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V2 Work Smarter Not Harder
May 17, 2012 - 5:32 pm PST


You may have taken stock while creating your business plan on all of the essential tools that you will need to use to run your internet marketing business online. The trick is how to make all the various applications work together. 

One of the sanest and most efficient ‘concepts’ on earth is the ‘relational database’ – What it means is having everything in one place and entering data only once, and having it all relate in an easy-to-navigate interface. For example, the key piece of data in the relationship is the person’s name. Every other piece of information that we have regarding this name should be in one place. 

Examples of data that would be related to this name are his contact information, such as email address, phone, etc.;   then you have your notes about your contacts with this person – what date you talked to him, what are his interests, what business he is in; the date you will follow-up. (V2 Leads Management)

We might also have a record of which emails we have sent him so that we do not send duplicate messages and/or that we know the next message in the series to send him and when the appropriate time to send is. Naturally the only way to do this is to have an autoresponder. (VereMail)

Hopefully what follows is what the programs or products this person has purchased from you are and at what level – that is what upgrades or etc. would be appropriate for him in the future – and again a date where we will follow-up with him to see how he is doing.

Very few organizations including the largest seem to understand the power  a relational database has and instead seem to have fragments that must be constantly manually updated and require duplication of efforts to keep everything organized. 

Oh, but the real nightmare here is if you are using different software for each function, there is a point where your versions will no longer ‘talk to each other’. Literally you will be copying and pasting databases  across platforms or manually re-entering data to keep it all up to date and in one place.

Next consider your marketing efforts – another nightmare to control and navigate. Where are all the places you posted your articles? Links? Ads? Did you sign up for that Social Network? Which ones? How about the Web2.0 postings? Did you do everything you needed to do today? Yesterday? This week? Keep track of all your Internet ‘real estate’and activities  – and again, all in one place.  (V2 Market Manager). 

Where multiple applications are used for various aspects of your business, it can be another job in itself to keep everything organized – or conversely to be in constant chaos. Not the way to run a business. That is why one of the smartest things you can do is to get a program that has everything all in one place and all linked together for you. 

We want you to Work Smarter Not Harder. For about $50 a month you can have it all!

 



 
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