Are your business automation tools in place for 2024 yet?
The right mix of tech and platforms is the best way to build a scalable business in a digital setup. And as we enter 2024, it’s not just ChatGPT that’s attracting all the managers’ attention: SO MANY tools do a lot of things for online businesses these days!
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In this article, we’ll explore the top 5 business automation tools that can help optimise your operations and achieve your automation goals. How do we know these are good tools? Because we’ve personally used them!
We handpicked these apps and tools because they offer a range of features and functionalities, making them suitable for our business needs—and they can be used across various industries too! 💯
By including these tools in your overall automation strategy, you can:
- boost productivity
- improve accuracy
- and ultimately lead to cost savings and increased revenue 🤑
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So, let’s dive right in! 🧑💻
Top 5 Business Automation Tools in 2024
Whether you own a marketing agency or building a coaching business, these handpicked business automation tools can help you get more done in 2024:
1. OfficeVibe
If you wanna know how your remote team is REALLY doing, OfficeVibe helps you auto-collect anonymous feedback, with weekly questions about your team’s stress levels, work-life balance, communication concerns, and more 👨❤️👨
All the questions revolve around 10 key metrics of engagement based on “decades of studies backed by organizational development theories.”
In short: OfficeVibe helps you gauge your online team’s happiness, personal growth, satisfaction, and other key engagement metrics so you don’t have to keep asking them one by one (or manually enter and compute their answers in a spreadsheet 😮💨)
The anonymous feature also helps you get more authentic feedback from your team 💯 It’s a great platform for people to express ideas on how to improve your business further, without any hesitation or fear.
If you implement this, each team member only has to answer 5 short questions per week, and the questions change to cover different metrics each time 👌
2. NotionNinja
Multiple log-ins and tab-hopping make social media a full day’s work. That’s what NotionNinja is for—it’s an automated social media publishing tool on Notion!
So how does it work? NotionNinja basically auto-posts all your scheduled Instagram content (for free) so you don’t have to leave your Notion platform.
Our Systemise & Scale Up team built it so you can:
- skip the multiple log-ins on your social media accounts
- experience unlimited auto-posting based on your content schedule
- and collaborate more with your team
We’re giving it away for free to drive brand awareness, plain and simple 😉
With NotionNinja, you can schedule as many reels, carousels and other IG media as you want, and everything will be automatically published on the date and time you specified in Notion. You don’t even have to log in to your Instagram account anymore 🤯
It comes with an easy setup too, so you can up your IG game in no time at ZERO COST 😉 Click below to try out NotionNinja for free!
💡 Pro Tip: You can also try NotionNinja Pro which lets you 4x your social media auto-posting! Aside from Instagram, you can also auto-publish your posts on these platforms:
- TikTok
- and Pinterest 👌
Just let us know if you want NotionNinja Pro by booking a FREE Discovery Call with our team!
3. Loom
Loom is an easy-to-use camera and screen recording tool. Our 100% remote staff at Outsourcing Angel use it a lot.
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If you need to walk someone through a new business process or some complicated instructions but neither of you feels like meeting in real-time via Zoom—this tool is your new best friend 😉
With Loom, all you have to do is:
- Hit record
- Explain the bit you need to
- And when you’re done, you’ll get a shareable link you can send right away on Google Workspace, Slack, or whatever platform you’re using 👌
But what we especially like about Loom are these features:
- Automated video title creation
- Automated video sections and summary
- View counts
- Clean user interface
These features help you save time and effort, which you can dedicate to higher-level tasks or a well-deserved coffee break instead ☕
4. Fathom
Fathom records, transcribes, highlights, and summarises your meetings. Talk about saving time and being productive 🔥
This means all you need to do is show up, focus, and do your thing. No need to appoint a poor note-taker ever again 🖊️👀
The best part? You can have unlimited use FOR FREE.
There’s no limit on how many people at your company can use Fathom free of charge. But you sure can upgrade to their Team Edition, which has additional features that “make it easy to roll out Fathom across an organization and have insight into what’s happening across all your company’s customer calls.”
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5. Reclaim
ReclaimAI auto-schedules your meetings, breaks, and tasks so you don’t have to do it manually each time. With their AI scheduling technology, you can have up to a 41% increase in productivity and 2.3 fewer unnecessary meetings each week! 🤯
So how does the auto-scheduling work? Let’s say you’re upskilling your team and have a lot of 1:1s throughout the week.
With Reclaim, you just set your meeting frequency, duration, and an ideal time—then Reclaim will auto-collect your attendee’s availability too, and always schedule your 1:1s on a mutually available time.
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No more back and forth about when your teammates are free for a call 😆 You can also add description links, notes, and Zoom or Google Meet links for all your remote calls with ReclaimAI.
Here are 2 other features that our team especially likes about Reclaim:
1. Auto-sync with Slack status
We synced Reclaim with our Slack workspace. So now, our Slack status gets automatically updated when we’re having a meeting, a break, or working deep into a task. Our teammates know exactly when we’re busy and shouldn’t be interrupted—without us having to tell them! 💯
2. Decompress time
After long meetings, Reclaim automatically schedules a short “decompress” time 😌 It’s a great reminder to take a step back so we can properly gear up for the next task ahead!
Bonus: 6. Make
And here’s a bonus automation tech for you!
Make formerly Integromat can connect the apps you’re already using so you don’t waste time hopping from one platform to another. It’s basically Zapier on steroids, and is trusted by huge brands like Meta, Spotify, Adidas, Heineken, and more.
And it costs less too! 👌
With Make, you can create and automate:
- tasks
- workflows
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- notifications
- data filtering
- error handling, and more!
The best part is that you don’t need ANY coding skills to use Make, because it’s a visual drag-and-drop platform 😎 It’s almost like a shortcut to being an honest-to-goodness developer!
If you’re interested in using Make, you’re in luck. Our Outsourcing Angel team is an official Make partner so all you have to do is book a free Discovery Call with us and we’ll handle everything for you!
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Automation Tech Is Only As Good As Your Automation Strategy
So there you have it—our handpicked top 5 business automation tools in 2024. And a bonus one, so you actually get 6 total!
Finding the right tools is only the first step in automating your business processes. If you want to build a scalable business long-term and lessen your manual tasks (such as copying and pasting, opening and hopping across multiple tabs, etc.) then a great automation strategy should be in place for your team too.
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With the right tools, processes, and virtual support, you can automate and scale your business for success!
Book a free Discovery Call with us today and we’ll hold your hand throughout the process.
