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Disaster-proof your business

If you're a business owner, you need to know how to protect your business.

Try as we might, there's often no way to skirt disaster — whether it's national, personal or weather induced. But there are strategies to cope with it as best we can, no matter if its source is a burst river levee, a thoughtlessly discarded match or the deranged actions of others. Knowing what to do in the event of a disaster is crucial for anyone, of course, but particularly for a small-business owner, whose livelihood may depend on a small storefront or home basement office.

Start with some strategies. Here's a checklist that can help you set up an effective and comprehensive small-business disaster plan:

Click here to view the checklist

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The New Way to Do Business: Extending Connections with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 

“Works well with others”—a term you’ll remember from childhood report cards. In today’s business world, that term spans everything that technology can offer organizations for extending connections. Microsoft Dynamicsâ GP 2010 brings home a high mark, taking full advantage of Web services, integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and a simplified platform to bring together employees, customers, and vendors across applications and systems efficiently and cost-effectively.

 

To start, developers can quickly choose from more than 350 Web services that offer better performance and easier integrations. We’ve also developed a straightforward integration platform based on Web services

that connects applications to and from Microsoft Dynamics GP and enables developers to create independent integration adapters. And connections through Web services integrations no longer depend on Microsoftâ Internet Information Services (IIS)—eliminating the need to buy separate servers and greatly simplifying infrastructure and IT management.

 

This latest release helps sales, service, and business management staff collaborate through built-in integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Sales and service information flows directly to the back office and provides people with a complete view of customers, contracts, pricing, product and service availability, and more. In addition, we’re offering an important innovation with the Extender tool. Without writing new code, organizations can capture and consolidate business-specific information—for example, every unique detail related to a customer, client, or vendor—that’s previously been housed in separate systems. People now have a centralized source that simplifies reporting and tracking and lets them work together more easily on cross-team and cross-department tasks.

 

All our innovations work to strengthen business relationships. One quiet, but important example: while working in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, employees can connect at a deep level with customers and vendors through instant messaging. They can hold ad hoc conversations, hold a Microsoft Office Live Meeting, share views of customer and vendor information, and create and deliver sales quotes, sales orders, and purchase orders—all within an instant message.

 

We’re delivering a solution that extends connections so that everyone in your organization—and the systems that help your business run—work well together.

 

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010. The new way to do business.

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4.   Oil and water. Red and blue states. Technology and people?

The first two pairings represent a basic form of incompatibility that may seem irreconcilable to many.

The third duo, on the other hand, poses a quandary for many small businesses. The issue: how can you be sufficiently grounded in technology without diminishing the importance of people?

It's a delicate balance, but the two can happily coexist. Click the link below to view seven key strategies:

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4 ways to build buzz for your brand

By Joanna L. Krotz

It's not easy being a baby. Raising the profile of a just-launched brand has always been a challenge.

But nowadays, as customers lean toward tried-and-true products, building buzz for a brand-new business takes real smarts, creativity and persistence.

What is a brand? It's the promise you make to customers. It's the "emotional connections that create feelings of loyalty to a product or a company," says Jim Bolton at Ridge Associates, a coaching firm in Minneapolis. It's how you distinguish yourself from competition and capture mind and market share.

To get customers to notice your infant brand quickly and affordably, you must stay focused. Don't chase after huge or unlikely prospects right away. Don't squander time and resources by broadcasting mixed messages. Keep it simple. Make sure your marketing material has a recognizable identity, with a consistent logo, palette and tag lines.

Then, check out these four cost-effective branding strategies suggested by marketing experts and successful entrepreneurs.

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How eIS Business Solutions can help your business

When organizations like yours need to boost efficiency, reduce costs, maintain a competitive edge and deliver timely information, they turn to us for the very best in small and medium size accounting software programs and business solutions.   eIS Business Solutions is an authorized solution provider of the Microsoft Dynamics GP, formerly Great Plains solution, as well as QuickBooks Enterprise.  Offering both of these software programs, allows us to provide powerful, yet affordable accounting and business programs to small, medium and large size businesses.

Thinking about outsourcing your financials?

If maintaining computers, business software and employees to manage your operations is too much for your resources, then we can help.  Why not outsource your accounting functions to a company that has years of implementation and accounting expertise?  The eIS’s Virtual Financial Team removes the burden of building and maintaining an in-house accounting department.  We can perform all AR, AP, GL functions (invoicing, cash receipts, bill payment, bank reconciliation, and collections).  Project costing and Time and billing are also available. 

During this process you maintain strict control over all financial decision and have the ability to view information and run reports.  All images of important documents are attached to their appropriate transactions in your system for you to retrieve at any time.

Contact us today about our One Hour Free Consultation for qualifying customers.

Phone: 732-708-0022

www.eisbusinesssolutions.com

sales@eisbusinesssolutions.com

 

 

eIS Business Solutions

Serving The New York Tri-State and Southern CA Areas
Telephone: 732-708-0022, 
www.eisBusinessSolutions.com