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Useful Software Applications for Small Business Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:08 AM PST We are now in the age of computers which makes the advancement in information and communication technology possible. In every field of human endeavors, computers are widely utilized. It is unthinkable to find any office including nongovernmental organizations, government offices, charity organization, social clubs and others that does not make use of computer in the management and running of the organization. Given the importance of computers in the world today, it is unthinkable to run any business no matter how small the business is without computers. In other words, computers have become important parts of businesses in the contemporary era. There are various aspects of small and medium businesses that are managed with computers. Left on their own, computers will not offer much benefit to businesses. Various business software applications installed in computers make them more useful to the users. There are many software developing companies today and these companies are coming up with useful software application that will help business to run its activities very well. Various aspects of business transactions and activities are now automated. There is less reliance on paperwork. What ordinarily would take days or hours to be completed manually can now be done within seconds at the clicks of the mouse thanks to the use of these software application. However, the problem most small and medium businesses are having is that they cannot afford some of these software applications because they are very costly. However, as it has been said above, there are many software developing companies and so there are myriads of software applications in the market today. There are some less affordable and even free-to-use software applications which small and medium businesses can make use of until when they have enough funds to acquire the expensive one. But these free-to-use software applications are limited in function when compared with the expensive one. You can still be managing them until you achieve some high level of financial stability. Here are some of these software applications. LibreOffice If you do not have enough money to acquire Microsoft Office, you should consider using LibreOffice. It has similar functionality with Microsoft Office. The good news is that it is compatible with Microsoft Office. You can use it to open Office files sent to you by other people. It also works well with Content Management Systems. Thunderbird Email has remained one of the most effective means of communication today. Some email clients are not available free of charge. For example, if you want to utilize Microsoft Outlook which is the most widely used, you have to spend about $95 which means a lot for some businesses. If you do not have any money to go for paid email clients, you can use Thunderbird. You will save that $95 and still be able to send large email files. Lightning Calendars are very essential for effective management of time which is highly valued in business. Microsoft Outlook has calendar that will help you to manage all your appointments, sales meetings, conferences and deadlines. But it is not available free of charge. You can use Lightning for the same function. With it, you can manage your schedule effectively. Other software applications that you can use if you are on budget are: · TurboCash for accounting · OpenProj for project management · SugarCRM for CRM · 7-Zip for file archive · Scribus for desktop publishing · Simple Invoices for invoicing · Dia for diagram creation
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How the Social Media Will Benefit Small and Medium Businesses Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:42 PM PST The social media has become a very powerful marketing platform. Many businesses have started promoting their businesses using the social media. However, there are still a good number of small and medium businesses that have not understood how the social medial will benefit them. But the truth is that businesses using the social media are gaining better exposure and popularity than businesses that are not using it. The result of a study conducted recently indicated that about 89% of businesses using the social media gain more brand popularity. The result also showed that more than half of the business utilizing the platform for about three years have reported improvement in sales. So, if you are doing business, you should take advantage of the new technology. Below are some of the ways social media will benefit your business.
