Written by crizlai on May 13th, 2010 | Filed under:
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technology,
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Can you remember the olden days where you would have to close down your shop for a day or two just to conduct your annual stock check? Each day you close for business would mean that you lose out on some sales and it’s a tedious task for just anyone if you have hundreds to thousands items in your inventory. Won’t you think that investing in a barcode scanner would solve all the losses? In fact, it’s a necessary technology for just any company nowadays who are looking for business success.
Owning a barcode scanner would eventually eliminate tedious record keeping, thus more hours can be spent in generating more sales for a company. All one would need is a bit of computer knowledge to print out the barcodes and a bit of time in gluing them onto your products. With the advancement in the barcode printing of today, even the price tag can be combined on the same sticker. Thus, your job would be easier now, right?
With the correct software and an appropriate printer, these user friendly scanners would surely give you more time and control over your business operations. Won’t you want less stress to run your company well?
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Written by crizlai on Apr 25th, 2010 | Filed under:
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product,
promotion,
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Some time in your life, you might directly or indirectly involve in some kind of business. It might be small or in a larger scale but how are you going to promote your products or services to the public? One thing for sure, not everything would be free to help you push up your sales. You would somehow need to foot some amount of effort and cash to boost it up. Let’s just look at some of the ways you can promote sales with minimal or no expenditure below.
Firstly, you have to know that visuals would have a better convincing power than speech or words. Try using some of the free blog setup such as Blogger or WordPress to set up your blog. It’s easy to use and free of course to certain extent. As you know, photos do play an important role here. Upload as many photos as you can with minimal descriptions. If someone is interested in what you have to offer, they would surely contact you for further information. Try to exchange links too as that would be a good way to gain unique visitors to your site.
Next would be to write a press release and send to all of your known local media companies. This might be hard for some if you do not have any close contacts with those reporters but again there would be no harm in trying your luck for the additional promotions.
There are many free social network websites that you can use to promote your company, namely FaceBook and so on. I have seen some successful ones getting great businesses, especially those in the food and lifestyle categories. Try setting up your complete business profile and gather as many fans as possible. Please remember that interaction is very important as no fans would want to be totally ignored.
Another great way would be to attach your website/blog address in whatever emails you send out. That would create awareness within your contact list on your scope of business, thus you might get additional businesses from them or their friends. Networking is still the best way to gain more business!
You could also consider producing some appreciation giveaways to your readers and loyal supporters. Those items might not necessarily be expensive as you can get some custom koozies or even a car sticker with your website printed on. Do get involve in sponsorship of whatsoever for some of your produced giveaways. That would give you that extra free mileage for your company.
There are so many other ways you can promote your businesses but towards the end of the day, it would still lie back to your own time, budget, effort and commitment.
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Written by crizlai on Sep 3rd, 2009 | Filed under:
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technology,
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Having a long distance relationship has been hard enough when you would get to meet up with your prominent half barely few times in a year. When the time comes and yet you could not find the time to be with her just because you are in the midst of a critical situation where your business needed all your attention, you get panic! It would a dilemma whether to spend time with the one you love or to spend time in your business which would support your livelihood. It’s a headache right?
Sometimes, I felt that I should be spending more time with my family and loved one instead of spending endless hours in the office handling all the paperwork. Setting up a business might be easy but to make ensure the success of the whole company might not be easy when you try to cut cost in employing more people to handle the respective areas in the company. Most of my time would be spent in monitoring, analyzing and planning the company’s business performance. It sounded like an easy job but when you are involved in seeing figures and more figures in calculating the Returns On Investment (ROI), you might think otherwise.
With all the competitions around, I have to be more committed to ensure the smooth running of the company. Maybe I should just seek the expertise of those software development consulting firms to ease my job burden here. I’m sure they would have the relevant business intelligence tools to suit my needs. I would really need someone to define, design and deliver optimal software applications that would enable my company to achieve its business vision. With all that off my head, I could at least have more time in hand to be with my loved ones.
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Written by crizlai on May 24th, 2009 | Filed under:
awareness,
business
Let’s understand a bit better about information security. The core principles in information security is based on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, electronically, printed, or any other forms that might be available in the future. Why is information security fast becoming a need in most industries nowadays? With the rapid advancement in the world of information technology, more and more people are relying on the World Wide Web as a source of information for their needs. It could either be for business plans, online purchases, fund transactions or even the running of an eBusiness. Thus, there would be the need to have information security to protect the information between parties.
Recently years have shown that there were an increasing need for personnel in the field of information security. In fact, demand for such personnel has exceeded the supply. Thus, this would be a great career to follow through with so many openings in many sectors involving network security, database security, testing security and so on. One well known university has the masters information security program that you might be interested in. The best part is that your can go through the whole course online anywhere throughout the world.
“Lewis University, Illinois, USA, has been named one of the “Best Colleges” by U.S. News and World Report for five consecutive years and has received recognition from The Princeton Review. The online format is designed to help students pursue advanced professional goals in the most convenient and efficient way possible and without interrupting their current careers.”
You have the options to choose between two concentrations in the MS Information Security Program such as the Managerial and Technical Concentrations. The Managerial Concentration focuses on the impact of information security on individual lives and personal privacy and the growing information security risks facing business and government. The Technical Concentration examines how information systems can be made more secure.
If you think that you would want to train someone up in your organization to protect from the daily growing risks and threats to IT functionality, integrity and data, you should check them out. After all, it’s a great way to set your organization confidence level steps higher in the eyes of your clients. Moreover, it would not affect your working hours right?
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Written by crizlai on Feb 16th, 2009 | Filed under:
business,
setup,
solutions,
system,
technology
Gone are the days of setting up a store using the traditional way of writing receipts, checking on stocks, etc which in term would involved heavy manpower, time and paper work. With the advancement of technology and many Point of Sales (POS) solutions easily available in the market, anyone could well get their business started within minutes.<
Having barcodes tagged to the items have eased many companies to run their business smoothly. Barcodes can provide up-to-date information on key aspects of the business, enabling faster and accurate decisions to be made confidently. Moreover, fast-selling and slow selling items can be identified quickly. Thus, reordering or clearing of unwanted stock build-ups through clearance sales can be done without any hassles.<
So, what equipments do you need to make your business run smoother and more profitable? All you need to have are Base Windows powered PC with a store manager software, LCD Monitor, cash drawer, thermal receipt printer, barcode scanner with hands-free stand, magnetic card reader, pole display unit, mini keyboard, mouse, etc. You could always check with those POS solutions companies which would be glad to provide you with a quote for their bundled package that would cost much lesser if you were to purchase the equipments separately.
See! Starting a business has not been so easy without the availability of such wonderful equipments and systems. Set up your barcode systems today to save on more cost while improving the quality, on-time performance and other key business factors for the company.
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