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The 14 Best Personal Productivity Tools

The 14 Best Personal Productivity Tools

Despite the proliferation of “labor saving” devices and process automation software, marketers (along with their colleagues in pretty much every other business function) are busier than ever.

Of course, there’s always been pressure to do more with less—the definition of productivity improvement—but the mantra seems to have taken on almost religious status as the anemic, drawn-out recovery from…

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The 5 “Ins” of Successful Businesses

  Invested – v. devoting (one's time, effort, or energy) to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.

synonyms: spend, expend, put in, venture, speculate, risk

  Informed – adj. having or showing knowledge of a particular subject or situation.

synonyms: knowledgeable, enlightened, literate, educated

Insightful - adj. having or showing an accurate and deep understanding; perceptive.

synonyms: intuitive, perceptive, discerning, penetrating, astute, wise, judicious, shrewd, sharp, intelligent

Integrated – adj. with various parts or aspects linked or coordinated.

synonyms:  unified, united, consolidated, amalgamated, combined, merged, fused, homogeneous, assimilated, cohesive, complete;

Inspired – adj. of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse.

synonyms: outstanding, wonderful, marvelous, excellent, magnificent, fine, exceptional, first-class, first-rate, virtuoso, supreme, superlative, brilliant;

The savviest of executives know that the up-hill battle to achieve a sustainable share of the marketplace never actually diminishes. Rather, it becomes the challenge of maintaining and demonstrating continued relevance - aka staying “IN.” Your organization’s future demands that you lean in and stay current with the resources available to give you a competitive edge. Fortunately, the growing pains have been alleviated for many small business owners with the rise of enterprise cloud-based software. Online services ranging from sales lead generation (Salesforce.com) to inbound marketing analytics (Hubspot.com) to administrative reporting (Quickbooksonline.com) are meeting the needs of leaders across every industry AND every department. However, valuable business events that could be shared between these separate software services are being missed and productivity is suffering because of it.

  The problem with the above picture, is that integration implementation costs have remained too high to be reasonable for cash flow conscious organizations. Also, small businesses typically don't capture the same value that larger enterprises see at scale. Why worry about infrastructure when we only have 5-50 employees right? The development of such systems requires costly code, time to implement, and continual maintenance costs… It's no wonder that development of CRM and internal IT infrastructures has commonly been reserved for the larger established enterprise level organizations. It just hasn’t made sense to consider business integration and automation at the earliest stages of business… until now.

  By utilizing a cloud-data integration service, like Azuqua, smaller organizations benefit by saving an extraordinary amount of money and frustration connecting their cloud-based services. Azuqua’s platform delivers an enterprise grade, secure, reliable cloud integration solution for a fraction of the price. Productivity will reach new heights with the insights gained. Connect critical internal data points to make your services talk with relationships you didn't think were possible. Create new automated processes that require no additional effort. Remove redundant data input, copying and pasting, screen scraping and the other manual steps that are detrimental to your productivity.

  It no longer makes sense to let your business go unconnected. Now is the time to address your data in a meaningful manner. Get to your “A-game” by implementing Azuqua Flõs in your organization. We promise you value in minutes not months. We're working diligently preparing pre-built templates to assist in adding valuable automation solutions. Sign up today to get pre-registered for a free trial. Soon you'll see the incredible ways your business can benefit, and that there’s never been a better time to go with the Flõ.

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Author notes: Brett Reifers is a Custõmer Maniac, CPA and business strategist. His passion to provide business insights to startups and small businesses brought him to the Azuqua team where he realized the potential of their product to disrupt the online automation marketplace. Google

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It's A Hairy Ball of Wax

Enterprise Integration

 Ever since the enterprise became dependent on more than one system, enterprise integration has been a requirement. The integration industry has grown, in a meandering fashion, into what it is today.

 Integration currently is too hard, takes too long, and costs too much even when you’re creating the simplest connections between services. You might be able to come to terms with that as the cost of doing business, except when the time comes to leverage these connections and adapt them to newer systems, the cycle starts all over again.

  Point-to-Point Headaches

This phenomenon, also known as point-to-point connections, is essentially the industry’s bane.  Point-to-point connections are a hard problem to solve that is mired in painful details and the mistakes of the past that have been addressed with Band-Aid solutions.

But why is this a problem that needs to be solved now, and with a fresh perspective? This problem, understood broadly, is where the cloud’s potential for helping enterprises optimize their productivity remains unfulfilled. When we moved our data to the cloud, we were promised anywhere/anytime access to that data. Previously this data had been locked in enterprise silos, but we ended up simply moving it from one silo to a new one in the cloud.

We have only realized half the promise of the cloud, and connectivity between services is still as challenging as it used to be. The partly realized cloud is a hairy ball of wax that gives CIOs and other enterprise decision-makers unnecessary pain.

  Why Azuqua

At Azuqua we set out to solve this problem in a unique way, while trying to make enterprise integration fun – yes, fun! We got rid of boring tools and mind-numbing mappings and decided to solve the problem by obliterating point-to-point interfaces. Our revolutionary solution saves a significant amount of time, pain, and money and gives enterprises a more beautiful and fun approach to accomplishing their integration.

We are early in the approach and are opening up for the Beta phase of the project. Be an integration hero: join us on the journey to disrupt and transform this space by signing up here.