Better customer interaction and connection Interaction with customers is very important in the doing of business nowadays. Before the advent of the internet that makes the social media possible, interaction between businesses and their customers were not smooth or fast. It takes time before businesses can get feedback from their customers. But this is no longer the case today. The social media like Facebook and Twitter has made it possible for consumers to have direct interaction with their favorite businesses and brands. They can become their followers and fans and then make comments about the services they receive. The feedbacks from the customers as well as suggestions will help the businesses to know their strength and weak points. They will be able to determine how the consumers view them. This will help them to improve on their services. Secondly, from the comments of the customers, businesses will be able to find out the strength of their competitors and then brainstorm on how to improve on it. Increase brand popularity The social media is a veritable means of popularizing one’s business and brand. Millions of people visit the social media like Facebook and Twitter on daily basis. So, if you are making use of the social media as a marketing platform, your business will surely become very popular among the consumers. However, you should hire an expert to help you manage your social media page so that it will attract many fans and followers. Increasing sales Increase in sale is a natural corollary of enhanced brand popularity. Once, your brand becomes popular among consumers, it is more likely that your sales will definitely increase. Some of these consumers will buy from your business when they are in need of your product. If you effectively embark on social media marketing, you will observe increase in the flow of traffic in your website. Most of your followers will click on your social media link. In a study conducted recently, 75 percent of businesses using social media observe increase in traffic. Reaching your target audience The social media marketing is a good means of reaching out to the targeted audience. Every business has its own target audience. You can only make more sales if you reach out to your target audience. This is true because if you advertise to millions of people who are not your target audience, you will not make any sales. Related posts:
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How to Handle Social Rejection Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:28 PM PST Are you feeling socially isolated? Are you suffering from social rejection and you are feeling depressed? Indeed, social rejection can be very painful and difficult to handle. However, if you are a victim of social rejection, you can still move on with your life and try to be happy. Here are some of the tips that you should apply in order to handle social rejection. It is not the end of the world It is important that you take note of your current situation. Most people who are socially rejected tend to think that the world has ended. Though, it is advisable that you acknowledge your situation, but you should not see it as the collapse of the universe. There is no situation that is so bad that it cannot be changed. You need to change your mind set. Be a positive thinker and believe that it will soon be well with you. Be aware that you are not alone A good number of individuals who are the target of social rejection inadvertently isolate themselves from their friends, peers, colleague, community, family and loved ones. If you are socially rejected, you will worsen your case if you reject yourself. You should try to control how you react to the situation. You should not have a negative approach towards life in general and in your relationship with others. Try to make the best out of the situation and live as best as you can. Rather than isolating yourself from others, you should learn to appreciate the people you still have around you, namely, friends, neighbors, family, pets and colleague. You will no longer feel rejected if you nurture the relationship you have with people around. Find a pastime activity to keep yourself busy with People who are socially isolated normally find life meaningless and easily become depressed when they are alone or during their free time. The best way to handle loneliness is to look for some pastime activity that you derive joy from and engage in it during your free time. There are a lot of pastime activities that you can do nowadays. You can play computer or mobile phone games. If you do not like playing games, you may consider developing interest in watching movies, listening to music and news. You can also do other sporting activities either in the gyms or privately in your home. Reading newspapers, novels and the likes is another good way of dealing with loneliness. Engaging in pastime activities will also enable you to avoid being depressed. Continue your normal daily routine before the rejection Social rejection or isolation can make life difficult and meaningless for some people. Sometimes, you will see them withdrawing to themselves and stop their normal daily routine. This is not a good way to approach the situation. The best thing to do is to continue with your daily routine especially those things you like doing before the rejection starts. Live as if nothing is wrong and try to enjoy your life. Don’t hate your attackers There is the tendency for some targeted individuals to have strong hatred for their attackers. This should not be your attitude because it will worsen the situation for you. Related posts: |
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Behavioral Pitfalls Associated with Depression and How to Avoid Them Posted: 24 Jan 2014 12:50 PM PST According to WordWeb dictionary, depression is a term used to refer to a mental or emotional state marked by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and despondent lack of activity. There are a lot of situations that can cause depression. Depressed individuals tend to exhibit certain symptoms which may vary from person to person. They tend to avoid the company of others and avoid their normal routine. Some depressed individuals handle it in some unhealthy manner. For example, some people will take to unhealthy lifestyle like excess consumption of alcohol and smoking. Below are some of the behavioral pitfalls associated with depression. Withdrawal from social relationship Withdrawal from social relationship is one of the common symptoms of depression. There is the tendency for people who are depressed to withdrawal from other people including their friends, colleagues, loved ones and family members. However, withdrawing to yourself will only worsen your situation rather than enhancing it. So, if you are emotionally disturbed or you are depressed because of certain unforeseen situation of life, you should try to avoid withdrawing from others. The best thing that you will do to yourself is to reconnect with the people you know. In fact, socializing with others and talking out your problem will do you much good. Thinking about the losses and unfortunate incidences of the pass Rumination is among the terrible components of depression. Most people who are depressed especially those who avoid other social contact spend most of their time thinking about their losses, mistakes, failures and other negative incidences that occur in their life or those incidences that make them to be depressed. They tend to dwell so much on the negative aspect of their behavior or blame themselves for whatever that went wrong in their lives. This should not be the case. Rumination can do you a lot of damages. It can make you to have a low image of yourself or even interpret everything from negative point of view. Though, it may be difficult for you to avoid rumination or thinking of your losses, you should try to avoid living in the past. The best way to avoid it is to socialize with people and get yourself busy with those things that you like doing. Indulging in Alcohol and other hard drug Most depressed people take to alcohol and hard drug as a means of forgetting about their worries and woes. Alcohol does not solve your problem or help you to forget about them. Instead, it does some damages to your body system. It can make you to remain awake during the night thereby worsening your case.
