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Budget-Friendly Technology to Help Save Your Business Money

Budget-Friendly Technology to Help Save Your Business Money

Technology is important to almost every organization nowadays. Still, depending on their situation, they may run into problems acquiring the technology that truly allows them to get over the hump and be as efficient as they possibly can be. Let’s take a look at three ways you can stretch your IT budget.

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Different Size Businesses Need Different CRMs

Different Size Businesses Need Different CRMs

Establishing and nurturing positive customer relationships stands as important for any business. A vital tool in achieving this goal is the implementation of a customer relationship management (CRM) platform. While many CRMs share common features, some offer more advanced capabilities at a higher cost. This month, we will explore the suitable CRM options for businesses at different levels.

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How a Year-End App Review Can Change Your Business for the Better

How a Year-End App Review Can Change Your Business for the Better

While you’re reflecting over the past year of business, it’s time to also consider what your future will consist of from an operational perspective. By reducing the organizational clutter on your network, you might find that you’re paying for and hosting a lot of applications that are completely unnecessary—something that needlessly strains your bottom line.

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Technology That Takes Aim at Common Operational Issues

Technology That Takes Aim at Common Operational Issues

Operational challenges not only impede growth but can also give rise to a cascade of other issues that jeopardize a business' long-term success. Recognizing these challenges can be tricky in the midst of daily battles, so let's explore some effective solutions for common operational problems faced by small businesses.

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Tip of the Week: Improved Productivity via Prioritization

Tip of the Week: Improved Productivity via Prioritization

It’s no secret that efficient time management plays a pivotal role in enhancing productivity. Unfortunately, mastering individual efficiency is more than a problem. This skill can be challenging. To help ease this challenge, we wanted to share three simple steps to elevate your personal and professional efficiency.

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Need a Boost to Your Business? Implement These Technology Solutions

Need a Boost to Your Business? Implement These Technology Solutions

Businesses that provide a service rather than a physical product will know all too well how often they require specific software solutions to manage operations. They also use these tools to provide excellent customer service and support. Let’s go over some of the most common and helpful software that a service business might implement.

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Eight Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient

Eight Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient

Efficiently organizing your business is essential to boost productivity, cut costs, and achieve your objectives. This, however, isn’t always simple. Here are some recommended strategies our technicians have to enhance your business organization.

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Overcome Your Competition with These Technology Tips

Overcome Your Competition with These Technology Tips

Technology plays an incredibly important role in any business venture, and if you don’t invest in it properly, you’ll face stiff competition from other companies that do. Today, we want to explain the importance of technology investment and some of the common issues businesses might encounter.

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Use Your Data to Choose Your Path Forward

Use Your Data to Choose Your Path Forward

Your business creates a lot of data and smart businesses can use that data, through business intelligence and data analytics platforms to help them prioritize tasks and streamline their operations to help them be the most effective business they can be. This week, we thought we would go through some of the things any business that seeks to use its data productively has to do. 

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Technology Can Cure Your Business’ Inefficiency

Technology Can Cure Your Business’ Inefficiency

If you’re not careful, inefficiency could become a serious problem for your business. While a certain level of it is inevitable, you can do quite a lot to keep technology from impacting your business’ productivity. Let’s go over some of the solutions you can implement to make processes easier and more efficient.

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Tip of the Week: Use Habit Stacking to Build Better Habits

Tip of the Week: Use Habit Stacking to Build Better Habits

Technology is a great enabler of productivity, and you can use it to build better habits that can compound your productivity over time. Let’s look at a concept called habit stacking that can be used to great impact.

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3 Ways to Tell You Need a Technology Upgrade

3 Ways to Tell You Need a Technology Upgrade

The big problem with technology is that it develops at such a fast pace that, before you know it, today’s shiny new toy is tomorrow’s dusty old thing. That said, innovation has slowed considerably in the past couple of years, yet the ability to know when your technology starts to hold you back is still a valuable skill to have.  We’re here to help you determine when that point occurs where your technology that used to be the cream of the crop, is now keeping your organization from achieving its full potential.

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Productivity, Part 4: Boosting Productivity and Motivation

Productivity, Part 4: Boosting Productivity and Motivation

At this point in our productivity blog journey, we’ve discussed what productivity is, how it can be measured, and what goes into protecting it. To wrap things up, we’re discussing what you can do to maximize productivity for your employees so that your business can grow and prosper.

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Technology Can Help Stretch Your Business’ Dollar

Technology Can Help Stretch Your Business’ Dollar

Even when it is doing really well, your business never has enough money. There is always something that needs to be paid or purchased that isn’t in the budget. Well, one of the ways that you can put your business into a position where it can afford some of the things you have earmarked, is through the use of technology. Today, we’ll go through how investing in technology and technology support services can actually pay for themselves. 

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Productivity Optimization Part Three - What Issues Can Impact an Individual’s Productivity?

Productivity Optimization Part Three - What Issues Can Impact an Individual’s Productivity?

The past couple weeks have been dedicated to productivity on this blog, as well as how you can get more of it, so today we wanted to go over some of the impediments to productivity that you’ll have to watch out for. We’ll also cover how you can overcome them so that your productivity is not hampered needlessly.

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How Downtime Can Cost Your Business

How Downtime Can Cost Your Business

Downtime is a business killer, and if you’re not careful, it could hold your organization back from both performing optimally and recovering effectively. Downtime can have a considerable impact on your organization, which is why most companies do what they can to prevent it in all forms. Let’s look at some ways you can keep downtime from impacting your bottom line.

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Outsourcing Can Work, but Keep these Three Things In House

Outsourcing Can Work, but Keep these Three Things In House

Today, you have a lot of options for how to go about doing things. There are many outside vendors that do a portion of your business and you can sometimes gain a lot from outsourcing. On the other hand, some things work better when you perfect them in-house. This week we thought we would take a look at some of the processes inside your business that you should seriously consider doing yourself. 

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Could a Four-Day Workweek Be On the Horizon?

Could a Four-Day Workweek Be On the Horizon?

The four-day workweek has seen no shortage of support in recent years. In fact, there have been projects dedicated to testing it out to see if it has any legs as a concept. One recent, very wide-scale study has concluded that the four-day workweek is indeed quite successful.

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Build Workforce Focus With These Strategies

Build Workforce Focus With These Strategies

Business is hard enough even without having to manage your technology. There are plenty of people to manage, tasks to organize, and operations to streamline. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways you can leverage technology to make a big difference in the way you focus your time and energy throughout the day. Let’s take a look at some innovative tools you can use to keep your employees engaged while they go about their duties.

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One Benefit of Managed Services that Isn’t Talked About Enough

One Benefit of Managed Services that Isn’t Talked About Enough

Let me ask you a question: how well can you multitask?

Regardless of what you may claim, I already know the answer, and it’s “not very well at all.” Multitasking just isn’t how the human brain is wired to work. So, why am I discussing the limits that our brain’s physiology places on it? Honestly, because it’s related to a major benefit that managed services provide that tends to fly under the radar.

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