Traditional ERP was designed for Fortune 500 companies, but now there are solutions for small and mid-sized companies. Benefits of Small Business ERP Many entrepreneurs have begun to explore ERP, because it allows you to integrate all the key function areas of a business into one system including HR, sales, finance, transportation, shipping, inventory management, […]
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Small business teams that struggle with keeping up with all the internal email communication involved in running daily operations may be happy to learn about a new tool that aims to curtail those emails. Topicbox Group Email Discussion Tool Topicbox is meant for teams that utilize a lot of group email chains but who want
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As this year draws to a close, many small businesses are already looking ahead to emerging trends for 2018. 2018 Workplace Trends Jonathan Webb, VP of workplace strategy at global furniture manufacturer KI, spoke with Small Business Trends about what smaller enterprises can expect. He spent the last several years studying best practices to attract
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There is a perception out there businesses slack during the last week of December, but how true is it? Egnyte wanted to find out, so it analyzed more than 3 billion activities from last year’s holiday week. The infographic the company created reveals the number is minimal, only five percent to be exact. Business Productivity
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Planning your trips early can save your small business a lot of money. The new update to the Google Flights and Google Trips apps will help you find the best deals, which also includes search for hotel stays. New Tracker Features for Google Flights and Trips Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is using machine learning and statistical
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Making mistakes is part of running a business. But some mistakes can be avoided if you’re willing to learn from others who have been there before, like members of the online small business community. Here are some lessons you can learn based on mistakes other entrepreneurs have made through the years. Improve Your Data Quality
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Is the office party really a thing of Christmas past? Employees don’t look forward to the holiday office party the way they once may have. In fact, data from Randstad US found that just one-third of all employees look forward to an office party the most this time of year. Instead, they want time away
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Do you have a small business with five employees or less? Well, if you do, Dialpad has released a new service called Dialpad Free which will get rid of your phone bill. The company’s slogan says “Kill the Desk Phone,” but with this new service, it is striving to do the same with the phone
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The holiday rush, while full of opportunities, also comes with plenty of challenges for businesses. Processing payments can be one of those challenges if you don’t have a reliable system in place to maximize all of that extra business. This is actually a pretty big problem for small businesses. According to a recent Stealth Survey,
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Could the darling of the tech sector — the open plan office — be under siege? Thirty-seven percent of employees say an open plan office is distracting. That’s a finding of the Staples Annual Workplace Survey, which analysed the responses of 1,004 full-time employees and 200 office managers across the U.S. and Canada. The overall
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