The small Business Guide To The Top (Part2)
The IT evolution and expansion has mostly assisted small businesses to decrease operating expenses and to be one step beyond of the competition.
We will continue to provide you some more tips in order to promote your company to the next level:
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Customer relationship management systems store customer information in a centralized database. CRM systems are able to create more effective and far more efficient sales teams by examining in depth their customers on-going needs and necessities and retaining the cliental stability, by giving even more opportunities for upsell.
Intelligent Services
By adopting business intelligence, a company is able to analyze data more effectively, by breaking them down in categories (products, vendors, departments etc.) and providing historical, current, and predictive views of any operation occurred.
Video-conference
The most useful discovery (after the wheel of course!). You don’t have to pay thousands of dollars to travel abroad in order to get a “maybe” for a deal or even a fruitful agreement. Video conferences do exactly that by allowing you to stay in touch with both clients and vendors. Cut down all travel costs and invest on a high-tech web camera for your sales managers. Now you can minimize all associated travel costs if a company has clients spread across multiple locations.
Virtualization
Adopting virtualization technologies enables companies to operate multiple servers from one piece of hardware. Nevertheless, a business is able to reduce the running costs of their technology, but of course not getting rid of their servers entirely.
Think before printing
Printing overheads can run into thousands of dollars for companies. But small businesses can save money by leasing machines or investing in copiers with double sided printing options and energy-saving functions.
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
An ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) is an integrated system used by businesses in order to manage ongoing functions such as finances, materials, and human resources. Enterprise Resource Planning systems were used traditionally from larger organizations but not anymore. ERP systems have become increasingly popular in mid-sized companies.
Of course there are numerous systems that could help companies to save money. These examples show that by thinking differently about IT small businesses can make considerable savings and potentially boost business without huge investments.
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