Avoiding your normal routine There is the tendency for depressed people to stop their normal routine. If you are faced with terrible life challenges, no matter how tough it is, you should not give up or stop doing your normal routine unless such routine will worsen your problem. Never avoid exercise Engaging in regular exercise will give you a lot of health benefits including stress relief. It has some antidepressant effect on the body because during exercise, the level of serotonin and dopamine in the brain is increased. The two chemicals help to deal with depression. Never take to junk Junk foods and artificial sweeteners are not good for your general well being and they also worsen depression. So, you should avoid them. Related posts: |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2014 01:36 PM PST Affection or fondness refers to the positive feelings of fondness which people physically expressed to others. Affection brings people closers and engenders long term relationship and love. Everybody needs affection both children and adult. If you want to have a long lasting relationship with another person, you should learn how to show affection or be fond of the person. Research has shown that affection promotes healthy relationship and reduces stress. Indeed, some relationships have broken down because the people involve do not know how to be affectionate. Below are tips on how to be more affectionate in your relationship with other people especially your loved ones. Learn to show physical affection Affection can be expressed physically in many ways including caressing, holding of hands, hugging, cuddling, patting and the like. Some people feel uneasy with physical touch. However, it is a good means of showing affection to a loved one. So, you should try to learn how to show it. You may discuss it with your partner or friends to know their opinion about it. Hugging, cuddling, holding hands together and the likes indicate that you are proud of the person no matter his or her imperfections or weak point. Fix time for physical affection Some people run a tight schedule which makes it impossible for them to show physical affection to their spouse, children and friends. They wake up early in the morning and rush to work only to come back in the evening time during diner. There is no time for affection. However, you can always create the time. The best way to do that is to schedule hugging time with your partner and children. For example, you may choose to always give them a hug or a light kiss before going out for work every morning. You can also do the same in the evening time when you come back from work or before dinner. Show affection verbally Contrary to the thinking of many people, affection is not only shown physically. It can also be expressed verbally. There are different ways through which you can verbally show affection to a person. One veritable means of doing that is to call the person by a pet name. For example, rather than calling your spouse by name, you can show affection by calling names like sweetie, honey and the likes. You can also call such pet or fond names to your children and friends. Normally, such names are abbreviated forms of a person’s name. For example, Bradley can shorten as Brad. If you cannot abbreviate the person’s name, then you should have a positive nickname for the person.
Compliment the achievement of the loved one One of the ways of showing affection is to compliment the achievement of the loved one on daily basis. Each time the person does something exceptional or treats you very well, make sure that you compliment it. If you have children, you should also learn to compliment their performance in school and even in the house. You have to make it a point of duty to be greeting your spouse, children and friends always. Call and text often Always call or text your partner when you are out for work at least once to say hi.
