This is a guest post by Rahul Varshneya, the co-founder and President of Arkenea. Rahul has been featured as a technology thought leader in numerous media channels such as Bloomberg TV, Forbes, HuffPost, Inc, among others.

Several organizations use a wide range of tools to execute and monitor their internal processes. These systems are interfaced by human agents who pass on the data output from one system as input to the next system in the pipeline.

Because of the non-automatic nature of manual execution, manual data entry work makes these processes slow and error-prone.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had these interfaces taken care of automatically?

That’s right, we are talking about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – a transformational paradigm that optimizes such processes by automating repetitive, rule-driven tasks.

According to Forrester Research, RPA market revenue is expected to gross $1 Billion USD in 2019.

With RPA and by using RPA tools, your internal processes can be finished faster and more efficiently. It would free your agents from trivial data entry and data exchange tasks so you could deploy them to do more strategic process initiatives.

In this article, we at Process Street will present 5 best practices for RPA. We will then introduce our favorite RPA tools, so you can walk away with actionable robotically automated processes.

This article has been structured as the following:

• How does Robotic Process Automation eliminate tasks from structured environments?
• Software silos and how they affect your teams
• How to break silos with the implementation of Robotic Process Automation
• How to achieve exceptional results with Robotic Process Automation implementation
• RPA tools: Process Street’s top four RPA tools
• How you can use Process Street’s RPA tool capabilities

Let’s get started!

Note that RPA does not aim to eliminate jobs. It aims to reduce the burden of mundane and repetitive tasks of the existing staff so they can work on more strategic initiatives.
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Guest post by Deana Kovac (Deana Kovač), an internet marketing specialist at Point Visible, a digital agency providing custom blogger outreach services. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music and singing karaoke, and she just cannot start her day without a hot cup of coffee.

Content optimization improves an existing page so it serves its intended reader and business goal more effectively. This content optimization fix shows how to fix underperforming content without tossing it out: diagnose why the page falls short, strengthen the answer, repair technical friction, and measure the result. The process uses two stages: identify weak content with evidence, then apply six focused improvements.

Guest post by Harry Southworth, a professional writer and editor.

An ecommerce strategy is the coordinated plan for attracting a defined customer, converting demand into profitable orders, delivering the promise, and earning the next purchase. The best ecommerce books build that plan with lessons from entrepreneurship, positioning, customer experience, analytics, psychology, and process design.

Deadlines.

Meetings.

Presentations.

As an employee and business owner, your agenda is jam-packed full of to-dos. It can sometimes be difficult to stay afloat. This is why we at Process Street have created this article to make your working life a lot easier.

We’re going to look at making checklists for the effective management of your work.

We asked business owners and employees across the globe: What tips or tricks would you give someone for making checklists?

We gathered our responses, sieved out significant commonalities, and wrapped up our findings to produce this article.

Click on a subheader to jump to any section, or scroll down to read a full in-depth account on making checklists.

• ‎Making checklists: Why use checklists?
• Making checklists: Tip 1 – Split up your large projects
• Making checklists: Tip 2 – Keep your checklists manageable
• Making checklists: Tip 3 – Group your tasks
• Making checklists: Tip 4 – Keep a record
• Making checklists: Tip 5 – Regularly update your checklists
• More tips for your checklist templates
• How to make superpowered checklists using Process Street

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Only 23% of surveyed CEOs believe that they have comprehensive information about the risks of their business.

Can you confidently state that you belong in that 23%?

Even if you are not a CEO, as an employee, are you sure you know all the risks within your workplace?

If not, then keep reading.

In this article, you will learn about risk and how to manage it, specifically via risk mitigation. You are also provided with a thorough list of Process Street resources and templates. These are designed for you to gain a good understanding of business risk, risk management and risk mitigation.

This article is structured as below:

• A definition of risk
• What is risk management
• What is risk mitigation
• Risk mitigation application
• Risk mitigation and risk management: A broader picture

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Anastasia Stefanuk is a passionate writer and a marketing manager at Mobilunity. The company provides professional staffing services, so she is always aware of technology news and wants to share her experience to help tech startups and companies to be up-to-date. 

As a business person or a person who owns a computer, how prepared are you in protecting yourself against data loss?

If you lost all of your important files and memorable photos, do you think you would be able to run data recovery to reclaim them?

Data recovery is the process of salvaging lost data from either a secondary storage system, removable media or files.

In this digital era, data has been classified as the new “oil”. In the business world, data is the driving force behind innovation, competition, productivity, and improvement of core operations. Likewise, governments all over the world require data to make vital decisions that will affect their populace.

With that in mind, the convergence of data streaming from billions of mobile phones, digital platforms, virtual-reality applications, and wireless sensors, continue to pile up with each passing day. In fact, it is estimated that the amount of electronic data in existence today is 2.7 zettabytes. This number is expected to grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025.

This presents a humongous challenge in managing and ensuring that such a large amount of data is secure. In addition, the looming question in many people’s minds is; what would happen if all this data magically disappeared? Would the world come to a standstill or are there backup mechanisms where it can be retrieved later?

