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Rod Santomassimo of The Massimo Group: 5 Technology Hacks For Small Businesses
Rod Santomassimo is the founder and president in North America’s largest commercial real estate coaching and consulting firm, The Massimo Group. All business owners constantly evaluate and adapt their offerings to the market, especially to how their audiences are being reached. A major component of this evaluation is technology. Technology cannot replace all businesses, however, it’s still important for it to be implemented.
Although technology is not simple for some business owners, you still need to learn how to leverage the technology you elected to invest in. It can be worth both the time and capital, but it’s also considered a necessity for small business owners. Being a small business owner himself, Rod is constantly looking for better ways of retaining and growing the profit margins. It seems like the more he invests in technology that supports the systems and processes his team creates, the more profitable they become. From creating more efficient processes to reaching targeted prospects, and reducing costs, technology has a major impact on business.
With his excellent coaching skills, he is planning on writing his third book with the chance to share his knowledge. Rod has heavily relied on technology to communicate and orchestrate their services with all of the team members and clients with Infusionsoft. The Massimo Group participates in social media as well, but in order to improve, the group plans on exploring additional technologies to integrate with their current platforms to double in an active client base. To overhaul certain elements in the coaching programs and replace them with more videos and downloadable content, they rely on Vimeo and Kajabi for this.
The Massimo Group would not be as effective with their clients if the tech was not incorporated. The company would have to depend on email verification and consistent systems standardization checks to simply make it through one week for a handful of clients-let alone one year, with hundreds of clients.
Rod then continues to explain why some struggle with this advantage with a number of factors. It starts with ignorance, containing a mentality that is unwilling to adapt is dangerous. Thinking that there shouldn’t be any advances along the way will leave you stranded. Similar to that is fear, fear in the investment and incompetency. Given that, Rod shares his trick in dealing with the rapid technological advancements. “Hire people that are much way smarter than you-ones that you can compensate less than your hourly rate”. He then goes on to describe his employees at The Massimo Group, one being a young girl up in Maine who runs all of their marketing, one in Kentucky for technology, and a kid in Phoenix who helps with your campaigns. All are much younger and smarter in their respective roles, but regardless, they work for Rod Santomassimo.
As someone who’s in the position himself, Rod shares his expertise by advising 5 technology hacks for the small business owner.
Facebook’s ability to get your message directly to your targeted audience is unmatched. Everyone seems to be on Facebook, including Massimo’s target audience being the white-collared professionals between the ages of 35 and 55.
Zoom
Used for all internal conference calls, client calls, and webinars as well. It’s a great video-conference platform, with a chance of it being free for a single account. It is heavily relied on for webinars, some businesses should use this advantage.
Rev.com
We need to have access to transcriptions for internal communications, client communication, and webinar recordings. Even for blogging and book ideas. Rev.com is simple, you can upload your audio file and within 24 hours, it’s in your inbox.
Upwork
Formerly known as elance.com, Elance used to gather 1,000 emails to launch any company’s idea. Now it’s being used for projects such as editing, research, Excel worksheet building, and yes-technology experts.
Audible
Being a small business owner requires constant learning, the struggle here is finding the time. Now, with Audible, everyone can listen to books while doing a task. It has been quoted that Audible even makes others look forward to exercising.