Top 5 Free Business Automation Tools

If you are looking for business automation tools that are both free and really effective in helping you save time and money, and improve productivity, this is the right article.

We have outlined the top 5 of the business automation tools we and many other entrepreneurs have found to be super useful.

They include:

1. Calendly
2. IFTTT
3. HubSpot CRM
4. Fresh Desk
5. HootSuite

1. Calendly

If you are looking for a tool that saves you the time and stress that comes with scheduling meetings and appointments.

Calendly is your tool.

Calendly is a free tool that automates the process of arranging appointments.

It saves you time and, frankly, money by eliminating the unnecessary back-and-forth that comes with scheduling a meeting or an appointment.

Calendly takes the busy work of scheduling off your to-do list so you can get more done.

2. IFTTT (If This, Then That)

IFTTT is an automation tool that helps small businesses connect apps, devices and different tools in order to trigger one or more automation.

It has a free plan that is perfect for small business owners looking to connect a few apps and software to communicate with each other.

It helps small businesses save time, and improve productivity through its pre-defined automation or custom automation or applets.

3. Hubspot CRM

A core part of sales is customer relationship management.

But many small businesses fail at it because they rely on manual and repetitive processes to carry them out.

This is why CRM tools like the HubSpot CRM are important. They cut down the time it takes to manage customer information and help you and your sales team to spend more time actually engaging with customers.

Hubspot CRM free plan comes with major features that include analytics, lead generation, and automation.

And connects everything you need to know in one place for easy access.

4. Fresh Desk

One area of marketing that small businesses always want to automate is customer service.

Because with automation or leveraging technology to assist in responding and assisting customers and prospects, small businesses find it difficult to respond to customers in time.

They are mostly left with the options of hiring more hands which is really expensive or leveraging business automation technology which saves them the additional labour costs and frees up more time.

Freshdesk is one of such tools that makes customer service an easy task.

It allows you, as a business owner, to engage in more meaningful conversations every day, across every channel, and with every customer and mostly for free.

Freshdesk lets you create workflows so you can automate tasks and improve your customer service agent’s productivity.

With the free plan, you can route tickets to the right agents or teams and set up preset responses for frequently asked questions.

Learn More: Four Automation Opportunities For Small Business Owners

5. Hootsuite

Hootsuite is one of the most popular social media management tools available to small businesses today.

It helps you plan, schedule, and syndicate posts on social media, because of its automatic scheduling, task management, and analytics features.

With Hootsuite, business owners can free up the time that would have otherwise been spent manually sharing posts across the business’s social media channels.

Aside from the time it saves you, using social media automation tools like Hootsuite can help you share posts more consistently and make it easy to build trust.

Businesses that don’t leverage automation today would be left behind because they are spending time and money doing mundane tasks that a free tool somewhere can do perfectly without any supervision.

Don’t be left behind. Leverage automation to grow your business today!!!

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