We all strategize expense monitoring with reluctance, like journeying the dentist: endurable most effective because the outcomes of no longer coping with the subject are greater painful than confronting them. as a result, anything else that makes an rate monitoring utility equipment fast, standard, and painless is generally appreciated by way of all concerned. Zoho Expense (which begins at $15 per month for 10 clients and is additionally purchasable in a freemium edition) accomplishes that aim.

On-line business software company Zoho has come out with new offerings for multichannel communication and marketing-concentrated email administration. The software is designed to assist agencies build greater relationships with valued clientele who communicate with them in a wide variety of ways.

Zoho nowadays announced the launch of latest software that hastens the innovation impressed by means of its ‘Made in India. Made for the area.’ ethos. the new items encompass Zoho AppCreator, pc and Zoho writer whereas the new experience, Gamescope, is being brought as a brand new function in Zoho tasks. collectively, the brand new deliverables rejoice the business’s twenty years spent crafting software.

For people who are always working on the go, there’s bound to be a lot ofreceipts in their inbox. From cab services like Uber to hotels and travel organizations, most companies today prefer issuing digital receipts over paper ones. To help you clean up your inbox for good and to make it completely receipts-free, we are introducing a major feature today called Email Receipts.

While capturing receipts with our smartphones is the easiest way to get them scanned, a lot of us have old air travel receipts or lengthy receipts from previous hotel visits lying in some corner of our inbox, just waiting to be submitted and reimbursed.

Forward your old receipts in your inbox to Zoho Expense, and Email Receipts will scan them for easy expense reporting. Not only does Email Receipts scan receipts from email attachments, it can also detect receipts in the content of emails and automatically create expense entries for them.

If you choose to use this feature, you can make your life better in just three steps:

1. Once you enable the feature, we provide you with an email address to which you will email all your receipts.
   
2.  You then set up your accounts with  vendors — your  cab service, your cable, and even your cellular network — to automatically send receipts to your newly generated email address.
3. We get these receipts auto-scanned to create expense entries for you.

For even faster reporting, you can configure your email client to have those vendor bills automatically forwarded to your email address in Zoho Expense.

 This feature will be available immediately for all of our customers. Automate email forwarding in your inbox and leave the expense recording  to us.

Gathering data is an easy task anyone can do in the 21st century. Organizing the information is a process nearly every good BI software in the market can accomplish, but providing insightful facts from dynamic dashboards at an affordable price is something very few can brag about. Consider the following Google Analytics Summary Recap built with Zoho Reports. 

Google Analytics Summary

In our last blog, we spoke about the website metrics that you must track in order to optimize your website, one of which was conversion rate. Now that you have started tracking it, what can you do to increase it? Here are seven unexpected ways for you to increase conversion rates strategically and become a master of the Game.

1. Make yourself easy to find: Imagine someone is searching for a product or service that you sell, but for some reason, they don’t reach you. It could be because your business doesn’t show up on the first page of the search engine; perhaps your website doesn’t work on the browser they are using, or it’s not mobile-optimized. Whatever the reason may be, it’s that easy to lose a potential customer.

All it takes is a few small steps to make sure the right audience can discover you: have a strong SEO strategy in place, test how well your website works on popular browsers, and ensure that the site is mobile-friendly.

 2. Be accessible: Using key communication channels, such as customer support email or contact forms, and increasing your company’s presence on social media will all make your business more accessible to potential customers. However, if you really want to ramp up those conversion numbers, consider adding a live chat feature to your webpage.

Consumers prefer live chat for customer support, and the major reason for that is they receive immediate answers to their questions. In fact, not only can adding live chat to your website increase your conversions by up to 30%, it can also help you land huge deals with prominent clients: John Hood, who runs an audio/video company called The Farm AV, closed a $500k+ deal thanks to the live chat feature he added to his website. 

Maybe your visitor is hesitant to buy because they have a simple question about a product, or there may be some technical error on the site preventing them from buying. Live chat lets you engage with your visitors in real time, so you can immediately take care of these issues for them and make more sales. 

3. Build trust and relationship: It’s important that you give visitors to your website plenty of reasons to trust in your business and the services you provide. Display reviews and testimonials on your site so new visitors can see what your customers love about your product and why they value your business. Engage with your customers (and potential ones) on social media to show you’re listening to them and their feedback is valued. When they are happy with your service, they’ll spread the word, resulting in more customers. 

