Archive for the ‘small business productivity software’ Category
Short video overview of Pelican Mouth Productivity Management Software.
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Bringing the Power of the Cloud to Small Business by Laurence Matula, EO Johnson Office Technologies
Bringing the Power of the Cloud to Small Business by Laurence Matula, EO Johnson Office Technologies
There is an evolution in computing, and it is in the cloud. Cost advantages include paying for only the processing you use, the storage you need and the applications you utilize. Level the playing field — small and medium organizations can access IT tools formerly only available to large enterprises. With these, you’ll control costs, increase productivity and enhance competiveness without driving internal costs.
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Reasons why working for my last employer sucked
1)Owner was a salesman with a high school diploma and a bad tattoo. I graduated near the top of my class in International Business. If this guy can start and run a company why am I working for him? I should be working for myself.
2)Owner demands the impossible and is out of touch with operations and employee motivational factors.
3)Shifts people around to do 2 jobs for the price of one.
4)Small company with nothing to offer except horse and carrot promises, lip service and “big talk”. Promotion = Fancy title/name change. Except no raise for you sucker.
5)Using MS Office and MS Windows software from 2003! Still on Windows XP!
6)Computers, Printers, Networks ALWAYS crashing causing huge delays affecting service and productivity
7)Makes easy things difficult via hierarchy and people procedures. Too much fat for a small company.
8)Spent tens of thousands of dollars on horrible software without even so much as consulting the employees who are forced to use this terrible software every day. Yet claims his company is ‘different than all others’.
9)Ultra strict credit terms. Constantly harassing customers for payment everyday even over $10.00 one day past due.
10)Demands all billing 5 days out as priority over service. This increases downward pressure on already burdened employees. Out of touch with day to day operational factors.
11)No raise in 4 years for his best employee of a key office. Without her that branch office would not exist. Yet she is taken for granted and given no raise while employees come and go.
12)Horse and carrot shareholder scheme to motivate employees which he calls “executives” (in title only) with an illusion. There will be no retirement pay from this shareholder scheme whatsoever and the “executives” are fools for believing otherwise.
13)Company has absolutely nothing to offer which distinguishes them from their competitors.
14)Owner went out of his way to make sound running your own business difficult, unachievable, high, and mighty. “Corporate this” and “Corporate that”. Let me tell you something. There is not one damn thing my ex employer did that I could not do myself. A business is nothing but it’s clients and:
a) A piece of paper .
b) rented office
c) Faxes printer’s scanners computers etc (you can get these off Craigslist).
e) And finally CUSTOMERS and outsourced support (lawyers, CPA, etc). He always make is sound like running your own business was some kind of all powerful complicated thing you would need 50 million dollars to even think about starting.
Number 5 and 6 sound awfully familiar…. LOL…
You already know the answer… good for you to leave this trap behind and get out.
Discover the advantages of accounting software from Microsoft Small Business. View a live demo of Accounting Express, a free financial management resource.
For more information visit: http://www.ndm.net/microsoftstore
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Cloud FAQ #47: What are the most common uses of the cloud for a small business?
For many SMBs, using the cloud to get access to applications (SaaS) is a popular option.
With SaaS, SMBs can acquire a range of applications, ranging from business productivity apps like email and collaboration tools, to mission-critical apps like CRM and ERP without making significant investments in hardware and software licenses.
Another option that appeals to SMBs is infrastructure-as-a-service — using the cloud to gain access to storage, memory and CPUs on an as-needed basis.
For both applications and infrastructure, the cloud offers your SMB customers IT resources on par to what larger organizations have, without the upfront investments and ongoing costs. That offers more flexibility for your SMB customer and more room for margin for you.
For more cloud info visit www.channelprosmb.com/cloud
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http://www.PixelGigs-SmartSuite.com (15-Day Free Trial / No CC Required)
Cloud computing is on everyone’s lips these days. Businesses large and small want it. However, wanting and having are two different things. Small businesses might regard cloud computing capabilities as being beyond their means. They can take heart because now it’s affordable for nearly everyone.
PixelGigs SmartSuite puts cloud computing within reach of even the smallest enterprise. After a free 15-day trial, it costs only $49 per month and a one-time registration fee of $99.
What does $49 a month buy? In addition to SmartSuite itself, there’s a valuable tutorial center that walks a novice user through the steps to using this powerful tool, email support, and a live help desk when additional answers are required.
In a nutshell, cloud computing offers data access, data storage, software, and computation services in a virtual environment. In other words, the cloud-computing user takes advantage of a much larger computer system’s facilities without caring about where the server and storage facilities are located. It’s somewhat like turning on a light. A switch is flipped without thinking about power-generation plants.
Cloud computing allows even a small business on a tight budget to use powerful applications and software that would otherwise not fit on a common desktop or laptop computer.
Suddenly, $49 a month looks like a very reasonable price for being able to tap into this amazing resource. With additional support and training added to the package, SmartSuite is quite a deal.
PixelGigs SmartSuite
PixelGigs SmartSuite
PixelGigs SmartSuite enables anyone to utilize a number of applications that boost business productivity and organization. SmartSuite can pay for itself in one day if it creates order from chaos.
SmartSuite puts contact management, Web hosting, videoconferencing, email marketing, large file sharing, online backup of records and documents, and even a Web time clock for starters. There are even more features included.
In short, PixelGigs SmartSuite can help make a sales staff for efficient and effective because they’re not fighting for bandwidth and a block of time a single conference room. That means they spend more time selling and less time struggling over limited conferencing resources.
“One size fits all” seldom does that. That’s why PixelGigs SmartSuite has additional affordable packages. For the larger business operation, there’s SmartSuite Plus for $99 per month. With this package, a business gets all the features found in the basic plan plus phone support, access to a business development system, and business coaching.
No matter the size of the business, there’s an affordable SmartSuite option that’s just right. Using it for free for 15 days is only the beginning of doing things better and faster at a reasonable price.
http://www.PixelGigs-Business.com
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Small business expert Susan Solovic explains how mobile applications like ProntoForms and Office@Hand can help your company thrive.
Learn more about ProntoForms – http://www.att.com/prontoforms – and Office@Hand -
http://www.att.com/officeathand
And check out Susan’s site for more great tips: http://www.susansolovic.com/
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Get custom business software that helps operations from Microsoft Small Business and watch how Microsoft ISV (independent software vendor) facilitates order management.
For more information visit: http://www.ndm.net/microsoftstore
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Jack Hooper from Plan Financial speaks at a business productivity workshop in Fresno on March 3rd, 2011.
Part 4 – Discusses the myth of security when it comes to going paperless, shares information on data centers and the cloud, and on Microsoft’s future vision for small businesses.
For more information, visit http://www.applebyco.com.
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Just launched: Trend Micro™ SafeSync for Business™ to help even the smallest companies securely save, manage and access their digital files from anywhere at any time, while increasing productivity by enabling file sharing between co-workers and clients. Using secure cloud-based technology, SafeSync for Business is designed to let users easily access and share all their data while ensuring that they are protected, saved and up to date across multiple computers and mobile devices via the innovative synchronization technology. SafeSync also keeps an additional, up to date, copy in the cloud that can be accessed from any web enabled device or used in case of hardware failure or loss. SafeSync eliminates the need to manually move files from one PC to another, which is not only time-consuming but more subject to data loss. The result is superior organization of data and the ability to quickly and easily share and backup digital files.
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