Microsoft Office 365's new Business Apps Can Grow Small Businesses!

Microsoft has recently introduced a few more aspects of Office 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium, including Microsoft Invoicing, Microsoft Listings, and Microsoft Connections. These apps are first being launched for users in Canada, UK and US. Collaborating with Outlook customer manager, Microsoft Bookings and MileIQ, these apps introduce new ways to manage customer relationships and improve business. With these tools, Microsoft Office 365 also introduces some intelligence features to MileIQ, categorising drives as personal or business. 

Here we will give you a comprehensive view of these apps and focus on how they will help your small business grow. These apps help companies get new customers and nurture current ones along with simple invoicing, tracking mileage and scheduling appointments from a single location. 

Exploring Tools for Business Growth  

Using Microsoft Connections, Outlook Customer Manager and Microsoft Listings, you can nurture your customers' relationships, discover new clients and make email marketing campaigns more efficient. 

How to Microsoft Connections  

Using Microsoft Connections, users can send fully professional emails exhibiting a business brand while driving sales. It helps businesses engage with their existing customers using newsletters and send announcements or updates related to their company that remind them of their visit. They can conveniently set up various incentives to reward current customers by providing references. Thus, you can get more business from them. 

Microsoft Listings  

Invite new customers through business listing on channels like Google, Yelp, Bing, and Facebook from a single place. Ensure all the information about your business and brand is accurate on these sites or channels. It helps users quickly check customers' reviews, comments, replies or views for your business in a single view. 

Outlook Customer Manager  

Nurture your customer relationships with innovative yet straightforward customer manager solutions available on Outlook. Fast access to each information related to a customer, like meetings, notes, emails, deals, deadlines, calls, tasks and deals etc. All these updates appear next to the inbox. This way, you save time managing all data or navigating different screens. And this time, you can spend on making your customer relationship better. 

Helpful Tools for Business Operations  

There are new tools in MileIQ, Bookings and Microsoft Invoicing by which you can track mileage, properly handle customer appointments and send invoices. Here we will explore these tools and their usages in detail. 

MileIQ  

Check your miles more smartly and straightforwardly using automatic drive detection, thorough reporting and mileage logging. Categorise your trip as personal or business with a single swap. Moreover, new innovative features are included, which help save time by automatically classifying tours as personal or business per the working hours and encourage frequent takes. 

Microsoft Invoicing  

Use Microsoft Invoicing to make invoices and estimates that will appear entirely professional. Using online payments makes payment transactions faster. In addition, it allows you to track partial and pending charges, discover draft estimates, set discounts and sales, discover past prices, and quickly transform your calculations into invoices in a few clicks. 

Bookings  

Comfortably manage the appointments for your customers and enable them to select the desired time via a simple set-up booking page through the inbuilt integration of Facebook. In addition, bookings include appointments automatically to the calendars of staff members and that get automatically updated on cancelling or rescheduling. 

Using tools to track various business-related activities  

Business Center acts as the roll of the main access point or dashboard for apps to bring all tools together that contribute to offering seamless service to existing and potential customers. These tools include Microsoft Listings, Microsoft Connections, Microsoft Invoicing, Bookings etc. Using these tools; you can easily track down the primary metrics of your business, such as outstanding and total invoices, online impressions, and email subscribers, total bookings, to highlight the working or no functional aspects; hence, you can easily find ample time to grow your business positively. 

Getting Started on Office 365 New Tools to Grow Your Business  

As these apps for business are aspects of MS Office 365, switching to them is as simple as clicking on buttons over MS Outlook or discovering any tile from the home page of Office.com. It is free from managing different logins and transferring your data to various tools, as the Office 365 login allows you to access these apps. These apps utilise data already available in Office 365, like email data, calendar busy or free information, to present an integrated and straightforward experience. The best thing about these apps is that; they all come without additional cost with Office 365 Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business subscriptions.