4. Know your visitors: We have spoken earlier about the importance of knowing your website visitors. Having a website visitors insights tool, like Zoho SalesIQ, can help you see which visitors are recurring and which are new so you can connect with them better. It would help you not only understand and address their concerns, but also position and market your products better.

 5. A/B test your website elements: A/B testing is basically showing two versions of a web page to different sets of audience and using the one which has the best conversion rate. There are many elements on your web page that you can test, such as CTA buttons (their color, placement and text), page layout and design, headlines and messaging, and new media elements (picture size, videos, etc).

All of these small changes can make a huge difference. For example, a European e-commerce firm that sells hand-painted porcelain increased their conversion rate by 35.8% by just changing the color of their CTA button, and removing promo-code boxes from checkout page helped Bionic Gloves increase their total revenue by 24.7%. It’s important to remember that A/B testing should not be a one-time event: continually update your website and experiment to optimize your conversion rate. 

6. Segment your visitors: Some people visit your website because they need to buy something, some might be casually browsing, and then there are some who have opened your website on a browser tab and forgotten about it. Segmenting your visitors as hot, warm, and cold leads can help you target the right audience in the right way. 

Each of these leads requires a different level of energy and resources from your sales team. The first category requires immediate attention (live chat is a good way to do this); the second one needs a discount offer on products they are browsing; and the third category needs to be shown your bestsellers when they return.

7. Have an engaging website: A clutter-free interface with compelling content that clearly states your USP will immediately connect you with your website visitors. Encourage your visitors to stay and browse by offering details about your products and having a section of relevant blogs or articles around them. Your visitors will see more value in your business if you can offer them more than just a product catalogue, making them more likely to buy from you than your competitors.

Game of Thrones may very well be a great fantasy tale from HBO Originals, but the strategies discussed and used as the series develops is something all marketers should pay attention too. Do you have more strategy tips to increase conversion rates? Your information will be handsomely rewarded with gold coins from winterfell. #GameofThrones

A good CRM software helps you organize your contacts and follow up with your leads till you close the deal. But a great CRM does a lot more. It helps you generate, capture, nurture and grow your business in a holistic manner. If you’re an entrepreneur, you know what I’m talking about.

When you’ve just started your business, you’re doing it all: sales, marketing, follow ups, execution. Zoho CRM is just like you – it can do it all. How? With some key integrations.

Here are some must-have CRM add-ons for every small business to help you throughout the customer life-cycle:

1. Mail: When you’re running a business, you save time if you have one place where you can have your contacts and from where you can send and receive emails. It’s highly confusing if you have to do back and forth between windows to sync contacts from your CRM. Zoho CRM allows you to have your inbox right within your CRM. You can easily view emails, reply and using Mail Magnet, capture mails from contacts and leads stored in your CRM. All without opening another tab. Add-ons available for all major email providers but we’d recommend Zoho Mail, of course.
2. Visitor Tracking: This feature allows you to turn website visitors into leads. It gives you complete visibility into the online activities of your prospects and customers such as the pages navigated, the duration of each website visit and the actions performed on each page. With the customized CRM View in Zoho CRM, you can prioritize your website visitors and plan your conversations before contacting them. Zoho SalesIQ
3. Email Campaigns: Email Marketing is one of the most effective means of communication that helps lead nurturing and qualification. It’s ideal to have your email marketing software work in complete harmony with your CRM. It not only saves you time by working from within your CRM to create targeted email lists, design the email and send, it saves you the trouble of maintaining two sets of customer data. With a good integration, you should be able to even track how your campaigns performed, without opening a new tab. Zoho Campaigns
4. Project Management: Your sales rep has closed the deal. Great! But your development team is lagging behind. This won’t help you close a second deal with that customer. A holistic CRM allows you to follow up with a customer from lead generation to execution. That’s where an integration with a project management app comes in. Zoho Projects integrates seamlessly with Zoho CRM, so that every team is up-to-date on the progress during a customer’s life-cycle. It allows you to plan and execute projects within your CRM software.

Since 2008, we’ve been helping businesses streamline their billing. While online payments options have mushroomed, many small businesses have avoided it due to a complicated setup process and steep pricing.

We are big believers in helping you get paid faster through online payments. As a first step towards this, Zoho has partnered with WePay, an online payment processor. Creating your merchant account with WePay is like registering for a new email account –  absolutely effortless.

