10 Leadership Tips for You to Succeed

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Leadership is required in every field. Leaders inspire and motivate their team to give their very best. Even a mediocre organization can produce outstanding results, given the right kind of leadership. Leaders like Mahatma Gandhi led India to freedom. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates led companies like Microsoft to financial success. It is a myth that one is born with leadership … Continue reading


How Cloud Computing can Help Small Businesses

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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(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

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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