I have been visiting various builders and realtors to buy my dream home. Most of the builders gave me their brochures, which included the home plan and the price per square foot. However, an upcoming building company gave me a CD instead of their paper brochure. The sales manager told me the CD contains the plan of their entire project … Continue reading
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SMEs in India to Enjoy Subsidized Cloud Computing
IT stalwarts and industry bigwigs constantly keep echoing a common statement ‘Cloud Computing is a boon for SMEs and it is the technology of the future’. For Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), who are the agents of growth, Cloud Computing offers a promising IT infrastructure support, especially to those who are planning to grow big and expand existing operations. You … Continue reading
Installing WordPress Themes in Apptivo
Users have the option of using their own WordPress themes but cannot currently upload it directly for use. There are two ways of getting their WordPress theme added. Send theme to support@apptivo.com and wait for approval. Click on the configuration button inside the Websites App and upload theme or plugin for approval. This is a great way to share your … Continue reading
How Cloud Computing can Help Small Businesses
Cloud computing is in full swing nowadays. It is the state-of-the-art technology that is immensely useful to all sized businesses. There is a popular misconception that cloud computing is not suitable for small businesses. However, this is not the case. We examine the various advantages and benefits which cloud computing solutions offers to small businesses. The Pros of Cloud Computing … Continue reading
Cloud Computing and its Risks
Cloud computing is beneficial to large and small business enterprises who want to revolutionize their IT infrastructures. The business enterprises must understand that there are certain risk factors associated with cloud computing. For instance, recently, there was an outage of Amazon.com and the site collapsed for nearly 24 hours taking with it all its customers including a few small businesses. … Continue reading
Web-Based CRM for Small Businesses
Web-based/on-demand/hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are gaining popularity among small business owners. Small business owners need to accept the web-based CRM as a business technology strategy to revolutionize their businesses and maximize their profits. There are many Web based CRM providers in the market. Apptivo’s CRM for small business is beneficial for those in the field of sales, marketing, … Continue reading
Advantages of running your business on the cloud
Cloud computing is an upcoming trend and the future of many large, medium and small business enterprises. The research and survey conducted by Gartner Inc, exhibits that globally, cloud computing sales has gone up by 21 percent in the year 2010 and it is likely to triple by 2013. The research reports show that earlier all the enterprises, small, medium … Continue reading
What is Cloud Computing?
(source: Wikipedia) As a Small Business Owner, you tend to carry your work home (if you are not already working from home). It is essential that you have access to all your data and software at office as well as at home (and sometimes even from a client location). Making multiple copies of files and transporting them back and forth … Continue reading
Collaboration made easy with Project Management Tools
Sometimes doing a project is a solitary task – you have to plan things and just get them done. Most times, however, it requires inputs from others. It is at times like these that using a project management (projects software) tool makes a huge difference. It not only helps in organizing, scheduling and prioritizing it also helps in collaboration. Here … Continue reading