Reduce Billing Errors and Improve Productivity

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Are you still typing in every finance transaction into your finance software?  Do you have finance software or do you give a pile of receipts to your accountant every month?  Do you end up having to re-bill because of manually typed errors?

If you had all your customers pay you online directly [...]

Reduce Paper,Improve Your Cashflow

Did you know that instead of sending a paper invoice,you can write an invoice in Word or Excel,convert it into a PDF document and email the attachment to your customer?  They then can then go online and pay you directly into your bank account via BACS.  Banks have recently improved their payment systems [...]

Keeping Your Information Secure

Distinct from keeping your information safe from accidents and computer failure,keeping your information secure means keeping it out of reach of criminals,the competition or even (as some reports suggest) more likely from employees past and present!

What can you do to ensure data doesn’t get into the wrong hands?

Identify which data is [...]

Which Brand of Computer?

With the resurgence of Apple and their Mac computers,people are very tempted to buy their line of products.  We use both PC and Mac and from our perspective they both display advantages and disadvantages.

Apple –Advantages:

More user friendly interface and intuitive software.  Its easier to install programs.  The overall design and look [...]

How Can Technology Help?

IT is having more and more of an impact on the way we do business,some of the ideas we talk about now have become common themes amongst smaller businesses in the past 5 years:

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Reduces order lead-time - Taking orders from customers via the internet. Improve sales - Use Search Engine [...]

Keeping your information safe

What happens if you lose your documents or your email? Or your computer gets a virus? Most businesses value their information far higher than the equipment they use to store it on. Yet,given the risk to the business of losing your data –how much time / money have you spent putting in measures [...]

Beyond Googlemail and Hotmail

If you still rely on webmail (such as Hotmail or Yahoo) to email suppliers and customers,it may be time to start thinking about a more professional solution for your business. Using your hotmail account may not give the right impression as it may not relate to your brand.

In addition many of these webmail [...]

Sharing Information and Documents

As soon as you have more than one employee or computer,you start running into issues around sharing information –where do you keep shared documents,HOW do you share information? Do you use a memory stick and swap between computers,or would you email attachments –ending up with more than one copy of [...]

Coping with Business Growth and Information Technology

What happens when you take on an employee?  Do you want them to use email?  How would you share information with them?  Would they use the same computer as you or would you have to buy additional?

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Perhaps at this point you may want to sit back and think [...]