Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Don’t Make These 5 Common Inventory Mistakes
Believe it or not, inventory management is one of the most important things in the creation of your product. It is the movement of the inventory from raw materials to finished goods and from items to products that creates the flow of money. But, what if you weren’t managing your inventories well? Here are the…
Read MoreCan WiFi Turn Around In-Store Marketing for Local Businesses?
Despite the flurry of innovations in digital marketing, local marketing in the brick and mortar environment is still for the most part fairly confined to traditional methods. While digital marketing tracks consumer patterns, records contact data and paves the way for personalization, in-store marketing still suffers from lack of these much coveted consumer touch-points. But…
Read MoreThe Definitive Guide to Planning a Successful Office 365 Migration
Several SMBs have taken the leap to Office 365, and are leveraging the benefits of this suite of collaboration, workflow, and office apps. If your organization is also queuing up for the transformation, it will be smart to spend some time to understand and plan well. Here’s the CIO’s definitive guidebook on planning for a…
Read MoreBest Value: In-House IT Training vs. Hiring New Staff
The time has come—a significant software update is in the works or you’re taking the first steps toward a truly cloud-based environment. Great planning lets you identify key areas of concern; perhaps extra bandwidth is needed or an upgrade to physical storage devices. However, there’s also a critical decision yet to come: Hire new staff…
Read MoreHow to Migrate Your Small Business IT to a New System
Most IT system migration projects understandably run late or over-budget because of financial or operational constraints. However, this may put your IT system at risk and negatively impact business operations. Below explains how to strategic plan and successfully complete an IT system migration. Data Migration Bear in mind that obtaining security accreditation for data migration…
Read MoreCommon Cloud Migration Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
“The cloud” has become a vague buzzword. A lot of business owners aren’t exactly sure what the cloud is or how it works, which leads to mistakes being made when it comes time to migrate from onsite servers over to the cloud. According to a recent survey, 52% of small businesses in the US now…
Read MoreLights-Out Manufacturing: Future Fantasy or Good Business?
“Naturally, Man should want to stand on his own two feet … but how can he when his own machines cut the ground out from under him?” So states the teaser for Philip K. Dick’s short story “Autofac,” first published in the November 1955 issue of Galaxy magazine. The story revolves around a post-apocalyptic world where the…
Read More7 Ways to Avoid Poor Website Performance
Today in business, the name of the game is customer service. If you keep your customer happy then chances are good that your business will be successful. Now obviously, in the digital age, a website is the primary way that customers relate to your brand and service, and in order to please your customer your…
Read MoreThe Growth of Women in Tech
Although only 20% of all tech startups across the world are founded by women, women are being hired at a faster rate than men in the world’s 8 leading tech firms: Ebay, Apple, Linkedin, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, and Twitter. And this isn’t just a few percent. Women are being hired at a rate 238%…
Read MoreA Creative Way to Get Products in Front of Willing Buyers
Twitter is adding buy buttons. Instagram is doing the same. Amazon offers same-day grocery delivery in several markets. All of these are retail experiments to discover the ideal strategies that use technology to connect buyers to products in the systems that buyers find most convenient. It’s a very creative area in retail and one where…
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