Launching a new small business is exciting and daunting in equal measure, so if there are smart ways to make your business life that little bit smoother, it’s a good idea to jump at the chance. Whether it’s admin, marketing or customer service, it can be hard with so many spinning plates. Don’t fear, AI assistants can be a low-cost but highly effective way to free up time and energy.
Take the pressure off, save time and focus on the rest of your business using some small tweaks.
Automating Admin from Day One
Handing admin can take up so much time and take so much time away from crucial business operations. Your inbox can feel like an insurmountable task and the constant to and fro-ing with booking can make you tear your hair out – AI assistants can do the heavy lifting. A mainstream AI tool like ChatGPT can draft, summarise and quickly save you time.
Other tools, powered by AI can help with calendar management, appointment setting, accounting and payroll – making admin less bothersome.
Affordable Market Research and Business Planning
Understanding your core market before launching a product or service is really important and in the early days of your business, it can be costly to access research and put focus groups together. AI can help you to access data, find trends and analyse info that will help you to use insight to guide your business decisions.
Content Creation
It’s completely understandable if marketing isn’t your strong-point. You are an expert in your business area, not necessarily marketing. Copywriting or web design are key skills that professionals work on for years so to expect yourself to be able to do this effortlessly is a reach. AI writing and design tools can help guide you, write content or edit something you’ve written yourself – especially product descriptions, emails or social posts.
Smart use of AI Assistants
Not all AI tools are going to transform your business, it’s working out which ones you can squeeze the most value out of. Choose the best tools and set them up properly – this is where an AI consultant can come in to offer guidance.
An AI consultant can take a look at what you want to achieve, the obstacles in your way and match AI tools to the specific needs of your business. This could be setting up a customer service bot to answer simple queries from customers that don’t need one of your employees to handle themselves.
A consultant can set up an AI bot within your existing systems and get it to work effectively alongside the rest of your tools.
In short, they can clear up any hiccups and setup AI properly, making sure your tech is working and not making things more confusing.
A Smart Move for Start-Ups
When you’re a new business, you can’t afford to waste time, money, and energy. AI assistants can help with all 3 of these factors and an AI consultant can support the process of setting them up for success.
If you need any help setting up AI tools, or just want a chat about whether they’re right for your business, get in touch with us here at DOWO.