Waiting is Costing You Money

Collaboration is an important aspect of any marketing team. Often something as simple as a new email has to be reviewed and approved by many teams from copy to design to sales.This waiting around though? It’s costing you time. And lost time costs money

Stalled projects happen all the time in marketing teams for many reasons, but one of the top reasons is administrative tasks that get ignored or forgotten and end up halting a simple project like a welcome email or new persona.

These administrative tasks aren’t just costing you lost time, but also lost money. In fact, this white paper found that knowledge workers lose 11.2 hours each week because of document management problems. In terms of money, that’s nearly $20,000 lost per marketing employee, per year.

And in an increasingly competitive world, stalled projects can make you lose clients, and make your current clients lose faith in you. Marketing needs to find a simple, cost-effective solution to help them regain their lost time. That’s where workflows come in.

Workflows as a Lost-Time Solution

The fact remains, that no matter what, administrative tasks like content collaboration, PR approvals, and signature retrievals from clients have to be completed.

But these tasks no longer need to be done by your marketing team. Now, you can automate them. Maybe you’ve seen “workflow automation” offered as a solution before but it seemed like more trouble than it was worth. Really though, it can be used as a simple solution to automate tedious tasks.

Workflows should work like this: easily create the task, then forget about it, because you know it’ll be taken care of. Of course, not all workflow automations are created equal. You need to look for one that works for your needs as a marketing department.

What You Need in a Workflow Solution

Pricing

Workflows should save you money, that’s why the money you spend on a workflow solution shouldn’t cost more than you’re saving on automating tasks.

Ease-of-Use

Your workflow solution needs to be used by anyone—without the help of IT. Look for a no-code designed workflow that is easy to learn and able to be used by anyone—even if they don’t work in IT.

Customizable

You need a solution that is entirely customizable for marketing. A solution that was created for the legal industry won’t help you much in marketing. That’s why any solution you get should be entirely customizable and created by your team.

Reports

Watching workflows in real-time can help identify any problems with your workflows or weaknesses in your projects or team. Having a solution with a dashboard or something similar in place is important for peak productivity.

FileCloud as Marketing’s Workflow Solution

FileCloud is a secure file sharing and storage solution helps you send, collaborate, and share files securely. It has an abundance of features available including customized branding, client portal software, enterprise-level security for sensitive documents, and now, Workflow Automation.

Branding customization allows businesses to personalize their platforms, enhancing brand identity. With options to customize logos, themes and user interfaces, it strengthens brand recognition and delivers a unique user experience.

FileCloud’s workflow automation allows your marketing team to become better than ever with a workflow builder that allows you to create customized workflows for your team, all with a simple no-code design. No IT experience required.

These workflows can be created and shared with anyone on your team, and the simple drag-and-drop design and built-in logic helps you create workflows that work—for you and your team.

With a few steps, you can create workflows to automate your tedious tasks including:

• Content/multi-department collaboration

• Press and product releases

• Agency partnerships

• Lead nurturing

• Persona building

• Sign offs

• Signature retrieval

These tasks are a vital part of marketing, which is why they so often stall projects. But with FileCloud’s Workflow Automations you have the peace of mind of knowing these tasks aren’t going to slow you down anymore.

Managers or team members can create and share their customized workflows with their teams to keep teams to help improve efficiency even further.

Your running workflows can also be viewed in a dashboard so you can see work happening in real-time. Use this dashboard to easily correct oversights in automation and even download reports to see how everything is going.

FileCloud can be almost 3x cheaper than similar solutions and offers all-in-one features like workflow automation on top of enterprise-level security, storage, and sharing.

FileCloud is the Workflow Solution Marketing Needs

Marketing departments know how difficult it is to remain competitive and attractive for clients. Getting rid of time-wasting tasks by using workflow automation is the best way for marketing departments to remain up-to-date and cost-effective. It’s the competitive advantage you need. Right at your fingertips.

Use FileCloud as your Workflow Automation solution and get back to work that matters. Get your free trial today.