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How to Know When Your Relationship Is Becoming Parasitic for You Posted: 26 Jan 2014 11:42 AM PST A good relationship is supposed to be mutually beneficial or symbiotic. None of the parties in a relationship whether a man or woman should suffer. However, experience has shown that some people are into parasitic relationship. Their partners can best be described as parasites lynching them to death even without their knowing it. A parasitic relationship is a type of relationship in which only one person benefits from the relationship while the other person suffers. If you are into such a relationship, the best way to handle it is to quite completely because your partner does not love you. There are signs that will show you whether you’re in a parasitic relationship. Here are signs to find out. Take note of what you people do together Parasites rarely get away from the body of the host. They are always around the host. The same thing happens when you are in a parasitic relationship. If your partner likes doing everything with you or cannot do anything or go anywhere without you, then you are in a parasitic relationship. You don’t have any moment of privacy. The person is always with you. This is not good for a healthy relationship. It is different from close bond. Maintaining the same friends with you It is good for your partner to get to know your friends. However, there should always be limit to that. If your partner suddenly abandon his or her friends before you met him or her and start following your friends or even going out with them when you are not around, you should be on your alert. It may be an indication of parasitic relationship. Sometimes, it is a strategy of maintaining permanent relationship with a person. If you have the same friends with your partner, it means that you will keep meeting with the person even if you people break up. Always paying his or her bill It is not bad helping friends especially when the person is cash trapped. However, if you discover that your friend always claims to be cash or will always want you to pay all his or her bill, then you should be careful with the person. As it has been said, a healthy relationship should be mutually beneficially despite differences in financial capability. But if you are the person taking care of all the needs of your partner without the person contributing for once, it is a sign that you are in a parasitic relationship. Are you the person buying all the gifts? People normally express their love for their partners and friends by buying gifts for them during special moments in their lives. If your partner does not buy you any gift during special events leaving it for you, then there is something wrong with the relationship. It is not mutually beneficially. Even if you are very rich, your partner should also show love by buying gifts in his or her own little way. See if your partner is jealous of your other relationship If your partner is not happy seeing you with other people, it may be a sign that you are in a parasitic relationship. He or she wants to own you completely.
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Order Management System (OMS) at a Glance Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:55 AM PST The internet technology has added value to the doing of business in the contemporary era. Today, there are a number of software applications which various industries can use in order to effectively run their business and generate more revenue. OMS which is an acronym for order management system is one of such business software applications. It can be used by different businesses for various purposes. It offers a lot of advantages to the businesses using it such as making it possible for retail businesses to integrate, automate and streamline order processing. Before taking a look at how this software will be relevant to your business, it is pertinent to know what it is. What is OMS? Order management system is a type of business software developed for easy, cost effective and efficient management of orders and inventories in real-time. The software fuses all aspects of a business into one operating channel. It automates order management, provides complete visibility into sales, increases the volume of sales and reduces costs. Features of OMS
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Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:38 AM PST As we go about our daily routine, we socialize and meet with different people. Some of these people will eventually become our friends. Some will play important role in our lives. It is indeed good to meet people especially good ones. However, sometimes it comes with its pains. Sometimes in life, you have to leave people you love and friends. In certain situation especially when you are changing location, you may not see some people again. But circumstance beyond you makes it impossible for you to continue staying with them. You cannot but bid them farewell. Saying good bye can be very painful especially to people you may not see again. Here are tips on saying goodbye when parting from people. Organize a small party for them It is always good for people who are partying to feast and dine together before finally saying good bye to each other. Get some edibles ready for them. You must not empty your pocket when preparing for the feast. You can prepare some cookies and get one or two bottles of wine depending on the number of people you invited. But if you have enough money, you can throw big party for your friends. Talk about nice time with them Whether you are hosting a party or not, don’t just tell a person bye without telling the person how you cherish the time you have with them. Don’t talk about negative experience. Even if you want to share ugly experience make it to sound positive or as experience that help you to develop even though it may seem to be negative. Recalling your experiences might be tricky. So, it is better for you to take time and reflect over it so that you will be able to give correct account of what happened. Be grateful It is good to appreciate good gestures and goodwill. So, when bidding farewell remember to appreciate goodwill you received from those people. Thank them for it. If you invite many people or a send forth party is organized for you and you are speaking during the party, it is good to acknowledge people that play significant role in your life during your stay there. You must not mention every person’s name but key people in your life should be acknowledged. Share your sad feeling about leaving It is good that you when you are bidding farewell, you share your feeling about leaving the loved ones. Let them know how much you miss them and that you would have loved to stay if not because of the circumstances beyond your control. By sharing this with them, they will surely appreciate your openness and also miss you so much. As you are talking try to control yourself so that you will not burst into crying. Leave gracefully Some people part angrily or harshly from others. This is not the best thing to do. No matter the circumstances that prompted your leaving, it is good that you leave gracefully or with happiness. If you leave angrily, it is tantamount to leaving a sour taste in the mouth of those you are leaving and that is very bad.
