Think of yourself as a content marketer first, which is effectively what you're doing, then check out convertKit, which is specifically for bloggers but works great for your situation too.
If $100/month is too much, then likely this business is in to early a life cycle stage to justify a CRM. My suggestion is you use https://Drip.com which starts at $50/month.
Based on my experience, the biggest challenge is getting the right talent that can pull off a quality work, I have done this by sending out small tasks to different developers and evaluate their works after. (But I guess this isn't your issue since you have 4 yours experience of working together...
Properly set up Salesforce CRM with Saleforce Mobile would do this.
Consider BigMailer.io for a true white label setup designed for agencies, with no added fees. Some top ESPs, like ActiveCampaign or Brevo, claim white label but it's incomplete (not fully branded). Mailgun is a good option for transactional emails and if you need e-commerce integrations. Hubspo...
What I usually do with my team is to store the data locally until the machine connects to the web and then push it to the cloud at that point. The data won't be live but at least it will appear once the PC is online. Makes sense?
You have four jobs to do. 1. Attract/identify leads. 2. Qualify those leads. 3. Convert the qualified leads. and 4. Fulfill the orders. Do you have a system for each of these? 4. can lead into 1. with referrals. You want as pre-qualified a lead as you can get. Qualifying is filtering. I...
"What type of car should I buy?" As you can imagine, the answer to this question is highly dependent upon a number of factors. Similarly, you're asking some very specific questions. I anticipate that a number of experts here would love to help you with answering with specific questions -- but t...
Rental businesses are way different from sales businesses. Most entrepreneurs think all eCommerce solutions can be used to develop a rental marketplace, but the requirements to develop one are way different. To elaborate, rental orders are simply more complex than sales orders. For example, the...
It sounds like your friend is looking for outsourcing services, where a company in one country hires professionals from another country to develop their business software. There are many outsourcing firms and freelance marketplaces that can connect your friend with developers who have the necessa...