In this article, Process Street will expound on the main causes of data loss, the importance of backing it up, and tips on how you can successfully run data recovery processes.

This article has been broken down into the following sections.

• Causes of data loss and the impact on your business
• How to avert the cost of data loss
• Best practices to prevent data loss
• Use a professional service to prevent data loss and implement data recovery

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It was my first time visiting Sweden, and somehow I found myself hauling two baskets of milk containers to deliver to the local supermarket. Feeling like a recycling heroine, my ego was soon deflated when I realized my efforts were something of commonality in this country.

Recycling is part of the Swedish supermarket’s environmental management strategy and has contributed to the country’s 99% recycling rate. It is results such as these that make Sweden one of the most environmentally friendly countries in the world.

In fact, many Swedish corporations place the present and prevailing problems facing our environment on a pedestal. Why?

If you read my last post on business sustainability, you will understand how the environment impacts our economy. It is due to this deep-seated connection between economies and ecosystems that make environmental management so important.

Environmental management acts to safeguard nature from potentially damaging business operations, constructing a win-win situation benefitting the economy and the environment.

In this article, we at Process Street explain exactly what environmental management is, why it is needed, and how you can implement environmental management into your business today. We also have a bunch of free templates to help you apply environmental management strategies.

Let’s crack on and find out exactly what environmental management is.

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It is becoming increasingly apparent that sustained corporate success lies in harmony with a healthy society and environment.

84% of business executives recognize the importance of adopting a sustainable business. Academics, such as the environmental economist Robert Mendelsohn, agree that sustainability is key:

“We can’t afford not to be sustainable.” – Robert Mendelsohn, Can we afford sustainability?

At Process Street we also recognize the increasing priority adopting a sustainable business model should have.

In this article, we explain what a sustainable business is, why it is important, how it can benefit your business in both the short and long term, and how you can implement sustainable actions into your business. At the end of the post, we provide you with templates that act as aids to make your common business processes more sustainable.

• What is a sustainable business?
• Why business sustainability is important: The three principles of sustainability
• A model of sustainability: Three-nested dependencies model
• Case studies for sustainable business
• The short term benefits of a sustainable business
• How you can be a sustainable business

Let’s get started.

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When presented with state-of-the-art SEO methods and swish social media platforms, it is easy to dismiss newsletters from your marketing strategy. But what if I told you, by doing so, you are missing out financially?

66% of email marketing involves newsletters. This makes newsletters the top email marketing method.

Keep that statistic in mind, as I fire another interesting fact at you. 59% of business to business marketers state that email is the most effective channels in regards to revenue generation. We know that email marketing is predominantly newsletters (66% of it). Can we not infer the huge revenue potential email newsletters have for your business?

In light of this, Process Street has gathered 20 newsletter templates. Each template provides the backbone structure to ease the creation of your newsletters.

Besides these 20 newsletter templates, Process Street also provides a newsletter template process. This process guides you, increasing the efficiency of your newsletter creation process.

Treat this article as an all-encompassing platform, designed to help you create your email newsletter. We have structured this article into the below subheadings:

• Why do you need email newsletters?
• How do you write an email newsletter?
• Process Street’s newsletter template process
• 20 top newsletter templates

Scroll down for more information on the templates provided, or access them via the quick links below:

20 email templates

• Financial Business newsletter template
• Orbital Digital newsletter template
• Bold Business newsletter template
• Polaroid Real Estate newsletter template
• Black Widow Company newsletter Template
• Corporate Business newsletter template
• Citrus Splash Employee newsletter template
• Times Bulletin newsletter template
• Green Wave newsletter template
• Pook newsletter template
• Sonata newsletter template
• ZURB Ink newsletter template
• Wire newsletter template
• Webinar newsletter template
• Resonant newsletter template
• Textual e-Newsletter newsletter template
• Terra Cotta Digital newsletter template
• Change Is Good newsletter template
• Responsive Design newsletter template
• Coffee Bum newsletter template

Process Street’s newsletter template process

• Newsletter template process

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In 2018, we saw more than 3.8 billion email users worldwide. 3.8 billion and increasing. That is almost half the worlds population on email.

From this statistic, Process Street gives to you both good news and bad news. The good news is that you have a fantastic method to communicate with your customers.

The bad news?

Business and consumer emails sent and received per day will exceed 293 billion in 2019, which is forecast to grow to over 347 billion in 2023.

Email after email multiplied into the billions loses your line of communication to the spam folder.

How do you make sure your emails are noticed and stand out from this crowd? The answer, by sending follow up emails.

In this Process Street article, we will look at the basics of follow up emails. We provide email templates to help you get started and processes for follow up email campaigns.

We will help you stand out.

In this article you’ll find:

• Who needs a follow up email?
• How to write a follow up email.
• Why do you need to write follow up emails?
• Five follow up email templates.
• How to write an email campaign.
• How you can use Process Street to help your email campaign.

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