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Why Growing Business Should Use OMS Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:07 AM PST The retail industry is making strong headways in our world today thanks to the internet technology. However, it is characterized by economic and commercial Darwinism. Every business including small and medium business is struggling to expand and increase its customer base. In order to survive in the competition, any serious minded business should pay attention to order management trends. Using order management system to run your business will give you a lot of benefits. Here are some of the reasons why you should make use of OMS in the running of your business.
Summary OMS is all in one solution for order and inventory management and supply chain decision making solution. It is designed to help various types of businesses especially retail businesses to exploit the amazing potentials of the internet technology. OMS provides wide range of functionalities that will enable users to smoothly manage their orders and inventories. Given the numerous benefits of this software to the users, you should consider using the software in your business. Related posts: |
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How Various Industries Can Benefit from OMS Posted: 30 Jan 2014 08:14 AM PST No person or business has prerogative of any market niche. In other words, in the word today, there is no business that is being done by one person. This is why the doing of business is always competitive. Every business has its competitors. The competition is becoming intense as more and more people are now doing their own business rather than working for other people. Now, people are doing business online. If you are running your business through the internet, it is important that you make use of various software systems available today. These software systems make the doing of business online easy and also give businesses that use them an edge over others that do not use them. A typical example of such software application is order management system abbreviated as OMS. Contrary to the thinking of some people, OMS is not only meant for the retail industry. As it has been said above, OMS is professionally designed to meet the need of various businesses. Here are the benefits of OMS to various industries.
OMS will give a lot of benefits to retailers. With the software, retail companies will be able to track orders from various shopping platforms. It will make it easy for them to maintain inventory and easily generate order and shipment confirmation report.
OMS is also highly needed in the medical and pharmaceutical industry. A lot of people visit the hospitals and pharmacies on daily basis for their medical needs. This implies that a lot of drugs and other medical supplies are being utilized every day. Indeed, taking stocks of drugs and medical supplies can be very tedious and time consuming. But with order management system, it will be easy for pharmaceutical and medical industries to manage orders and inventories easily. This will ensure that they will not run out of any drug or medical supply.
OMS is beneficial to the telecom industry. It helps them to keep track of customers, credit verification, accounts, billing information, product delivery and others. It also helps them to manage sales orders for wireless, wireline, data, IP and other managed service. MY Fio OMS will help mobile phone operators to track equipment orders, one time charges such as installation and activation charges.
With OMS, automotive industries are able to keep record and track of parts sourced via OEMs. It will also help them to manage data and maintain good customer relationship.
Order management system is beneficial to brokerages. My Fio OMS makes the filling of orders for different kinds of securities easy for brokers. With OMS, brokers can also track the progress of all their orders.
OMS can be utilized in other industries such as banks and financial industries. OMS is a useful system for the security industry. The system gives these industries cost saving advantage in many ways.
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