Characteristics of Patient Friendly Billing Statement from Doctor’s Office

January 19, 2015

Doctor Office
How many times have you received a billing statement from the doctor’s office and got totally confused by it? If you are like most people chances are you have spent considerable amount of time trying to understand the statement and relate it to the services you received when you visited the doctor. Understanding and reconciling the billing statement is the least favorable activity of the patient other than becoming sick in the first place. Visiting a doctor is painful enough, reading the bill does not have to be.

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How to Keep Up Business Productivity on the Road

January 18, 2015

Airport Terminal
Business people travel for a lot of reasons. And some of them do it a lot more than others. If you find yourself away from the home office for weeks or months in a year, you are no stranger to the business places of life on the road: the terminal, the hotel lobby or the restaurant. It is possible to do great work in environments like these, but let’s face it, most people don’t manage to keep up the same level of productivity they have at home. Now there is an answer for those of you who do a lot of your business away from the home.

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Benefits of Effective Telephone Services for Small Businesses

January 15, 2015

Telephone Services
Clear and effective communication is important in personal as well professional life. Without the ability to communicate we are physically limited as human beings to carry out even the most basic tasks. The same logic applies to your business, if you can’t communicate properly with others you will be unable to provide a proper service to clients and customers and ultimately your business will fail.

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How to Balance Risk vs Return in Small Businesses Financing

January 14, 2015

Risk vs Reward
Anyone who offers credit to small companies faces a standard business decision of adding new revenue with taking a risk for default and debt collection. If credit terms are set too tight to minimize risk, profitable revenue can be lost. On the flip side, offering terms that are too generous can increase the default rate and hurt profitability.

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3 Must Have Technology for Remote Office

January 14, 2015

Remote Office
Thanks to advances in technology, many employers are allowing their employees to work remotely instead of traveling to the office every day. Working remotely has many benefits for both employees and employers. Employees don’t have to deal with daily commute and they also gain great flexibility. Employers don’t have to pay rent or utilities for the office building, which can save a great deal of money.

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Many Benefits of Recycling for Small Business Owners

January 11, 2015

Global recycling icons
When individuals and small business owners are advised to recycle their waste they immediately think of all the extra overhead and cost involved in the process. After all, who has time to sort through all the garbage and ensure different types of waste go in the right bucket and dispose it off properly? It seems easier to just throw it all in one big waste container and let the waste disposal company take care of the headache. However, as we will show below recycling the waste doesn’t have to be costly or time consuming. With proper planning and right equipment recycling can become as easy as throwing out the garbage. Here are some of the benefits small business owners can achieve with recycling.

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How Small Business Owners can Benefit from Professional Wealth Management Services

January 8, 2015

Wealth Management
As a manager of the small business you already have a great deal of responsibilities to carry out before you can even think about what to do with your money. There are the tasks of finding staff, customers, selling your services and establishing your brand. Combined with the distrust and uncertainty many of us feel towards the banking sector and financial markets, you’d be forgiven for sometimes feeling a little overwhelmed by it all.

Fortunately, there is a simple solution to this and that is to invest in professional wealth management services for your small business. By doing so you are putting your money into the hands of experts and letting them do the hard work for you. Further to this, there are a number of other benefits you can realise; here are just a few examples for you to consider:

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Benefits of Outsourcing Customer Service for Ecommerce Startups

December 31, 2014

Call Center
For anyone operating ecommerce website one of the primary concern is to be able to handle the customer service. This is even more important for startups because they do not have resources, in terms of cash and manpower, to be able to handle the volume of calls coming in. As a result small businesses and startups end up having to shoulder the burden of managing customer service themselves. This, in turn, hurts other aspects of a business because the reality is as a single person or small team there is only so much you can handle before being burned out by the number of tasks you need to take care of. There is a potential solution, however, that can help startups focus on their primary business. By outsourcing customer service to an external firm they can not only manage the quantity of work, but also the quality of customer service at a lower cost. Here are the benefits you can achieve by outsourcing customer service.

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5 Must Have Functionality in Time Clock Software for Better Efficiency

December 30, 2014

Time Clock Software
Time clock software can incorporate a lot of different functions and nuances that make the system efficient for the business. Not only can digital methods be time saving, but they can also offer a great deal of security and versatility for the human resources department of the organization. With all of the available add-ons that could be available, what are some of the most powerful functions that can make the web time clock worth the investment?

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Benefits of Outsourcing IT Support to Ukraine for Business Owners

December 30, 2014

IT Outsourcing
Most small business owners will agree that outsourcing non-essential tasks enables them to focus on their core competence, while reducing expenses at the same time. This win-win situation is even more true when it comes to IT outsourcing. Outsourcing your IT functions lets you find a reliable partner who can take care of IT services, while saving you money in the process. The current trend has been to outsource the IT operations to other countries that have skilled, low cost labor.

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