to look for in PIM solution, pertinent questions to ask while evaluating options, and a comparison of some leading PIM providers in the market to make informed decisions while selecting the most suitable PIM solution for their business.
By adopting a powerful PIM solution, businesses can optimize product information management, reduce returns and shopping cart abandonment, build brand trust, and drive operational efficiency, setting the stage for enhanced e-commerce success and long-term growth.
What is PIM for eCommerce
Scattered product information across places? Onboard a world of myriad possibilities with PIM!
A central place to store all your product information like variants, colours, sizes, material, SKU Codes etc., including media (housed in the in-built DAM). Manage, update and distribute accurate and consistent data across various sales touchpoints.
Get features like:
- Product Enrichment.
- Dynamic Price List.
- Localisation.
- In-built DAM.
- Bundles and BOM.
- Multi-brand, Multi-Vendor.
- Multichannel Syndication.
- Workflow and Validation.
Claim Your Page, Sell More Software
Your software is being noticed.
For potential buyers to view the most up-to-date and complete information on your software, you must claim your page on SourceForge. Once claimed, you control the page content, can add product descriptions, pricing, upload video and more – at no cost, 24/7.
SourceForge is one of the most visited websites in the world and where over 1,000,000 software researchers and buyers find and connect with software companies like yours every day.
Claiming your existing page is absolutely FREE, easy, and can be done in just a few minutes.
For more information, please review (and update if necessary) your contact information already filled into the form on this page. If it’s accurate, you’re all set!
Next, click the DOWNLOAD button for a summary sheet with important details on how claiming your page on SourceForge can help you find new customers, generate more business.
What is Talkroute?
Talkroute is a UCaaS provider that gives you the ability to utilize your existing phones, web browser, and PCs with our cloud-based virtual phone system. Now you can have the power of an enterprise-level phone system without the upfront cost and maintenance of an expensive on-site system.
Getting Started is Easy!
- Choose a Phone Number. Pick a new phone number or transfer an existing business number to Talkroute.
- Download Our Apps. Our desktop & mobile apps are available for MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, & Android.
- Configure Your Settings. Customize your greetings, menus, extensions, voicemail, hours of operation, & more.
- Talk, Text, & Meet Anywhere. Call, message, & meet wherever you do business: home, office, or on the road.
Should YOUR Small Business Make Teleworking Permanent?
Teleworking became one of the most common ways that businesses have dealt with the current coronavirus pandemic. With the rise of new platforms and technological advances that allow businesses from all over the world to shift to a telecommuting work model, working remotely is becoming our new normal.
As the days go by, more and more people are getting used to this working model, discovering its value, and realizing that not only is working from home and telecommuting possible… but it can be extremely valuable.
Well over a year later, close to 25% of workers still telework. So is it a viable long-term solution or simply a short-term answer for dealing with the pandemic? To answer this question, we need to take a closer look at the advantages and disadvantages of teleworking for small businesses.
What You Can Do with Talkroute
Check out why 1000’s of businesses trust Talkroute to manage their calls, messages, & meetings.
- Making & receiving business calls. Keep your personal number private by calling from your business number. Our mobile app is available for iOS & Android.
- Texting with your customers. Get instantly notified when a customer sends your business a text & use our apps to reply with a message of your own.
- Video meetings with your team. With Meetings you may share your screen, start a team chat, share your files, annotate on a whiteboard, & record sessions.
- Managing voice messages. Receive voicemail notifications and messages directly to your email.
Get started with Talkroute in minutes
Claim Your Page, Sell More Software
Your software is being noticed.
For potential buyers to view the most up-to-date and complete information on your software, you must claim your page on SourceForge. Once claimed, you control the page content, can add product descriptions, pricing, upload video and more – at no cost, 24/7.
SourceForge is one of the most visited websites in the world and where over 1,000,000 software researchers and buyers find and connect with software companies like yours every day.
Claiming your existing page is absolutely FREE, easy, and can be done in just a few minutes.
For more information, please review (and update if necessary) your contact information already filled into the form on this page. If it’s accurate, you’re all set!
Next, click the DOWNLOAD button for a summary sheet with important details on how claiming your page on SourceForge can help you find new customers, generate more business.