How many software programs do you use to run your business? Do you even know? With the rise of online hosted software applications, you might have quite a few. You login and logout of different applications all day long without even considering there may be an easier way to work. Clients often tell us “everything…
Is QuickBooks Your Main Source of Customer Information? Small business owners and managers need to be able to answer questions like: Who are your best customers? What’s your average customer sale: What’s the lifetime value of a customer? If you’re like many small businesses, you may go to QuickBooks or your accounting system to find…
In the not-so-distant past, the standard way to buy small business software was to buy the number of licenses you need, install the software on a server or on all the company’s workstations, and periodically upgrade the software to a new version. That model is quickly becoming obsolete as more software vendors have moved to…
Small business has increasingly become dependent on technology. In fact, we often say, “Every business is a technology business.” When it comes to small business technical support, you often can’t afford to hire full-time IT staff – and even if you do have one IT professional – that one individual doesn’t always have all the…
Your Microsoft Office 365 subscription comes with lots of hidden perks. One of these gems is Office Lens, a document scanner you can use from your phone. Ways to Use the Office Lens Document Scanning App Scan signed contracts and store in the client’s OneDrive folder Scan business cards to add to Outlook / Customer…
Small Business IT Strategy Sometimes it’s not what we DO that hurts our business growth, but rather what we fail to do… like planning out our small business IT strategy. Data silos pop up because we don’t have an IT technology plan. We don’t always ask the right questions to help us decide between cloud…