If you use Zoho Books, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Subscriptions, or Zoho Inventory, you can get started right away. It takes just five minutes to start accepting payments from your customers.  You don’t have to worry about filling out long forms or waiting for days to have your merchant account activated. More importantly, as a benefit of this partnership, you can enjoy some of the lowest transaction fees in the industry.

Here’s how the integration will benefit you:

Start accepting payments instantly

If your business is registered in the USA, just enter your business details and bank information, and you’re ready to go. Once your account is ready, you can immediately charge your customer’s Visa, Mastercard, or Amex cards.

Lowest transaction fees

With WePay, there are no setup or monthly fees involved! You will only be charged a flat rate of 2.75%+30 cents per transaction for all card payments including Amex.

Get all your answers in one place

We will be your main point of contact. Any questions on invoicing, chargeback, refunds, discounts – you reach out to us. We will not redirect you to a differentpayment service. You can email us at support[at]zohofinance[dot]com and our wonderful support team will help you out with all your questions and concerns.

Improved cash flow

The amount your customers pay you will be put in your merchant account, which will be processed daily for settlement. After the payment is processed, it will get deposited in your bank account in 2-5 working days.

Automated accounting

You can track customer payments, transaction fees, and refunds, as well as chargebacks separately in a clearing account in Zoho Books. If you set up Rules, accounting for these transactions will be, well .. automatic.

How do I begin? 

Login to your Zoho service and head to the ‘Integrations’ section in Settings. You’ll find WePay listed among the other Online Payment Gateways . Click on ‘Create your WePay account‘ to kickstart the process.

We’ve added a nifty status tracker on your Dashboard, so you can always check the status of your setup.

Once the status changes to ‘Configured’ (as shown below), you will start receiving money directly in your bank account.

If you’re eager to get started, go ahead and read more about the integration in the respective product’s help document – Zoho Books, Zoho Invoice, Zoho Subscriptions and Zoho Inventory.

We’ve put in quite a bit of effort to make the entire process seamless for you. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Here´s the deal:

Less than 9 months ago Twitter shared a list of the features most requested via #helloworld on the official Twitter blog, which may have given us something of a road map as to where Twitter could be looking to make changes in the near future.

As per the #helloworld feedback, the most requested Twitter features are:

That´s not all...

Today we finally see some of the #helloworld features come to life. Twitter recently announced an upcoming update that will make big changes to the way people (and brands) create content and engage on the social media platform. Here are the main changes from twitters announcement.

• Replies: When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count. This will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward, no more penny-pinching your words to ensure they reach the whole group.
• Media attachments: When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets, that media will no longer count as characters within your Tweet. More room for words!
• Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself: We’ll be enabling the Retweet button on your own Tweets, so you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed.
• Goodbye, .@: These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.

Since Timesheet is one of our most popular modules, we are constantly working on improving your time logging and time tracking experience. As a result, we now have an enhanced version of Timesheet with added options and a different look and feel. Here’s what’s new:

User-based timesheet views

The default timesheet view used to be Group by Date. If you are the admin or manager of a large team, you may often want to see the timesheet reports for each of your employees working across different projects. You could do that by using the filters and manually selecting the users you need. To make this even simpler, in addition to the Group by Date option, we now have the Group by User option. With this option, you get a view of the timesheet entries in all projects listed out user-wise. You can also filter the results to show only the users who have not logged time.

Reports for a custom date range

In addition to the weekly, monthly, and daily view of entries, you now have the option to select a custom date range. If you wish to view the timesheet entries for a particular period, selecting the date range will do the job for you.

Timesheet report across all projects

You can now generate a report for the whole span of all your projects. This will give you a view of how each of your projects is doing in terms of the logged hours, the budgeted amount, the invoiced amount, and the difference between the two. You can also create smaller, time range-specific reports by applying the appropriate filters.

Client-wise timesheet report across projects

This is a timesheet report of all the client companies that have been associated with your portal. You can view the projects under each client company, how many hours have been logged for each, the budgeted and the expended amount.

Improvements in the Calendar and Gantt charts

We have also made a couple of useful tweaks to our Calendar and Gantt charts. The Calendar gets a makeover with better color variations and icon representations.

By default, the My Calendar and Gantt chart views display work items that only belong to you. If you are an admin or a manager who wishes to see work items of other users, you had to apply the filter to select the users you need. Now with our new enhancement, you can just close the “Me” filter to get an all users  complete view.

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